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🎇 PLAYFUL VITALITY INTENSIVE 🎇
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Connect to your Inner Vitality, Playfulness & Freedom
Being alive is an endless opportunities to play and experience all of the gifts of this world. And yet, there are so many traps that make existence dreary instead of extraordinary: endless busyness, feeling time scarcity, addiction to technology, a constantly activated nervous system, fear from taking risks, people pleasing, distraction from what's most important, complex systems that lift up some and push down others. While all this is going on, it's easy for life to remain in shades of grey or simply pass by.
This training is a moment to pause and change everything. To stop making excuses, to find the time, to work with a committed group to completely re-imagine your life to make space for your unique form of aliveness. Concretely, this looks like:
You will learn clear and practical frameworks, as well as simple yet impactful methods. We'll also navigate through blockages and shadows that are impeding you from accessing your vibrancy. The goal is not to master all the topics covered but rather give you enough information and practice so that you can begin to soar on your own. The program design is adapted to each cohort. The Playful Vitality Intensive is not therapy, although it may be therapeutic. It's also not coaching, and definitely not a typical training. Instead, it's a unique group process that is designed to provoke a deep and everlasting transformation in your life. While all the books, knowledge & resources are out there, experiential learning is needed to actually integrate it. Furthermore, the accountability structure of group is a powerful and necessary ingredient when it comes to creating a life full of vitality. After the twelve weeks, our hope is that you'll be shocked and delighted at how much you've grown and who you've become. |
TRAINING INFORMATIONLength: 12 weeks
Meeting Frequency: Weekly Meeting Duration: 1.5 hours Total training hours: 18 Fee: $1000.00 (+ applicable taxes), sliding scale available Notes: - Includes a weekly challenge - Maximum of 15 participants - Offered online Next Cohort: Tuesdays, starting January 9 2024, 7:00-8:30 ET 👉 INDICATE INTEREST HEREQuestions ? Contact us here.
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TRAINING TESTIMONIALS
Thanks to these sessions, I feel much more momentum, confidence, and focus in pursuing my passions. I have started setting and working towards more creative and constructive goals, giving my life what feels like a new foundation and direction. I am really grateful for this.
I really appreciated the space you created and I was pretty surprised how safe I felt exploring embodied risk taking and pushing the edge of my own comfort zone in the group. I'm excited to do more of this work, it's so helpful and mind/body expanding. Thank you both for being there and for skillfully (and gently and cooperatively) guiding us through it.
What brilliantly inspiring coaching and modelling!
Thank you for running these sessions with so much preparation, care and concern. It has really made them sessions so fun, insightful and engaging!
The training was a delightful experience for me, both as a human and as a facilitator. Thank you for your kindness, generosity and helpful reframes.
LIVE, LAUGH & LOVE MORE
By working through blockages and integrating more of your essence into your life,
your daily aliveness, joy & love will naturally increase.
your daily aliveness, joy & love will naturally increase.
GENERATE MOMENTUM FOR YOUR DREAMS
Soar past excuses and fear, and begin sharing your gifts with the world, at work and at home.
STRENGTHEN YOUR ADAPTATION & RESILIENCE
Saying no, learning to experience & express the full spectrum of emotions, and taking on social risks
gives you the power to adapt and thrive in moments of change and challenge.
gives you the power to adapt and thrive in moments of change and challenge.
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WEEK 1:
INTRODUCTION TO PLAYFUL VITALITY WEEK 2: PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY, PRESENCE & GROUNDING THE NERVOUS SYSTEM WEEK 3: PLAY, IMPROVISATION & CLOWNING WEEK 4: CREATIVE SHADOW WORK |
WEEK 5:
SOCIAL RISKS & INCREASING YOUR WINDOW OF TOLERANCE WEEK 6: DANCING WITH CONFLICT WEEK 7: DREAM SPRINT WEEK 8: STRUCTURED CHAOS |
WEEK 9:
TIME FREEDOM WEEK 10: NARRATIVE RE-CREATION WEEK 11: GROUP SUPPORT WEEK 12: COMMUNITY SHOWCASE |
INTRODUCTION TO PLAYFUL VITALITY
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Embrace Your Playful Aliveness
In this introductory session, we review what we're talking about playful vitality. How you can increase your connection to your vitality and your playfulness. We connect and learn the stories of the people that will be joining for this journey. We review the whole program & we create specific learning objectives for the 12 weeks that we will be together.
OBJECTIVES
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PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY, PRESENCE & GROUNDING THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
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Foster a Feeling of Interior Safety
In this session we look at concrete techniques to somatically ground, connect to the present moment and develop a felt sense of psychological safety. This is the basis for playful exploration.
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PLAY, IMPROVISATION & CLOWNING
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Reconnect with Your Natural Ability to Play
A session to reconnect with the delight & power of play as adults. By tapping into different practices, the principles of adult play become crystal clear, allowing you to connect to your inner playful force at work and at home.
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CREATIVE SHADOW WORK
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Find the Light in the Shadows
Shadow work is a journey of self-exploration. In this session, you'll embark on a dialogue with the concealed facets of your being that may be blocking you from accessing your vitality. The integration of your shadow elements will embolden you to step into a deeper expression of your essence.
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SOCIAL RISKS & INCREASING YOUR WINDOW OF TOLERANCE
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Work Through Shyness and People Pleasing, and Unleash Your Full Power in the Presence of Others
When it comes to social anxiety or risks, we could easily go through our entire lives staying out of the spotlight, not drawing too much attention, not causing too much of a fuss. But, it's possible our lives would have been slightly less vibrant, that we would've missed out on some incredible moments of connection.
This sesion is about shedding the layers of shame that prevent us from being bold, loud, and audacious, despite fears of rejection or judgement. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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DANCING WITH CONFLICT
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Re-invent How You Engage With Conflict Using Conflict Theory, Powerful Role Plays, Creativity and Group Dialogue.
Conflict is everywhere: in the family, at work, in our friendships, in our romantic relationships, and even with complete strangers in the street. We are constantly confronted with actions and ideas that make us feel all sorts of difficult emotions. This is normal, and in fact desirable. Conflict holds the seeds for our own transformation through a deep invitation for growth and understanding of different realities.
Unfortunately, many of us have not learned healthy ways of engaging with conflict and connecting with its potential. Typical maladaptive responses to conflict include ignoring it, emotionally distancing, exploding or over facilitating. In this session, we will be showing you a new pathway, where you engage with conflict with confidence, honesty and compassion, all while respecting your needs and boundaries. Even in the most difficult situations, there are always ways forward. By dancing with and exploring conflict creatively, we can find freedom in our most challenging interpersonal situations. OBJECTIVES
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DREAM SPRINT
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Finally Accomplish the Creative Project you Have Been Dreaming of, but Not Doing.
So many of us carry a creative dream that is so precious we fear bringing it to the world. Perhaps it was to write a book, to launch your own business, to travel around the world or create a weekly open mic. Precious as they may be, these dreams sometimes get pushed to the end of our priority lists, buried under daily obligations, procrastination and fear.
Are you carrying an unrealized dream ? In this session, you will face your fears and blockages head on, and bring their dreams to life. OBJECTIVES
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STRUCTURED CHAOS
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Create Structure & Routines to Reach your Goals, No Matter How Wild & Chaotic You Are.
Do you find it challenging to maintain focus and achieve your aspirations? It's time to connect with the beautiful and untamed whirlwind of ideas inside to keep generating forward momentum. The goal isn't to enforce an unyielding framework that's impossible to follow. Instead, it's about discovering manageable pockets of customized structure that harmonize with your daily existence.
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TIME FREEDOM
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Release Yourself From Constant Busyness and Find a Peaceful Relationship to Time.
We spend so much time running against the clock, never able to complete an endless to-do list. To reach an expansive relationship with time, we must go beyond the lists and the precepts that dictate our adult understanding of time.This training is designed to help you re-imagine your relationship to time and finally get the freedom you need to do the things that truly matter to you while feeling a sense of expansiveness when you are navigating your day.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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NARRATIVE RE-CREATION
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Harness your Creativity and Storytelling Skills to Learn to Tell your Story, Crafting a Meaningful and Inspiring Life Narrative.
Without always realizing it, we sometimes carry life narratives that do not support us. While the specifics vary, usually these negative narratives often hold the common thread that there is some fault in us. Examples:
This is not about denying the pain that exists. Here, the goal is to experiment with different creative and visual tools to better understand our power to reimagine our life narratives. |
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Understand how to use creativity to rewrite a personal narrative.
- Learn different ways of conceptualizing a life path.
GROUP SUPPORT
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Support Each Other on Your Learning Journeys
In this session, the group provides support & coaching to each other on all of the subjects that have been covered so far. In addition, we finalize presentations for the final community showcase.
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COMMUNITY SHOWCASE
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Celebrate Together
The final community showcase is a celebration of the work that has been been accomplished in the shadow playground training.
Each participant invites a member from their community. In the showcase, each person shares their initial learning objectives & highlights from the process. All guests then engage in a group celebration. Finally, the community members express how they wish to support participants on their pathway going foward. |
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Additional information
All trainings take place online, audio only participation is possible for those joining with low bandwidth connections.
Training fees are available on a sliding scale to keep these practices accessible. Contact us if the pricing is a barrier to your participation.
Payments can be made by Interac money transfer, Paypal, or wire transfer.
Training fees are available on a sliding scale to keep these practices accessible. Contact us if the pricing is a barrier to your participation.
Payments can be made by Interac money transfer, Paypal, or wire transfer.