We will teach skills for managing demands of highly stressful situations that can occur in professional and personal life.
These skills manifest as:
- Improved relationship skills with one’s self (within), with others (between), and with the larger organization or community / family (among). These skills manifest as better self-awareness and improved self-regulation and create a more resonant presence that reflects authenticity and invites a feeling of belonging (within, between and among).
- Development of more effective models of communication that emanate from curiosity and exploration to understand, rather than judging, criticizing or blaming. These communication styles enhance the ability to create relationships in which people feel seen, heard, understood and valued, soothed and safe.
- Skills for having difficult conversations, delivering feedback or for setting appropriate boundaries.
- Improved leadership skills.
- Improved ability to understand the difference between healthy and destructive conflict and to cultivate a dialog around differences as a stimulus for change and growth as opposed to a force to divide and demolish.
- Improved ability to makes choices that promote wellness and health and that are consistent with deeply held values and yearnings.
- Improved ability to have the courage to learn, including accepting one’s limitations (as well as limitations inherent to our healthcare systems and the expectations they generate) and inviting the influence of others to construct a whole that is greater than the individual parts.
- Greater acceptance of challenges as the currency of learning and growth resulting in more joy rather than a sense of entrapment or resentment.
- Improved awareness of cognitive biases which can interfere with ability to explore with genuine curiosity and empathic attunement to understand the perspectives, intentions, motivations and behaviors of others.
Our work is based on our experience working in medical systems and augmented by decades of training in human factors and relationship skills. We craft our interventions on what we come to appreciate as the uniqueness of an individual, a partnership or an organization, in a manner that honors and is consistent with their stated values, hopes and yearnings (for an organization, this might be expressed as vision and mission).
Overall, we are gratified when our relationship with you helps you connect to greater meaning, joy and success in your personal and professional lives. Our success is ultimately determined by the stories you tell about working with us.
Overall, we see ourselves as successful only if the organization and the people we work for consider the work to be valuable and find that it has helped them reconnect to greater meaning, joy and success in their lives. Our commitment is that we will strive towards that end and work ardently with you to help you achieve that. Our success is ultimately determined by the story you tell about working with us.
