Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops

The essential conditions for transformation in workshops are co-created by the leader and the participants. As an embodied leader, you form an intentional community where people can meet, join, and belong. Your holistic view honors the inherent worth of each person, and you believe that everyone already has what they need to live a purposeful life.

In the end, what we all need is in every one of us. When you strip it all away, insight and empathy are already on board guiding us. We already have everything we need. By simply acting out of our true nature, we nudge ourselves along the path we are already on.

There is an underlying joy and peace that can be known and that doesn’t end. When you can practice being yourself and going beyond a limiting story, you create the conditions for transformation and begin walking a path of freedom.

The transformational model aims to embolden, support, uplift, and empower self-directed individuals and ignite group creativity through self-inquiry and cooperative inquiry.

The key to transformation is self-awareness. A transformational leader helps participants bring attention to hidden assumptions, which are often part of our default stories or identities, such as the lost child or hard-hearted person. We do this through the safe witnessing of habitual thinking and judgments.

As Teilhard de Chardin said, “We need to have more specialists in spirit who will lead people into self-discovery.” Offering workshops is a powerful way to do this.

In this sense, transformation is a continual process of moving to a new stage that transcends and includes the old.5

Learning is enriched and deepened when experiences are personally relevant, emotionally stimulating, new and different, reinforced through repetition, and engaged through multiple modalities.16 Mind-body experiences are the vehicle for exponential learning in a transformational workshop. They connect people to themselves, others, and the natural wo

Mind-body experiences are an invitation to go on a journey of exploration and self-inquiry. The value of experience is that it is engaging. It lets people find answers for themselves, have a stake in what they create, and then share their discoveries with others.