David Gershon and Gail Straub are world-renowned for their pioneering work on empowerment and their mastery of personal growth facilitation developed over three decades. Their Empowerment Framework is considered by many to be the state-of-the-art in transformational technology and has been used by thousands of practitioners worldwide to enable profound transformative change at the personal, organizational, community, and societal levels. This weekend training will provide you the knowledge to apply this framework at a professional and personal level. You will learn the:
Empowerment Model – a structure for transformative change: You learn to help people shift from a pathological worldview to a visionary worldview; from a static to an organic model of growth; and from self-awareness to behavior change.
Empowerment Methodology – a strategy for transformative change: You learn to help people increase self-knowledge so they can discover what's important to them; translate this knowledge into a compelling vision; identify and transform the limiting beliefs that inevitably arise when creating something new; and work with the subtle skills of directed thought necessary to manifest their vision.
Empowerment Coaching – the how-to of personal growth: You learn the five-part empowerment coaching model: intuition, core growth issues, transformational strategy, interventions and personal growth facilitation. The goal of this coaching model is to enable a person to create a new possibility—the "growing edge." You then learn how to help them manifest this new growth in their life.
Each didactic session is followed by a lab where you practice the skills. This training is appropriate for trainers, coaches, organizational development practitioners, therapists, social workers, community organizers, social entrepreneurs, managers, educators, health care professionals, parents and anyone wishing to empower others.
Please bring an unlined journal. The training begins Friday at 7 pm and ends Sunday at 4 pm. Recommended reading: Gershon and Straub, Empowerment, and Gershon, Social Change 2.0. David Gershon and Gail Straub are also teaching the Empowerment Workshop, see page __.
David Gershon and Gail Straub are the world's foremost experts in empowerment and co-direct Empowerment Institute's School for Transformative Social Change. They are currently leading two global empowerment initiatives: IMAGINE: A Global Initiative for the Empowerment of Women and the Cool City Challenge to empower citizens and cities around the issue of climate change. Between them they have written 15 books on various aspects of empowerment. www.empowermentinstitute.net.
