Professional Training Courses

A few months ago I was invited to give a one day professional training course on the Compassion Program and a half-day professional training course on Resentment by Whitsunday Community Services at Cannonvale Queensland Australia.  My self-limiting beliefs up to now have stopped me from pursuing professional presentations.

Self-limiting Beliefs

I have to tell you that over the years I have joined Toastmasters a number of times and never attended again after the first visit, although the last time I joined I did stay long enough to give one speech.  I have been absolutely terrified of public speaking.  I have felt for many years that this fear has significantly limited my potential and my personal growth.

So upon receiving the invitation my self-limiting beliefs came rushing back and negative thoughts flooded my mind.  However, I believed this was such an excellent opportunity for my professional and personal growth I could not possibly turn down the opportunity.

In the time up to the training courses on the 9th and 10th of May 2007 I worked hard preparing both the presentations and even harder on my limiting beliefs using affirmations, emotional freedom techniques, and my partner even practiced her hypnosis on me.

The day of the training course finally arrived.  I had woken up before 3 am and could not go back to sleep so I was surprised that I felt much calmer than I thought I would be, though still nervous about standing before my peers and wondering what they would think of me.

The first day passed satisfactorily, although I felt I did not connect with a few of the participants as well as I would have liked to and that showed up in the evaluation at the end of the presentation on the Compassion Program.  I had listed 5 learning outcomes on the evaluation form where participants were asked to scale 1 to 10 how well each of the learning objectives were covered, where 1 = Not at all well and 10 = Extremely well.  The overall score was 52.29%

At the second days training on Resentment I could feel a distinct difference in the level of connection I had with the participants and this showed on the evaluation forms with an overall score of 88.95%

I really appreciated the honest feedback I received from the participants.  It helped me to modify my training a little and be more open and relaxed and it will help me to revamp the professional training courses for any future opportunities.

I would just like to sincerely thank Amanda and Roz for organising and promoting the presentations and all who attended.  I passionately believe that the topics that I presented are very useful and effective methods in working with clients who behave abusively or violently towards others, especially loved ones.  The compassionate approach is respectful, non-blaming, and non-shaming and very effective in engaging clients who find it difficult to seek help to change their behaviour - the behaviour that makes them feel bad about themselves.

I will attempt to attach some photos of the presentations, I hope you enjoy them.

I am proud of myself for getting out of my own way, stepping out of my comfort zone and growing from this wonderful experience and working through my self-limiting beliefs.

Thank you one and all...