The leader/trainer makes the difference. Where you are in stages of power, your role modeling, how you develop yourself. The group cannot go beyond you, so develop yourself, understand how the material affects you, moves you.

How you teach depends on the stages of the people you are trying to reach. Teach them one stage ahead of where they are.

Instructional Principles

• You are the role model
• Give stories of people at each stage
• Provide a retreat like atmosphere
• Get to know the audience, speak of examples in their world
• Your own vulnerablilty is a valid and important experience for them
• Teach at one stage beyond where the group is so they stretch
• Use a variety of exercises for the various learning styles, small group, individual, large group, audio, visual, sensory, imaginative
• Provide experiential time, reflective time
• Feedback/reflect on it
• Use overheads or slides, videos or poems or cartoons, some variety
• Provide handouts to take away
• Cognitive and affective learning: knowledge, understanding, application, analysis, synthesis
• Appreciation, personalize, get to values
• Questions from people are really statements. Find out what statement they are making. What are the questions behind the questions?
• Make the workshop your own style within these principles. Be creative–6 hours maximum. People can't sustain this intensity longer than that.

1 Day Program

Introduction to you and the day

Introduction to power

• Current events
• Powerful/powerless
• Soul leadership examples
• Stories
• Personal examples

Personal Power Profile

• Get them engaged with their own style
• Get duplicates of their scoring so you can present the whole to the group and also see what stages you are dealing with early in the day.

Brief overview of Stages

• "Home stage"
• Stuck
• Shadow
• Higher not better
• Order of 1-6
• Spiral
• Repeating stages

Present Stages 1 & 2

• Principles
• Cartoon
• When you are there
• Video cut
• Stories
• Small group discussion: When have you been at that stage?

Present Stages 3 & 4

• Content
• Exercises
• Video
• Overheads
• Cartoons
• Personal story
• Poems
• Small groups with some questions

Present Stages 5 & 6

• Same pattern plus use the four BIG questions.
• Role play the stages using 6 stages and observer. Debrief.
• You could add their life lines to this day and have them tell their life stories to each other then show where they were powerful, what stages they were at then, etc.

Two day program add these possibilities

• Life Lines: Have people do life lines and then share this material in small groups.
• Have them analyze their lives for several dimensions, risks, powerless, powerful, turning points, etc.
• Work situations: Case study using small groups. Solve the case together. Then solve it at one stage higher than the group solution. Give examples of solving problems at different stages.
• Apply to a management situation-how to manage people at different stages. Brainstorm in small groups. Present to larger group. Handouts based on management chapter.
• What's become clear to me? What will I do?
• Personal summary/personal time with journals. What have I learned that is most important? What will I do differently as a result; what will I resolve to do for myself?

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