Sandbox Sessions

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In order to stay fresh and grow professionally, coaches need to break through personal borders by stepping outside of their profession and "popping the lid" on their own creativity. Coaching Sandbox Sessions offer a unique experiential session to evoke new levels of creativity and undiscovered layers of possibilities!

Sandbox sessions will be posted as confirmed.

AIKIDO for the Leadership as Praxis
Omar Osses (South America) - View bio.
Friday, December 4:  2-4 p.m./1400-1600
CCEU:  .75 CC/.75 PD
The aim is to harmonize and energize our bodies, minds, emotions and spirit through different practices in this community of learning from AIKIDO.

The Art of Harmony and Peace:
AI Harmony
KI Energy
DO Way or path
The way to harmonize my energy with everything that surrounds me.

The commitment in Aikido is to be in harmony with oneself and with all that surrounds us.

Principles:

• There are no tournaments in Aikido, the only competition is with oneself.
• I can only practice with another person, caring and helping for the development of the other.

 AIKI Training
Dynamics of experiential learning for non practitioners of the martial art.
The practices will be:
-Centering on stillness and movement;
-Relaxing and energizing breaths;
-Tendency to react and resist vs. Listen to cooperate;
-Listening;
-Breathing practices to engage the emotions;
-Alignment with each other, from cooperation to coordination;
-Focus on conflict versus focus on commitment;
-Meditation in stillness;
-Meditation in motion; and
-Gratitude to facilitate learning.

*We recommend comfortable clothes and shoes for this session.

Laugh all the way to wellness and success! Embrace joy! Celebrate life through Laughter Yoga!
Sophie Terrasse (Canada) - View bio.
Friday, December 4:  2-4 p.m./1400-1600
CCEU:  1.00 CC/1.00 PD
"There is no question that a playfully light attitude is characteristic of creative individuals." - Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience

Restore your energy level - come experience and take away simple skills that will show you how to dramatically, effectively and almost instantly, rejuvenate, relax and clear the mind so that you are fresh and ready to take on your next challenge! No notes, no books, just be there!

Tickle your funny bone, release stress and get a taste of "Laughter for no reason" with this fun, relaxing and rejuvenating workshop - your inner child will take days to settle down!

Stimulate your right brain (the seat of creativity) through practice of one of the six fundamental abilities that, according to Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind, New York Times and Business Week bestseller, are essential for professional success and personal fulfillment: the ability to Play!

In this session you will:

• Learn a brief history and the concept of Laughter Yoga.
• Pre self-assessment - how you feel prior to experiencing Laughter Yoga?
• Laughter Yoga and Gong relaxation (Laugh, Dance, Sing and Play).
• Post self-assessment - how you feel after experiencing Laughter Yoga?
• Discussion - Questions and Answers.
• Tips - How to put more laughter in your daily life and how to laugh alone.
• Laughter boosters for immediate stress relief for you and clients.

Takes Two to Tango - Centrality of the Relationship
John Leary-Joyce (UK) - View bio.
Friday, December 4: 2-4 p.m./1400-1600
CCEU:  .75 CC/.75 PD
"More than anything else, the Tango is about a connection, an empathy between two people, the need to embrace, to be together, and to escape, albeit for just a brief moment of time, and in that moment, to live a life time...Tango must be simply danced, with immense feeling, with a sense of energy flowing between the dancers. This energy grows or decreases as the music ebbs and flows. It is a private conversation, something to be quietly shared, not publicly displayed." Bruno E. Romero - Origins of Argentina Tango

With Tango, as in Coaching, this sensitive flow of communication through movement comes not from techniques but from the quality of contact. In both the leader creates the space where the follower wants to step into. This requires a high degree of personal presence, trust and openness on both sides.

In this presentation John Leary-Joyce will use the Tango partnership as a way of understanding the coaching relationship. He is totally passionate about the dance and a great coach who will introduce you to simple ways to use your body awareness to build rapport and give direction without words. You will experience the essence of leadership and "followership" through the music and steps of the Tango.