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Workshops and Talks Workshops Creative Healing: Overcoming Stress & Adversity at Work Creative Power: The Art & Science of Creative Expression Writing Business Emails: Boosting Quality and Efficiency Full Spectrum Training & Teaching This workshop helps organizational members to be more creative, productive and fulfilled at work. You learn time-tested techniques for freeing up your innate creative powers. You also learn powerful insights and methods used by creative artists, scientists, sages, and entrepreneurs. Practices include: methods for inviting and elaborating your creative intuitions; techniques for overcoming your fears; focusing practices that clear and concentrate the mind; and approaches that activate the diverse creative energies inhering in your body, mind, and soul. Creative thinking, writing, and drawing are explored. Emphasis is placed on enjoying your creative process and applying your creativity to the work place. This workshop is tailored to the specific needs of your organization. For a fuller description of this workshop, click on here. Creative Healing: Overcoming Stress & Adversity at Work This workshop helps organizational members to face and work through the difficult emotions and thoughts that arise in a turbulent economy and stressful work place. Current economic instabilities and insecurities, coupled with unprecedented technological and industrial changes, have intensified fear and anxiety at work. Debilitating stress and recurrent injuries are commonplace. These difficult situations can only be overcome by facing them with courage, wisdom, and compassion. This workshop draws on the insights of poets, sages, and psychologists to help us confront and work through adversity and stress. You learn inspirational and practical approaches that catalyze courage, trust, intuition, creativity, patience, perseverance, and compassion. You also learn proven techniques for dealing with difficult emotions and situations. These include: breath work, focusing practices, creative expression, mindful communication, and inspirational reading. Creative Power: The Art & Science of Creative Expression Is your heart yearning to express the creative ideas locked within? This workshop is for individuals seeking to unleash creativity in their personal lives. In this workshop, you learn powerful insights and practices from the arts, sciences, religion, and psychology. Special attention is given to liberating your creative powers as a writer. Creative practices include: methods for inviting and elaborating your creative intuitions; techniques for overcoming your fears; focusing practices to clear and concentrate your mind; and transformative practices that activate and support your limitless creative powers. Creative thinking, writing, and drawing are emphasized. Does your professional life require you to write with clarity, organization, and persuasive power? In this workshop, you learn proven techniques for overcoming writing blocks and releasing your powers of insight, expression, and invention. You also learn: methods for planning, organizing, and composing reports; techniques for structuring coherent paragraphs; and approaches for writing clear, concise, and compelling sentences. Finally, you learn how to tailor your writings to your various audiences. Writing Business Emails: Boosting Quality and Efficiency This workshop presents powerful
approaches for planning, composing, and revising business emails. You learn how to focus, clarify, organize, and
develop your messages. You also learn how to
create a tone that expresses confidence, consideration, and appreciation. In this workshop you learn the art of tonal transformation. You learn to transform: commands into requests;
arrogant remarks into confident ones; submissive statements into respectful ones; overly
emotional comments into balanced ones; cold observations into warmer ones; destructive
criticisms into constructive ones; and ad hominem attacks into reasoned arguments. This workshops helps you fix the most
common grammatical errors: improperly
punctuated clauses and phrases; run-on sentences; fused sentences; sentence fragments;
overuse of passive voice; dangling and misplaced modifiers; nonagreement between subject
and verb; and nonparallel constructions. Are you looking to enhance your listening and speaking skills? In this experiential workshop, you learn powerful communication practices and build life-changing communication skills. You learn to: listen with empathy and understanding; speak with clarity and conviction; communicate difficult feelings and feedback with honesty and kindness; listen more deeply to your own feelings, thoughts and intuitions; express yourself more fully; calm the mental chatter that distracts you from communicating effectively; and clear and focus your mind. Full Spectrum Training & Teaching Are you a trainer or teacher seeking innovative and inspiration approaches to education? In this workshop, you learn creative and experiential methodologies for presenting course materials. In 1992, Dr. Burack began experimenting with creative and experiential approaches in his courses at the University of California, Berkeley. Over the years, he developed a uniquely integrative approach to teaching and training that engages the whole self of each student and promotes profound emotional and intellectual growth. This approach has helped diverse adult learners in diverse settings. In this workshop, you learn how to use a variety of visualizations, focusing methods, inquiry practices, and imaginative exercises designed to deepen your students= understanding and knowledge. These approaches have been shown to improve attention, concentration, alertness, lucidity, creativity, and engagement. Some of the practices heighten perceptual acuity and conceptual analysis, while others expand intuition and synthetic understanding. Various practices intensify mental imagery while others quiet mental chatter. You learn how to tailor the methods to the particular needs of your students and requirements of your subject matter. In this workshop, you experience a unique, experiential approach to career planning that will help you discover and manifest your work vision. This holistic approach has catalyzed life-changing breakthroughs for hundreds of individuals in dozens of different fields and professions. Through guided visualization, freewriting, drawing, and dialogue, you discover the work vision that taps your innate passion, joy, insight, creativity, and compassion. You also have a chance to reflect on the lessons gained from painful work experiences and to release blocks that keep you from whole-heartedly embracing and pursuing your new vision. You learn practical techniques for manifesting your vision, including: planning and organizational strategies, communication tools, focusing practices, relaxation exercises, and daily affirmations and visualizations. For information on doing one-on-one work visioning with Dr. Burack, just click on here.
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