"Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life."
We've patterned a series of personal growth classes upon the philosophy embodied in Mr. Robinson's quote.
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How to Complain Effectively
Learn how to complain and get results. Topics covered include discovering your complaining style, learning the dos and don'ts of complaining, recognizing the difference between what you want and what you deserve, putting your complaint in writing, and learning how to take advantage of outside resources. Participants will take an inventory of their complaining style, understand the elements of an effective complaint, learn the parameters of what relief to ask for, write sample complaint letters based upon hypothetical cases, and learn about consumer organizations and government agencies.
[Length: 6 hours/Fee: $1200]
The Lesson of Weebles: Overcoming Disappointment and Failure
Explore ways to bounce back from disappointment. Topics covered include Weebles Wobble But They Don't Fall Down, paradigm shift - viewing failure as opportunity, rebounding from disappointment, recognizing and correcting defeatist behaviors, and formulating a plan for future prosperity. Participants will realize that the power in trying is greater than the power of failure, learn how to change their thinking of failure as something negative, learn specific steps to rebound from disappointing situations, identify and correct behaviors that thwart success, and devise a personal action plan for future success.
[Length: 4 hours/Fee: $800]
Making the Most of Your Life Now - What's Holding You Back?
Explore how to be fulfilled now. Topics covered include fear is the root of procrastination, identifying obstacles to your happiness, overcoming obstacles to your happiness, reconciliation and letting go of past hurts, and the negative consequences of delaying gratification. Participants will identify and examine personal fears at the root of their procrastination, list actual and perceived obstacles to achieving happiness, think about solutions to overcoming their obstacles, confront how past experiences stunt forward progression, and understand personal consequences of not living in the moment.
[Length: 4 hours/Fee: $800]
Managing Stress At Home and At Work
Explore how to handle stressful situations. Topics covered include setting boundaries and learning how to say "No", recognizing and understanding the sources of your stress, establishing regular "me" time, healthy ways to cope with stress, and keeping your head when all those around you are losing theirs. Participants will understand what stress is and its physical manifestations, devise a list of their personal stressors and their sources, realize how personal behaviors contribute to stress, develop an action plan to deal with a particular stressor, and understand how to cope with stress in healthy ways.
[Length: 6 hours/Fee: $1200]
Setting Goals and Following Through - Hitting Your Target
Realize personal and professional goals. Topics covered include creating S.M.A.R.T. goals, eliminating barriers to achieving your goals, realizing when your goals aren't really your goals, re-evaluating your goals - is it time to let some goals go, and when the going gets tough - finding motivation to reach your goals. Participants will learn how to create S.M.A.R.T. goals, list real and perceived barriers to achieving their goals, identify goals set for them by others that are not in line with their own wants, prioritize and reevaluate current goals, and understand sources of motivation to reach goals.
[Length: 4 hours/Fee: $800]
Tapping Into Your Creative Potential
Get in touch with your creative side. Topics covered include abandoning conventional black/white thinking, wearing your clothes inside out, solving challenges creatively, creating an environment where creativity flourishes, and understanding your creativity quotient. Participants will engage in interactive exercises to expand their creativity, define their creativity quotient, learn how to approach challenges by thinking backwards, understand what hinders and fosters creative thinking, and draw a personal portrait of creativity.
[Length: 6 hours/Fee: $1200]
Transform Your Life Through the Power of Positive Thinking
Explore how adjustments to your attitude and personal outlook make a difference in your overall contentment. Topics covered include recognizing and eliminating negative self-talk, showing gratitude affects your attitude, taking inventory of your relationships and cleaning house, every cloud has a silver lining, and learning how to encourage yourself when others don't. Participants will understand the physical, emotional, and mental effects of negativity, identify the root of and reverse negative self concepts, assess positive and negative influences on emotional wellbeing, learn to think differently about difficult circumstances, and develop a personalized daily positivity regimen.
[Length: 6 hours/Fee: $1200]
Venturing Outside of Your Comfort Zone
Explore ways to reach beyond what is comfortable. Topics covered include creating a diagram of your comfort zone, re-examining your personal limitations, identifying the irrational fear in the unfamiliar, Jackie Robinson's words of wisdom - life is not a spectator sport, and embracing the NIKE credo to Just Do It. Participants will define their personal comfort zone, identify and re-examine what they think they can and cannot do, understand the basis of fear and how it immobilizes, understand active participant versus passive bystander, and devise an action plan to venture out of their comfort zone.
[Length: 4 hours/Fee: $800]