10 Steps to Personal Success
Presented by: Jack Johnson and Dr. Arlen Leight
Day: Tuesday
Time: 7:00PM – 9:00PM
Cost: $95 Members – $125 Nonmembers
For more information please call: 954-568-0466
Your Outcome:
“My job as the artist is not to carve an image into the stone but to free it from the stone…the process is quite simple. That which I desire I must first imagine. That which I can imagine I create.” Michelangelo
You are the artist. Your life is the stone. Our job is to guide you the artist in discovery of new possibilities both professionally and personally. Once you discover these new possibilities, we will create new practices (habits) that help you transform these possibilities into reality.
The outcome of this journey is for you to live a fuller, effective, successful and happier professional and personal life.
Our promise is to engage you in powerful, meaningful, purposeful and passionate dialogue to create and identify the challenges that will move you and shift you to new levels of being in your work, life and love. On this journey we will challenge you and perhaps you will be uncomfortable at times as change generally happens with pain. As a new observer of your possibilities you will develop sustainable practices to transform your life by implementing these new possibilities.
The Program Design:
Your guides: Dr. Arlen Leight and Jack Johnson
Each section is divided into four divisions: Presentation, experiential, dialogue and action.
Presentation:
The presentations will consist of sharing information, discussion models and tools to assist you in understanding new ways of seeing yourself and the world.
Experiential:
Experiential will be exercises either working alone or with others designed to help you identify barriers to new possibilities.
Dialogue:
Dialogues will be open discussions of all participants to share the experience of what came up for them as a result of the exercises and the presentations.
Action:
You will develop new practices for yourself based on the new possibilities you see for yourself as a result of the experiential exercises and dialogue. These practices will be design to help you sustain your transformation and free the imagine of possibility you see in yourself.
Syllabus
Session 1: Presence and Your Assessments:
What are the assessments you carry about yourself and others? How are these assessments affecting the way you are showing up in your life? How are they affecting the possibilities you see for yourself? What presence do you assess you are projecting? What presence and assessments do you project onto others? What do you want to project? Is this working for you?
In this session you will look at how your assessments are working for you. We will observe your presence as perceived or assessed by you and as assessed by others, as well as how you assess others. We will discuss your assessments and how they might be serving you. We will build an understanding of how and why we assess ourselves and others in a certain way and how we might have the possibility to break free from those assessments.
Session 2: Communications: Is your communication style working for you? How and what are you communicating?
You will look your communication skills to see if they are working for you and explore new possibilities. You examine how and what you are communicating to others and to yourself. You will observe your habits and the way you are currently communicating or showing up and decide if you are getting the results you desire. Our relationships are based on communication and for them to work you must communicate effectively in your professional and personal life.
Session 3: Relationships: Are your relationships with your boss, peers, direct reports, friends, family or life partner successful? What possibilities do you see for them to be better?
For your relationship to be successful, effective and powerful you must be open, trusting, susceptible, defenseless, exposed and helpless as times. You will be challenged to think about if and how you are vulnerable and intimate in your relationships. You will explore new possibilities and ways of being in relationship.
Session 4: Conscious Choices: Are your choices working for you? Do your beliefs keep you stuck?
You will look at from where and how you are making choices in your life. We will challenge your belief systems and guide you to understand the power of knowing and then perhaps shifting how you make choices and in your professional life, as a leader and in your personal life. You will see new possibilities not available to you before.
Session 5: Intentional Being: Are you being intention in your life? In service of what are you intentional? Are you intentional in identifying and following your passions and purpose?
You will look at what is intentional living for you and gain some tools to transcend to your new life! You will identify the possibilities in the stone you want to achieve and develop an intentional path forward. You will become aware of your possibilities and become intentional in your actions to achieve these possibilities.
Session 6: Leadership Presence: Are you showing up in a way that supports your leadership possibilities and intentionally developing your leadership skills? Do you show up as a leader of your life and of your career?
Through a series of exercises you will understand how your body, language and emotions project various messages to others. You will decide if these messages are working for you and we will discuss alternative possibilities of being that may help you be more successful in your leadership, your profession and your relationships and be intentional in achieving your leadership goals.
Session 7: What Might Be: What keeps you stuck or blocked from moving forward? What are your fears regarding new possibilities?
You will explore the blocks and barriers to becoming the new possibilities you are beginning to see. You be guided and challenged to think about and discuss your emotions and barriers, including fears, regarding leadership, your relationships at work and in your private life. You will look at “what is” currently and “what might be” for you in the future.
Session 8: Influencing and influencers : What influences your perspective of yourself as a leader?
You will explore how and where you are influencing and are being influenced. You will explore what is influencing your life perspective and behavior.
How you show up as a leader is also how you show up in all the other parts of your life! Leaders show up in many forms: professionally, with friends and family or just plain leading your life.
Session 9: New Awareness: Have as an observer of yourself shifted your awareness of yourself? Have you shifted how you see others and your career and you as a leader?
You will look at combining your new learning and awareness developed in the previous sessions to see yourself as the new possibilities identified which you desire to create. You will do this with the new eyes and possibilities and intentional explore the new imagine of you as leader and individual you are creating.
Session 10: Boldness and Courage: What initiatives are you ready to take to move into your new possibilities?
You will be challenged to explore your bold initiatives and mustered the courage in your profession and life to step into your futures. You will be creating and developing sustainable practices to keep your learning, your new awareness and transformation alive, in order to create a new life that is more powerful. Your job in this session is to become the new image of your being you indentified in the stone.
