Birthing a workshop...

In 2006, the notion of what What's Next?! Workshop started bubbling.  In 2007, co-creators, Joanne Lutz, Jamie Thurber, and Walter Bacigalupo spent eight months developing and living the teachings of the series.  The process was an important part of their personal and professional growth, as they: discovered their personal gifts, learned what gets in the way of those gifts, and allowed those unique talents to manifest in the world – exactly what every participant has the opportunity to experience. 

Joanne explains, "While creating the series, we practiced the work in our own lives.  We discovered that Walter is an 'inventor.'  As such, his role in brainstorming and shaping the series was invaluable.  Jamie's 'musical intuition' and appreciation for intimacy within groups, supported the first two series through his gentle co-leadership, and he helped set the stage for future workshops.

My own pioneer energy helped to birth the series and holds a space of expansion and growth for What's Next?! Workshop, and the associated programs.  I have felt the energetic importance and impact of this program long before the first participant ever signed up.  It lives within me, and I’m excited to continue sharing it." 

Of the three creators, Joanne Lutz is the sole program facilitator.  She specializes in working with clients making a transition, both in her private coaching practice, Third Option Coaching, and through a variety of workshops.  Joanne recognizes that we all get pulled off course, day to day, moment to moment; she specializes in helping you connect with your essential self and the unique gifts that manifest from the core of you.  When you learn to identify and "be" in your essential self, you discover a process of gliding.  Gliding allows you to come back to who you truly are in any moment, even when you've been pulled away or distracted by potent memories and current happenings.  It is the essential self who can take the active steps to your personal What's Next?!  Joanne is a graduate of the Institute for Conscious Counseling and Coaching, and in 2008 she founded The Consciousness Collaborative, a network of practitioners guiding clients toward greater personal awareness.

As a true testament to the program, Walter participated in What's Next?! as one of the class members in the spring of 2010.  Read what he had to say about the experience. 

Listen to an interview excerpt with Joanne Lutz and Jamie Thurber - "How What's Next?! Workshop started."