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Having a listening ear, being able to share the highs and low, asking for advice, sharing new ideas are just some of the benefits of having a mentor. Being a mentor brings many highlights as well. It is a joyful experience to see someone take off and develop the potential of Take Charge. New opportunities for CTRTC trained people can rejuvenate a whole district or area. It opens doors for people. Getting the right support is important.
At best, someone who is Faculty or a CTRTC approved Facilitator who has completed several Take Charge workshops can really help develop new facilitators to do this workshop. Find your mentor on the WGI website an have a go. The rewards are worth it.
Connecting with your mentor on a regular basis over the period of time that you are preparing to facilitate the workshop is very important. If a mentee picks up the material, looks it over once, and then does not connect with his mentor, the process of thinking through the material, how you will teach it, how to structure the activities, when and how much to demonstrate, how much time will you need to allow for each activity, knowing the activities that you intend to use, etc. will halt, get lost in life happenings, and your enthusiasm may wain. Connecting regularly over a several weeks or months period, will keep the process and procedures on your mind. You will also find that you will be much more inclined to set up a date for the workshop and advertise it. Procrastination is not an effective behavior for someone facing the learning curve. Persistence is a much more effect behavior and will get you to your goal feeling more confident and prepared. Join the mentoring process, you’ll be glad you did. Facilitating this workshop will become a highlight in your life each time you provide it. Your participants will surprise you at how much TCOYL changes their lives in only six hours. Dr. Glasser’s concepts and theory are dynamite!
Thank you for asking Kim!
More than about design I am concerned here about the content. If we decide to print cards with 7 habits without mentioning beliefs that serve them I believe that we missed the point. This is not Choice Theory and Glasser didn’t mean that. Any other aproach can come up with the same idea.We shouldn’t ignore the main thing that Glasser invented – Total behavior.
By practicing some activities as for example listening or any other we can change condition of the relationship for the short time but soon or later we will ask for change on the other side if we don’t believe that we are in charge for our happines, not other person.So, I suggest to add also believes (thinking component):
External Control Beliefs that fits to Deadly habbits:
1.My behavior is my response to certain circumstances.
2.My behavior is a response to your behavior and vice versa. I can make you behave the way I want and I believe that this is right and just.
3.My role (my duty and responsibility) is to make you behave the way I want you to behave. I believe that this is right and you should behave that way.Choice Theory Beliefs that fits to Caring Habbits
1.My behavior is my choice in certain circumstances.
2.My beavior is my choice, your behavior is your choice. Your behavior is just an information for me, what will I do with it is my choice and vice versa.
3.My role (my duty and responsibility) is to create conditions by offering you all necessary information. What will you do with it is your choice and your responsibility.Our actions (habbits) in relationships is in accordance with our understanding of human behavior.
I believe that such cards can be usfull no metter of flower and colour.Kim,
I would like to start with one in Education (not limiting it to a university faculty person but, anyone in education) and then add one in mental health next year and the third year, one in business/leadership.We could fine tune as we go because I am sure someone will have a great addition to this plan….
Janet, I think these are great ideas and scholarships would be limited to one per faculty member/year?
Hi Charlotte, you will still pay your dues as you always do at wglasser.com (the US site), not WGI. Some countries had the faculty paying directly to WGI and this did not work out too well. Not much will change at WGI-US.
I guess I don’t understand quite what I’m reading. How would I pay for my membership through my “member organization”? At this point, I go to the website and pay online. That’s the easiest it’s been to renew my membership. What will change?
Love,
CharlotteP.S. Will faculty take the fees at the end of the Basic Intensive and send it to the region? Sorry. I’m confused as to how this would work.
Love,
CharlotteStages are fine and could work well. Our problem with getting things published and accepted is not getting enough input and ideas at the input phase, it is getting them to the committee or group that is writing up the idea in the first place. Once hours of committed work have gone into writing policy or process, tearing it apart and changing every aspect of it at the input level is very discouraging to the ones who have spent time and effort to produce the document. Tweaking or adding considerations that had not been thought of initially is what is expected and welcomed. I am in favor of having members write their changes and present them for consideration at the input phase. Verbal suggestions and vetos at this input stage should be limited.
Basic Reality Therapy Counseling Skills This course was initially designed at the board meeting committee in Oct 2015. It is being detailed and published in draft form in Jan and Feb 2016. The program committee is at work now on the details and if anyone has any suggestions for inclusions, we are open to these at this time. The format has been suggested:
1st segment: 3 days @ 6 hours per day Introduction and basic RT structure and content
2nd segment: 5 days of practicum divided by time in between sessions;2-Practical skills
development and 3- integration of the process.
3rd segment: two days of 6 hrs each: Integration and endorsement with certificate
Certificate in Reality Therapy Counseling Skills is a competency based course.
We are detailing the skills and competency expected for the curriculum.Now that we have the TCOYL workshop organized and operating in many countries, I think we can say that the members of our organization are looking for shorter workshop formats for teaching CT. I like the idea that we retain our basic training structure as an introduction and add new, short workshops that will increase the interest and the skill development of people in various fields of work. Like what Bette suggested on education, with multiple workshop topics and skills. We could design these for all areas of interest: corrections, spirituality, business, health services, social services, parenting, personal wellness. Many of our faculty are teaching these now. I think we need to adopt a promotion of “train the trainers”. Members who have created workshops with specific skills targeted, could be encouraged to become “experts” in their workshop format and train others who would like to teach these skills using the experts’ workshop format. We have the beginning of this process established by a few of our members. I believe the program committee would be elated to have more “experts” step forward.
CEU’s and accreditation is important in the USA and in many other countries. I believe if we could use this in our advertising, we might increase interest in our programs. At present, we can offer continuing credit in only some of our training programs, but not all.
To get accreditation from a variety of professional organizations, we may want to create a research committee to investigate what it would take to be able to offer continuing education credit in different fields and in various countries. I am assuming that our executive director has investigated sources that have been suggested, but there may be individuals in other countries that could lead us to other professional accrediting agencies. This is a big job and not one that we should expect one person to deal with all the investigation and paperwork.
A suggestion for promotion may be to publish in the newsletter a generic thank you to all who have made donations to the endowment and how it has grown over the last year. This would not be a request for people to donate, but a reminder of how important the endowment is to the organization.
First, may I say thank you for the people involved that desired and created this for us! I always appreciate when someone volunteers their time and talents for the good of others!
Second, I would like to say what I like about the card: I like the compactness. I like that we can download it for our business of sharing Choice Theory to others. I like the simple folding card. I like the mustard or yellow part.
Third, suggestions: The flower and color is associated with grieving, loss and domestic violence. The wording on the insert isn’t in balance with each other; for example….where it says, ‘Avoid’ on the left side, it should start with ‘Practice’ on the right…The columns should be in the same order.Thanks for asking our opinion!!
