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Current Workshops & Classes -- click on titles for more information
Research shows that daily meditation, or attention training, enhances overall health & well-being, reduces stress while strengthening resilience, and improves judgment & decision-making. In this eight-week mindfulness based stress reduction (mbsr) course participants learn a variety of mindfulness and somatic practices to put to use immediately. Course offered each quarter in the community.
Winter Course, January 27th-March 24th, 2011
Autumn Course, Thursdays September 9-November 18, 2010
Spring/Summer Class, May 13- July 1st, 2010 A 6 week offer
Spring Class, March 11th- April 29th, 2010
Previous Workshops & Classes -- click on titles for information
 A Mindful Course, 8 Week Class for Professionals
“In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective.”
~~ Dalai Lama
“When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves”
~~ Jack Kornfield, Psychologist & meditation teacher
- As a busy professional would you like your stress to work for you?
- Would you like to increase your energy and find some spring in your step?
- Could you even hope to improve your own work-life balance given all of your commitments as a busy professional?
- Would you like to connect more deeply with your clients? To be more skillful in working with them?
You can, and here’s how: It starts with you, your self care, your commitment to developing a regular practice of mindfulness meditation, of being awake to life as it presents itself.
Mindfulness involves paying attention in a particular way—intentionally and without judgment—to experiences & emotions as they occur.
The 8 week expanded class for professionals includes both new research from the neursociences and somatic practices that support mindfulness practices as life and leadership skills
For more information on the 8 week class: A Mindful Course for Professionals, check out www.amindfulcourse.com/classes.html or email Chris Johnson, PsyD. at drchris@Q4-Consutling.com by Monday August 30th.
A Mindful Course: ™ One Day Mindfulness Sampler for Professionals
The one-day class for health professionals will help you as a practitioner begin to develop your own daily mindfulness meditation practice.
And, it will provide you with skills and knowledge to incorporate mindfulness practices in your professional life with your clients.
For more information on the day-long August 20, 2010 course, check out: www.amindfulcourse.com/workshops.html or email Chris Johnson, PsyD at: drchris@Q4-consulting.com by Friday July 30th.
Women Influencing: The Women's Leadership Experience
Women Influencing: The Women's Leadership Experience is a six session learning
series that will launch in four major cities April 1st, 2010. In this group format,
includes both group training and practice as well as individual embodied
leadership coaching. You'll learn how to tap into the wisdom of your body to
expand your personal power. You can become the leader you want to be.
Promises of the Work
- Build dignity
- Be on purpose with a relaxed and powerful presence
- Train attention to be responsive vs. reactive
- Promote resilience to make on the spot clear decisions
- Present your leadership expertise to be well received at work
- Join passion and values to take focused action that matters
- Coordinate with others to be a collaborative team player
- Navigate challenging conversations with ease
- Declare your personal and professional commitments
Value of the Work
- 12 Class Hours of hands-on embodied leadership training.
- Learning Questionnaire designed to gain a thorough and personal assessment of your learning style to aid in promoting self-learning and transformation.
- FEBI Leadership Assessment, which identifies your lead energy pattern & prescribed practices to support you becoming fully embodied leader.
- A private assessment around the FEBI results and one (or more) coaching session that includes somatic bodywork.
- Homework assignments for continued learning; course materials/articles/jo
- Full commitment of the instructor to be fully present, integrating group responses into the training/coaching, and to review your homework assignments & refocus on your learning.
- Invitations to quarterly meetings with other Women Influencing participants
- Invitation to the Annual Women Influencing Conference
Commitment of the Work
The training includes the six-part series along with different coaching packages.
A minimum of two coaching sessions are required for all participants. Embodied
Leadership Coaching offers individual attention and assessments for your
future concerns, along with somatic bodywork to reshape your body to
fulfill on your vision.
- Six Part Series and Two Coaching Sessions, one on FEBI: $750.00 (a $1350 value)
- Six Part Series and Four Coaching Sessions: $900.00 (a $1500 value)
- Six Part Series and Six Coaching Sessions: $1200 (a $1800 value)
A 10% discount is offered if paid in full by April 30, 2010 ($675, $810, $1080.00).
Enrollment limited to 12 participants. Call Chris to register: 630.368.0122
Women Influencing Six-Part Workshop Series
When: The upcoming Chicago learning series begins on Tuesdays in May,
a second session will begin in fall of 2010.
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Where: Loyola University Health & Fitness
2160 S. First Avenue, Building 130
Maywood, IL 60153
Presented in collaboration with The Natural Step Network and Stonewater.
Taking bold action for sustainability is not a technical issue so much as it is a leadership issue. Exemplary leaders have the ability to step into challenging times with confidence and take action to create new possibilities. They are resourceful, generative and innovative; inclusive, direct and respectful; authentic, effective and bold.
And they know they need to keep learning.
This course is designed to give you the strategic know-how and leadership capacity to build a truly sustainable, generative future. Develop a solid grounding in The Natural Step's sustainable strategic planning process through hands-on exercises that emphasize participation and practical application.
- You'll gain the technical skills and knowledge to make the case for change, and to apply a systems-based approach to strategic planning.
- You'll practice leadership skills that will enable you to powerfully influence your organization and inspire bold, courageous change.
- You'll be energized and inspired to think outside the box and find creative, innovative solutions to complex problems.
- You'll walk away as a leader with the ability to clearly convey the what, why, andhow of sustainability, ready to achieve sustainable results inside of your organization and out.
The Natural Step offers a comprehensive, scientifically-based framework to answer the question "How do I know when my organization is sustainable?" and then move step-by-step toward the answer. Coupled with some of the latest work on the neuroscience of leadership development, this course provides a solid foundation for any leader striving to create change.
This three day-course incorporates building personal leadership qualities that will enable you to powerfully influence your organization and inspire bold and courageous change.The course includes a 1-year Individual Membership in The Natural Step Network. Click here for more info & registration: http://www.naturalstepusa.org/sustainability-leaders-chicago
3-Day Training, Chicago, IL Mon-Wed, March 22-24, 2010
A one-day leadership training seminar for leaders actively pursuing sustainability, focused on how to effectively influence and create change.
1-Day Training, Chicago, IL Friday October 9, 2009
1-Day Training, Portland, OR Friday December 4, 2009
1-Day Training, Chicago, IL Friday May 29, 2009
1-Day Training, Portland, OR Tuesday June 16, 2009
- Networking Through Transitions Mondays beginning June 2009
- Declaring Your Future as a Leader
Itasca Bank & Trust Women's Forum: Discover, Energize & Connect
Drury Lane in Oak Brook, Saturday May 16th
- Making Things Happen with Greater Ease & Speed
May 30, 2008
Contact Q4 Consulting today: Click here to email or
call 630.368.0122 to put the power of mindfulness to work for you.
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