Here is a comprehensive list of the themes we will cover together
while working through the 8 week personal growth workout program
Session 1:
Theme: Introduction
Introduction
- How we will work together
- Why awareness is so important
- Discuss the philosophy of ‘change’
- Discover and discuss our inborn character traits, natural skills and abilities
- Notice what you’ve brought into your adulthood from childhood.
- Ask yourself how are you affected by your childhood experience
- Discuss what “web of information” means to you as an individual
- Do you feel stuck?
- Do you feel successful?
- What did you learn about yourself from the homework exercise?
- Begin to build group cohesion through group discussion about your experience and general feedback.
- Share helpful reminders, we can learn from one another.
- Preparation for our next get-together.
Session 2:
Theme: Awareness
Hello again!
- Knowing what belongs to me and what belongs to others
- Do you recognize your emotional triggers?
- Discussion what it means to “create a space”
- Defining our personal boundaries
- Gaining clarity and learning to hear our inner voice
- Having awareness gives us the gift to choose our responses
- Homework – general discussion
- Accessing flow - what does it mean to you when we say that life is like a wave
Session 3:
Theme: Breath work
Welcome back!
- How did you feel about the belly breathing technique?
- Where you able to master the belly breath?
- Helpful hints and practice time for belly breathing
- Anger – our personal tales
- Learning to take control of habitual reactions
- Using the breath to handle stress, anxiety and fear more easily
- Homework – general discussion
Session 4:
Theme: Past present future
You’re entering the half way mark of your personal workout. Let’s keep going!
- Feedback
- Discussion: The past cannot be changed but we can perceive it differently in the present.
- How to understand and master the gift of reframing
- Self defeating behaviors with strategies to change them
- Family dynamics and how they affect us
- Childhood assumptions
- Untrue core beliefs
- Repetitive patterns of behavior
- Be kind to yourself
- Creative space
- Root causes of personal pain
- Your personal vignette
- The importance of recording personal reminders in your journal
- How’s the homework going?
Session 5:
Theme: Head chatter
- What is “head chatter”
- Distraction techniques
- Inspirational phrases – for each individual
- Pictures and Visualization
- How the strategy works for you
- Homework – general discussion
Session 6:
Theme: Choices
- General discussion about choice making
- Goal setting
- The influence of emotions on making healthy choices
- Research
- Viable options
- Flexibility – adjusting our goals
- Timing
- Short term choices
- Long term choices
- Which model for decision making works best for you
- My new year resolutions
- The 10 steps
Session 7:
Theme: Learning to let go
- Taking responsibility
- I am holding onto ………………..
- What belongs to me and what belongs to the other
- Dealing with anger and resentment
- What is and isn’t working in my life right now
- Freedom
- Flow
- Setting realistic goals
- Expectations of self and others
- Letting go is liberating
- My power-house
- Liberation stories
- Imperfection
- Check-in on the resolutions we made
- Share victory celebrations stories
Session 8:
Theme: Celebration
You’ve done it! You stuck with the process, and you are about to cross the finish line. Congratulations!!
- Anatomy of personal growth – fall back, move forward etc.
- Gratitude and humility
- The value of reinforcement
- Success and failure
- Helpful reminders - a quick glance memory aid