Conscious Loving 5-Day Advanced Training

Ventura, CA, August 2 - 6, 2010
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This training is designed to equip you with the essential relationship-building skills we've developed during the past thirty years. Whether you use these skills personally or professionally, you'll find that you get stuck less often, shift more quickly, and spend more of your time living the relationship life you design by choice.

The 5-Day learning-intensive is highly experiential and life-changing for the participants. It was created for those individuals, couples and professionals dedicated to inspiring conscious relationships at home and in the workplace. Some of the concepts and techniques covered:

•How to teach the five essential skills of conscious relationship: Commitment, authenticity, 100% responsibility, appreciation and creativity.

•How to facilitate breakthrough in long-standing impasses.

•How to assist people in moving from complaint to commitment.

•How to use breath, movement and body-centered techniques to speed up problem-resolution.

•How to eliminate blame and criticism from relationships.

•How to resolve sex and money issues in close relationships.

Graduates of both the Body-Centered Transformation Trainings and the Conscious Relationship Training, our two 5-day training events, are eligible for exclusive listing in our referral directory (see Find A Coach in What's New on the home page). This list is viewed by thousands of visitors each week who are looking for practitioners in their geographical area. This directory has several different listing options, from a simple telephone number to a complete websitet. We encourage all our graduates to join our online referral base. Completion of Conscious Living and Loving: The Foundation Seminar, is pre-requisite for our advanced 5-day training events.

How The Hendricks Work Is Different From Other Approaches to Coaching and Transformation

1) We emphasize personal integrity in all of the techniques that we teach. Whether at home or in business, we help partners learn to tell the truth to each other. When a person is hiding some truth, he or she will tend to complain about a relationship issue. Misunderstandings of responsibility fuel much relationship conflict. We help each partner in a relationship take full responsibility for any issue, especially if the issue looks like it belongs only to one person.

2) We believe that the central issue people face is expanding their capacity to give and receive love and to handle greater levels of unity and intimacy in their relationships and lives.

3) We balance cognitive techniques with powerful body-centered techniques that draw on the organic wisdom of the body. For example, in a couple's coaching session or a corporate consultation, we make use of movement, conscious breathing and other tools that focus people on the natural healing capacity of their body processes. We have developed a transformational model that provides a flexible, yet comprehensive structure based in whole-body learning and collaboration.

4) We are very interested in concepts and techniques that emphasize unity instead of difference. Many currently popular approaches focus on the differences between people. While this may be useful at a certain point in evolution, we are very interested in laying the groundwork for the next stage of evolution, which we believe involves the fundamental unity at the base of all creation, people included. To this end, our techniques are focused on helping people reveal their own essence--who they really are at the spiritual depths of themselves--and to perceive the essences of other people.

5) We focus on specific actions over which you have control. Examples: You can't control whether someone likes you, but you can control whether you pick up the phone and call them to talk to them about your feelings. You can't control when you're going to feel scared or anxious, but you can control whether you take a slow, deep breath.

6) We are interested in ongoing innovation. We encourage our students and coaches to incorporate our materials freely and to continue to create dynamic applications that contribute to their own growth and professional development.

7) We don't belong to traditional coaching organizations, primarily because their mind-centric approaches are too intellectual to reach the deeper level we're interested in exploring through our body-mind work. In addition, we've had experience with numerous bureaucracies and have found them all too limiting.

One of the unique aspects of our training events is the presence and participation of advanced students from our leadership and transformation program. These leaders assist with facilitating, exploring issues with participants upon request, and supporting a deeper experience and exploration of essence in the whole group.

This course meets the qualifications for 31 hours of continuing education credit for MFCCs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

 What People are Saying about Our Coaching Program

A colleague and I were recently at a conference for leadership coaches on the East coast and were seen amongst our peers as having a lot of understanding and tools that they were unaware of.   Everyone kept asking where we had studied and your names were circulating around the room.  They were so impressed with our awareness of how to support transformation that the whole group asked us to come back and teach them an advanced course.

I have always known that the downloads that I received from you were very valuable. And the more I move around in the world, the more grateful I am to have been able to learn directly from you.  Based on my experience now, I believe that I attended the finest coaching program this country has to offer.   I am sure you are aware of the high quality of what you are offering and I want to remind you of what a treasure it is.

Diana Chapman

Advisor to Exceptional Leaders