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While psychotherapy is all about change, shockingly little has been written that is based on HOW it actually occurs. As a result, we have a plethora of popular psychology and self-help books that give information and then magically assume people will be able to practice what they've been taught. They are wrong.

This landmark workshop series actually addresses the psychology of HOW you change; therefore it stands alone among those that promise a new life, but cannot deliver. PIVOT POINTS offers a methodical way to understand what happens when you attempt to do something new.

Everyone knows that when you try to change, you are bound to hit the wall. It's true with diet and exercise, managing your time, your relationships, your money and business strategies – everything. Why does every psychology and self help book ignore this vital fact? When the first flush of victory fades, as it must, you can be left feeling empty, ill equipped and possibly even defective. Nothing could be further from the truth. True change isn't based simply on will power and motivation.

Changing the course of your life is like flying a plane. When you try to change course, you hit psychological turbulence. To navigate through it successfully you need two things.

The equivalent of a pilot's understanding of aerodynamics. This empowers you to work with, and not against, the true forces of change. The rules of change aren't usually taught, even to psychologists. But once you know them, they make sense out of what formerly seemed like chaos.
A psychological flight manual. A pilot must know the systems of the plane in order to assess and adjust them when times are rough. So must you. Dr. Kauffman identifies and describes 7 systems of the self. When you learn to recognize and use them you will be fully equipped to make the small and precise shifts that can tilt the balance of your life in the direction you want.

DESIGN YOUR OWN SEMINAR: CHOOSE FROM THE OPTIONS DESCRIBED BELOW OR TAKE THE ENTIRE 2-DAY SEMINAR

In the PIVOT POINT Workshop I present the SEVEN SYSTEMS and the FOUR GUIDES to change. This material is copyright protected.

Day One: Morning:

ORIENTING POINTS

1. Saving Your Life

Changing your life doesn't consist of one or two decisions. It's a journey. Like a pilot who knows how to navigate through turbulence and pull the most from his plane, you too must understand how to face your challenges and pull the most from your resources.

2. Seven Systems of the Self

Any pilot must understand the systems of a plane (mechanical, electrical etc.) I introduce and describe the seven systems of the self.

3. Navigating the Winds of Change

To change course you must understand what forces you face. The metaphor of aerodynamics (what factors help or hinder you from moving forward) is used to describe the challenges of change. I introduce the four navigational guides.

Day One: Afternoon

THE SEVEN SYSTEMS: A PSYCHOLOGICAL FLIGHT MANUAL

1. Know Your Bio-container

System One: Physical

How physical challenges influence personal and psychological development. From fatigue and fitness to aging, physical and psychological factors impact on one another. It is important to separate their effects.

2. Whose Problem is it, anyway?

System Two: Environmental

Describing how to manage the environment and understand one's role in constructing that environment.

3. Are You What You Think?

System Three: Cognitive

Assessing your cognitive styles, core beliefs, ways of managing personal and general information. Explore the impact of this on your capacity to function at your best.

4. Are Feelings Fact or Fiction?

System Four: Emotional

Examining emotional styles, defenses, emotion regulation. Find out your emotional profile.

5. Making the Connection

System Five: Relational

Looking at your relational style. Impact of relationships, past present and future. Describe 'optimal relationships' and 'toxic criticism'. Introduce new models of conflict resolution.

6. The Present is the Daughter of the Past

System Six: Personal-Historical

If you understand your history you are not doomed to repeat it. Examination of the impact of your 'Inner' history, and your capacity to harness it constructively.

7. Worlds Within Worlds

System Seven: Spiritual

Examination of how to use spiritual resources to access different levels of inner strength. Exploring the secular applications of spiritual belief systems.

Day Two: Morning

THE FOUR GUIDES: HOW TO NAVIGATE CHANGE

1. The Roller Coaster Course of Change

Guide One: Know How to Read the Map

Real change doesn't look like the popular model of transformation. Describe the real maps and course of the change process.

2. The Secrets of Change

Guide Two: Know How Real Change Happens

The 'physics' of change: Understanding: inertia, momentum, critical mass, breaking the sound barrier, and fractals (no change is too small, it replicates).

3. Ready, Set, Wait!

Guide Three: Know the Way Out - Pitfalls and Corrections

Illuminating key misperceptions of the change process and how to assess if you are off course or sabotaging yourself.

4. Will the Real Me Please Stand Up?

Guide Four: Know Your Real Self

Starting with who you are, not who you want to be. Assessing personal identity. Organizing concepts of the self: personal needs, strengths and multiple layers of identity.

Day Two: Afternoon

TAKING FLIGHT

1. It All Adds Up: Applications to Weight Loss and Fitness

Synthesize the information of dynamics of change and knowledge of the seven systems to inform correct way to approach the most frequently failed personal goal.

2. Why Did I Marry my Nemesis?

How to apply information from the book to challenged relationships. Exploration of relational paradoxes.

3. When the Bough Breaks

How to navigate extreme crisis and trauma. Interventions based on the seven systems to address dynamics of trauma.

4. The Good Life & The Higher You Fly, The Trickier it Gets

True success follows patterns that are quite different from images of it. Use the seven systems and four guides to reach optimal functioning in business and life.

Carol@CarolKauffman.com