Information does not equal implementation!

We are committed to bringing you programs  that will add value to your workplace. While we will offer informational programs, at your request, these programs do not lead to substantial change. It takes time and practice to build the skills associated with healthy thinking. Let us help you to find the programming that will benefit your organization.

Syllabus:

Week One: Automatic Pilot
     Objective: Participants will learn about the ways that individuals react to life events without conscious choice. These automatic reactions often result in unhealthy habits of the mind.

Week Two: Breaking Down the Barriers
    Objective: Participants will learn about the ways that mental processes interfere with intentional actions. Thoughts, poor self-image, and past experience distract from the intention to make real and sustainable changes.

Week Three: Habits of the Mind
    Objective: Participants will learn about the ways explanatory styles influence results. Personal, pervasive and permanent explanations for success and failure have an impact on how often a person will succeed or fail. Strategies for identifying and selecting an explanatory style will be introduced.

Week Four: Allowing/Letting Be
    Objective: Participants will begin to identify what is in their control and what is not. The nature of thought and emotion are for each of them to arise without the ability to control it. Thoughts are not facts. Emotions distort experience. Control is found in the ability to make a choice about whether to infuse thoughts and emotions with significance or to let them pass through the experience without giving them importance.

Week Five: Building Resilience
    Objective:  Participants will learn to recognize the choices they have even when they are facing difficult circumstances.  Circumstances do not define who you are; deciding how you choose to be in those circumstances is what makes you who you are.

Week Six: Building On Strenths
    Objective: Participants will learn to act from their personal strengths rather than focus on avoiding their weaknesses. The willingness to shift from needing perfection to being able to accept that everyone has weaknesses but everyone also has strengths is a component of developing real self-acceptance. Putting strengths of individuals together in a team is a powerful way that humans collaborate. It is more effective that trying to eliminate the weaknesses of those individuals. The secret of an effective team is for everyone to bring their greatest strengths to the effort and to have a collaborative effort where the weakness of one is balanced by the strength of another.

Week Seven: Developing Compassion
    Objective: Participants will learn the ways that empathy builds supportive relationships and is a key to increased happiness. Compassion building exercises will be introduced.

Week Eight: Communication
    Objective: Participants will learn that intense emotions can quickly “hijack” attempts to communicate. In very emotional situations the brain does not think, but rather moves quickly into a defensive mode that interferes with communication. It is necessary to develop tools to quiet the emotions as a successful step toward solving problems.

Week Nine: Flourishing
    Objective: To introduce participants to the realization that the absence of illness does not imply the existence of health. Participants will learn to go beyond lowering risk for disease or disorder and identify key factors in living a happier life.

Week Ten: Healthy Thinking and the Seven Dimensions of Wellness
    Objective: Participants will learn how to apply what has been learned about emotional health to the other dimensions of wellness. 

Week Eleven: Personal Wellness Planning
    Objective: Participants will prepare for using these tools over the long term. Each participant will construct an individualized plan to continue the practice of healthy thinking skills and to anticipate problems in the future.

Week Twelve: New Beginnings...
    Objective: Review the learning during the previous 3 months and obtain an evaluation of the course.