Personal
Development, Enrichment and Renewal
Workshops, Seminars and Programs for Body, Mind
and Spirit
The Center is actively interested in developing, designing and providing information and programs for personal growth and development. The personal development, enrichment and renewal programs offered by the Center are designed for persons who seek a higher level of personal understanding and meaning in the areas of their life they consider most important. These programs offer a unique blend of health and learning information, presented in interesting and active formats in the workshop or seminar style. Programs often focus on communication, emotional well being, building more new partnerships and healthful communities, developing personal assets. Programs are offered throughout the year. A full schedule of programs is available by contacting the center.
Opportunity for healing, growth,
change and interpersonal renewal are important
to enable us to live fulfilling and satisfying
lives that have meaning and connection to our
inner selves and the outer world. In personal
development, enrichment and renewal programs,
staff encourages and supports attainment of
new ideas in health and learning that compliment
positive lifestyles, professional identity,
and interpersonal experiences.
These workshops are a unique blend of health
and learning information, techniques, methods,
innovative educational experiences and opportunities
for growth, change and interpersonal renewal.
The workshops are ideal for adults who wish
to change personal directions in private life
or work settings, understand and learn new ways
of relating to others and overcome internal
conflicts that restrict expression, intimacy
and personal goals. Using information and staff
from both the Counseling Clinic and the Learning
Studios, this workshop helps adults identify
new sources of strength, awareness and interpersonal
meaning. These workshops, while not a substitute
for therapeutic care, help individuals and couples
experience growth and change in new and creative
ways, often without the need for extensive counseling
or therapy.
The personal development, enrichment and renewal
workshops are innovative and inspiring programs
for adults who want to find greater purpose,
meaning and significance in their life. The
workshops are an educational process designed
to assist in making important discoveries and
changes that may enhance personal awareness
and interpersonal abilities while bringing clarity
to meaning and the significance of each person’s
experiences and gifts. Many have found that
workshops of this type are excellent in helping
make personal changes without the need for more
extensive counseling or therapeutic work and
are excellent additions or “boosters”
to counseling or therapy in which they be already
involved. These workshops may be highly complimentary
to other professional assistance, counseling
or therapy persons may be receiving.
None of these workshops promote a philosophy,
provide therapy or sell any product or service.
These workshops are simply a unique offering
of series of personal educational and carefully
facilitated experiences and processes designed
to help persons recognize, understand and utilize
their individual meaning, purpose and innovative
pathways toward a more rewarding and fulfilling
life. While therapy or treatment is not a part
of nor offered through any workshop, personal,
behavioral, attitudinal and psychological changes
are often the result of participating in the
educational programs. All programs are conducted
by trained facilitators with years of personal
and professional experience and training in
their respective fields. If therapeutic change
or work is an interest or need of participants,
workshop facilitators willingly and gladly provide
no-cost recommendations and referrals to appropriate
healthcare practitioners, agencies or other
professional services.
What Participants
Gain From These Workshops
Each person who participates in these
workshops gain unique skills, awareness and
insights. No two people experience the workshops
the same way, and each person departs with the
feeling of participation in a very personal,
intimate and unique learning experience. Generally,
participants are able to:
- Identify and enable effective
and meaningful personal and career strengths
and goals
- Become more effective in
personal and professional relationships,
families and careers
- Find and utilize powerful
personal assets to enhance relationships
and conflict
- Increase awareness and experiences
with effective health and wellness practices
- Improving personal and interpersonal
communication, genuineness, creativity,
and intimacy
- Examine new and innovative
ways of relating to others
- Understand the importance
of natural health systems, methods and techniques
- Gain awareness of the power
of spiritual influences
- Making better choices and
decisions on health, wellness and interpersonal
relationships and intimacy
Workshop
Topics
Using advanced and innovative educational techniques
and guided experiences, the workshops help refine
and integrate personal strengths, avoid negative
experiences with advanced cutting-edge organizational
and communication techniques into useful tools
for change, personal enrichment, social experiences,
interpersonal growth and intimacy. Currently
the following workshops are offered:
Emotional
Well-Being and Personal Community Building for
Women is designed to help adult women
understand and create new pathways for finding
personal meaning and greater involvement in
the world around them. The program focuses on
understanding new and existing relationships,
personal expectations and goals, and issues
of intimacy and renewal. This program is ideal
for women experiencing unwanted changes including
new difficulties, confusion, or challenges in
their life.
Developing
Personal Assets for Creative Change and Career
Development is a program for youth and
adults on how to identify and organize personal
assets in private lives and work settings. Understanding
personal assets, including how we get them and
how we keep them, are keys to enjoying a fulfilling
and rewarding life that include meaningful relationships.
This program features the renowned Search Institute’s
Developmental Asset Model as a guide for personal
development. Additionally, through this program
it is possible to obtain a Certificate
in Personal Assets Guidance which is
professional recognition for helping others
identify and maximize personal asset development.
Grief
Work: Understanding and Overcoming the Power
of Loss is a unique workshop for anyone
experiencing a significant personal loss or
sense of being overcome by consistent feelings
of detachment, grief or abandonment. This workshop
identifies aspects of loss that are always necessary,
including what is in our control and what is
not. This program helps distinguish the difference
between being lonely and being alone, and the
different types of depression based on the variety
of losses we experience.
A
Community of Men is an informal and supportive
coalition of men who endeavor to be more effective,
real, genuine, fulfilled and engaged in personal
and work life. Men meet to discuss challenges,
relationships, commitments and responsibilities
in a supportive environment, men learn from
each other, share ideas and strengthen personal
goals and identity. The Community of Men is
an environment supportive of men today.
Closeness
and Intimacy in Relationships
Being personal and close is sometimes difficult
to do. It is increasingly confusing today to
understand the universal meaning of “closeness”
and “intimacy” in the variety of
roles and life situations in which we find ourselves.
It is more challenging to understand how to
appropriately express needs for closeness and
intimacy in new and existing relationships.
This workshop helps participants identify and
experience various types of closeness intimacy
to enrich new, existing or long-standing relationships.
As an experiential process, this workshop helps
participants gain self-confidence, self-esteem,
and build new communication and personal relating
tools for the appropriate expression of the
need for closeness and intimacy in all relationships.
The
Spirit Filled Life
There are many paths to spiritual understanding
and fulfillment. Some paths lead us to a lifelong
connection with spirituality and spiritual growth,
while some fall far short of our expectations.
Connection to spiritual thoughts, discussions,
experiences and writings enrich our life regardless
of how we personally view spirituality or what
belief system we follow, if we follow one at
all. This workshop examines the general characteristics
of understanding the benefits and beauty of
connecting to a “spiritual center”
and how a “spirit-filled” or “purpose-driven”
life, however defined or practiced, can offer
significant meaning, connection and enrichment
of a higher order not routinely understood or
valued.
There are three ways to experience
any of the workshops:
Introductory
Session
Workshop introductory sessions are a two-hour
no-fee orientation to the workshop process and
potential contents. Introductory sessions are
offered approximately monthly. This is an excellent
opportunity to see and experience, without cost
or obligation, the personal potential of the
workshop processes and educational content.
Weekend
Workshop
The weekend workshops are multi-hour hour program
of focused on the topics listed above. Each
workshop offers techniques for identifying and
using personal assets, incorporating new tools
for personal development and stimulating change
and growth. Each workshop uses the facilitated
structured experiences to enable participants
to experience new skills and tools in a safe
and supportive environment. The weekend workshops
are an effective and intense experience offering
participants the opportunity to look closely
at various patterns of their lives that work,
and those that do not, and how to make immediate
and sustained change. The workshops also help
identify develop communication skills, building
intimacy, creating relationship networks and
sorting of and understanding unmet or unfulfilled
needs.
Evening
Sessions
Evening Sessions are monthly three-hour experiences
that focus on strengthening and maintaining
the effects and effectiveness of the workshops
content. The Evening sessions are designed to
help participants who have participated in any
of the weekend workshop maintain the newly acquired
skills, further refine them, and find new ways
to apply them. The evening sessions are open
to any past participant of any weekend workshop.
Consequently, the mix of these evening sessions
can be quite exciting and enriching.
Times,
Locations and Cost
All workshops are offered at various times and
locations. All programs are available for delivery
at locations or sites of any group or organization
interested in hosting them. More detailed information
and schedule is available upon request. The
Introductory and Evening Sessions are offered
on selected weekday evenings from 7:30-9:30
PM. The Introductory Session is offered four
times per year, or upon request by a group of
ten or more. Evening sessions are offered once
each month. All weekend workshops begin on Friday
evening at 7:00 PM, ending at 10:00 PM and Saturday
from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM. Evening Sessions are
limited to those who have attended a weekend
workshop. There is no cost for the Introductory
Workshop. The weekend workshop fee is $125 and
the evening workshop is $40 for two sessions.
Confidentiality
and Privacy
All workshop services and activities
are strictly confidential. Privacy is always
respected and recognized as essential by all
staff. Confidentiality and privacy is strictly
observed by staff and further regulated by state
and federal law.
How to Get More
Information or Register for Workshops
The Personal Workshop Staff encourage
inquiries and enjoy sharing information about
the program. For more information, contact us
at: (702) 383-6012 or email us at info@healthlearning.org
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