2023-24 Winter/Spring Offerings
All of our offerings are available to individuals and can also be booked specially for your team, community group or organization. We also offer a wide range of keynote speeches for events. To find out more, please get in touch.
GIFT FOUNDATIONS
Discovery of your Core Gift can be life-changing for relationships, work, schooling, and other interests. At a fork in the road in your life? Confused by a current situation? Choose one of our highly skilled Master Facilitators to gently guide you through the process of discovering and putting your words to your Core Gift.
We have selected our most experienced Core Gift Master Facilitators, who also have life coaching businesses, to help you decide how to integrate your Core Gift in your life. Using our Core Gift coaching questioning process, you will decide on specific changes, plan the first steps, and gain the confidence to go forward.
Thousands of people have taken our signature program over the years. Two days of deep learning about gifts, coaching and practice in the discovery process, and walk away knowing your Core Gift. In use today by coaches, therapists, schools,and a wide range of helping organizations and community groups.
This one-day workshop has two purposes: to provide multicultural content that will deepen your foundational understanding of gifts and to help you learn about five different gift-discovery tools that you can use in any situation where gifts are needed. Participants value the highly participatory design of the gift-discovery activities.
For people in the 50+ age range, this session explores the true definition and origination of legacy, the three requirements of a successful legacy, and opportunity to talk with others who are feeling the pull of legacy. Balancing interaction and reflective time, you’ll leave this session with a clearer focus on how you want to define your legacy.
Join us on the Institute's only 2023 pilgrimage. A small group adventure island-hopping in the Channel Islands off the coast of France. Eight days of gentle walking, a balance of deep conversation and solitude with like-minded souls. We invite you to take this time for yourself to breathe and renew.
ADVANCED SKILLS
Use your Core Gift to deepen and energize your leadership in this small-group learning series. Specific content to integrate your Core Gift into the 8 domains of any organization, common issues looked at through a gift-centered lens, and the benefits of a learning group where deep conversation and new awareness are supported.
Boost or renew your Core Gift Discovery™ interview skills. We'll share facilitative tips from masters, trade learning between participants, review solutions to common stuck points. Participants leave more confident in the process and more committed to integrating gifts in their work. Choose between a standard or disability-focused group.
Someone has discovered their Core Gift. What’s next? Take your coaching and action planning support to the next level using our 4 Levels of Gift Integration model, Gift Coaching Question Clusters, Action Templates, and tips for working with resistance. Remember, a gift is not a gift until it’s given!
Based on the success of a ten-organization learning group, we’re offering this series again to select organizations who want to infuse gifts into all parts of their organization and tap the clarity, power, and outcomes that can happen when gift understanding and usage become commonplace in a group.
It’s true! Groups have a Core Gift—a specific purpose that unifies and energizes. Called their Signature Gift, we’ve developed a simple facilitated process any group can use to discover their own gift. Groups love the active participation and how it uncovers their unique operating style and powerful intentions.
For teams whose members know their Core Gifts or have identified a few of their most significant gifts. Learn why gift-centered teams are more productive, steps for transforming from a skill-based to a gift-based team, and six specific uses for gifts in the daily life of your team. Lots of practical ideas.
SPECIAL INTEREST
An invitation to join a small group seeking calm outside the pace of their daily work life. We’ll host a wide variety of reflective activities and conversation designed for you to further grow as a person who has chosen a life of service. You’ll leave each session with increased energy, surprising ideas and a bit more hope.
Recent neuroscience research, proven organizational development practices, and the wisdom of indigenous groups come together in this hope-filled learning event. If you're tired of being the “strong one”, or feeling like your group could benefit from hope inspired by everyone rather than the few people who bring positivity, this is for you.
Humans need four kinds of belonging to remain resilient and connected. Join us as we move through the Four Paths to Belonging and witness in yourself and others an increase in feeling like you belong and the benefits that can result. Powerful activities for people working with isolated and marginalized individuals and groups.