WORKSHOPS & TRAININGS

ALC offers a opportunities to help people build intra and interpersonal skills in many areas of their lives. Some are presented by the ALC Team and others are presented by experts associated with our extended community. Get a list of subjects and dates here. The details on each event can be found below. The fees for each event vary. All the events take place at our Training Center [map].

Celebrate Life

Thursday, January 24, 2008 - Look for the Possibilities
Thursday, May 8, 2008 - Be the Best for the World

6:30 - 8:30 pm

Please join us at ALC for a continuing celebration and discussion about what is right with the world. Each of these evenings, we will show the award winning DVD, Celebrate What’s Right With the World by noted National Geographic photographer, Dewitt Jones, and then have discussion and activities around the evening's theme.

Celebrate What’s Right With The World teaches what a powerful force having a vision of possibilities can be for you. Do you have a vision for your organization? More importantly, do you have one for yourself? One that gets you excited every morning and keeps you open to possibilities. Stunning photography and powerful dialogue also help us see how we can approach our lives with celebration, confidence and grace.

A short trailer previewing the film can be found here.

The seminar will be held at the Authentic Leadership Center. For directions, click here. The fee for the evening is $15 per person.

Authentic Happiness: Creating More Happiness and Joy in Your Life

Saturday, March 8, 2008

9:00 am- 4:30 pm

Utilizing the approaches of Positive Psychology and the ground-breaking research of Martin Seligman, Ph.D., the Authentic Leadership Team will lead a fun, profound, expanding, and lasting examination of happiness and how to nurture and grow it in our lives. The workshop will be especially useful for those interested in taking more control over the amount and quality of happiness in their lives.

Aside from a willingness to learn and enjoy, there are no prerequisites. What you’ll learn:

• The building blocks of happiness
• Techniques for increasing happiness about the past, present, and the future
• Utilizing your virtues and strengths to increase your happiness

The course fee is $60 for early registration (recieved by March 1st) and $75 thereafter. Walk-in registration will be accepted.

If you are interested, contact us! Or, you can register here.

COUPLES' DIALOGUE: Growing Yourself, Growing Your Relationship

Friday Evening, 6:00 - 9:00 pm and Saturday, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, Oct 3rd & 4th

Being in a relationship qualifies as a “growth experience” for most of us, with all that phrase implies: the peaks and the humdrum, the joys and sorrows . Being in relationship has been called the most difficult spiritual practice we can engage in. ALC invites you to learn more about yourself, your significant other, and the unique relationship that you create together in the Couples' Dialogue Workshop .

The primary vehicle for this day and a half exploration is the Step II Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, an extremely powerful tool for looking at self and others. In addition there will be structured couples' dialogues and a variety of experiential exercises. You will gain important insights into the areas of strength in your relationship. In addition, you will see where difficulties can occur and then be able to identify steps you can take to transform those stuck places into possibilities for deeper awareness, acceptance and joy. Please note that the registration deadline is Septemper 8th in order to provide enough time to process the MBTI assessments.

The course fee is $310 per couple, which includes workbooks, class materials, and personal Myers-Briggs reports. The course runs Friday evening, 6:00 - 9:00 pm and Saturday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.

DEEPENING THE DIALOGUE: Advanced Couples' Dialogue Workshop

Friday Evening, 7:00 - 9:00 pm and Saturday, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm, TBA

Couples who have attended the very popular Couples' Dialogue Workshop learned important insights and developed ways to transform their relationship challenges. These couples can continue this process of deepening intimacy, knowledge, and skill in the advanced workshop offered by the same wonderful facilitators: Elizabeth and Patrick Bell.

Why does it often seem so difficult to have straight communication and to have our communication heard and understood with the people we most love? For couples, positive communication may be one of the greatest indicators of satisfaction with the relationship. Moreover, how conflict is dealt with is also key in working through issues and problems to strengthen the relationship rather than walking away or going dead.

Your psychological type profoundly influences how you communicate, and about what, as well as how effectively you handle conflict. This workshop deepens the Couple's Dialogue by looking at communication and conflict through the lens of the MBTI. You will gain access to having loving and respectful dialogue and together you will create a clear action plan of how to deal with conflict.

The course fee is $300 per couple, which includes handouts and class materials. The beginning workshop: Couples' Dialogue: Growing Yourself, Growing Your Relationship is a prerequisite to attend this advanced workshop. The course runs Friday evening, 7:00 - 9:00 pm and Saturday, 9:00 am to 4:30 pm.

The course facilitators, Elizabeth and Patrick Bell, are partners in business and in life. They work together as organizational development consultants and have 28 years combined experience with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. They have been married 20 years and have been successful at growing themselves and their relationship while bringing their learning and insights to others for personal and professional applications.

If you are interested, contact us! Or, you can register here.

Oprah and Tolle Book Club

Sunday early evenings, 4:00 -5:00 pm - beginning March 9

Oprah and well known author, Eckhart Tolle have teamed up to present a live 10 week web event based on his new book, A New Earth - Awakening to Your Life's Purpose. The on-going web event began March 3rd. For more information and details, go to www.oprah.com. Click on Oprah’s Live Web Event and sign up. By signing up through Oprah's website you will receive the free workbook and web event. You will need this link to be live or to later view his weekly presentations.

To receive maximum benefit from this book, Oprah encouraged individuals in communities around the world to create a Book Club or reading group to discuss the impact this book can have on one's life. Linda Riley, one of our master coaches and life coach, signed up to host a Book Club. She is inviting everyone in the ALC community, along with any friends to come and join her on this journey of self directed discovery.

Communications Practice Group

Monthly Saturday afternoons, 1:00 -4:00 pm - beginning March 22

Join with others in deepening your understanding and sharpening your skills with the ALC or NVC communication models to improve your relationships. Participants will learn from working with their life situations in a facilitated group setting. Bring your challenges from workplace, relationships, parenting, etc. The tuition is $15 per person per session.

Facilitated by Lou Zweier, ALC Coach and Compassionate Communication Workshop Leader.Graduates of Leading from the Center or Compassionate Communication workshops are welcome to attend.

The monthy Saturday dates are:May 17, June 14, and July 19.

If your are interested, Contact Lou @ 707-364-7907 or lou.zweier@gmail.com

ALC Men's Group

1st and 3rd Tuesday evenings, 7:00 -8:30 pm

Chris Mathe facilitates an on-going men’s group twice a month . It is open to any men who wish to meet regularly with other men to examine what is means to be a man in today’s society. Chris facilitates very lightly and lets the group decide how it will run and the specific topics they will examine together.

The intent is to create a core of men that participate regularly and also allow for walk-ins on any meeting night so that other men can come in and participate. The fee is $180 for six months or $20 per night..

Circle of Women

Friday evenings, 6:30 -8:30 pm
July 11, August 1, August 22, and September 5th

Have you been down that Self Help isle? Bought more books than you can read? Have you made progress in your personal growth, but feel there is a next step somewhere? Inside all of us lie all the keys to the Kingdom. Come join us for a Circle of Women: a combination of meditation and sharing that serves to relieve the endless search for fulfillment. Circle brings members back to the peace that exists inside their very core. Meditation will open and close each Circle. A talk with voluntary sharing, nestled in Silence will be conducted in such a way to promote connection while holding sacred one’s personal and emotional safety.

For the summer dates listed above, we will have “drop-in” Circle of Women. Come and check it out! When the series starts up again in the fall, one can continue with drop in or purchase the eight week series ($105). More will be revealed as fall gets closer...

Drop-in fees are $15 per person or $25 per couple.

Bonny Mathe Helms, LMFT is a private psychotherapy practice in Sacramento and is a Coach for ALC’s Leading From The Center Trainings.

COMPASSIONATE COMMUNICATION: Getting the Relationships You Want

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Dates Dec 5 - 7, 2008

Lou Zweier returns to facilitate a new format for a very successful workshop called Compassionate Communication, based on the principles of Non-Violent Communication™ (NVC). It is now designed to accommodate people new to Compassionate Communication as well as those who already have some experience with this material, or who have experience with NVC. Those interested can choose the days that best suit their goals and experience. Here’s how the days lay out:

Friday evening – Introduction to Compassionate Communication
An introduction to the basic principles and concepts of Non-Violent Communication. 6:00 – 9:00 pm. Tuition: $25

Saturday - Deepening Skills with Compassionate Communication
Learning and practicing how to deepen empathy, say “No” and hear “No”, express and receive anger, and transform judgments.
9:00 am – 4:00 pm. Tuition: $85

Sunday - Communication Skills Practice
Attendees work on their own real life situations from workplace, relationships, parenting, etc. and watch others practice as well.
10:00 am – 2:00 pm. Tuition: $35

If you’re new to NVC or want a refresher on the concepts, you should attend Friday night. If you wish to deepen what you have learned, you should attend Saturday. If you want more extensive practice and to witness others work, then you should attend Sunday. There are many combinations possible, depending on your needs and knowledge level.

Compassionate Communication utilizes the principles of Non-Violent Communication to create understanding and compassion for self and others. Honest expression of needs and empathetic listening to the feelings and needs of others creates a connection between people from which solutions flow more easily.

About the Presenter: Lou Zweier has been a student and practitioner of Non-Violent Communication™ since 1995 and has taught communication skills to adults in a variety of settings since 2002. He has also presented at regional and national educational technology conferences on communication skills and conflict resolution. Mr. Zweier has been married for 25 years and has two teenage children.

Non-Violent Communication ™ has been developed by Marshall Rosenberg, PhD, international mediator and peace maker (www.cnvc.org).

The course will take place at the ALC Center.

If your are interested, contact us! Or, you can register here.