The What's Next?! Workshop is series of progressive classes designed to help you live the life you want from your connected, essential self. Each series takes place over a period of months, with supportive exercises and tools to practice between classes. All participants sign up and attend the *entire series of classes, as each day builds upon the last, encouraging progressive growth along the way. While the program has a general outline, the facilitator will tailor each gathering to the participants attending - allowing the flexibility of not enforcing a strict agenda.
Full class days will typically begin at 9am and end at 6pm, although some days may run a bit longer. A description of each daily theme is listed below. For all classes you are encouraged to dress comfortably with freedom of movement.
As part of the program, you will receive "homework" each month via email. Because
the structure of these
classes is not "carved in stone," the at-home exercises will be catered to your
specific group. Each homework email will detail any items you should
bring with you to the next class and offer you ways to try-on and
practice tools between classes. On class days, we'll have a break for lunch and you may bring your own or purchase food at a local eatery. For a couple of classes we may decide to eat together as a group. If this is the case, you'll be notified in advance. Light snack foods will be available during the day for your convenience.
I encourage your personal growth and look forward to working with you!
-Joanne Lutz
Creator of the What's Next?! Workshop programs
Listen to Jamie Thurber and Joanne Lutz discuss "why a six month series"
Summer Intensive 2011 Workshop Dates
Autumn 2011-2012 Workshop Dates
Welcome Evening
Setting the Stage
Have you ever had a moment when everything felt “just right?” Experienced a moment of feeling clear and peaceful – no discord in your mind or body? A time when everything seemed to line up? Throughout your life, you probably have had many of these moments, though you may be just beginning to intentionally recognize them. Together we will solidify accessing the core strength that allowed and created those moments. This is the "super highway" to your essential self.
Day 1
Everything you need is within you
Once you know how to connect with your essential energy, you begin to know deeply the journey of accepting and understanding that everything you need is inherently within. You'll notice the stories you've created about being defined by the actions of others, while creating a physical manifestation of the energy and passion the resides within you - a resource that can be tapped into at any time.
Day 2
Discover your gifts
Building on Day 1, you will embrace your personal gifts, those capabilities you might take for granted but likely use every day. By identifying, appreciating, and acting from these gifts, you express the manifestation of your core strength in the world, and begin to trust and take advantage of what your essential self already knows.
Day 3
What gets in the way of your gifts?
What if you approached the world
through your gifts in every endeavor? Why don’t you? As you learn to appreciate
your gifts, you also begin to understand those habits, approaches,
fears, and set-ups that keep you from acting from your places of
strength, that keep you from acting with clarity, compassion, and
connection. In this class, we will hone in on where the gifts are getting blocked, and practice gliding back to our core inherent strengths that allow us to move through and continue to grow.
Day 4
Feeling the flow
Day 4 builds on the honing process of Day 3, going deeper into uncovering and understanding the blocks and learning how to remove them from your path. Like a river with much silt that keeps the water from flowing, on this day, you’ll continue to dredge the riverbed allowing your life to flow. And from this place of flow, What's Next?! naturally emerges.
Day 5
Integrating
We’ve done a lot of work to this point—getting to better know the core strengths and undeniable essential energy, apprecitating and using your unique gifts, deeply understanding what gets in the way, and taking steps through. On this day, you’ll further integrate all that you’ve discovered along the way, pointing your energy toward What’s Next?!
Day 6
What's Next?!
On this final day, we’ll look fully toward the individual paths that stretch beyond the borders of this series. How will you step forward into your life? Here, you can choose to begin or continue the path of your life to what’s waiting for you—to What’s Next?!
Like anything, you will get out of this workshop series as much as you put into it, and choosing to practice and integrate what you’ve learned between sessions will support your forward movement and expansion into What’s Next?!
*Missed Classes
Each participant is expected to attend all classes in sequence. If a class is missed, it must be made up and an additional fee will apply. Make up classes must be coordinated with the facilitator directly. If you know in advance that you will miss a class, please discuss this with the facilitator prior to registering. No make up classes are available for the Welcome Evening, Day 1 or Days 5 and 6 - group attendance is mandatory for these sessions.
