Be Your Own Master Lab: Session on Awareness

Be Your Own Master Lab
IE Creativity Day
In collaboration with
Centre for Health, Wellbeing and Happiness

Come regardless of having joined 1st session or not.
First session was Tuesday 1st March 6pm; next session Tuesday 8th March 7-9pm

Session 1: BUILDING THE BUBBLE

The focus is on building a safe environment where students will be likely to express themselves without judgment, welcomed as they genuinely are and so able to connect with who they are. Getting to know one another and the group.

Session 2: AWARENESS

We will explore what prevent us from achieving what we aim for (being these next exams, becoming part of a community or homesickness), what tights us to the past, what makes us not progressing. A cognitive approach will be developed as an avenue to form bonds and understanding burdens.




CONTEXT

IE is not just a University, it is a worldwide referent of training the leaders of the future. In essence, leaders are not solely knowledge about the environment they are part of, they also need to interact with people as much as living with themselves.

Personal fulfillment then is intrinsically related to leadership, as though a CEO of a company not performing satisfactorily or not finding the meaning of life because of social anxiety or existential crisis.

Matter-fact, developing processes that pay attention to deeper ways of understanding human condition has become unavoidable if we were to keep offering resources to guarantee guidance throughout the entire student experience.

PROPOSAL

Challenge what makes you not progressing, being this stress about facing exams, homesickness or a recent loss.


Six face-to-face sessions structured in dynamic and interactive workshops of two hours where a professional in the science of the mind and mental states will guide you through becoming your own master.

Interactive, thought-provoking, private and extremely effective, you will be part of a small group that aims not only reinforcing your individual abilities but your virtues when working in groups too.


WHAT FOR?

Whether we aim achieving a consistent change that lasts, it ought to align all levels in the individuals so that they attain homeostasis -this is being in balance, achieving coherence with ourselves- matter-fact leaving inner struggles behind.

Distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc. blocks the individual while prevents us from moving forward freely. Facing distress is something we can all benefit from.

Grieving process is an interactive approach. First, we have to acknowledge the conflict we want to get rid of -not necessarily negative-. Then, using our body, we allow ourselves to express the emotions attached to that conflict.


By resolving grief, we are releasing blockages from the past, placing ourselves in the present hence being able to look forward to the future. We close in order to open. We welcome new experiences out of personal choice and enjoyment.

HOW?

Individual workshop in wider lab that will go through important pillars like belonging, purpose, storytelling and transcendence.

This proposal connects inner self with the outer world.


WHY?

The professional leading the course knows firsthand the benefits of its results, both in plural audiences and in herself after overcoming significant challenges.

After studying psychology, she lived in several countries and abandoned the profession for many years, without really understanding why, she just knew there was something that stop her from connecting.

Only after facing her challenges out of these processes, she allowed herself to express rage, fear and sadness to ultimately reconciled with her profession -a turning point in both her personal and professional development.

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