Foundation Programs

Communicating with Power and Presence
Tools for Highly Effective Communication
Duration: 2 days

Our most popular foundation program, Communicating with Power and Presence is for professionals who make client presentations, speak in public, lead team meetings and groups, and want to sharpen their communication skills.

While the end result is more effective speaking and presenting, Communicating with Power and Presence goes far beyond these areas. Through written and verbal exercises, along with one-on-one coaching in a group environment, this workshop helps presenters learn how to build relationships with an audience, incorporate feedback, infuse personal expression into content, and provide insightful responses as an audience member, thus allowing for greater vitality and impact while communicating.

2008 dates:
February 7-8
April 10-11
June 19-20
August 7-8
October 16-17
December 11-12

The Creative Dynamic
Tapping Into Your Unique Creative Energy
Duration: 2 1/2 days

The Creative Dynamic renews passion, energy, and commitment for what you want to create in the world. Through the use of performance, coaching, feedback, and play, participants learn to develop the fundamental creative principles inherent in each of us. These principles include: awareness of impact; discovering the opportunity for personal creativity in any situation; creating through relationship; and experiencing goals and desires as a consequence of creativity. The Creative Dynamic yields immediate impact. You experience a greater "license" to create and see a new way of looking at yourself, your career, and how you relate to others.

2008 dates:
January 18-20
March 14-16
May 16-18
July 25-27
September 12-14
November 7-9

The Creative Dynamic II
Follow-up Session for Participants of The Creative Dynamic
Duration: 1 day

A follow-up for participants of The Creative Dynamic, The Creative Dynamic II builds on what you discovered in the first session -- looking at the desires and road blocks that stand in front of you now, and moving beyond to the next level of creative expression. It will be a chance to reflect on the changes you've made, as well as to renew the creative energy and vision you have for what you want to create next in life. It will be fun, intense, deep ... and concentrated into a single day!

To receive maximum benefit from The Creative Dynamic II, we suggest participants waitl at least six months after completing The Creative Dynamic to enroll.

2008 Dates:
April 12
August 9
December 6

Speaker Development
Expressing Your Personal Platform in the World

Each of us has an innate ability to inspire an audience, make a connection, command a room and have an impact. Each of us has the innate ability to move beyond the "talking head" - merely delivering content - to becoming a compelling presence. In our Speaker Development program, you will learn to become more fully yourself - to evoke atmosphere, tone and environment, experiencing yourself as a catalyst, collaborator, and leader rather than simply as a conveyor of data.

You will learn to:

Create and nurture relationships with your audience
Improve your impact in any arena - from public settings to small meetings
Learn the skills and sensibilities of a trusted advisor - improving client relationships and team leadership skills
Discover your unique leadership style and talents, allowing you to accept new challenges, take greater risks, and improve partnerships and collaborations
Reconnect with principles that originally drew you to your work and your company

The Tell
Uncovering Your Unique View of the World
Duration: 12 weeks of sessions, 2 hours/week, followed by two weekend intensives, a month apart

The Tell is a "deep dive" investigation of personal vision in which you clarify your point of view, find out where your energy is focused, and explore and affirm your personal desires. In discovering how your personal vision aligns with every aspect of your life, you become more centered, focused, and effective in your workplace and in your life.

We address issues and questions such as:
What is my personal vision of the world?
How does my vision operate in my life every day?
What belief system may be impeding my success?
What is the value of my doubts?
What do my impulses and instincts lead me to do?

Structure:
Participants meet as a group for two hours per week for twelve weeks, followed by two weekend-long intensives one month apart.

The Tell is divided into three sections:

The World According to You
The first twelve weeks of the program is devoted to discovering, clarifying, enhancing and implementing your unique vision of the world.
Vision and Will
Covered in the first weekend intensive, Vision and Will gives you permission to listen to yourself, to identify your personal will and where it is focused, to identify the obstacles which are in the way of you expressing your personal voice, and to listen to that voice without judgment.
Reinventing the Self
The second weekend intensive, Reinventing the Self, is a workshop in which you have the chance to investigate your personal desires, explore your original creative self, and nurture and be nurtured by your personal creative environment.