This document outlines the four sections and activities of a workshop aimed at helping participants gain clarity of purpose and focus their energy. The workshop uses self-reflection, group sharing, identification of actions, and discussion of research charts to help participants understand how their life choices impact happiness and move towards achieving their vision. Each section focuses on a different topic like personal perspective, visioning, strengths, and goal-setting and provides prompts and activities for participants to reflect individually and share in groups.

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CiPP 2"
Discovery Workshop"
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Purpose: to capture the participants attention on how they spend their energy. Is the
energy they are using ensuring they achieve their vision? Clarity of purpose, focus of
energy and living with JOY is the intended outcome. "
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The workshop will have four sections. In each section participants will have time for:"
• Self reflection, to build a practice to be self aware;"
• Group participation, to share any new awareness, "
• Action identification, to develop a take away; and "
• Positive psychology chart, used to discuss research done in the field. "
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Principles for this workshop"
■ In every society, organization, group, or individual something works."
■ When we appreciate the good, the good appreciates."
■ Positive questions create a positive reality."
■ By telling personal stories we recreate our past, experience our present, and
create our future."
■ Genuine empathy provides the fertile soil for growth and learning."
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Section 1 Discovery, 20 minutes"
Circle of Personal Perspective, participants will rate themselves from 1 to 10 in six
areas of their life. This initial rating will provide the participant with a base of how they
are feeling about their life. "
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Group Participation: each participant will share one or two points that identify how
balanced their life is in the following areas: Professional, Emotion, Financial,
Relationships, Spiritual, and Wellness. "
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ACTION: Pick one Area and identify what the participant can do to make their life 5%
better in this one area. "
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Average Happiness Chart: Draw the chart and display the percentage of affect that
choice, genetics and the environment have on ones happiness. The key point is to help
the participant understand 40% of average happiness is based on life choices. "
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Section 2 Visioning, 20 minutes"
Envision a future and dream about their ideal self. The participants will be asked to write
about what their life will be like in five years on the back of the circle of personal
perspective paper. What will they be doing, who will they be doing it with, and where
will they be living?. "
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We will mention things that people love to do so they can start to think about positivity
boosters. Things that would make them enjoy their life and feel more fulfilled. "
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We will then ask them to rate their circle of personal perspective again, this time how
are they doing right now in the six areas based on their vision for their future. They will
have two numbers for each area, one based on how they started the workshop and one
based on their vision. "
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Group Participation: The participants will be asked to share if their ratings went up or
down and why?They will also be asked to share their future. Sharing something
personal builds connections and fellow employees may be able to help a colleague
achieve their vision. "
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ACTION Identify one area that the participant can do one thing to make their life 5%
better and move towards achieving their vision. "
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Positivity Ratio Chart, Draw the Barbara Fredrickson chart on positivity ratio.Spend time
discussing positivity boosters to help get to 4:1 ratio."
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Section 3 Strengths, 15 minutes"
Ask Participants to write three lines on the bottom of their circle of personal perspective
paper. Participants should fill in each line with a word that describes who they are, the
essence of who they are. These should be descriptive words which they have heard
their entire life. These words describe them no matter who they are with or what they
are doing. "
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Group Participation: If someone is having a hard time, we will ask others to tell the
person what they see when this person walks in the room. Caring, confident, loving,
openminded, intelligent, happy, energetic, etc..."
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We will go around the room and have each person share their three words and ask if
anyone else has a word to add. "
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ACTION Identify how these strengths have helped them in the past and how they will
help them achieve their vision and complete their two action steps to make their life 5%
better. "
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Core Self Chart, Draw the circles around the core self, limitation, fear, facade. Have a
discussion about letting our strengths shine and helping others to chip away to see their
core strengths. "

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Section 4 Designing, 15 minutes"
Hand out a vision and goals form to have participants complete. Participants will
determine and write down their vision and goals for one, five and ten years from now.
The purpose of this handout is to start the participant thinking about how to be more
purposeful in designing their life and holding them self accountable for their own
happiness. What do they want to start doing and what should they STOP doing? Identify
what can they add to their life to remind them of the change they want to achieve. What
trigger is needed to make them 5% better. "
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Group Participation: What are they thinking and how can they build an environment to
help them achieve their dreams? "
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ACTION Identify routines that may need adjusting, triggers to remind them of their own
design. Is this routine serving me well? What daily reminder do I need to ensure I move
in a direction to serve me well? "
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Four Agreements Chart, Share the four agreement practice for designing a life. This
chart will introduce them to using their self-awareness to design their own environment,
they will have specific practices to catch themselves and adjust their thinking.