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How is structured?
The workshop is structured in 4 part sessions, or modules. Each module is 2.5 to 3 hours.
At the end of each session participants are given some areas to reflect upon which are addressed at the beginning of each subsequent module.
The first module involves identification of projects and businesses that participants are engaged in or desire to create; the session continues by encouraging spontaneous feedback from participants about their fun factor, encouraging them to articulate and get clarity on what inspires and motivates them.
Usually it starts with specific events and activities and moves forward into atmospheres and the presence of certain elements.
Next the group delves into examination of skills, habits, talents and abilities, both common ones and underlying ones that may have been identified as excessive or limited. Specific techniques to stimulate recognition of these is one of Kass’s talents.
This first module ends with a re-examination of some of the projects initially identified, adding to the list some of the joys initially identified, and some of the talents initially identified.
The second module looks into business and the various components of project structure, roles and characteristics involved in projects and businesses development.
This tool is quite interactive and Kass stimulates the articulation of useful and unique feedback from participants which helps move the conversations forward in a highly interactive way.
Their knowledge about business, based on life experiences, gives clarity about what is important in general and to each person in particular and provides a platform for the following module. Participants discover talents that they did not recognize that they had.
The third module is the opening phase of project development and presentations. This involves identifying projects and roles that participants are not familiar or comfortable with, inviting them to engage with one group in a new and unfamiliar role and giving feedback afterwards.
Kass visits the various groups and helps them move forward identifying their targets as representative of a particular role.
Later speed dating sessions are used, and the brilliance of each participant’s contribution to different projects is astonishing.
The session ends with a recap of the various roles in different businesses and reviewing previously known and newly discovered talents of each participant.
The fourth module involves preparing and delivering a presentation of the key selected projects: an initial description of the project, and a call to action from the project director launches the discussion by group participants from the perspective of a role they are comfortable in.
Suggestions are made by Kass during the group meeting concerning the elements required to present the project at the end of the module in a way that is understandable to an unknown audience.
At the end of the class each group presents the project that they have elaborated together based on their skills and interest.
The session ends with a recap of the various sessions and some inspirational tips and connections for participants to continue the journey.
Participants are invited to join follow up sessions which elaborate different topics and talent training with special guests in the following weeks.
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