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The Power Path material will provide you with a comprehensive way to understand the richness and beauty of different personality types. The seminars will provide you with ways to be more fulfilled, to improve communication, to develop more satisfying relationships, and to maximize your potential. The seminar topics for this 6-week course include:
- Attitude Is Everything: A Seminar for Understanding Perspectives
- The Seven Roles: A Seminar for Understanding Character Types
- Moving Beyond the Obstacles: A Seminar for Overcoming Fear Patterns
- Power Management: A Seminar for Understanding Balance
- The Essence of Communication: A Seminar for Improving Communication
- The Nine Needs: The Nine Essentials for Satisfaction
Check out our Calendar for more class information, dates and times or visit the official website of Power Path Seminars™.
Power Path Seminars™ — Workshop Descriptions
Attitude is Everything
According to Webster's dictionary, attitude is a point of view, a mind set about something, a reaction, an orientation, or an outlook; but attitude can also be an appearance, a manner, an expression, or a posture. There are a variety of attitudes and each one has an important contribution to make in how one looks at the world around them. With a little observation, you may notice that each person you meet tends to hold a habitual attitude that gives them a typical way of seeing the world. You might then say of someone, "Oh, she is such an idealist!" or "Boy, is he ever a cynic."
Your main attitude is your primary perspective and is how you view everything in your life. It is the lens through which you look at the world; so while everyone may see the same event, they are seeing it through a different colored lens. All attitudes have their favorable points and their limitations. You can also adopt a different attitude for the time being but generally, you will return to your primary attitude developed over years of imprinting and conditioning.
Altogether there are seven primary attitudes that you will find over and over throughout all the population around the world regardless of race, gender, culture, or age. Knowing a little about each one can be of tremendous help in understanding yourself and other people so that you can communicate better with them.
The Seven Character Roles
Your Role reflects your primary way of being. This fundamental style accounts for your way of approaching tasks, your ways of thinking, talents, abilities, and specialized skills. In the human population, there are seven basic types of people with seven unique sets of abilities. One way to understand this is to loosely compare the human community with a beehive. A beehive is a highly effective and successful community made up of bees of varying sizes, skills, and abilities. Soldier bees guard the hive while artisan bees create the structure. Server bees care for the eggs while a queen holds them all together and provides for the coming generations. Human beings similarly have specialized talents and skills they lend to the whole of humankind with the additional special qualities of reasoning, free choice, and much greater sophistication.
We have given these seven roles archetypal names to illustrate in a timeless way their unique contributions. They are artisan; sage; server; priest; warrior; king; and scholar. All types may be more or less intelligent, wise, knowledgeable, attractive, and so on. There is no one type better than any other type; they are simply different and infinitely valuable in their own way. Knowing your role can make your task of understanding yourself and others infinitely easier, rendering you much more effective at being your best and getting along with others.
Moving Beyond the Obstacles
Why is it that just when everything seems to be going fine you discover a small demon inside of you rising up to ruin everything? You are aghast at what comes out of your mouth to offend others. You feel a compulsion to destroy what you have created. You sabotage your work. You push others away nastily and withdraw. You act selfishly and hurt those close to you. You find yourself bragging, knowing you are turning others off. Or you dig in your heels and become rigid even though you know in your heart this is unwise. What is this dark and shadowy self that seems to live inside and pops out when you least want it to? These are patterns of defense or coping mechanisms that once seemed to give you a sense of control but now have evolved into real obstacles to your satisfaction and fulfillment. There are seven of these obstacles also referred to as fear patterns or dragons.
The obstacles arise in response to fear and most often show up in stressful situations. They are parasites that live off your energy and vitality and sabotage you in critical moments. Unless you transform these dragons or get rid of them, you will become their slave. Instead of meeting the challenge productively, you will act from them to your detriment. Fortunately, the obstacles are the one personality trait you can erase, but it takes discipline and work. Understanding ands transforming your personal obstacles is essential to maximizing your potential.
Power Management
This workshop provides essential tools for managing time and energy waste, coping with change, creating a clear vision with practical goals, and working with the rules of power and appropriate configurations and teams to create a strong foundation.
You will learn about the rules of power and how they apply in your life. This model is helpful in teaching how to reduce stress, chaos and disorganization and how to organize into harmonious and productive elements. You will learn essential tools for eliminating power leaks and empowering yourself. This is a unique model based in part on understanding the natural principles of shamanic indigenous wisdom.
The Essence of Communication
Your communication style determines how you initially respond to a situation and is related to your primary reaction center. The three primary reaction centers are 1) intellectual, 2) emotional and 3) moving. Of course, everyone uses all the reaction centers at times, but there is a typical reaction you have to spontaneous events. There is a tendency, because of enculturation and family imprinting, to develop the habit of using one reaction center more than any others. That center is called your primary reaction, because it describes how you react in the first few seconds when presented with anything new. Everyone uses all of the reaction centers every day but in different sequences.
Your preferential center determines your communication style and provides a great deal of information about your reactions, your preferences, your talents, your strengths and the ways that you might have difficulty with communication. Understanding the communication centers provides you with valuable information about understanding other people and improving your communication patterns.
The Nine Needs
In this model you will learn about the nine needs and how they determine what is essential for people to be productive and fulfilled. This is a complex model with each of the nine needs having several different expressions depending on the person and their other traits. Everyone has three primary needs of the nine that are essential to satisfaction and productivity. The success of a workplace also depends on that environment supporting all nine needs.
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