Transformational Activism (NEW) - This course will enhance the effectiveness and fulfillment of anyone working for a cause they care about (activist, students, volunteers, philanthropists, non-profits) and support people and organizations working with activists to create change. Transformational Activism will explore what is working and what is not working in the current state of local, national, and global activism. It will provide participants with deep insights into the ways in which they are inhibiting their own effectiveness and sabotaging their personal fulfillment. The course will examine how activists inadvertently contribute to that which they seek to end, perpetuate the problems they seek to solve, create disinterest and divisiveness, and dilute the joy and satisfaction from the extraordinary work they do.

This highly experiential program will provide insights, skills, tools, and techniques in the following areas:

Participants will leave with an enhanced understanding of how to share their cause in ways that generate interest and investment, be effective with colleagues who are hard to work with, handle adversaries with grace, and sustain their sense of fulfillment.

Participants will leave with a tool kit of tips and techniques for working with themselves and others.
Participants will be exposed to guiding principles and core approaches within Transformational Activism. (i.e. Open Source/Chaordic Organizing, Spiritual Activism, Transformational Mediation, Conflict Transformation, Expanding the Pie Fund Development, Trans Political Movement, and Whole Systems Focus).
Participants will learn numerous experiential activities that can be used with groups to explore personal, communal and global transformation taken from “Experiential Activities for Better World: A Guidebook for Facilitators, Trainers, Teachers and Group Leaders” which contains over 100 experiential activities for creating a better world.

Sufficiency: How to Have, Do and Be Enough (NEW) - If you feel like you don’t have enough of what you need (money, time, respect, support, vacations), or if you feel like you don’t get enough done (work, family, cleaning, playing) or if you feel like you are not enough as a person (smart, fit, attractive, creative, successful) then you are at the effect of the culture of scarcity. The anecdote is the ever present context of sufficiency where we focus on all that we have and all that we do and all that we are instead of being caught in the hamster wheel of lack and limitation. This experiential presentation will teach you multiple tools and techniques to address scarcity and generate sufficiency in all aspects of your life. This is likely to lead to an increased sense of contentment, fulfillment and joy.

Be a Donor, Save a Life - It was my honor to donate a kidney on August 6, 2008. I am now available to give talks and presentations on my experience and on organ donation in general. See www.kidney4thomas.com.

Truly Thriving in Tough Times - Do you buy into the fallacy that the only way through the struggles in life is to suck it up and tough it out? This session will show you how to create an experience of power and flow - even in the toughest situations. You will learn how to: Clean up your triggers so people can't push your buttons easily. Listen and speak in ways that bring out the best in the people around you. Deal with that negative voice in your head that inhibits success and creates stress. Free yourself from previous constraints and limitations.

"Igniting Passion, Power and Possibility" Come to this high powered session to stoke the flames that burn within each of us and create the world we wish for - as individuals and as a global community. This session is fast paced, highly experiential, and content rich. You will leave the session equipped to ignite the passion, power, and possibility in yourself and in those around you.

"Celebrating Our Humanity" Come prepared to celebrate the very best in you and others around you as an access point to creating the world we wish for - as individuals and as a global community. This session is fast paced, highly experiential, and content rich. You will leave the session with deep insights as to the cultural conditioning, not the personal failings , that has us falling short of our magnificence as human beings and equipped to ignite the passion, power, and possibility in yourself and in others around you.

"Empowering Non-Profits" Marilyn has developed and tested a series of half-day workshops for non-profit staff that can transform the workplace culture. The workshop explores the cultural conditioning that inhibits people's capacity to thrive in work and in life. The series transforms these barriers into access points for change through skills development in self awareness, conflict transformation, interpersonal effectiveness, the art of inspiring others and more.

"Reclaiming Our Humanity: Transforming How We Teach and Train about Diversity" This workshop will present approaches and activities to effectively teach/train about a wide spectrum of diversity issues. The focus calls us ALL to reclaim our humanity and create a future that works for everyone. (This approach is especially effective in nurturing investment from those with privilege.

"Care Instructions for an Inspired Life". This is a self awareness workshop for people who want to make a difference in the world. It doesn't focus on the what - like exercising, eating right and reducing stress. It focuses why. Why we know what is healthy yet struggle to act on this knowledge. And it touches on how-how to have breakthroughs that maximize your impact in the world and your well being.

"Amazing Allies and Other Super Heroes/Sheroes". This session uses multiple engaging methods (experiential activities, discussion and creative arts) to teach effective ways to empower others in becoming amazing allies, passionately and powerfully investing in a world that works for everyone.

"Quest for Global Healing" Marilyn will share the wisdom passed on at The Quest for Global Healing Conference in Bali, Indonesia. This conference brought together activists and visionaries from across the globe to look at healing as individuals, in communities and as a global village. This message, while grounded in the reality of the massive challenges we face together, is ultimately a hopeful and energizing one.

"Effectively Handling Hurtful Remarks". Marilyn will provide guidance on effective ways to respond to hurtful incidences. These creative alternatives to the usual responses can be empowering for the people who use them and useful for the people who receive them. You will learn how to use these in your own life and how to teach others to use them as well.

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