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"Leading a workshop that was almost all process was totally new for me!" Susan was thrilled. Having just returned to Manhattan from presenting at Esalen in Big Sur, she had been experimenting with how little content from her book it would take to provide a learning platform, and to cultivate deep intimacy and inner exploration. "How little could I talk? How sparse could I keep the information? This time, I trimmed the content down to almost nothing so I could allow more time to focus on group process. The group shared deeply—in their journals, within the dyads, and in small and large groups. Although it was not my aim, I noticed they were all buying my books at the bookstore! Thank you! My way of doing workshops has been forever changed."—Susan Anderson, psychotherapist, workshop leader & author of The Journey from Abandonment to Healing, a book that has been compared to the ground-breaking work of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.

Learn how your most challenging workshop participant is really you in disguise—and what to do about it! Intro to Facilitating Powerful Experiential Workshops: Navigating Group Dynamics, Aug. 27-31, 2007, is an intensive experiential training for group leaders in the helping professions, and anyone who wants to seriously play with igniting group wisdom and discovering the leader within.

Join Ken Nelson and Lesli Lang for a seriously fun and exciting, role-playing program to explore the frontiers of yoga-based experiential learning and teaching. Identify the attachments, attractions and fears that keep you from success as a group leader. Learn by playing for real and role-playing for fun.  Get the tools—coaching, clearing, listening, questioning, presencing, encouraging and intervening—facilitators use to meet people where they are, to help them show up in groups, and to embark on journeys of self discovery.

Susan had arrived—newly alive and at home again in her full power and expression as a leader—like the sea thrown finally against the shore of BigSur. She celebrated her homecoming with the flickering insights into her sense of 'the other' and herself that has informed human relations through time.  

Experiential leaders are “designated drivers,” whose authority resides in the will of the group. The leader learns to shape-shift from director to delegator, and from negotiator to group member, meeting the group's needs and the common good.

Immerse your self in this life-transforming training retreat. Come away with an action plan for your next workshop that lets you work at your depth and capacity as a leader. Cultivate the skills to offer authentic conversation, resolution and healing.