The Blue Sky Visioning Master Class with Ben
Dean and Anne Durand
To read what people are saying about Blue
Sky Visioning, click here.
To hear Ben lead a one-hour Q&A about the Blue
Sky class and its approach to creating a life vision, click
here.
What You'll Be Doing in this Course:
In the 12-week course, you'll design six BHAGs (Big, Hairy, Audacious
Goals*). Together they'll comprise a very large vision of what
your life could be. We have a very specific, concrete approach
that guarantees you can succeed at this--designing a vision much
bigger than you've ever done before.
Then using backward planning to back yourself back into the
present. Then creating the focus and social support to bring it
to life. You'll learn to do this first for yourself and then for
your coaching clients. And you'll walk out with an outline of
how to lead a virtual or in-person workshop for groups of any
size as well.
This class has brought about transformative change and extraordinary
evaluations.
The 5-Year Life Vision:
Most of us think far too small. Even the big dreams that we have are
almost always constrained by our hidden blinders. This is especially true
for therapists and other helping professionals who are not used to creating
BHAG’s (big, hairy, audacious goals).(Collins et al, 1999).
Yet if you think back over your life and remember the most important
accomplishments you've achieved, almost always they began with
and were sustained by a powerful vision. In this workshop, we're
going to hold your hand and help you create an expansive vision
for your life.
What You'll Take Away from this Course:
Our atmosphere will be light, reflective, and at times playful. But make
no mistake, we will lead you through an exercise which will allow you
to create a vision of your life five to seven years in the future--a vision
that is anchored by six specific outcome goals.
Then we'll show you exactly
how to do backward planning from those goals, backing yourself back into
the present.
Then you’ll learn how to create the focus and social
support to bring your vision it to life. You’ll learn to do this
first for yourself and then for your coaching clients.
And you’ll walk out with an outline of how to lead a powerful in-person
(or teleconference) workshop on life visioning for groups of any size as
well.
*Collins, J.& Porras, J. (July-August 1999). Turning goals
into results: the power of catalytic mechanisms. Harvard Business
Review.
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