Posts Tagged ‘Life Skills’
Real Life Personal Transformation: A Satvatove Before and After Experience
Hear and see Stephanie before and after participating in the Satvatove Institute 34-hour Transformative Communication and Self-Empowerment Seminar.
Advanced – November 16-21, 2010
Advanced Seminar Experience
November 16 – 21, 2010
Developed & Facilitated By: David Wolf, Ph.D. and Marie Glasheen
Discover And Manifest Your Full Potential
- Address Life Issues In An Honest And Meaningful Way
- Explore Your Heartfelt Commitments, And Gain Clarity And Courage To Act On Them
- Connect With What Is Vitally Important To You
- Open New Possibilities For Greater Accomplishments And Joyfulness
- Transform Your Relationship With Fear
The Advanced Personal Transformation Experience
Building on the groundwork of the Foundational Life Skills Course, the Advanced Personal Transformation Experience is an intensive, highly experiential course that addresses life issues in a substantial manner.
Open New possibilities For Extraordinary Accomplishments And Satisfaction
In the Advanced Course participants explore more fully the real-life, practical applications and insights gained in the Foundational Course. The communication and personal growth tools acquired in the Foundational Course assist this process. Students identify their most genuine commitments and gain clarity and conviction to act on them. Through this Advanced Course you realize in a uniquely personal way what is integrally important to you. This realization results in aligning your life choices with your life purposes, and opens new possibilities for extraordinary accomplishments and satisfaction.
Personal Attention
This seminar provides directed coaching appropriate to each student’s intentions and goals. The staff assumes that students are committed to achieving excellence in all areas of their lives. Further, it is presumed that you have full capacity to effectively deal with your life situation, and that a stance of personal responsibility is best for achieving maximum potential and fulfillment. Students have abundant opportunity to realize their strength, ability, and potential for growth. During the Advanced Course students create and clarify their vision for their future, rise above self-imposed limiting beliefs, and discover the power to be the author of their life.
Tap Your Full Potential
There are vast reserves of unused strengths, unexpressed creativity, and unsung joy in each of us. This course offers the technology to bring this out, to remove the self-imposed limitations and allow the genuine self to shine. This seminar experience is an exciting opportunity to become conscious of your power and generate the life, accomplishments and relationships you want.
LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE!
RESERVE YOUR SPACE IN ADVANCE!
Advanced Course Information:
Where: Alachua, Florida
When: November 16-21, 2010
Tuition Includes: 7-day, approximately 70-hour course, course materials, lunch and 1-hour post-seminar personal coaching interview.
Tuition: $2,500
Scholarships, Group and Early Registration Discounts and Payment plans are available.
100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEED!
If you are not satisfied you can request in writing a refund of the tuition
within 24 hours of the end of the seminar.
FROM NORMA
“I truly enjoyed the personal transformation life skills workshop. What really enforced the concepts were the role-playing and the games. The experience I felt while putting into practice what I learned is something I can draw on. I know these skills will only serve to enhance my work with my clients and my relationships with my family. Thank you.”
Norma Rivera BSW – Social Worker
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Relationships, Communication Exercises and
Personal Development 3 Hour Workshop
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You’re Just 1 Step Away From Attending This Amazing, Transformational Event!
Relationships That Work – 3-hour Workshop (FREE)
Join us in this unforgettable experience, focusing on relationships, communication exercises and personal development.
Walk away with skills and insight you can apply with your spouse, client, children or business partners.
Learn Techniques That Will Last A Lifetime!
“Before I attended this 3 hour course I had over 200 hours of advanced communication skills training from various institutions and felt that I had a highly refined sense of speaking and listening. Participating in the short but powerful communication exercises at the Relationships That Work seminar revealed to me that even with training and experience, I was using several ‘roadblocks to communication’ in my every day speaking and listening style. I began to realize why I have many of the conflicts that I have with friends, partners, and business affiliates. I was able to take home a few simple tools that dramatically altered the quality of my interactions with others. Anyone can learn these tools and improve their lives.”
- Kylie Devi, Gainesville, FL
Below is a video with excerpts from communication exercises
similar to those in the 3-hour workshop offered in Gainesville.
Dr. David Wolf At Master Of Influence, Palm Springs, CA
When and Where :
Sunday, January 15, 2012 — 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Sunday, January 29, 2012 — 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Sunday, February 19, 2012 — 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Held at the Sacred Earth Center, 3131 NW 13th Street #41, Gainesville
(You will receive an email with further workshop information )
Advanced – Mar 10-15, 2012
Advanced Seminar Experience
March 10 – 15, 2012
Developed & Facilitated By: David Wolf, Ph.D. and Marie Glasheen
Florida Special
Register Now & Get A 40% Discount
The Advanced Personal Transformation Experience
Building on the groundwork of the Foundational Transformative Communication & Self-Empowerment Seminar Experience, the Advanced Personal Transformation Experience is an intensive, highly experiential course that addresses life issues in a substantial manner.
In This Seminar You Will Get The Opportunity To:
- Discover And Manifest Your Full Potential
- Address Life Issues In An Honest And Meaningful Way
- Explore Your Heartfelt Commitments, And Gain Clarity And Courage To Act On Them
- Connect With What Is Vitally Important To You
- Open New Possibilities For Greater Accomplishments And Joyfulness
- Transform Your Relationship With Fear
Open New Possibilities For Extraordinary Accomplishments And Satisfaction
In the Advanced Course participants explore more fully the real-life, practical applications and insights gained in the Foundational Course. The communication and personal growth tools acquired in the Foundational Course assist this process. Students identify their most genuine commitments and gain clarity and conviction to act on them. Through this Advanced Course you realize in a uniquely personal way what is integrally important to you. This realization results in aligning your life choices with your life purposes, and opens new possibilities for extraordinary accomplishments and satisfaction.
Personal Attention
This seminar provides directed coaching appropriate to each student’s intentions and goals. The staff assumes that students are committed to achieving excellence in all areas of their lives. Further, it is presumed that you have full capacity to effectively deal with your life situation, and that a stance of personal responsibility is best for achieving maximum potential and fulfillment. Students have abundant opportunity to realize their strength, ability, and potential for growth. During the Advanced Course students create and clarify their vision for their future, rise above self-imposed limiting beliefs, and discover the power to be the author of their life.
Tap Your Full Potential
There are vast reserves of unused strengths, unexpressed creativity, and unsung joy in each of us. This course offers the technology to bring this out, to remove the self-imposed limitations and allow the genuine self to shine. This seminar experience is an exciting opportunity to become conscious of your power and generate the life, accomplishments and relationships you want.
LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE!
RESERVE YOUR SPACE IN ADVANCE!
Advanced Course Information:
Where: North Florida
When: March 10-15, 2012
Tuition Includes: 6-day, approximately 70-hour course, course materials, lunch and 1-hour post-seminar personal coaching interview.
Tuition: $2,500
Scholarships, Group Discounts and Payment plans are available.
Florida Special
Register Now & Get A 40% Discount
100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEED!
If you are not satisfied you can request in writing a refund of the tuition
within 24 hours of the end of the seminar.
For Further Information Contact:
Nitai – nitaibechtol@gmail.com / 858.442.6311
Advanced – November 5-10, 2011
Advanced Seminar Experience
November 5 – 10, 2011
Developed & Facilitated By: David Wolf, Ph.D. and Marie Glasheen
Florida Special
Register Now & Get A 40% Discount
The Advanced Personal Transformation Experience
Building on the groundwork of the Foundational Transformative Communication & Self-Empowerment Seminar Experience, the Advanced Personal Transformation Experience is an intensive, highly experiential course that addresses life issues in a substantial manner.
In This Seminar You Will Get The Opportunity To:
- Discover And Manifest Your Full Potential
- Address Life Issues In An Honest And Meaningful Way
- Explore Your Heartfelt Commitments, And Gain Clarity And Courage To Act On Them
- Connect With What Is Vitally Important To You
- Transform Your Relationship With Fear
Open New Possibilities For Extraordinary Accomplishments And Satisfaction
In the Advanced Course participants explore more fully the real-life, practical applications and insights gained in the Foundational Course. The communication and personal growth tools acquired in the Foundational Course assist this process. Students identify their most genuine commitments and gain clarity and conviction to act on them. Through this Advanced Course you realize in a uniquely personal way what is integrally important to you. This realization results in aligning your life choices with your life purposes, and opens new possibilities for extraordinary accomplishments and satisfaction.
Personal Attention
This seminar provides directed coaching appropriate to each student’s intentions and goals. The staff assumes that students are committed to achieving excellence in all areas of their lives. Further, it is presumed that you have full capacity to effectively deal with your life situation, and that a stance of personal responsibility is best for achieving maximum potential and fulfillment. Students have abundant opportunity to realize their strength, ability, and potential for growth. During the Advanced Course students create and clarify their vision for their future, rise above self-imposed limiting beliefs, and discover the power to be the author of their life.
Tap Your Full Potential
There are vast reserves of unused strengths, unexpressed creativity, and unsung joy in each of us. This course offers the technology to bring this out, to remove the self-imposed limitations and allow the genuine self to shine. This seminar experience is an exciting opportunity to become conscious of your power and generate the life, accomplishments and relationships you want.
LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE!
RESERVE YOUR SPACE IN ADVANCE!
Advanced Course Information:
Where: North Florida
When: November 5 – 10, 2011
Tuition Includes: 6 days, approximately 70-hour course, course materials, lunch and 1-hour post-seminar personal coaching interview.
Tuition: $2,500
Scholarships, Group Discounts and Payment plans are available.
Florida Special
Register Now & Get A 40% Discount
100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEED!
If you are not satisfied you can request in writing a refund of the tuition
within 24 hours of the end of the seminar.
For Further Information, Contact Us:
352.505.2959
fayenen@satvatove.com
Advanced – April 23 – 28, 2011
Advanced Seminar Experience
April 23 – 28, 2011
Developed & Facilitated By: David Wolf, Ph.D. and Marie Glasheen
Florida Special
Register Now & Get A 40% Discount
The Advanced Personal Transformation Experience
Building on the groundwork of the Foundational Transformative Communication & Self-Empowerment Seminar Experience, the Advanced Course is an intensive, highly experiential course that addresses life issues in a substantial manner.
In This Seminar You Will Get The Opportunity To:
- Discover And Manifest Your Full Potential
- Address Life Issues In An Honest And Meaningful Way
- Explore Your Heartfelt Commitments, And Gain Clarity And Courage To Act On Them
- Connect With What Is Vitally Important To You
- Open New Possibilities For Extraordinary Accomplishments, Satisfaction And Joyfulness
- Transform Your Relationship With Fear
Open New Possibilities For Extraordinary Accomplishments And Satisfaction
In the Advanced Course participants explore more fully the real-life, practical applications and insights gained in the Foundational Course. The communication and personal growth tools acquired in the Foundational Course assist this process. Students identify their most genuine commitments and gain clarity and conviction to act on them. Through this Advanced Course you realize in a uniquely personal way what is integrally important to you. This realization results in aligning your life choices with your life purposes, and opens new possibilities for extraordinary accomplishments and satisfaction.
Personal Attention
This seminar provides directed coaching appropriate to each student’s intentions and goals. The staff assumes that students are committed to achieving excellence in all areas of their lives. Further, it is presumed that you have full capacity to effectively deal with your life situation, and that a stance of personal responsibility is best for achieving maximum potential and fulfillment. Students have abundant opportunity to realize their strength, ability, and potential for growth. During the Advanced Course students create and clarify their vision for their future, rise above self-imposed limiting beliefs, and discover the power to be the author of their life.
Tap Your Full Potential
There are vast reserves of unused strengths, unexpressed creativity, and unsung joy in each of us. This course offers the technology to bring this out, to remove the self-imposed limitations and allow the genuine self to shine. This seminar experience is an exciting opportunity to become conscious of your power and generate the life, accomplishments and relationships you want.
LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE!
RESERVE YOUR SPACE IN ADVANCE!
Advanced Course Information:
Where: Alachua, North Florida
When: April 23 – 28, 2011
Tuition Includes: 6-day, approximately 70-hour course, course materials, lunch and 1-hour post-seminar personal coaching interview.
Tuition: $2,500
Scholarships, Group Discounts & Payment plans are available.
Florida Special
Register Now & Get A 40% Discount
100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEED!
If you are not satisfied you can request in writing a refund of the tuition
within 24 hours of the end of the seminar.
For Further Information, Contact Us:
352.505.2959
fayenen@satvatove.com
How to Deal With “Desk Rage”
Author Advises How to Deal With “Desk Rage”
By Sheryl Silver
“If you’re on the receiving end of someone’s desk rage, understanding is a powerful tool to employ,” said Wolf. “If we can show that we understand what the person raging is saying, we can often diffuse the situation and help them deal with their grievance(s) in a calmer, more effective way.”
David B. Wolf, PhD, author
Relationships That Work: The Power of Conscious Living
You’ve probably heard of road rage — but what about “desk rage”? It’s a term used to describe the hostility and on-the-job outbursts people experience when they can no longer control their anger or cope with frustrations at work.
Desk rage isn’t a new phenomenon but according to David B. Wolf, PhD, author of Relationships That Work: The Power of Conscious Living, it appears to be on the rise.
“I don’t have statistics to document the increase in desk rage,” said Wolf, “but anecdotally, I am hearing about it more lately from managers with whom I do coaching.”
The stresses of the current economy may be a contributing factor. Besides rising fuel prices and lower home values, Wolf pointed out that after companies cut their employee ranks, as many have done recently, the remaining employees tend to inherit the tasks their terminated co-workers handled.
“Typically, these employees are asked to handle the increased workload with no increase in salary and no real expectation of job security,” said Wolf. “The situation is a recipe for frustration and a rise in desk rage.”
While Wolf says most people don’t handle desk rage well, he believes they can learn to cope more successfully with it by employing certain communication techniques.
For starters, Wolf said it’s important to remain emotionally neutral when an episode of desk rage occurs. “Sometimes the anger being expressed is about a third party — a boss, another co-worker. But even if the rage is directed at you, don’t react defensively,” said Wolf. “Take a deep breath, keep your voice low, and remember the person’s rage isn’t really about you.”
The key, according to Wolf, is not letting fear or your own anger take hold in such a situation. “If you’re on the receiving end of someone’s desk rage, understanding is a powerful tool to employ,” said Wolf. “If we can show that we understand what the person raging is saying, we can often diffuse the situation and help them deal with their grievance(s) in a calmer, more effective way.”
“Understanding, by the way, does not necessarily mean agreeing with the person,” added Wolf. “Sometimes we might think the person is justified in their anger but sometimes we don’t. How we respond to the person expressing the anger, however, is key to de-escalating the rage factor.”
“Mirroring” what the person is saying is one way to convey your understanding. This approach involves restating, as best you can, what you just heard the person say to you. For example, if the raging co-worker said, “You screwed up my presentation by not having the report I asked for. We’re going to lose this client thanks to you!” you could respond, “I know you’re furious. You’re upset I didn’t have the report you requested and think this could jeopardize our client contract.”
“This approach allows the outraged co-worker an opportunity to confirm that what you heard and understood was correct — or to say, No, that’s not what I said,” noted Wolf. “When this technique is utilized in labor/management negotiations, it’s helped to speed the result because it helps prevent misunderstanding while creating an atmosphere of understanding.”
What if you’re not on the receiving end of desk rage but feel as if you’re the person about to explode at work? Wolf recommends taking a deep breath and stating the facts of the situation upsetting you — minus any anger. For example, you might say, “The last time we met, you agreed to be at work on time daily and to call me if you were going to be late. Three days in the past week, you arrived more than a half hour late — and one of those delays was during a staff meeting when I really needed your assistance.”
Next, Wolf suggests using “I” statements to express how you feel. Regarding the previous situation, you might say, “I was frustrated by this and feel disrespected.” He suggests avoiding “you” statements such as “You made me angry.”
Finally, tell the person you’re annoyed with what you need or want, again using “I” statements. With the incident above, you could state, “I want an assistant who is respectful and responsible. I need you to honor your agreements.”
What’s the point of this approach? “We’re not denying our anger but by communicating in a less emotional and judgmental way, we’re maximizing the potential to have our concerns heard and acted upon positively,” said Wolf.
What Is Life Skills Coaching
In the same way that top athletes use coaches to maximize performance, we can use coaching to facilitate excellence in our life.
Coaching supports the achievement of extraordinary results based on goals set by the individual or team. Through the process of coaching, individuals focus on the skills and actions they need to successfully produce their chosen results. Clarity is achieved through the coaching process. Coaching accelerates progress by providing greater focus and awareness of possibilities, leading to more effective choices. Coaching concentrates on where individuals are now and what they are willing to do to get to where they want to be in the future.
Life skills coaching may also include educational and therapeutic elements. Coaching focuses on an individual”s life as it relates to goal setting, outcome creation and personal change management. A coach helps people define what they want and supports them to reach their goals. (i.e. “I want to learn how to create a happy, committed partnership.”)
In the capacity of education, coaching provides people with general or specific information and skill-building opportunities for them to learn what they need to be successful. An assumption that is made in coaching, is that individuals or teams are capable of generating their own solutions with the coach supplying supportive, discovery-based approaches and frameworks. (i.e. “What communication principles and skills will help me to create the relationships I want?).
With regards to therapy, the coach assists individuals in resolving emotional wounds or obstacles that inhibit success in their relationships. (i.e. “My anger started when my father was brutal to my mother.”)
Life skills coaches are trained to listen and observe to customize their approach to the individual client”s needs, and elicit solutions and strategies from the client. They believe that the client is naturally creative and resourceful. The coach”s role is to provide support to enhance the skills, resources and creativity that the client already possesses. While the coach provides feedback and an objective perspective, the client is responsible for taking the steps to produce the results he or she desires. Coaching does not directly focus on treating cognitive or emotional disorders. While positive feelings or emotions may be a natural outcome of coaching, the primary focus is on creating strategies for achieving specific goals in one”s life.
Individuals who engage in a coaching relationship can expect to experience:
fresh perspectives on personal challenges and opportunities
enhanced thinking and decision making skills
enhanced interpersonal effectiveness
increased confidence in carrying out their chosen work and life roles.
Coaching helps people productively focus on areas of life that are most essential to them, whether it is career, relationships, health or spirituality. People today are more open to the idea of being in charge of their own lives. Coaching helps people do just that.
The individual coaching client is someone who wants to achieve higher levels of satisfaction, performance and learning. People utilize coaches to increase quality of life and learn more effective life skills.Clients typically work with a coach because they want to achieve one of the following goals:
Fulfillment goal- a balanced life, satisfying relationships, enthusiasm, or connection with one”s spirituality.
Learning goal- improving public speaking skills; increasing patience with colleagues, children and other; learning to practice self-care; learning to mediate disputes; and developing consistency.
Performance goal- improving business as a business owner, meeting daily standards for numbers of contacts with potential clients, clearing away clutter.
Frequently, a coach works with clients in all three of these areas simultaneously. For example, a client may want to improve her or his small business results (a performance goal), as measured by the amount of sales per customer. In the process of identifying what needs to happen to create that result, the client may discover a need to contact more potential customer. In order to do so she or he may have to become a better networker (a learning goal). As the client begins to concentrates more on networking, she or he discovers that less time is spent at home. Thus a new goal is established: to spend more quality time with family members because of the desire to be a loving and caring parent (a fulfillment goal).
The author of the Inner Game of Tennis, Timothy W. Gallway writes: “The coach is not the problem solver. In sport, I had to learn how to teach less, so that more could be learned. The same holds true for a coach in business.”
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur, a renowned yogi and Vedic scholar, writes in his book Amrita Vani: “A person”s defects are better rectified in a private tutorial class or private coaching than in hearing lectures in a school or college.”
Coaching helps one develop personal character, manifest the authentic qualities of the self, and enhance one”s spiritual life.
Satvatove Institute is an international coaching enterprise with its headquarters in Alachua, Florida. At Satvatove Institute, we are trained to guide you to change life habits and accomplish the exceptional results you desire. Coaching is about you, your life, work, goals, needs, desires and dreams. We like to think of coaching as offering our clients a “sacred space” to share and explore and try on new ways of thinking and being.
