Purpose
Enable participants to identify their personality challenges, choose challenges that attract and excite them, and support steps to overcome them.
The question that guides us: how can we make turn our mind into a useful mind – a mind which is helpful for us rater than sabotaging us? How can we make it operate optimally? How can we shape our personality to help us succeed?
What are personality challenges?
Each of us has strengths and weaknesses. There are areas where it is easy for us because we have high level skills, and there are other areas that are more difficult for us. For example, some people find it easy to stand on a stage and give a speech and others are paralyzed by fear.
We all have character traits that support us and empower us, such as courage, resourcefulness, patience, and generosity, but we also have harmful patterns such as procrastination, worry, shame, complacency, and addictions.
So our personality challenges are the harmful patterns that we want to overcome, and replace them with empowering patterns. Also, life areas that are difficult for us – there it would be worthwhile for us to overcome the difficulty.
How do we do it?
Our personality is not fixed, and can be changed. It is definitely possible to replace weakening patterns with strengthening patterns and develop our self. But how can we do it? For this we need knowledge and a group.
Knowledge: We can learn to understand our “operating system”: how our mind operates, what our thoughts are based on, what causes our emotions and behavior. We can learn how to identify our patterns and habits, how to fix the “bugs” in the mind, and how to adopt new behaviors and approaches that benefit us.
Group: We can collaborate as a group, overcoming together the difficulty of doing it alone, especially regarding patterns that we have been stuck in for a long time. We also have “blind spots” that only others can see about us, and they can recognize when we are telling ourselves excuses. Also, in areas such as social interaction, relationships, and connection to something greater than ourselves, it is impossible to develop alone but only through study and practice with other people.
What happens at the meeting?
We do a variety of exercises:
- Helping each other identify our positive qualities and our helpful patterns, and also our challenges, the debilitating patterns, and the “bugs” we have.
- Out of all the possible directions of development, we identify the directions that feel most excited about: “What challenge will lead me to a result that inspires me positively and I can feel enthusiastic about?” When we develop enthusiasm about new possibilities that open up to us, energy arises in us that propels us to action and desired results.
- With empathy, sensitivity, courage, and honesty, we playfully challenge each other. Those who ask for feedback and ask to be challenged, get it from the group.
- We examine what barriers we have that no longer serve us, and stem from restrictive social norms that we have absorbed from the environment through negative judgment, shame, guilt, and fear. We don’t take anything for granted and explore for ourselves what really suits us.
We have an Iron Rule: No one has to do anything at any stage. Although it is only outside of our comfort zone that our greatest development can take place, but we need to respect each person’s own pace. That’s why we don’t push anyone to do anything, but just give the support that is being asked.
Benefits
When we work to develop our personality, we have a more positive perception of ourselves, a better feeling about who we are. We have a greater sense of competence about life. Self-development contributes to a sense of meaning, that we have purpose and direction in life. And of course, when we transform ourselves into a more powerful personality, we will also achieve better external results.
Common questions
Who is the workshop for?
The workshop is designed for people who want to develop to the next level in their lives in terms of their personality and the results they manage to create for themselves. The workshop is an excellent way to connect with people with a similar approach to learn and collaborate.
I’m not sure I want to share such personal things with strangers.
It is completely understandable that we want to share personal things only with people we know, feel comfortable with and trust. Therefore, everyone in the group progresses at a pace that suits them. Over time, people get to know each other and naturally share more.
I have enough challenges in life, why should I look for more?
Of course, you don’t have to look for additional challenges beyond the ones you already have. However, it’s useful to learn how to look at the external challenges from the perspective of internal personality challenges, because what is really important is to what extent your personality knows how to deal with life circumstances beyond your control. The meetings can help you in a variety of ways to develop abilities to better cope with life’s challenges.