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Seminar topics can be tailored for your organization's needs, from a one-hour talk to a half or one-day workshop.  Workshop Specific topics are here.

 

 

Optimize Your Communications for Success
Conscious Communication in Action

Enhance your communication for increased clarity, understanding, and the ability to adjust your communication style to match whoever you're talking with.  (more...)

 

Leverage the Power of You

You have more potential for success being yourself than you can emulating others.  Take charge of your life, work, and relationships leveraging the unique gifts each of us have to offer.  (more...)

 

Kind Ambition: Triple Bottom Line Success
Business has changed, and what used to work, no longer guarantees success.  As the level of competition has taken a quantum leap, you need to make that leap as well!  (more...)

 

Introduction to the Integral Enneagram the Integram
From Compulsion to Choice; Getting off the Hamster Wheel
The most accurate system of Personality Typing, based on unconscious motivations, rather than physical reactions and behavior.  You'll understand what drives us unconsciously, so you can take charge instead of just reacting in patterned ways.  (more...)

 

The Artist and Business:  Maintaining Integrity and Getting Paid
Focusing on the specific issues that arise when artists of all types interface with the business mind-set, and the interpersonal communication skills that facilitate success.  (more...)

 

Organic Character Development:  Believability from the Inside
Designed for Writers, Actors, Directors, or anyone who wants the tools to create exceptionally authentic, 3- dimensionally believable characters.    
(more...)

 

 

 

 

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Optimize Your Communications for Success:

Conscious Communication in Action

Did you know that an average of 40% of the energy and resources going into your business and personal relationships gets wasted in miscommunications? Would you like to turn that around?

 

We all have distinct Communication Styles that direct our delivery and understanding of one another.  When we don't take this into account, and merely use our own "language," misunderstandings abound, and we end up wasting even more time trying to put things back on track.  You can enhance your communication for increased clarity, understanding, and the ability to adjust your communication style to match whoever you're talking with.

 

Relationships drive your bottom line.
Relationships are all about communication.
Communication is a pre-requisite for success.
…Yes, it’s that simple.

  • See the Nine Communication Types revealed.

  • Discover the verbal cues revealing how people want to be worked with (and even sold to.)

  • See how to take advantage of the “Rashomon Effect.”

  • Use “Focus of Attention” to build rapport.

  • Leverage this knowledge to make your business more effective.

Not only does this not have to be hard, it can be fun!  Discovering who we really are and embracing that diversity can make the work day a joy.  Every "what the heck?!" can be turned into an "of course; I understand."

 

 

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Leverage the Power of You

We’ve had it drummed into our heads since childhood, “why can’t you be more like so-and-so?”  We see who seems to be succeeding in the workplace, and think if only we could be like them, we could succeed as well.  In fact, you have more potential for success being your natural self than you could have emulating others.  Rather than ascribing to the myth that there is one type of person who is successful, you can take charge of your life and your relationships with others by accepting the unique gifts each of us have to offer.

  • Leverage your innate talents and authentic self to achieve success.

  • Differentiate what motivates you from what motivates your colleagues or individuals you work with.

  • Motivate others with what works for them.

A fun, thought-provoking, and empowering presentation and discussion. Be prepared to participate, ask questions, self-reflect and be challenged with some new thinking!

 

 

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Kind Ambition: Triple Bottom Line Success
Business has changed, and what used to work, no longer guarantees success.  The level of competition has taken a quantum leap, and that’s exactly what your business needs to do!  You need to take it to a whole new level.  You need an edge.

 

The most comprehensive approach is a holistic one; addressing all three aspects: heart, mind, and body.  Your business has these same components.

  • Heart = Communication – bringing the connection of strong relationships to build your business.

  • Mind = Systems –managing those relationships and operations to run your business.

  • Body =  Stability – holding everything together and providing the financial base on which your business stands.

All of this requires elevating your own ability to perceive and act without the clouding of old tapes, stories, limiting beliefs, and posturing.  You MUST be able to see through the noise and truly "get" your customers, co-workers, and even your competition. 

 

There is a much misunderstood process that makes this all possible: Compassion.  This is not the mushy, New Age "niceness" that often is used as a definition.  True Compassion is simply the ability to totally immerse yourself in another person's perspective.  That gives you the power to understand EVERY interaction, and get out of your own way.

 

When decisions are made from this powerful place, People, Planet, and Profits flourish and prosper. Rather than sacrificing one for another, you can have each support the others.  All you need is a comprehensive holistic approach to your business, and the tools to make it happen.

 

 

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Introduction to the Integral Enneagram:  the Integram
From Compulsion to Choice; Getting off the Hamster Wheel

 

A new and powerfully amazing model of motivation and perspective:

the Integram.  The most accurate system of Personality Typing, based on unconscious motivations, rather than physical reactions and behavior.  Has the Enneagram always seemed too complex and impractical?  Not enough time to read the books?  Here's your answer.  You'll understand what drives you unconsciously, so you can take charge instead of just reacting in patterned ways.

  • Understand how you and others are motivated, or un-motivated, and how you can get the most from your interactions.

  • See how to catch yourself before you fall prey to "old patterns."

  • See how others view the same picture differently, and how to ease conflict.

You'll understand the basics of perspective shifts under stress or in security, and how these shifts affect your life and those around you.

You'll understand your two Wing influences, and how they can help you or hinder you and others.

 

As consciousness stages and tiers have historically been differentiated by one's ability to simultaneously hold multiple perspectives, working with the five perspectives already residing within you is a fast and effective way to start.

 

This is a mind-blowing, change your way of looking at the world opportunity.  You can evolve to a higher level than you may have ever imagined.

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The Artist and Business:   Maintaining Integrity and Getting Paid
Focusing on the specific issues that arise when artists of all types interface with the business mind-set, and the interpersonal communication skills that facilitate success.

  • Access your own best business mind-set.

  • Interface with others, without conflict, both in teams and as a contractor.

  • Blow away the misconception that you have to compromise your Integrity as an Artist.

In fact, with the increased ability to communicate with each other, your ability to maintain your integrity increases as well.  Everyone can more effectively state their positions, feelings, and thoughts without creating secondary conflict.

 

 

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Organic Character Development:  Believability from the Inside
Designed for Writers, Actors, Directors, or anyone who wants the tools to create exceptionally authentic, believable characters.  External activity can create accurate caricatures, but internal motivations have a natural flow, directing congruent action, and three-dimensional believability.  Using the Enneagram to identify core motivations and the dynamic shifts in perspective that take place under different circumstances, characters maintain congruency throughout their emotional spectra.

  • Create characters with authentic motivations.

  • Maintain congruency throughout reactions and emotions.

  • Depict credible interactions, using accurate triggers and agreements.

Certain characters have always seemed more believable and real to you.  What were they doing differently?  How did they move through events and circumstances, and react in ways that never stepped outside of what you would believe?  When a character is designed from the inside out; from their core motivations and core belief systems, activity and dialogue naturally flows in a congruent way.

 

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Workshop Specific Titles: 2 hours minimum, highly participatory:

 

 

 

Optimize Your Team's Communication: Communicating to Connect
The way you work together, or don't work together, inevitably stems from the communication between your people.  (more...)

 

 

Taking it On The Road:  Putting Your New Tools to the Test
Full Day Workshop
Starting with the Optimize Your Team’s Communication Workshop in the morning, we join up with Dr. Clue’s Treasure Hunts in the afternoon, to put your new communication skills right to work in a safe environment, away from the office.  (more...)

 

 

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Optimize Your Team's Communication: Communicating to Connect
The way you work together, or don't work together, inevitably stems from the communication between your people.
  Misunderstandings and miscues devour time and money, as well as destroying morale.  This workshop will create a fundamental shift in the way your people relate to one another, and thus a powerful impact on the business as a whole.  Each team member will have the opportunity to participate in:

  • Typology Assessments; highlighting Focus of Attention, Communication Styles, and Unique Contribution Potential.

  • Exercises and discussions designed to bring out communication issues and workplace dynamics; keeping the workshop rooted in real-world solutions.

  • Self-Directed Conflict Resolution Techniques that replace repeating the same old “stories” with non-judgmental, non-blaming curiosity

When everyone truly understands one another’s real motivations, without jumping to conclusions or making assumptions, the work gets done faster, easier, with virtually no conflict.

 

 

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Taking it On The Road:  Putting Your New Tools to the Test
Full Day Workshop
Starting with the Optimize Your Team’s Communication Workshop in the morning, we join up with Dr. Clue’s Treasure Hunts in the afternoon, to put your new communication skills right to work in a safe environment, away from the office.  Dr. Clue’s Treasure Hunts offer your teams the opportunity to work on problem solving and team communication in a powerful new way.  During the hunt, you'll engage your minds and bodies in solving the puzzles of teamwork, including such vital business teambuilding issues as brainstorming, problem-solving, team communication, style differences, and perhaps most of all, cross-team collaboration.  And you'll have a ton of fun in the process.

  • You’ll gain powerful new communication tools, and better understanding of others with whom you work.

  • You’ll have the opportunity to put these new tools to the test in safe simulations of vital business processes.

  • Light-years beyond “ropes courses” or other teambuilding workshops; this deeply integrated combination of communication skills and immediate applications-in-action will create the effective change your team craves.

The de-brief at the end of the workshop, where your people have light bulb experience after light bulb experience of exciting discoveries will show you how powerfully this workshop will shift your team toward effectiveness and success from day one.

 

 

 

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