This is an intensive, powerful empowering virtual program for professional women. I enable and support you to succeed in creating new ways of dealing with the mess of stress, and thinking about difficult or persistent challenges. You will learn how to focus your energy and intention to Reflect, Rebalance, and Renew for joy, wholeness and success.
The 3 R's Dialogue Circle is a virtual (phone and internet based) four month transformative journey. It is for women who dare to dream, a journey of self-discovery, mindfulness, personal growth, connections, and empowerment. A journey that has the capacity to bring more meaning and joy to your life!
It is a program in which professional women will come together to learn the 3 R's: Reflect, Rebalance, and Renew for success! It will feature and model a collaborative-reflective-transformational process combining practice and application of advanced skills and tools for living a life of joy, wholeness, and success.
The program is offered two times a year. One starting in March and the other starting in August. More detailed information about dates and rates will be posted soon.
My Promise
We will Develop Relationships and Conversations that make A Difference. As our collaborative process advances and the conversations deepen you will find powerful ways to go to a higher level of wholeness.
I will create a safe virtual space in which we can enter into inquiring loops. Through the ensuing dialogue and collaboration there will be opportunity to engage in a systematic process of inquiry, discovery, learning, and interpretation. You will develop new insights, new possibilities, practical applications, problem solving, change, and personal growth.
Key Features
In the 3 R's Dialogue Circle, professional women will:
- Practice and refine advance skills and techniques for Reflection (both within your self and with others). Bring your knowledge and be prepared to share, explore change, and stretch your limits
- Engage in active experimentation using real-life issues. You will get immediate feedback from me and the group as we engage in shared inquiry, mutual exploration, and development
- Become more comfortable with asking yourself the right questions to foster balance and wellness
- Understand, see differently, and positively engage your own and other’s resistance to a balanced life through examining the role of objections, alternative behaviors and objectives from new perspectives. You will develop the capacity for “integrative awareness”
- Find the balance you crave and feeling the energy that wellness brings
- Identify and clarify core issues that can facilitate or hinder your balance
- Articulate clear goals and develop collaborative strategies for success
- Master collaborative communication and listening skills translating theory into immediate practice for renewed living
- Discover and enhance your own and other’s creativities and strengths, harnessing them for Renewal
- Learn to use the 3 R's in your daily living and experience the energy that balance brings.
Method
The 3 R's Dialogue Circle is a four-months program with a limited number of participants per group (to ensure enough individual focus) providing the support, challenge, knowledge, and accountability that can make a difference for greater success in finding purpose and renewing your life. The basic structure of the program is:
- Program launch. A one-hour orientation session introduces methods and tools, the participants, and sets the stage for the intense and enjoyable collaborative work ahead.
- Eight conference calls with all participants (30 to 45 minutes each), twice per month for 4 months.
- The first 10 minutes of each call will follow up from the last session assignments. The next 20 minutes of each call includes learning a major key or strategy for balance and practicing it live on the call.
- Then in the next 15 minutes we engage in coaching live a related issue brought by a participant while the rest of the circle listens “as if” (we will explain this on the first orientation call). If time permits, we might coach more than one person. As part of the process we will pause to discuss progress, enrich the conversation, increase the collaboration, and analyze how to empower ourselves and each other for reflection, re-balance, and renewal.
- The last 15 minutes we divide in small groups for more interaction, ending with some final thoughts in the whole group.
- Dialogue Partner 30 minutes call once every-other week at your convenience (more information on the orientation session). An opportunity to give and get support from a Dialogue Partner in a 1-1 focused conversation concerning the practice of the feature key or strategy of the moment.
- A private Master Mind one-hour phone collaborative coaching session. Just you, me, and a very small group (no more than 5, less if possible) of other motivated individuals on these calls. You get my devoted time and attention PLUS the benefit of hearing what other individuals are going through while they explore and find their balance in their personal and professional lives. These calls are inspiring, motivating, and really get you into focused action!
- Interactive forum for you to buddy-coach with your peers, share tips, successes, and gain valuable feedback from an exclusive community of individuals dedicated to “lifelong growth in reflection, re-balance, and renewal”
- Visioning as a trigger for successful action planning
What Makes The 3 R's Dialogue Circle so Powerful?
For any change process to be successful, it needs a supportive practical structure with sequence, connection, and fluidity that facilitates the reflective process, generates fresh and creative ideas, and opens new possibilities for action and successful outcomes.
I see the balance keys dialogue circle process as, well. . . circular (see Figure 1): in any generative conversation you could go through the whole circle or only a segment of it, you could go back and forth between the different stages, or you could spend the whole time in only one of them. I put dialogue at the center, because I believe that internal and external dialogue is the foundation on which the whole collaborative coaching process is anchored and change is made possible (see Figure 1).
Following that model, at any given moment in the circle all participants (including the leader) will be expected to:
- Gently confront others in a supportive way to help interrupt old patterns.
- Improve accountability to deliver on commitments.
- Explore different ways to craft your balance and renew yourself.
- Take initiative and move out of predictable patterns that don’t work.
- Shift attitudes from helplessness to empowerment.
- Address tough dilemmas and competing priorities.
- Build trust in your power to design the life you want to live.
- Explore signature strengths to better harness them in your life.
- Maintain a safe container where the group can expand the ability to reflect, observe, dialogue, learn, and change.
- Influence positively to generate hope, energy, and joy in the process of finding the keys to balance.
- Participate fully in the balance keys dialogue circle for greater synergy.
What Distinguishes the Balance Keys Dialogue Circle from Other Programs
My framework for transformative conversations is grounded in a variety of disciplines: the human potential movement, spirituality, and theories of adult development, systems, dialogue, collaborative coaching, psychology of women, and transformative learning.
As a result, the program takes into consideration individuals, context, and systems. It is not a canned class with inflexible curriculum, but a tailored program to fit the needs of the participants.
Through the program you will:
- Learn strength based methods for jump-start success.
- Engage in transformative learning experiences with real situations utilizing what arises in the moment to explore fully opportunities for balance and renewal.
- Give and get immediate feedback that is direct, supportive, and collaborative.
- Discover and create advance strategies for wellness.
- Integrate learning and practice through dialogue and collaboration.
- Benefit from my expertise, support, and caring about you and you success. For more than 20 years I have been empowering people for change and growth in collaboration. My life and business have benefited from the support I’ve received while learning to be a leader of collaborative change. Now you can have that same level of caring focused on your success!
- Learn from and with other professional women who have substantial experience and skill. The forums and 1-1 peer calls will provide this opportunity.
There’s just one more thing to consider before joining me…
Are you a good fit for the Dialogue Circle?
You’re a good fit if you…- Are a high achiever who is a professional woman wanting to know how to get to the next level of expertise for a more efficient and effective life.
- Are willing and ready to become vulnerable and take action once you feel comfortable and know exactly what to do.
- Have a “yes, can do!” attitude and want to be highly successful.
- Want to find a higher level of balance and joy and this is a high priority for you.
- Are willing to make significant, positive changes in your life and work experiencing and greater balance wellness, and success.
- Love to learn, are self-motivated, and willing to try something different.
You will NOT be a good candidate for this program if you…
- Have difficulty showing up on time or honoring your commitments to yourself and others.
- Are unwilling to collaborate and change.
- Are too fearful of changing to a more fully balanced life style to ever take action.
- Think that you know everything and are not open to learn from others.
My style is direct, honest, loving, inspiring, collaborative, and down-to-earth. I’m always looking for ways to harness your strengths to help you create the life you want.
Remember, when you sign up for this program, you’re getting my wealth of knowledge, experience, and proven success as an executive coach and change agent, utilizing dialogue and collaboration for transformation. You will also get the input of other successful professional women.
For more information about the Collaborative Success Circle, or for an in-house organizational program, contact us today with women circle on the subject line. You can also call Dr. Ada Gonzalez at 302-399-3915.
[1] (Anderson, 1997; Barrentine, 1993; Bartunek, 1993; Bateson, 1972; Freire, 1970; Hargrove, 2000; Ismel, 2000; Mezirow, 1997; Mezirow, 2000; Whitworth et al., 1998).