Why TransformationalWorkshops?

We are lifelong learners, … Anchored in transformational learning theory, Transformational Workshops provide a scientific framework for inner exploration and empowerment. The workshops are carefully tailored and delivered to promote perceptual and even paradigm shifts, followed by changes in attitudes and behaviors.

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    "Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them."
    ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
    "Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them."
    ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
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    Transformational Workshops
    Workplace Solutions
    "More and more companies will rise or fall based on the collective inner qualities of their employees."
    ― Doc Childre & Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
    "More and more companies will rise or fall based on the collective inner qualities of their employees."
    ― Doc Childre & Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
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    Education Institutions
    "I can foresee a day when education will routinely include inculcating essential human competencies such as self-awareness, self-control, and empathy."
    ― Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence
    "I can foresee a day when education will routinely include inculcating essential human competencies such as self-awareness, self-control, and empathy."
    ― Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence

About Transformational Workshops

Adults are lifelong learners, on a permanent voyage of self-knowledge and self-actualization to address pressing societal demands or personal quests such as one’s purpose and meaning of existence. Anchored in transformational learning theory, Transformational Workshops provide a scientific framework for inner exploration and empowerment by bridging the gap between rationality and emotions. The workshops are carefully tailored and delivered to assist adult learners from all walks of life in discovering and integrating their amazing cognitive and affective abilities towards becoming conscious co-creators in all aspects of their existence, whether personal of professional. Transformational Workshops test existing paradigms and may result in perceptual shifts that stimulate changes in attitudes and behaviors.

What is Transformational Learning?

One of the centerpieces of adult learning theory, transformational learning focuses on fundamental worldview changes freeing individuals from unquestioned beliefs and assumptions that may often be unfavorable or disadvantageous. This process of perspective transformation implicates cognitive, affective, and conative dimensions. Belief system alteration is accompanied by concrete action and behavioral changes. Profound perspective reconstruction usually results from life crisis or major challenges, or ‘disorienting dilemmas.’ But why wait for such predicaments when perceptual shifts can also be ignited in adult educational settings through the transformational learning approach? Thus, the proposed workshops are intended to serve as a conduit for transformational learning experiences.

About the Founder

Mihaela Cosma, Ed.S, is a visionary educator engaging adults in transformative learning towards the full expression of the human potential. She has 20+ years of experience in higher education and basic education for adults – teaching, designing curriculum, and developing and managing programs. Mihaela is also a certified resilience/self-regulation trainer, who combines her passion for teaching and learning with her experience in instructional design to bring scientifically validated self-development tools to individuals, communities, and organizations. Initiated in several practices associated with old spiritual traditions, Mihaela enjoys cross-referencing science and spirituality.

WORKSHOPS FOR THE MODERN LIFE

Engaging adults in transformational learning towards the full expression of the human potential



Effective Affective

There is a growing body of scientific research on the heart-brain connection and the relationship between our affective and cognitive functions. Emotions, feelings, moods, and attitudes, collectively known as the ‘affective’ dimension, play a crucial role in our daily functioning and performance. In this workshop, participants learn how the affective can drive brain activity into chaos or coherence, with dramatic consequences on the ability to think clearly, plan and achieve goals, find solutions, interact with, and relate to others. The workshop provides a practical, research-based framework of self-regulation and empowerment towards optimal functioning and self-actualization. Participants develop plans to cope and thrive in various life circumstances.

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Emotional Diet

Like food and even more so, emotions influence one’s health and wellbeing. The same way we consciously choose the types and amounts of foods for best nourishment, we can be selective with the emotions we experience through intelligent emotional management. Bridging science and spirituality, this workshop helps develop emotional awareness and guides learners through the process of emotional self-regulation necessary for overall wellness. During the workshop, participants learn research-based on-the-go self-regulation techniques, have ample opportunity to practice cultivating emotional states for greater wellbeing, and are introduced to technology/devices that can further assist their progress.

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The Resilience Advantage™1

In our fast-paced, complex times, professional effectiveness is a direct function of resilience and ability to self-regulate, with an ultimate impact on overall organizational efficiency and productivity. This workshop is the first part of the Resilience Advantage™ program, focusing on the individual employee level. It teaches easy-to-learn self-regulation and resilience-building tools and techniques to reduce work-related stress and improve general wellbeing, problem-solving, creativity, and performance. Participants are exposed to the latest findings from optimal-performance research and learn how to become more balanced, aware, intuitive, and high-functioning. During the workshop, participants also have opportunities to engage in real-time monitoring of the effectiveness of learned skills by using the award-winning emWave® technology.

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*HeartMath amd emWave are registered trademarks of Quantum Intech, Inc. Resilience Advantage is a trademark of Doc Childre. Studies investigating the impact of HeartMath programs in the workplace have documented a wide range of organizationally relevant outcomes, including increases in productivity, goal clarity, job satisfaction, communication effectiveness, improvement in employee health and reductions in turnover. Studies also have examined the programs’ effect in helping organizations meet the demands of challenges such as downsizing and restructuring.

The Resilience Advantage™2

The second part of the Resilience Advantage™ program focuses on organizational coherence. Building on the intelligent energy self-regulation techniques learned in part 1, this workshop provides strategies and tools for improved meeting efficiency, teamwork, and morale. New research is presented on the effects of relational energetics on co-workers, clients, and constituents and practical applications are taught towards creating a coherent field environment. Coherent Communication™ techniques are also taught and practiced towards fostering a happier, healthier, and more productive work environment. A pre-post analysis of a personal/organizational quality assessment is available upon request. This assessment employs the survey method for workplace quality and can be conducted online or pencil-and-paper.

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*HeartMath is a registered trademark of Quantum Intech, Inc. Resilience Advantage and Coherent Communication are trademarks of Doc Childre. Studies investigating the impact of HeartMath programs in the workplace have documented a wide range of organizationally relevant outcomes, including increases in productivity, goal clarity, job satisfaction, communication effectiveness, improvement in employee health and reductions in turnover. Studies also have examined the programs’ effect in helping organizations meet the demands of challenges such as downsizing and restructuring.

The Resilient Student

Along with the cognitive, the affective domain (emotions, feelings, attitudes, and mindsets) is acknowledged in almost all adult learning theories. Emotional self-regulation and resilience are precursors to adult student performance. Both cognitive assessment and affective domain assessment are predictors of academic success. While emotions can impact (block or enhance) learning, it is also true that learning can shape new emotions and attitudes. This workshop helps adult learners and educators develop awareness of the affective domain and how it defines their learning experience. It equips participants with researched-based techniques and strategies for emotional regulation, self-efficacy, and persistence.

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The Immigrant Student

Ability to navigate a new culture and good command of English as a Second Language (ESL) are prerequisites for the academic success of adult immigrants in American colleges and universities. This workshop guides adult ESL learners and educators through an exploration of diversity paradigms and best practices in language acquisition. It helps participants decode their own mental/cultural programming and facilitates understanding and application of the science of compassion and appreciation towards bridging cultural gaps and promoting effectiveness of individual learners and learning communities. The workshop employs research-based techniques to increase situational awareness and to substitute linguistic or cultural-related anxiety and frustration with self-confidence and appreciation of one’s abilities.

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