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Craig is currently giving a one hour talk, a half day workshop, one day workshop and weekend retreat
focused around discovering and living one's vocational
passion
What Craig's corporate clients have said
about this workshop
Craig,The workshop that you gave to General Motors Baltimore Women in Manufacturing
Organization was well received by the attendees. In speaking with each of
the women after the event, it was apparent that everyone brought something
very personal away from the workshop that they hadn't considered
previously. It was important for our group to actually take some time to
reflect on what our vision of our perfect vocational day could be. Thank
you for your time and insight!
Kate Williams
Chair-TMIE
General Motors-Powertrain- Baltimore Operations |
How to discover and live your passion 365
days a year
This workshop will enable you to discover your vocational
passion and more importantly provide a roadmap to enable
you to live your perfect vocational day. This workshop
is designed to be very interactive allowing for creative
exercises to examine one's values and personal operational
roadmap. As a result of this workshop you will be able
to go into your future, design it and come back and
live it now as you close the gap between what you want
and where you are today. This workshop is perfect for
both those in mid-life transition , those approaching
mid-life, professionals in the helping fields, teachers
as well as students just starting their college careers
and looking for more direction in their lives.
Special rates for organizations and schools. Inquire
for more detail content and info.
| Craig Discusses why he developed his new workshop,
‘’How to discover and live your passion 365
days a year’’ and what
research elements were designed into the workshop |
Much of the workshop and the design around the Ten P’s
(Purpose, Prize, Perspective, Possibilities, Place, Position,
Passion, Perfect vocational day, Present and Putting it
all together) is meant to help replace hopelessness with
hope for those in mid-life.
I designed the workshop and it’s exercises to help
people motivate themselves towards more pleasure then
pain Many people come into the workshop wanting to find
a better vocational life for themselves but continue to
live lives which are painful for them. My objective was
to create exercises and ideas to help break this pattern.
Many of my workshop attendees come into the session assuming
that their ideas are crazy and not possible. After the
workshop, many leave feeling different like perhaps the
new options they were willing to consider weren’t
so neurotic after all.
Many of the attendees come to my workshops with a low
self concept. The workshop is designed to help them recover
their sense of self which helps their internal motivation.
This is important as in mid-life it becomes easier to
become set in our ways and establish patterns which prevent
us from changing.
The advantage is in mid-life, people tend to respond
to internal stimuli more then external stimuli and the
workshop is designed to draw this out in people
In many ways, the workshop captures ideas and concepts
that have been discussed for the last 2000 years. Aristotle
in 384 BC believed we were meant to lead pleasant, self-sufficient
lives aligned with one’s interests and purpose.
As a result I designed a visualization exercise in the
opening segments of the workshop to capture this. Later
workshop attendees have the opportunity to write down
their abilities and their interests and see which one’s
are in alignment. I discovered as a result this helps
people start to consider how they can start to lead
their lives more in accordance with their true self.
P for prize was designed to help people focus on what’s
most important in their lives. I have attendees focus
on writing down and becoming aware of how they know
if they are following what’s most important to
them and how they know if they are not.
This often starts the process for many people to re-examine
their values (what they prize) and the goals to achieve
these aims.
Many of my attendees come to the workshop ready to consider
the possibility that at mid-life, it has become more
important for them to understand who they are vs. what
they do. I designed in exercises meant to have them
understand their perspective of themselves and how they
might change a unhealthy perspective if this was impacting
their growth and development at this stage.
I designed a section on letting people examine their
possibilities for their lives. At mid-life, it can be
helpful to re-examine what’s possible rather then
impossible. As result, many attendees start to realize
that their current lives do not match their new expectations.
This can lead to a feeling of crisis and turmoil . I
help address this in the workshop design giving people
an opportunity to give themselves permission to follow
their passions and define what their perfect vocational
day would be like. I notice as a result, people start
to feel like they need less permission from others to
follow their hearts.
I designed a section on what to do in the present to
help address the various emotions which come up for
people when contemplating change at mid-life.
Emotions tend to be at an all time high during this
period based on how people appraise their thoughts .
In the design, I give people an opportunity to consider
their emotions as well as those around them. I have
them explore how life will be different once they start
to live their vocational passions. Additionally, I have
them define if there are any underlining goals which
are the real reasons for reaching their perfect vocational
days.
The workshop is designed on the belief that people can
make positive change in their lives and the workshop
content helps to facilitate this change.
I have learned throughout my research that people tend
to become more motivated as they see themselves closer
to their goals and I have designed the workshop to help
people accomplish this.
Finally, I believe in the magic of story-telling and
many of the exercises have been deigned to facilitate
story telling and the discussion of their dreams.
In summary, ‘’How to discover and live your passion 365
days a year’’ draws upon the last 27
years of my working life integrated with my 11 years
doctoral research and my own transitions.
Please join us soon so I can cheer you on from the sidelines!
Regards Craig
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