SELF DISCOVERY

Objective: Participants get to know themselves. They acquire more trust in themselves, more self-confidence. Time: 1h 30 min Session flow:
Outline GTKEO Intro Time 5 10 Content Why did you join this session? Session Objectives & Flow Reading Jacob-Story Thats what the session will be about Knowing 1. Body: Close your eyes, feel your body.... 2. What we/others think we are etc. 3. Value Checklist 4. One sentence I would like to be remembered for Trusting 1. What makes me unique? Snowflake 2. TMI-Questionnaire 3. Circle-Game One thing you like about every person 4. Love-Paper 1. Think of sth you have a strong negative reaction. Revisit this and identify at leas three qualities you appreciate. Discuss about it. 2. Brainstorm What do we limit ourselves by? (Open mind Env. 36 Blue 1) 3. Opportunities you missed Why? 48 excuses (J 12) 4. Opportunities I have now. Choose one out of them. Tell it to the others. 5. Go back to 1.2. Does it fit with who I want to be? 1. The way to success - Think about the chosen opportunity. Helping vs. hindering forces 2. How can you strengthen the helping and remove the hindering forces? 3. Plan how you want to achieve it. - Isnt it obvious? 6. No? - How to encourage yourself 7. How to kill your path to success Conclusion: 7 Behaviors for success

1. Knowing&Trusting Youself

45

Delay 2. Opportunities

3. Planning for success

Wrap-up & Closing

Evaluation & Feedback

INTRODUCTION
A young man anxious to make his point stood snapping his fingers and turning his head from side to side. Look Jacob, he said without waiting to see if he had Jacobs attention, Im not so much of a thinker. I like to do things. I want to be somebody. - Doing is the way we use action to hide the character we are being, said Jacob. - That may be true for some people, said the young man, but to me life is magic! I need action! - All of us are magicians, said Jacob, [...] - Well, said the young man, at least Im not like my grandfather. He sits with his shin resting on his cane, doing nothing for hours. I have my whole life in front of me. - You do have your life in front of you, said Jacob, and yet life is an experience not only of breath but of depth. As you grow older, the game of life goes inside, makes room for memory. This interior life is no less real, and in some ways more private, more yours. But, said the young man, what do you think my grandfather spends so much time thinking about? - Maybe he is thinking about you. - About me? - Yes, said Jacob, maybe hes worried that his grandson is lying only on the surface of life, and he wonders when youll come inside. From Jacobs Journey by Noah Benshea

KNOWING & TRUSTING YOURSELF

FEELING YOUR BODY Did you feel it? How did it feel? What did you feel?

WHO

AM

I? What/who others think I am?

Who/what I think I am?

What/who am I really?

What/who do I want others to think I am?

MY VALUES

W O R D /S E N T E N C E

I WOULD

LIKE TO BE REMEMBERED F OR:

WHAT

MAKES ME UNIQUE?

WHAT

DO OTHER PEOPLE LIKE

No snowflake falls in an inappropriate place Zen Saying ABOUT ME?

Its bullshit when people say that ego is a bad trip. It is the only trip. You are who you are because of your ego. Without it, nothing counts. John Cassavetes

OPEN

YOUR

MIND

- OPPORTUNITIES
Life is an opportunity and not an obligation. From The Tao of Leadership by John Heider

THINK ABOUT R E V I S I T T H I S

SOMETHING/SOMEONE YOU DISLIKE: AND IDENTIFY AT LEAT THREE

________________________ QUAL IT I ES Y OU APPR ECIAT E:

WHAT

DO

LIMIT MYSELF BY?

OPPORTUNITIES I

MISSED

- WHY

DID

MISS THEM?

OPPORTUNITIES I

DO HAVE NOW

Everything we do - or leave undone - makes a difference in the world.

FACING

THE

OPPORTUNITIES

WHAT Helping

IS

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success. Eddie Cantor HELPING/ HIND ERIN ME TO FACE MY OPORTUNITY? Hindering

How can I strengthen the heping and remove the hindering forces?

MY

PATH TO SUCCESS

- TAKING

MY OPPORTUNITY, STEP BY STEP.

YOURE

STUCK?

- HOW

TO ENCOURAGE YOURSELF?

Review/revisit outcomes regularly. Ensure they are still valid. Find a way to make outcomes quantifiable. Measure and record my progress. Celebrate small wins. Picture myself achieving what I want. Find other people to support me. Step back to gain perspective.

Zeus does not bring all mens plans to fulfillment Homer HOW
T O K I L L Y O U R P A T H T O S U C C E S S ...

- Keep telling yourself I cant do that. - Every time you have a new idea, tell yourself It probably wont work. - Tell yourself Nobody wants to hear my opinion.

Tell yourself I wont be able to do it again. Blame others. Dont admit your dreams ... even to yourself. Live only in your dreams, out of touch with reality. Think win/loose. Avoid thins that make you feel good. Focus only on the short term.

1. Explore, open up and search - Learn to think differently and take different perspectives. - Look for options, alternatives and opportunities. 2. Be clear about your values - Focus on whats important. - Make sure your behavior is consistent with your intention. 3. Clarify what you want to achieve - Visualize what you want to create or achieve. - Become a leader in achieving this. 4. Do what you have decided to do - Harness your personal energy. - Make and keep personal commitments. 5. Build trust - Be trustworthy. Trust yourself. - Trust first. Build trusting relationships. 6. Listen to others, seek to understand them - Ask open questions, listen, share. - See and feel things as if you were the other person. 7. Re-invent and renew yourself. - Take time to be in touch with your real self. Love yourself. - Take care of your body, your emotions, your mind, your spirit.

Follow your dreams