Modules\Exercises

Updated: June 9th, 2008

These are examples of interactive segments used in our workshops. For greater detail, go here.

High Definition Vision
"Visualizing yourself surrounded by the conditions you want to create”
 Choose something that you want to be or to be doing in 5 - 10 years.  Write about it as if it is in the present. Write it like a movie!…. Your movie, directed by and starring you. Now focus on feeling your vision …..  everything you need to know to get there will be revealed to you over the course of your journey.

Have to..............Want to

"When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change". It is a simple as a change in attitude.  When our attitude is one of "HAVING" to do something, our emotion is usually resentment, anger, frustration...... all negative emotions, the degree of which is in a direct relationship to the degree of NOT WANTING. Contrarily, if our attitude is one of "WANTING" to do something, we experience emotions such as anticipation, joy, pleasure. When we tell a child that she "HAS" to go to school..... and she does not want to, there is no amount of coercion, pleading, or argument that will get that child into school.  On the other hand, simply by changing the child's attitude to one of "WANTING" to go to school, there would be no way to stop her from going to school.

Don't Like.........Would Like

As an exercise, we have participants prepare a list of things that they "Don't Like" and across the page, the positive side of "Would Like".  In the middle of the page is a column for "Bridge Belief or Action", ie., What would it take to create the results I desire?  .

Not Appreciated?.......Show Appreciation!

When asked "why aren't you going to school?", an overwhelming majority says, "I don't like my teachers", "My teachers are boring", "My teachers do not show me respect", and "my teacher is uninspired.... only there to get her paycheck".  We all know that these are excuses and rationalizations, however we challenge the students to a couple of experiments to illustrate their power to change the dynamics.  Basically by changing the way they see their teachers, it will change the way the teachers are........ at least to them.

An example is to challenge a student to go to the blackboard before the teacher comes into the class and write, " WE APPRECIATE YOU, MS. JONES"....... and watch the teacher when she enters the room.  We can guarantee them that that teacher will be different, more inspired, or more enthusiastic for at least that hour on that day.

Another example is to challenge them to go home one night, study extra hard, learn as much of that day's lesson and the assignment for the next day as possible, and then go to class enthusiastic and eager to show the teacher how much they learned the day before and how interested they are in the lesson.  Again, we guarantee that that teacher will show more appreciation, respect, and enthusiasm to that student, at least on that hour and that day.