6 – Challenges: Mental Health, Physical + Other Challenges – Next Gen Leaders
Power for Everyone. We welcome EVERYONE.
Read this entire FAQ: It has important information throughout.
If you have a special challenge, please share your challenge and favored accommodations at least a few weeks prior to registering (longer is better). This way we can make sure the chosen facility – usually chosen by the contracting agency – can accommodate your special needs and an accommodation acceptable to you.
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Truth: Everyone arrives a bit nervous, even uber-successful professional in our adult confidence workshop (aka leadership presence workshops).
- It’s natural and normal to feel uneasy whenever we practice new tools and get feedback from others. Everyone begins rooting for each other (wait until you see this). After all, each participant is trying get to the same place (radiating confidence), and each brings strengths that the others don’t have, so we learn from each other. It’s heart-warming. No one gets left out.
- Many of our workshops include solo exercises in which each participant practices the tools while the rest of the group observes and provides feedback; additionally some of our workshops include video feedback. Most of us feel some anxiety during solo exercises and the group review of before/after videos. Still, most participants report that it’s worth it. After all, they’ll always know simple tools to look confident while under pressure.
- Most participants tell us that their anxiety calms down somewhat after the first exercise. This is because we aim to create a safe and supportive atmosphere and use a balanced feedback method.
- Most participants leave the workshop feeling not only safe but closer with the other participants and enjoying having a network of allies they can call on to give them honest yet supportive feedback.
This workshop is for everyone, including those with:
- A fair level of confidence. Having decent self-esteem doesn’t necessarily translate into skills for radiating confidence. Sometimes we display behaviors that others perceive as insecurity which can lead us to become overlooked, stalled in our life goals and frustrated.
- A strong level of confidence: Many successful, accomplished people (including adults in our adult confidence workshop aka leadership presence trainings) report huge benefits from this workshop. Many adults say things such as, “I wish I had learned these tools earlier!”
- A low level of confidence: Some participants describe themselves as having low or zero confidence. That’s okay, too. You simply haven’t been taught the tools to anchor into yourself when you’re under pressure. You deserve to look and feel confident, and get respect; it’s your birthright.
These said, please note:
- This workshop will NOT fix low self esteem. It does NOT offer psychological tools or mental health treatment of any kind. It will NOT create heroic feelings or unwavering confidence. After all, the human condition includes a wide variety of feelings; moments of or periods of anxiety, self-doubt and wavering confidence happen to all of us. This workshop simply offers 12 tools that help most people anchor into themselves while in the presence of others to radiate confidence, even while feeling nervous. For most participants – and with continued practice – using the tools to radiate confidence gets easier.
- Uncertain Outcomes: Given that everyone is so different – with a unique background and customs – we can’t guarantee any outcomes.
- Our services are NOT facilitated by mental health professional or special needs providers who can recognize symptoms indicating stress or other unwanted symptoms of exacerbated problems.
ANXIETY, OTHER MENTAL HEALTH OR DEVELOPMENTAL CHALLENGES:
If the prospective participant has potentially serious issues with anxiety, other mental health challenges or a developmental challenge and/or is under the care of a mental health or medical provider, we strongly recommend that you:
- Get clearance from the professionals that know the individual best and provide them with this FAQ, all webpages pertaining to this service, and the registration form (which will be provided to the contracting organization).
- Describe to us in detail your condition and outline acceptable accommodations on the group workshop registration form. The registration form is provided to the contracting agency; this agency either signs terms for participants or provides participants with a link; therefore, prior to attending ask the organization who invited you to share registration terms to make sure you agree with them.
- Share our website, this FAQ and related materials (including the terms and agreements) with treating medical providers and follow their advice. These professionals may contact us at any time.
PHYSICAL + MOBILITY CHALLENGES + OTHER SPECIAL NEEDS
- Power for Everyone! People who use wheelchairs and other assisted equipment are warmly welcome; each participant will simply practice the tools to the extent they can with our help finding workable variations. If there is not a workable variation (for example, if a participant can’t stand up fully) for 1 or 2 tools, it’s okay: the tools work together and we’ll emphasize the tools you are able to use.
Important: Share your challenges and favored accommodations with us PRIOR to registering (at least a few weeks prior) so that we can make sure the chosen facility – selected by the contracting agency – can accommodate your favored special needs accommodations.
Organizations who sign our service agreements (which include similar terms): Carefully check with each participant and – if the participant can not legally consent for him/herself – his/her legal guardians) to determine the appropriateness of our programs.
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