The Foundation: What Gets in the Way (week 1)

Our will can only take us so far when it comes to acquiring habits to create a life we love. In fact, research shows that only 5% of our experiences are created at a conscious level, and that 95% are influenced by our subconscious mind. In this session, we discuss how we can gain more access to that 95% within ourselves at a conscious level. I introduce the concepts of the saboteurs, the set of automatic and habitual mind patterns that work against our best interest. We also discover how assumptions, interpretations, and limiting beliefs get in the way and are fueled by your saboteurs. I share practices to start strengthening the discerning part of your brain that will weaken your saboteurs and fortify your self-command abilities.

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Your Worst Enemies: Your Internal Judge and its Cousin the Gremlin (week 2)

This session unveils the Judge, the master saboteur, and its cousin the Gremlin, who keeps us under its thumb as it sends us the message that “we are not good enough”. The Judge’s purpose is to keep fulfillment and happiness away from us by finding fault in ourselves, others, and the circumstances. The Gremlin, on the other hand, focuses on fueling our fears by sending us disempowering messages about ourselves . We will discuss these two shady characters and learn how to bring them to their knees. 

 This part defines what the  content is in the session but I am left wondering what I’m going to do with this information…even if it’s just a restatement of learning practices to respond to these enemies or something that feels like a tangible takeaway I think would be helpful.

 

Meet Your Other Saboteurs, part 1 (week 3)

There are nine additional saboteurs that the Judge uses as accomplices. A saboteur does its greatest damage by convincing you that its advice is for your highest good, when in fact it is preventing you from thriving. For this session, you will take a saboteur assessment to determine which of the nine accomplice saboteurs are more prominent for you. In this session, we discuss the following saboteurs: Avoider, the Controller, the Hyper-Achiever and Hyper-Rational.

 

Meet Your Other Saboteurs, part 2 (week 4)

When the Saboteurs work on your favor, they push you into action and success through anger, regret, guilt, anxiety, shame, obligation, and other contracting (the so-called negative) emotions. In this session, we look at the remaining five saboteurs: Hyper-Vigilant, Pleaser, Restless, Stickler and Victim, and you determine how your saboteurs have been influencing how you show up, and what you do in your life and the way you live it.

 

Coming to the Rescue: Meet your Sage, part 1 (week 5)

The Sage represents a perspective of accepting what is and sees outcomes and circumstances as a gift and opportunity. This perspective is generated from a different part of the brain where the saboteurs live. The Sage is the access to its five great powers: empathy, exploration, innovation, navigation, and decisive action. In this session, we discuss and practice the first two powers, empathy, and exploration.

 

Coming to the Rescue: Meet your Sage, part 2 (week 6)

Our Sages move us into action out of empathy, inspiration, the joy of exploration. A longing to create, a desire to contribute, and an urge to find meaning amid even the greatest crises. In this session, we discuss and practice the last three Sage powers: innovation, navigation, and decisive action.

 

Out of the Way, I’m Creating a Life I Love! (week 7)

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.

                     -Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

In this final session, you work on a goal that you want to accomplish for which your saboteurs have been intervening.  You create an action plan, recognize potential roadblocks, determine how to manage slips, and choose your support team. You and your Sage are well on your way to create a life you are excited about!

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*Based and adapted from Shirzad Chamine’s work on Positive Intelligence (PQ).