Wonderful Life Project, LLC provides ten (10) training programs that fall into three general modules. These training programs may be provided either online or face-to-face.

The training topics and key objectives are as follows:

 

Module 1: Be at peace--yet effectively stand up for what is important

 

Topic 1: High quality conflict
Participants learn:

• Communication skills necessary for high quality conflict; emphasis is on listening skills and on identifying the motivational forces driving the conflict

• Dynamics of conflict as well as a “roadmap” they might use to understand the process of conflict

• Tools that can be used to enhance conflict (e.g., softening emotions, reframing)

• How to evaluate the quality of a conflict and how to use past conflicts to improve future conflicts

Topic 2: Grudge busting
Participants learn:

• The difference between forgiving and pardoning

• The cause of conflict

• How to make changes in thinking that will reduce conflict

• How to reduce residual hard feelings and thereby reduce frequency and intensity of future conflict--simple changes can lead to a 50% reduction in conflict

• Tools to use to forgive and to find a sense of peace

 

Module 2: Truly enjoy your life

 

Topic 3: Happiness
Participants learn:

• What does and does not impact happiness (some real surprises)

• Many ways to increase happiness, such as:

  • Making friends

  • Benevolence--the ultimate kindness

  • The power of counting your blessings

• The role that “the pursuit of goodness” plays in enhancing our happiness
   

Topic 4: Trust
Participants learn:

• The essential elements to being trustworthy

• How to build trust, how to destroy trust, and how to rebuild trust

• Relationships exist only to the extent that there is trust

• Trust is an essential element of effective business

• The critical role trust plays in marriage

• Ways to substantially strengthen marriage

Topic 5: Resilience and hope
Participants learn:

• The incredible importance of a positive emotion; the destructive capacity of a negative emotion

• Every strength we have is based on resilience--no resilience, game is over

• Errors that occur in our thinking produce our most intense negative emotions

• Fixing errors in thinking is not especially difficult and has significant benefit

• How to build hope

• How to raise resilient children--the protective factors

Topic 6: Stress management, minimize the destruction 
Participants learn:

• We are not built for the world we live in

• We are experiencing a stress-induced health epidemic

• Stress is our leading cause of poor health

• Stress not only diminishes our health, it diminishes our peace of mind

• Our children are struggling with stress

• We can substantially change the amount of stress we experience--and do so with little effort

 

Module 3: Become exceptional

 

Topic 7: On being a good person
Participants learn:

• We progress through stages as we become increasingly moral--and almost everyone stops somewhere along the way--most of us don’t reach levels of moral reasoning that are available to us

• Many of our disagreements about what is “right” come from being at different levels of moral development

• What science is saying constitutes “good”--and how being good substantially increased our happiness

• Social psychological forces in our world lead us to engage in extremely bad behavior--and good people can very easily be led to engage in evil

Topic 8: Fulfillment 
Participants learn:

• It appears that a great many come to the end of life with a sense of meaninglessness--their lives seem insignificant, they didn't matter

• There are things we can do to reduce the likelihood that we will conclude our lives feeling irrelevant

• The relationship between fulfillment and spirituality (not necessarily religion)

• What can we do to achieve a state of fulfillment

• How the field of economics has changed to reflect greater understanding of people--and that better reflects our desire to make a contribution 

• Why so many employers have identified spirituality as the top “mega-trend”

• Finding a calling at work--and meaningfulness

• The powerful impact on business of understanding people and spirituality

• What can we learn from spiritually exceptional people in our quest for fulfillment

Topic 9: Transformational change
Participants learn:

• Research has shown most change efforts just don’t work

• What the “masters” in history have shown to be the most effective approach to change

• If we are to have a meaningful life, we must transform

• How to make change that is transformational

• How to overcome barriers to transformational change

Topic 10: Strategic plan for your life
Participants learn:

• How to form a strategy for your life so that you can have a meaningful, fulfilling, WONDERFUL life

• How to optimize the time you have left

• How to avoid the “five regrets of the dying”

• How to create a personal mission statement

• How to face the end of rest of your life with anticipation, with hope, with some reasonable degree of delight

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