Program Descriptions - Forum/Group/Team Growth
What's Your Type? : Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is an online assessment that indicates preferences on 4 continuums, resulting in 16 types. Your type helps you understand how you:
• Prefer to expend and restore your energy
• Take in information
• Evaluate information to make decisions
• Like to organize your life and your time
Knowing about the preferences of others enables richer interactions and the ability to anticipate needs. Discussions will focus on how to flex your style to be more influential, how stress is demonstrated by the different types, and what blind spots are common for each type. Assessment data will be compiled to give a view of the entire Forum and discuss the group dynamics that can be predicted. The online assessment and report are an additional $50 per person and will be offered in advance of the retreat.
Approximate Duration for Group Facilitation: 3 Hour
What Are Your Strengths: StrengthsFinder Discussion
When combined with skills and knowledge, our innate talents become strengths that pave the way to fulfilling relationships, successful careers, and personal success. Rather than attempting to close performance gaps or fill deficiencies, “playing to our strengths” is a philosophy that enables us to maximize our motivation and outcomes and better support our teams and family members. Participants will complete the StrengthsFinder assessment prior to the retreat. During the session, we will reveal and discuss how our strengths show up, understand how others experience our talents, discern our expectations of others, and assess how we can nurture and leverage our talents to minimize struggle and maximize outcomes. The exercise requires the purchase of the book and completion of the online assessment prior to the retreat.
Approximate Duration for Group Facilitation: 3.5 Hour
Building Your Personal Board of Directors
Creating a Personal Board of Directors involves clarifying your needs and identifying how you’d like to be supported. The activity provides time to reflect on your current network’s ability and interest in supporting your growth. Many of us have “Board Members” in our lives, whether we’ve intentionally selected them or not.
Transforming our implicit decisions for support to be purposeful and explicit can ensure we are enlisting the “right” people and prioritizing with whom we are spending time. Your Personal Board of Directors is a network of people who will expect the best of you, address your emotional, spiritual, physical, professional, and educational needs, challenge your growth, align with your values, and provide you unconditional love and support, and will step in when you are unable.
Approximate Duration for Group Facilitation: 1.5 Hours
Happiness Lifeline
The Happiness Lifeline is an introspective exercise to recall the events, experiences, and connections that produced joyful memories and an overall sense of happiness. Favorite memories are plotted along a timeline and serve as a strong reminder of what has previously ignited joy and happiness. Discussions will reveal research about what happy people know, and participants will be challenged to review themes and develop action steps to derive greater happiness in business and personal lives.
Approximate Duration for Group Facilitation: 4 Hours
Who Shows Up?
Knowing ourselves involves great observation of the fluctuations in our attitudes, behaviors, and feelings as we navigate life. Reflecting on how we show up differently across a variety of situations can be metaphorically represented as having an internal “cast of characters” – each with their own needs, behavior patterns, and preferences. Understanding the needs of each persona leads to being at “choice” in how we respond and can promote growth as we pursue becoming our best selves. The WHO SHOWS UP activity is an entertaining exploration of our “characters” through names and personification while uncovering our basic needs, experiences and what motivates and scares us.
Approximate Duration for Group Facilitation: 4 Hours
Before You Go: Planning With the End in Mind
Rarely do we take time to think about “our time to go.” Many of us, however, have survived others and understand the importance of having wishes documented. During this “preparedness” session, we will document wishes and important facts, list the people that need to be notified, share ideas for the type of service we want, brainstorm things we would like to provide for others and identify what we need to say NOW to those we love. Sharing wisdom we’ve obtained from our experiences of loss, we’ll get our affairs in order so we can spend the rest of our lives fulfilling our “bucket list” of dreams.
Approximate Duration for Group Facilitation: 4 Hours