Sample Syllabus

A Seminar for Success

This is the syllabus for a business or faculty in-training day. The term Nexus captures the essence of what we do to make you successful. It means: "a connection linking two or more people; a focal point; or a membrane linking cells to enable them to communicate.

The day is enjoyable and inter-active. You don't just sit an listen. You experience. The exercises empower you to communicate in the creative nexus of the present moment - free of stress, fear, and negative patterns from the past. This unique combination of stress-release and communication skill creates positive energy in the workplace. This training roots out gossip about the past and negative thinking about the future. Participants learn to take 100% responsibility for the present moment, with joy and vision. This moment is the seed of future success.

The following syllabus can be condensed into a four-hour seminar. But it is intended to be a full day. The workshop can also be extended into a weekend for maximum fulfillment of the goals.

An asterisk* indicates an experiential exercise rather than a talk. The workshop is primarily experiential, with minimal lecture material.

I. Morning session: Clearing Mind & Body

1. Introduction: The feedback loop between communication and stress. Stress causes poor communication and poor communication causes stress. What makes this workshop unique is that we work from both ends of this loop.

2. * The Voice: Recognizing our interior monologue that undermines relationships, causing gossip and negative communication.

3. The Listener: Who we are right now.

5. * The Bell (A Mindfulness Exercise)

6. * Paris In The Spring (How Mental Habits Undermine Us)

7. * Eye On The Ball (Stress Release through Sensory Awareness)

8. * What Does It Feel Like to Be Heard? (Exercise in Pairs)

9. Time Management: Ending the Stress of the Past through the Power of Presence

10. * Body Awareness (Joint Rotation for Muscle Stimulation & Relaxation)

11. * One Breath Meditation: Discharging Stress & Grounding Our Bodies
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Lunch Break (* With Mindfulness Practice)
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II. Taking Responsibility

1. * Smiling Yoga & Laughter: A Mindfulness Exercise

2. * Complain! Observing our own gossip and negative thinking.

3. * Two Circles: What-Really-Happened vs. Our-Story-About-It

4. Discussion: How can we turn this wisdom into work?

5. Taking 100% Responsibility for Our Story

6. * Transforming Conflict Into Communication (An Exercise in the Breath of Compassion)

Break

III. Creating Our Vision

1. * Role Play: Simulation, Discussion & Positive Replay of A Work Place Encounter

2. What Is The Empowering Conversation?

3. * Choosing Your Word of Power (Journal Exercise)

4. * Sharing Your Word of Power (Exercise in Pairs).

5. * Living Your Word of Power (Hypnotherapy & Visualization)

IV. Conclusion: Creating Our World

The future we want only comes from the freedom we can enjoy in the present moment.