Upcoming Workshops

Deep Essence
February 23 & 24, 2023 | Online

This workshop is intended to assist you in developing:

• Greater understanding of the Deep Essence tool and how to use it
• Mastery in accessing stories when working with people including groups of people (one arm of the Deep Essence Tool)
• Mastery in accessing the feeling of spirit when working with people including groups of people (one arm of the Deep Essence Tool)
• The skills and knowledge you need to use the Deep Essence Tool
• The skills and knowledge to apply the Deep Essence Tool in a number of situations, making it a versatile multi-purpose tool in your toolkit
• An understanding of how to use this tool to map your thoughts as you work your thinking through a challenge
• An understanding of how to use this tool in teamwork, including achieving improved team cohesion
• Tips and techniques to access the stories that pertain to a situation, team, organization that influence what is going on and what is possible
• Tips and techniques to access the spirit associated with the situation that influences what is going on and what is possible

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Path to Organizational Health and Balance
March 24 & 31, 2023 | Online

In this learning program you will discover:

• Key questions for looking at your own organization from a practical holistic framework
• Insights and knowledge to reduce the gap between the potential and results
• insights and knowledge to nourish a culture of leadership
• Increased capacity to assist your organization to thrive
• Increased leadership skills, knowledge and capacity for leading in a culture requiring agility, flexibility, and solutions in a performance environment of constant change
• Skills, tools, and knowledge to improve employee engagement
• An understanding of how to work with the Grief Cycle that affects personal and organizational well-being
• Simple tools to take back to your organization for initiating conversations about what is needed in the operating matrix of your organization
• Knowledge of how to increase the capacity of your organization to work to positively impact your bottom line: the effectiveness of training programs, the effectiveness of customer service and quality assurance, health and well-being of your employees, and a reduction of stress-related costs
• Tips and knowledge for improving employee engagement

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Achieving and Regenerating Organizational Health and Balance
April 21 & 28, May 5 & 12, 2023 | Online

In this learning program you will discover:

• A practical holistic diagnostic framework for review, analysis, and assessment of your organization
• Simple and duplicable tools for achieving and maintaining long-term organizational health
• Knowledge of how to increase the capacity of your organization to work with these rapidly changing times
• Working knowledge of simple to use multi-purpose tools: the Medicine Wheel Tool©, the Deep Essence Tool©, the Grief Cycle, the Organizational Lifecycle, and the Storyline
• A completed organizational health and balance diagnosis of your organization, from your perspective (or from the perspective of your Management Team/Board if you attend together)
• An understanding of the importance of relationships, that are based on genuine contact, to achieve results beyond your expectations

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Strategic Planning the Genuine Contact Way
July 3-7, 2023 | Summer Academy 2023 | India

Strategic planning is an important tool for closing the gap between potential and results of an organization. A culture of leadership requires a strategic plan.

Having a plan isn’t enough. Research carried out by Norton and Kaplan at Harvard concludes that 70-90% of strategic plans fail to be executed.

Strategic Planning done the Genuine Contact Way is designed to mentor leaders in developing the competencies, capabilities, and capacity to successfully lead strategic planning and implementation in their organizations. Leaders will develop their skills, knowledge, confidence, and commitment to lead this work masterfully. Leaders will learn how to turn great ideas in their organization into outstanding results by creating clarity, alignment, and a systematic approach to evaluating and managing organizational performance.

Throughout this learning program, you will learn:

• the critical ingredients for developing a strategic plan that actually gets implemented instead of just sitting on a shelf gathering dust
• simple processes you can use to engage your organization while developing the plan to tap into the collective wisdom of your people for innovation, wise action, and extraordinary results
• how to develop the strategic planning process to create join-in from the beginning rather than trying to convince your people to buy into the plan once it’s done

Registration includes both the Summer Academy and Winter Academy workshop offerings to support deepened learning.

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Whole Person Process Facilitation
September 20, 21, 27 & 28, 2023 | Online

Imagine knowing a simple-to-use multi-purpose method for leading highly participatory meetings. A meeting facilitated using Whole Person Process Facilitation (WPPF) includes meaningful conversations promotes improved communications, collaboration and cooperation.  Using WPPF means that all adult learning styles are taken into consideration thus leaving no one behind. People are engaged. People contribute the best from the full spectrum of emotional, physical, spiritual and mental intelligences including their 'gut feeling', their intuitive intelligence.

This meeting method encourages your organization’s members to use all of their strengths in a highly effective way. The meeting produces tangible results towards your business goals and achieves maximum participation, inspired creativity, and the best solutions from the collective of individuals involved.

WPPF is simultaneously a facilitation method and a container for a variety of tools and processes. If you have tools and processes that you like and work for you, using them within a WPPF container enhances how those familiar tools and processes work.

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Individual Health and Balance
November 24, December 1, 8 & 15, 2023 | Online

Gaining, maintaining, and realigning your health and balance is a key to developing your leadership capacity. There are many demands placed on that capacity and the return on investment in yourself makes good business sense. For those engaged in leadership, personally or professionally, learning how to achieve and maintain individual health and balance has become increasingly important in these rapidly changing times. Everyone in the organization including those in leadership feels the added pressures of a performance environment that is in constant change. As leaders, you can reduce the effects of this added pressure by applying what you learn in this workshop. Your well-being is a key leadership capacity for organizational well-being.

If you’re like most of the people we work with, you are engaged in leadership, both professionally and in your private life. Because of the demands and stresses of leadership, you need to take extra care of your well-being. You need to have the capacity to operate at peak performance for the marathon that leadership is, over the long haul and not just for the short sprint.

You will

• discover simple and effective concepts, tools and techniques to achieve individual health and balance
• experience simple-to-use techniques to support mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health and balance
• be able to use what you learn to realign yourself with health and balance when you notice yourself slipping being bumped out of health and balance mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

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