Many organizational leaders who have hired Dr. Kathy to conduct this training have found it to be one of the best team building exercises they've ever participated in. The content positively affects individuals personally and professionally. An understanding of Mind Styles can increase communication success and lower stress. Your Mind Style has to do with the way you grasp information (concretely or abstractly) and then arrange it (sequentially or randomly) to communicate it to others. Therefore, it influences all informal and formal, written and verbal communication. Learn to communicate without conflict!

During this training, you will take the Mind Styles Delineator™ and Dr. Kathy will use focused small group work and interactive lectures to help you discover and understand your Mind Style. There's no right or wrong Mind Style to have and it's not related to intelligence or personality. People consistently report that this assessment has much more explanatory power than the DISC® or Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® personality assessment.

Our Mind Style explains why we prefer to do things the way we do them and why some things irritate us more than others. It helps us see why we may be more comfortable with thoughts than feelings and tasks than people - or the opposite. (e.g., Do you like spontaneity when others don't? Do others think it's funny because you eat the same thing in your favorite restaurant, but you just know what you like? Do you work from a checklist well while others find it unnecessary? Is it hard for you to follow exact procedures while others thrive with that expectation? Is multitasking almost a necessity for you while others prefer to do one thing well and then move on to the next task?) When you get together in a group with others of the same style, you will see how accurate and powerful it is.

Your Mind Style will help you see your strengths, challenges, and preferences in a new light. We'll find out how we and others think, feel, and process information. We'll learn more about how to listen and how to speak to be heard. Teachers will learn how to motivate and teach all types of learners. We'll understand what trust looks like to us and others. A new level of self-acceptance is often the result of this training and we'll also more readily see someone's differences as "different" and not "bad." Because we'll learn how to work better with others who are not like us, we'll work together more easily and more effectively.

Principals, college academic deans, missionaries, and pastors have found the training to effectively improve communication among team members and teaching of K-12 students, college students, and adults. Also, because understanding Mind Styles can help us understand past conflicts and present confusions, it can lead to significant healing of emotional pain and personal dysfunction.

This seminar can revolutionize your life success and work effectiveness!

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Audiences: public school teachers, Christian school teachers, homeschool parents, parents, volunteers who work with children/teens in any setting, social workers, counselors/therapists, pastors and church leaders, staff/leadership of non-profit and for-profit companies, and those interested in overcoming past confusions/dysfunction/conflict.

Format: four-hour minimum; a full-day or even 1 1/2-2 days is best.