WHAT MAKES US TICK: UNDERSTANDING OUR INNER SELVES AND OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER

A short, fun one day retreat for those who:

1. Enjoy developing your self-knowledge
2. Want to understand why you make certain choices and why those choices may or may not work for you
3. Have an interpersonal conflict with someone that is hard to resolve and want to know what can be done
4. Feel anxiety or stress because of internal conflicts, or; why things that are important to you don't get achieved
5. Want to find friends, partners and business relationships that work well and you are most comfortable with

Program:

1. Survey to understand why you are who you are and how that affects every single thing you do every day of your life
2. Understand that our values have been the unconscious drivers of our life
3. Why there are some people we are likely to have open or subtle conflicts with and how to deal with value conflicts
4. Are you really in charge of your decisions? How you can be stuck, stressed, or cannot make a decision
5. How values affect relationships and why some relationships just don't work. What can be done?
6. Making your beliefs, behaviors and values work for you

COMMUNICATIONS: HOW TO BE HEARD, UNDERSTOOD, AND POSITIVELY RESPONDED TO

Develop the skills to increase your self worth and self esteem and learn the interpersonal skills to get your needs and wants met. Learn to come across to others as a confident, strong, independent, likeable and positive person.

The two day retreat is for:

1. Anyone who wants to change their image with others
2. People who would like more self-esteem or self-worth
3. People who would like to get ahead in their careers
4. Anyone who doesn't want to feel ignored, not listened to, shy, or fearful of standing up for yourself
5. Anyone who has to deal with people who don't listen or understand you

Program:

1. Skills survey questionnaire
2. Communications techniques: how to make a good impression
3. How to define what you want in life
4. How to develop positive self esteem and self worth
5. Rejection-if it happens, how to handle it
6. Developing the personal skills to get what you want
7. Dealing with difficult people
8. Know your limits: develop realistic expectations about what is possible
9. Using your communication skills

DREAMS, FANTASIES, WISHES, AND GOALS: MAKING THEM COME TRUE OR, HOW TO GET WHAT REALLY MATTERS

Do you have things you wish you had done with your life, or things you would like to do but just don't know how to make it happen, or goals you just can't seem to reach? This retreat will help you turn those dreams into reality.

The two day retreat is for:

1. Anyone who wants a change in their life
2. Individuals or partners who have a dream and have been unable to fulfill it
3. People who have goals that seem difficult to accomplish
4. People who are planning retirement or are retired
5. People who are unclear as to what their goals are, or who don't have a direction as to where they want to go

Program:

1. The difference between your wishes, dreams, fantasies, and goals
2. Learning to clarify and prioritize your goals
3. Examining obstacles that keep you from fulfilling your dreams
4. Learn how to overcome obstacles
5. Setting measurable milestones
6. Weighing out the costs and the benefits
7. What happens? The consequences of achieving a dream
8. Developing the steps and actions to fulfill your dream

THIS IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS: THE SECRETS OF A GOOD RELATIONSHIP

Partnerships, whether they be business partners, people living together, planning marriage, newly married, or in a long term marriage benefit from "tune ups", stimulating the existing relationship.

The two day retreat is for:

1. dyads who wants to enhance important relationships (spouse, parent/child, working relationship/siblings)
2. people who are planning marriage or are newly married
3. people who have drifted into different directions
4. dyads who have subtle or overt conflict in their lives
5. partners who would like to improve their communication
6. People looking for the right partner

Program:

1. Nobody's Perfect, why is that?
2. How to make the most of similarties and differences
3. Communication: it's a lot more than from Mars and Venus
4. Knowing your communications styles, behaviors, and preferences
5. Discovering the other's yearning, wishes, and needs
6. I'm an introvert, you're an extrovert
7. Whose in charge, of what?
8. How to keep it interesting
9. The three deal breakers
10. Anger - of course
11. Predicting potential problems
12. How to have healthy conflicts
13. Creative problem solving - a new solution

LIFE CHANGES AND TRANSITIONS: MAKING CHANGE WORK FOR YOU

One thing is guaranteed in life: change. Whether positive or negative, by choice or not, life transitions can be hard to deal with. This retreat focuses on both making change happen, and how to deal with change.

The two day retreat is for:

1. people whose life has changed forcing them to make difficult adjustments (examples: health, divorce, death of partner, children leaving, job loss or downgrading, loss of professional identity, retirement)
2. people who want change in their life

Program:

1. Emotional reactions go with any change, good or bad
2. Gaining perspective, how to deal with change
3. Making change work for you by establishing new directions
4. Learn how to develop a plan for the future
5. Obstacles and problems keep us from making changes. How to overcome what comes along
6. Getting unstuck, out of a dead end

*Retreat will be developed to meet needs of the participants, based on a pre-meeting survey.

One and two day retreat

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