Greg, Author at WholeHearted

Workplace Workshops

Greg — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 03:34:44 +0000

Workshops / Seminars / Conferences

Greg Sunter is a skilled presenter and facilitator of group processes. He has a particular talent for leading groups through interactive experiences, individual reflection and quality sharing in small and whole group feedback.

Workshops or seminar presentations provide a ‘taster’ or ‘sampler’ of the more extensive programs offered by WholeHearted.

Potential topics for workshops / presentations include:

Clarifying purpose and integrity
Applying deep listening and asking honest, open questions
Holding paradox and tensions in the face of complexity and uncertainty
Building trustworthy relationships in workplaces
Appreciating the value of “otherness”
Growing capacity through the seasons and cycles of personal and professional change

However, Contact Us to discuss your organisation’s particular needs.

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DISC Advanced for Teams

Greg — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 03:26:54 +0000

DISC is the most widely used behavioural model in the world. The DISC ADVANCED^® Profile is very easy to use and unlike “personality tests” it is designed specifically for use in the workplace.

Common applications for DISC ADVANCED^® profiles in organisations worldwide are:

Organisational Development
Team Building
Communication and Interaction skills training
Conflict Resolution
Coaching
Recruitment
Internal Promotion Selection/Development
Succession Planning

and of course… simply getting the best from your most expensive resource – People.

The DISC ADVANCED^® Profile is a useful tool not only for the individual, but for everyone working with or communicating with that person. Its main purpose is to increase understanding of human behaviour; both our own and others’.

Director of WholeHearted Enterprises, Greg Sunter, is a DISC Advanced^® Accredited Consultant and Facilitator.

Contact Us for information about individual, small group or whole of organisation applications of DISC Advanced^® for training and development or for recruitment processes.

READ ABOUT the advantages of DISC Advanced^®

READ A COMPARISON of DISC Advanced^® and simple DISC profiles

The DISC ADVANCED^® Profile
A profile tool for measuring the person’s behavioural style. The profile provides the following information:

Behavioural style overview
Attributes describing the person
Communication style
Learning style
How the person responds to supervision
How the person prefers to make decisions
What motivates the person
What the person fears
Strengths and weaknesses
Work style tendencies
What type of work environment the person prefers
How the person appears under stress and what they need
Conflict behaviours

The report also has an advanced “application” section providing an array of “what now” tools and tips including:

Tips for others on how to communicate with the subject
Strategies to reduce conflict and increase harmony
Action Plan – worksheets, which enable the subject to create desired change
An overview of the various styles
How to identify another person’s behavioural style
How to adapt to the various styles
How to communicate with the various styles
Identifying tension among the styles
Tension among the styles worksheet
Communication plans with the various styles

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Emotionally Intelligent Workplaces

Greg — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 03:13:36 +0000

Emotionally Intelligent Workplace Behaviour

Who wouldn’t want a higher level of emotional intelligence? Studies have shown that high levels of emotional intelligence boost career success, mental health, relationship satisfaction, humour, and happiness. Higher levels of Emotionally Intelligent Workplace Behaviour is also the best antidote to work stress and building your personal resilience. So can you improve your emotional intelligence and how best is this done?

The competencies of the model below help us consistently demonstrate the productive being states on the right side of the model, as opposed to the unproductive being states on the left, that we can all be at times.

Emotionally Intelligent Workplace Behaviour Assessment

The Genos Emotionally Intelligent Workplace Behaviour survey measures how well you demonstrate emotionally intelligent workplace behaviours in comparison to others. The better you demonstrate the behaviours measured, the more effective your relationships and work should be.

Visit the Genos International site for further details on features of the Assessment Tools and Sample Reports.

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Courage to Care

Greg — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 00:30:31 +0000

Courage to Care

Self-knowledge and effective relationships are the foundations on which good care, quality improvement, and organisational change occur.

Courage to Care programs are designed to help those in human services and caring professions better understand who they are as practitioners and leaders in complex systems and how they affect those around them. Courage to Care programs are developed for both professional and personal growth and renewal.

Participation in our programs will provide you opportunities to cultivate trust in yourself and with others, to animate vision and purpose, and to inspire the courage to act on one’s integrity and values.

Grounded in the truths of your own stories and questions, and guided by the Circle of Trust^® approach based on the work of author and educator Parker J. Palmer, this Courage and Renewal^® Retreat invites you to step with intention into a place apart, to pause from the frenetic pace of your regular days, and to explore in fresh ways the Big Questions of your life – questions of identity, meaning, purpose, and calling.

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The Heart of the Teacher

Greg — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 00:19:55 +0000

The Heart of the Teacher

Designed as an introduction to the Courage to Teach^® retreat program, The Heart of the Teacher is offered as a single, stand-alone day. Offered by WholeHearted as an open to the public event, the program can also be offered within a single school community or across a system of schools.

In large-group, small-group, and solitary settings, the concepts of teacher formation and ‘the heart of a teacher’ are explored, making use of personal stories, reflections on classroom practice, and insights from poets, artists, storytellers, and various wisdom traditions.

The principle at the heart of this approach is that caring, competent, and energised teachers are the indispensable ingredient in school success, and that honouring them and renewing their passion strengthens every effort to improve teaching, learning, and the human connectedness essential to education.

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Let Your Life Speak

Greg — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 00:15:49 +0000

Let Your Life Speak

Let Your Life Speak is a guided reading and discussion program offered as a six-session series offered on a weekly, or monthly, basis. It is an excellent introduction to the writing of Parker Palmer and a very accessible form of small group and individual formation or personal development. The program explores Palmer’s book, Let Your Life Speak, with chapter by chapter reflection using the principles and practices of Courage and Renewal work.

This program can be run within a work team, a school staff or small community setting. The process of reflection and discussion will introduce participants to the principals and practices of the Circle of Trust^® approach as well as introducing them to the engaging writing style of Parker Palmer.

Within the context of this program, participants will explore such concepts as:

Listening to Life
Becoming myself
Leading from within

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The Courage Way

Greg — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 23:53:00 +0000

Leadership demands courage. You have to make good decisions while balancing inevitable tensions and knowing when to take risks. You need to keep your values in sight, regardless of the pressures around you. At its core, leadership is a daily, ongoing practice, a journey toward becoming your best self and inviting others to do the same.

And that’s where The Courage Way comes in. It’s a guide to leadership that shows how to access and draw upon courage in all that you do. It has its roots in the work of Parker J. Palmer, who in fifty years of teaching, speaking, and writing, has explored the human spirit — what he has called “the inner landscape” — and its role in life and leadership.

Five key ingredients are needed to cultivate courage, the most fundamental being trust—in ourselves and in each other. The Courage Way describes how to build trust through the Center for Courage & Renewal’s Circle of Trust^® approach, centered on 11 “touchstones,” poetic and practical operating guidelines for holding the meaningful conversations vital to trust building. Each chapter features true stories of how leaders have overcome challenges and strengthened their organisations through touchstones like: “Extend invitation, not demand”; “No fixing, saving, advising, or correcting”; and “When the going gets rough, turn to wonder.”

A ‘Courage Way’ retreat is an opportunity to explore these key principles and practices of Courage & Renewal work and how they might find expression in your own life and work.

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Courage to Teach

Greg — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 07:36:08 +0000

Courage to Teach^® (CTT) is a program of stand-alone retreats or quarterly retreat series for the personal and professional renewal of educators.

Courage to Teach focuses neither on technique, nor directly on school reform, but rather on renewing the inner lives of professionals in education. CTT was developed by Parker J. Palmer, PhD, and is offered by Courage & Renewal facilitators in North America and Australia.

Courage to Teach:

renews heart, mind, and spirit through the exploration of the inner landscape of a teacher’s life.
reconnects to one’s identity and integrity—identifying and honoring gifts and strengths, and acknowledging limits.
creates a context for careful listening and deep connection that also honors diversity in person and profession.
helps educators create safe spaces and trusting relationships in their schools, with their students and colleagues, and within their communities.
Explores the connection between attending to the inner life of educators and the renewal of public education.

Each CTT group consists of twenty to thirty educators. In large-group, small-group, and solitary settings, “the heart of a teacher” is explored, making use of personal stories, reflections on classroom practice, and insights from poets, storytellers, and various wisdom traditions. Retreats often follow a seasonal theme, using the rich metaphors of the seasons as a way of exploring vocational and life questions.

WholeHearted can offer the Courage to Teach program for a group of schools across a specific system, network or region. Contact us to discuss your specific needs.

To see the next WholeHearted offering of Courage to Teach check out the Upcoming Retreats page or Register Interest in Future Programs.

Courage to Teach^® is a registered trademark of the Center for Courage & Renewal. To find out more…

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The Circle of Trust Approach – Principles & Practices

Greg — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 07:24:36 +0000

If we are willing to embrace the challenge of becoming whole, we cannot embrace it alone — at least, not for long: we need trustworthy relationships to sustain us, tenacious communities of support, to sustain the journey toward an undivided life. Taking an inner journey toward re-joining soul and role requires a rare but real form of community that I call a ‘circle of trust.’

— Parker J Palmer, A Hidden Wholeness (adapted)

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Leadership Programs

Greg — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 05:23:04 +0000

Leadership Programs

WholeHearted leadership programs are grounded in six foundations of trustworthy leadership:

Clarifying purpose and integrity through engaging in the work of an inner journey
Applying deep listening and honest, open questions
Holding paradox and tensions in the face of complexity and uncertainty
Building trustworthy relationships in communities/organisations
Appreciating the value of “otherness”
Growth through seasons/cycles of personal, professional, organisational change

Explore the Six Foundations further: Foundations of Trustworthy Leadership

Meeting your needs!

WholeHearted can custom-design a program for your organisation’s executive and leadership teams. WholeHearted programs assist leaders to live and lead with authenticity and integrity.

AVAILABLE PROGRAMS:

Leading From Within

Let WholeHearted design a stand-alone program for you and your leaders. Programs can be a single day or anything up to a five-day program – depending on your needs, your availability and your budget. Contact us to discuss your organisational needs. Read Parker Palmer’s, Leading from Within, Chapter V of his book, Let Your Life Speak.

Courage to Lead^® Retreat Program

Courage to Lead is a program for leaders from all walks of life and those who aspire to leadership. The aim of the program is to help leaders sustain and renew their passion, enthusiasm and commitment to leadership and to the communities they serve. WholeHearted offers stand-alone Courage to Lead retreats that are open to the public and open to all who identify with the role of ‘leader’. The program can also be run ‘in-house’ for a single organisation. It’s ideal for those in leadership positions or for building a culture of leadership amongst middle managers and aspiring leaders. Find out more about this program.

Courage to Lead^® is a registered trademark of the Center for Courage & Renewal. See more…

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