"Finding Your Flow"

Benefits of the Finding Your Flow Workshop Include:

• Achieving a broad awareness of the many factors to peak performance and flow

• Identifying the "Critical Factors" of flow within any "Meaningful Life Arena"

• Setting achievable goals and developing action plans towards your "one thing"

• Developing the ability to be your own best performance coach

• Re-using the "Finding Your Flow" model for a lifetime personal development and excellence

• Setting the foundation for all your future personal development training

Formats Offered:

• 1-hour Keynote Session
• 2-hour Mini Training Session
• 5-hour Full Training Session

Program Description:

Flow theory has been used for more than 30 years to describe states of full engagement, peak performance, and joyful living. The components of flow suggest that being at your best includes a combination of variables and "life strategies" that can be understood and mastered, giving individuals a greater opportunity to be in flow and discover one’s potential in a variety of "meaningful life arenas." This 5-hour session will combine both the theoretical and the practical by first reviewing the traditional components of flow, followed by a discussion of the more than 150 strategies that can be used to advance one’s performance and effectiveness. During the 5-hour session, each participant will have an opportunity to take a personal flow assessment (an "internal 360") to identify strengths and weaknesses for cultivating one’s high performance or flow strategies. Using a number of experiential exercises, each participant will have an opportunity to discover the "critical factors" of their own performance, work in teams to develop an action plan, and apply new "flow strategies" to the important arenas in their lives.

Even more important, each participant will begin to develop the self-awareness necessary to recognize the key factors most important to them as they pursue future knowledge, skills, and strategies designed to advance their personal effectiveness.

Purpose or Goal:
To provide each student with the background of flow theory followed by practical insights that will lead each participant to discover his/her own "critical factors" or "keys" to replicating flow in everyday life.

Finding Your Flow Course Outline

The Flow Experience

1. Understanding the nature of Flow

The Personal Excellence Model

1. Moving through Unconscious Incompetence to Unconscious Competence. From no awareness to self-mastery.

The "Finding Your Flow" Model

1. From self-awareness, choice, proaction, to habit formation and back again. This model suggests a way to view your personal development

A Contrast of Experience—Experiencing Flow

1. From your worst day to your peak experiences. Notice the difference in these experiences to identify personal moments of flow and how they instruct you personally.

The Traditional Components of Flow

1. The nine components of flow. How they serve you

Experiencing Flow through Juggling

1. This exercise demonstrates the power of flow theory in a fun and engaging manner. 

Expanding Awareness:
Understanding the "Critical Factors" of Performance

1. Recognize that being at your best is comprised of dozens, if not hundreds of "Flow Factors". Get acquainted with these factors to increase self-awareness.

Identifying your "Flow Factors" (Assessment Exercise)

1. More than 50 questions assess your current level of Flow development. Use this exercise to begin identifying your core strengths and weaknesses.

Conducting a Personal "Force-Field" Analysis

1. In conjunction with the assessment exercise, this exercise helps you identify the important factors that contribute to and hinder your performance progress.

Building your "Flow Formula"

1. Using the assessment and "Force-Field" Analysis exercises, attendees identify the most important factors when taking the next steps in personal mastery.

Identifying Personal Strategies

1. Once core strengths and weaknesses are identified, it is important to translate good intentions into measurable results. In this phase of the workshop, each participant will work with a partner to develop a clear and precise set of strategies to take performance to the next level.

Charting a Personal Action Plan

1. Specific commitments are made with one another to clarify SMART Goals and objectives.

Becoming Your Own Best Coach

1. By using the "Finding Flow" process each participant will recognize that they are their own best coach—giving them the skills and impetus to re-visit the "Critical Factors" and developing a flexible, yet compelling life-long learning plan.