Mastering Creative Power for Community Service Groups and Agencies

If you are an institution, community service group, or a government agency with a mission to:

Ø Prevent risky behaviors

Ø Assist people succeed in transitions (to college or jobs)

Ø Help disadvantaged people become more self-sufficient

Ø Improve community education or mental health

Ø Enhance correctional institution outcomes

Circle of Excellence offers a range of workshops and support materials for both practitioners and clients.

For Practitioners:

The following presentations and workshops are designed to help practitioners understand the principles of creative power for their own use and how Circle of Excellence workshops can be used in their community and with their clients.

Creating Personal Empowerment in Communities (90 to 120 minutes)

Learn how clients can be taught to use their inherent personal creative power to reduce the number and intensity of automatic negative reactions. This workshop demonstrates with experiential exercises that negative reactions have a root cause. Clients created them in a decision (long forgotten) to give their power away which in turn generated the experience of lack which leads to anger, fear and despair. The 5 principles for bringing these root cause decisions to light are presented. This allows clients to recover their personal power and create a sense of well-being. These techniques for mastering creative power are designed to reduce dysfunctional behavior at any level (almost everyone can find something where they can succeed in taking their power back). These simple successes are then used to motivate clients to take responsibility and choose behaviors that foster well-being in more areas of their life.

This session can be 1½ to 2-hour introduction or a 4-hour workshop which includes experiential exercises for each of the 5 principles of creative empowerment. Designed for conferences and training institutes with audiences from 10 to 80 participants.

Mastering Your Creative Power for Community Service Practitioners (full day)

Your personal creative power is the key to maintaining your resiliency and your own well-being in the face of daily challenges and sometimes frustrating clients. Each of the 5 principles of creative self-empowerment are explored in-depth. Numerous experiential exercises designed to allow participants to practice using their power to create personal well-being in situations typically found in community service are included. The more you empower your own peace and well-being the better equipped you will be to help your clients, prevent burnout and compassion fatigue, and improve your own quality of life. – Ongoing support materials available.

How to Create Personal Empowerment in Communities – Training Course

This 3-day training course for practitioners interested in delivering Creative Power workshops is currently in development. It scheduled to be available early in ’08.

For Clients and Communities:

These workshops are designed to teach clients how to access their creative power to make fundamental changes to their lives. The workshops are intended for community self-empowerment with audiences from 10 to 80 participants.

Using Your Creative Power to Overcome Obstacles (½ Day Workshop)

Clients should bring a life obstacle to this workshop. Using real life difficulties we teach clients how to direct their creative power to overcome the obstacles that stand between them and their success. This workshop is designed to give them the direct experience of seeing their goals and obstacles in a new way. They will leave knowing the full nature of the obstacle and how to eliminate it. Many of them will overcome their obstacles during workshop exercises.

Using Your Creative Power to Change Your Life (A Full Day of Creation)

This workshop will teach clients how to knowingly control and direct their creative power to put their life on a path that will bring their desires to them. This workshop is designed to give them the direct experience of their power to create. Using the 5 principles of creative power participants will:

Ø Understand how creative power operates to generate peace, joy, and well-being; or lack, fear, and suffering

Ø See where they have and have not taken responsibility for their life

Ø Realize the benefits of expanding those areas of responsibility and control

Ø Determine when they are off-track

Ø Direct their power to create their desired results

Ø Correct and recover from mistakes

Ongoing support materials available.