PowerPoints from the Thrive in Action Foundation Session

Exercise script

Exercise script

This is an audio recording of the five minute practice - Becoming mindful

Chapter 1 of the book Thrive in turbulent times - Acknowledge & Accept

Exercise script

Exercise script

This is an audio recording of the five minute practice - Acknowledge & Accept

Monday Meditation - Soften, relax, release & partner with. This is a meditative exercise, lasting about 20 minutes. This exercise invites you to (1) become present (2) to soften, relax and release and (3) to then partner with a situation or a challenge that you are currently struggling with.

This meditation invites you to practice with the Transformational Presence concept of 'Partnering With' a situation or challenge; seeing it as a message to be listened to, rather than something to be solved or fixed.

Chapter 2 of the book Thrive in turbulent times - Practice presence and stillness

These slides are from the Masterclass. They show the Three Fundamental Questions of Transformational Presence (TP) and the TP Model. They also address how the speed of change has become breath taking. To thrive, we must meet this acceleration in our external world with deceleration in our internal world. Pausing, slowing down, practicing presence and cultivating inner stillness are essential for thriving in these tumultuous times.

This short exercise allows you to experience being present in the here and now and what effect that has on your awareness, what you notice and the information you pick up.

This Transformational Presence exercise invites you to explore who you are ‘being’ while you are doing what you are doing. What is the impact of the quality of your Presence?

Transformational Presence brings the vertical (presence, being) and the horizontal (action, doing) together in partnership for the most appropriate and effective response to what is happening in any particular moment. The key is that presence and awareness come before action. The following exercise can help you physically experience this partnership, through movement. It is also an exercise that can be energising and a great way to either start your day or revitalise yourself, when you are feeling tired or drained.

The Presence-Action Partnership framework helps you to get to both presence and appropriate action quickly.It helps you to recognize that the horizontal needs the vertical (action needs presence) in order to bring any vision to reality, while at the same time, the vertical needs the horizontal (presence needs action).This is a Transformational Presence based framework.

This five minute practice invites you to become fully present and from there, to connect to that point of stillness inside of you. That place in you that is quiet and still and safe. The place that is always there inside of you, even if you sometimes lose connection with it.

This Transformational Presence exercise allows you to experience the partnership of the Vertical Presence or Being and the Horizontal Action or Doing, through physical movement.

This meditation exercise invites you into becoming fully present and connecting with your own point of stillness. From there, you practice applying the Three Fundamental Questions (from Transformational Presence) to a topic that is asking for attention.

This Transformational Presence meditative exercise is a simple yet powerful way to connect with both yourself and with something greater than yourself; through your breath. It is a great way to ground yourself, energize yourself, sharpen your senses, become more alert and at the same time, feel very connected to your surroundings.

Chapter 3 of the book Thrive in turbulent times - Cultivate trust

This Transformational Presence inspired exercise allows you to discover which D(i)SCO level supports you most to cultivate your relationship with trust and to explore your current relationship with trust. In preparation for this exercise, read up on/ introduce the Transformational Presence concept of The Four Levels of Engagement / D(i)SCO.

Reflecting intuitively on how you have moved through and emerged from challenges in your adult life can help you to cultivate trust in yourself and in your capacity to respond to and engage with whatever crosses your path in a way that releases the potential for something new and better. As you go through this reflective exercise, relax, be open and curious. Allow the answers to come to you. You do not have to figure anything out. Even if you don’t quite understand the answers that come, trust that this is what wants to get your attention.

This Transformational Presence inspired exercise is an invitation to explore your own current experience and sense of trust, through the approach of 'space sensing'. To get the most out of this exercise, you need to be able to get up and move around. Consider doing this exercise outside, for an added dimension to your exploration.

Through journaling, this five minute practice encourages you to:- Connect with trust - Be present with trust - Listen to trust - Cultivate your own relationship with trustFor this five minute practice, you will need:- paper - something to write (or draw) with - a timer - 5 minutes of alone time

This short audio meditation supports you to:- Connect with trust - Be present with and in trust - Cultivate your relationship with trustRemember, like everything in life, trust is an energy - energy in motion. Trust is always present as a possibility/ in potential. Practice allowing trust to connect with and be present in you. Let go of your expectations on how it should be or feel or work. Let trust show up to you in its own time and on its own terms. Enjoy this practice!

This meditative exercise invites you to connect with and partner with the energy of trust. Working with a circumstance or project where you would like to cultivate a stronger sense of trust.

Chapter 4 of the book Thrive in turbulent times - Listen to life

These slides are on the theme of listening to life, covering:- The six elements of listening (APRiCoT) - The four levels of listening - What we need to cultivate in order to really listen to life

This Transformational Presence exercise is a simple yet powerful experiential introduction to the capacities and conditions that are required for listening to life.

Many of the old wisdom traditions and teachings spoke of three different intelligences within ourselves. For convenience and clarity, we call them within Transformational Presence: head, heart and belly. Every intelligence gives us different perspectives and insights about situations, challenges and possibilities. The intelligences are all unique and different and, at the same time, inextricably linked.In this Transformational Presence framework, you explore a situation, decision or project you are involved with right now - maybe something where you are feeling some inner conflict, or where you are feeling a bit stuck - maybe something where you would like to gain more clarity and understanding.

Whole-Being Awareness calls on the wisdom and knowledge of the body for insight and guidance. It is amazing how much the body knows – how much we know – if we just slow down enough to pay attention.This Transformational Presence framework is particularly applicable for those times when you feel stuck in a situation or circumstance and/ or you are having difficulty getting past intellectual analysis. In other words, you are thinking too much, may be going around in circles in your mind, and can’t seem to tap into your greater intuitive mind.

This simple five minute practice invites you to work with the Three Fundamental Questions from the Transformational Presence approach, to listen to life. These questions help you to tune in to what the activities and projects of your day are asking of you.

This meditative exercise is an invitation to listen to life, tuning in to: - An opportunity or challenge - A goal or tangible project - A relationship that is important to youClosely based on the Transformational Presence exercise 'Letting Life Talk To You"

This Transformational Presence based meditative exercise invites you into a dialogue with your future self.You will work with a challenge, a problem, an issue where you feel stuck or some inner conflict, or maybe just a topic where you would love to have some more clarity and wisdom.

This Transformational Presence based meditative exercise invites you into a dialogue with your three intelligences: Your head, your belly (or gut) and your heart.You will work with a circumstance that may be challenging you, or where you perhaps feel some (inner) conflict, or with something where you would like more clarity. You can also work with a situation where you are feeling stuck, or where you know exactly what to do, but you are just not taking that action.

Thrive in turbulent times: Book chapter 5 - Choose your response and chapter 6 - release the potential in the drama.

PowerPoints from the Enrichment Session - Release the potential in the drama

This Transformational Presence exercise allows you to explore (the potential in) a topic using the D(i)SCO framework in a space sensing way

This Transformational Presence framework helps us to discover the Potential in a situation where there is duality, opposing approaches or conflict. It is a simple and powerful way to help us connect with the Potential beyond the tension of duality, conflict and drama.It is easy to get caught in an either-or perspective when facing challenges and decisions. However the tension itself points to there being something that we are not yet sensing and seeing – something beyond our current thought process.This framework helps us to sense into something beyond our current imagination or thought process.

This Transformational Presence exercise offers a way to sense into and identify the potential in a situation or project, using space sensing.

This practice helps you to create a kind inner space of awareness for yourself, when you notice that you have become entangled in your circumstances.When things are tough, or we are triggered, we often react from a place of conditioned, knee-jerk reaction. Entangled! This is very human.Creating a kind space of inner awareness, can help us to shift to a place of conscious response. Engaged, no longer entangled.

In order to release the potential in the drama/ in your circumstance, it is necessary to first create a sense of conscious inner space - detangling from what's happening so that we can engage from a place of response, rather than conditioned, knee-jerk reaction. This meditative exercise invites you to explore and shift from:- Being entangled with your external world (conditioned reaction) to - Being engaged with what's happening (enabling conscious response) to - Taking effective action in the form of next steps

Chapter 7 of the book Thrive in turbulent times - Relax, you don't have to believe everything you think.

These PowerPoint slides summarise what we work on in this month's Masterclass and introduce you to the ASK process for working with unhelpful, unsupportive and undermining thoughts and beliefs

This five minute practice is linked to this month's theme of Thought Mastery. It applies the first step of the three step 'ASK' process that we work with in the programme masterclass. I call it a brain dump. It takes just three minutes. Give it a go daily, for just 10 days and discover how it can serve you.

This five minute practice invites you to work with the Three Fundamental Questions from the Transformational Presence approach to life and leadership. These three questions can be a powerful guide, supporting you to sense in to the potential in your circumstances and then bring that potential in to form (concrete reality) by consciously choosing how you will show up to your challenge and what next step you will take.

Your breath is a simple yet powerful tool for connecting you with the present moment and with your physical self. Noticing the qualities your breath - its tempo, rhythm and whether it is shallow or deep - can give you a sense of how you are right now. Your breath can also tell you more.... in this meditative exercise we will explore this.At the end of the exercise we shift into a moment of self-care, also through the breath.

This Transformational Practice mindful practice and discovery exercise invites you to work with something that you want to let go of. This could be a feeling, emotion, thought, belief or desire.

Chapter 8 of the book Thrive in turbulent times - Engage with emotions as a powerful source of information

These PowerPoint slides summarise what we work on in this month's Masterclass and introduce you to the PATH process for engaging with emotions as a powerful source of information

This exercise is based on the Transformational Presence framework ‘The Body Knows’.This version of the exercise offers you a way to engage with your emotion as a powerful source of information, through your body and your Whole-Being Awareness. You invite your emotion to mould your body in to a posture and then allow the emotion to move (through) your body.In this case, your body is the vehicle through which your emotion can show you what really matters to you, what you value, what you need, what your emotion wants you to know (message, learning, potential for growth, maybe even liberation).

This simple and mindful 5-minute practice is on the theme of emotions. You may like to do this daily for the next week to ten days. The exercise invites you to be present with and allow the emotion(s) that are showing up with you. And form there, to then both ask and give yourself what you need.Enjoy the practice!

This meditative practice is based on the Buddhist loving kindness meditation. You are first invited to connect with your own authentic power, your own true self, your magnificence. From there you are invited to connect with and see the magnificence and greatness of others, including a dear friend or intimate partner, people you work with and even someone you have a conflict with. This is a powerful and potentially healing exercise, inviting you to sense beyond behaviours and what you do or don't like about people, to connect with the truth of their heart, their light and their greatness.

This is an audio recording of the five minute practice - Becoming mindful

This is an audio recording of the five minute practice - Acknowledge & Accept

This five minute practice invites you to become fully present and from there, to connect to that point of stillness inside of you. That place in you that is quiet and still and safe. The place that is always there inside of you, even if you sometimes lose connection with it.

Through journaling, this five minute practice encourages you to:- Connect with trust - Be present with trust - Listen to trust - Cultivate your own relationship with trustFor this five minute practice, you will need:- paper - something to write (or draw) with - a timer - 5 minutes of alone time

This short audio meditation supports you to:- Connect with trust - Be present with and in trust - Cultivate your relationship with trustRemember, like everything in life, trust is an energy - energy in motion. Trust is always present as a possibility/ in potential. Practice allowing trust to connect with and be present in you. Let go of your expectations on how it should be or feel or work. Let trust show up to you in its own time and on its own terms. Enjoy this practice!

This simple five minute practice invites you to work with the Three Fundamental Questions from the Transformational Presence approach, to listen to life. These questions help you to tune in to what the activities and projects of your day are asking of you.

This practice helps you to create a kind inner space of awareness for yourself, when you notice that you have become entangled in your circumstances.When things are tough, or we are triggered, we often react from a place of conditioned, knee-jerk reaction. Entangled! This is very human.Creating a kind space of inner awareness, can help us to shift to a place of conscious response. Engaged, no longer entangled.

This five minute practice is linked to this month's theme of Thought Mastery. It applies the first step of the three step 'ASK' process that we work with in the programme masterclass. I call it a brain dump. It takes just three minutes. Give it a go daily, for just 10 days and discover how it can serve you.

This five minute practice invites you to work with the Three Fundamental Questions from the Transformational Presence approach to life and leadership. These three questions can be a powerful guide, supporting you to sense in to the potential in your circumstances and then bring that potential in to form (concrete reality) by consciously choosing how you will show up to your challenge and what next step you will take.

This simple and mindful 5-minute practice is on the theme of emotions. You may like to do this daily for a week to ten days, to explore and discover the value it may hold form you. The practice invites you to be present with and to allow the emotion(s) that are showing up with you. And form there, to then both ask yourself and give yourself what you need.Enjoy the practice!

Monday Meditation - Soften, relax, release & partner with. This is a meditative exercise, lasting about 20 minutes. This exercise invites you to (1) become present (2) to soften, relax and release and (3) to then partner with a situation or a challenge that you are currently struggling with.

This meditation invites you to practice with the Transformational Presence concept of 'Partnering With' a situation or challenge; seeing it as a message to be listened to, rather than something to be solved or fixed.

This Transformational Presence exercise allows you to experience the partnership of the Vertical Presence or Being and the Horizontal Action or Doing, through physical movement.

This meditation exercise invites you into becoming fully present and connecting with your own point of stillness. From there, you practice applying the Three Fundamental Questions (from Transformational Presence) to a topic that is asking for attention.

This Transformational Presence meditative exercise is a simple yet powerful way to connect with both yourself and with something greater than yourself; through your breath. It is a great way to ground yourself, energize yourself, sharpen your senses, become more alert and at the same time, feel very connected to your surroundings.

This meditative exercise invites you to connect with and partner with the energy of trust. Working with a circumstance or project where you would like to cultivate a stronger sense of trust.

This meditative exercise is an invitation to listen to life, tuning in to: - An opportunity or challenge - A goal or tangible project - A relationship that is important to youClosely based on the Transformational Presence exercise 'Letting Life Talk To You"

This Transformational Presence based meditative exercise invites you into a dialogue with your future self.You will work with a challenge, a problem, an issue where you feel stuck or some inner conflict, or maybe just a topic where you would love to have some more clarity and wisdom.

This Transformational Presence based meditative exercise invites you into a dialogue with your three intelligences: Your head, your belly (or gut) and your heart.You will work with a circumstance that may be challenging you, or where you perhaps feel some (inner) conflict, or with something where you would like more clarity. You can also work with a situation where you are feeling stuck, or where you know exactly what to do, but you are just not taking that action.

In order to release the potential in the drama/ in your circumstance, it is necessary to first create a sense of conscious inner space - detangling from what's happening so that we can engage from a place of response, rather than conditioned, knee-jerk reaction. This meditative exercise invites you to explore and shift from:- Being entangled with your external world (conditioned reaction) to - Being engaged with what's happening (enabling conscious response) to - Taking effective action in the form of next steps

Your breath is a simple yet powerful tool for connecting you with the present moment and with your physical self. Noticing the qualities your breath - its tempo, rhythm and whether it is shallow or deep - can give you a sense of how you are right now. Your breath can also tell you more.... in this meditative exercise we will explore this.At the end of the exercise we shift into a moment of self-care, also through the breath.

This Transformational Practice mindful practice and discovery exercise invites you to work with something that you want to let go of. This could be a feeling, emotion, thought, belief or desire.

This meditative practice is based on the Buddhist loving kindness meditation. You are first invited to connect with your own authentic power, your own true self, your magnificence. From there you are invited to connect with and see the magnificence and greatness of others, including a dear friend or intimate partner, people you work with and even someone you have a conflict with. This is a powerful and potentially healing exercise, inviting you to sense beyond behaviours and what you do or don't like about people, to connect with the truth of their heart, their light and their greatness.