Find a new way of Work that works for you
The “SMart About Work” Human Intelligence Workshop is specifically designed to support the “Reinvention of the Work of Your Life”.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What do you mean by “Self-Agility” and “Right-Brain Thinking”?
2. What makes the SMart About Work Human Intelligence Workshop different from other coaching and trainings?
3. What does developing my Self-Agility have to do with reinventing the work of my life?
4. What happens during the 8-week SMart About Work Human Intelligence Workshop signature coaching program?
5. How much time does it take?
6. What if my schedule prevents me from attending one or more of the weekly class meetings?
7. What kind of results can I expect?
8. How much does it cost?
9. Is there a guarantee?
10. What about confidentiality in this group coaching workshop?
11. How do I get started?
1. What do you mean by “Self-Agility” and “Right-Brain Thinking”?
My creative, intuitive, holistic, and emotionally-aware approach to Right-Brain Thinking supports and enhances Self-Agility by
providing the cognitive and emotional tools needed to adapt and respond creatively
and effectively to change (self-directed and otherwise).
And for me, Self-Agility means adaptability, flexibility, resilience, and continuous learning.
Everyone exercises Self-Agility to some extent, but all too often more by accident than by intention.
Practicing Self-Agility in the endless moment (like developing any new habit) takes work, and makes life richer, more enjoyable, not to mention more rewarding and effective.
● Self-Agility happens when I take charge of the choices I make, rather than choosing from options I borrow or adopt being offered by others
● Self-Agility lets me become free to be flexible in how I change my ideas about who I think I am, and how I relate and interact with my world
● Self-Agility is a form of creative thinking activity enabling the world happening FOR me rather than happening TO me
Applying Self-Agile Methods of Right-Brain Thinking unleashes:
● Creativity: Generating innovative ideas and solutions
● Intuition: Understanding something instinctively without the need for conscious reasoning
● Holistic Thinking: Seeing the big picture and understanding the interconnectedness of different elements
● Emotional Awareness: Recognizing and managing my own and understanding others' emotions
My approach to Right-Brain Thinking is about more than just accessing creativity
● It’s an integrated 'whole brain thinking' way of seeing how you interact with the world that makes VUCA (Volatility • Uncertainty • Complexity • Ambiguity) work for you instead of against you, and frees you from habituated institutionalized thinking that no longer supports you (if it ever did).
● My approach to Right-Brain Thinking transforms VUCA into a never-ending supply of the rocket fuel needed to propel and sustain your New World of Work adventure, to make you best prepared for whatever you want to have happen next.
Self-Agility means being flexible
with my ideas about who I think I am, my role in the world, and
how I interact with it.
Being Self-Agile means giving myself the freedom to be able to
nimbly respond differently as circumstances change (which never seem to stay the same for long).
2. What makes the SMart About Work Human Intelligence Workshop different from other coaching and trainings?
‘SMart’ stands for Self-Agile Methods of Applied Right-Brain Thinking.
Just like how you have to breath both in AND out, Left-Brain and Right-Brain Thinking both need to each be working together to keep you alive.
But too much Left-Brain Thinking results in focusing only on what is already known, and only on what can be counted and measured, and cuts you off from otherwise invisible internal and external yet-to-be-known resources and knowledge.
● The SMart About Work Human Intelligence Workshop corrects this imbalance by teaching you how to put into practice little known Right-Brain Thinking techniques and tools that develop and strengthen your physical, metaphysical, and psychological Self-Agility, so you no longer need to be hindered by, and become free of, outdated habits of thinking that work against you rather than for you.
● Unlike other training programs, you won't get to know the results you get until you get them. Because they can't be known in advance. The SMart About Work Human Intelligence Workshop opens the door to a lifetime of on-going learning of SELF-discovery.
● You do the work, and then you get to discover what there is to learn from it. You not only get confirmation of what you already know to be true for you, but in addition what you don't yet know to be true for you also begins to become revealed. You will discover and be reminded of things you didn't even know are yours (or have forgotten about), and that are only there for you to discover.
3. What does developing my Self-Agility have to do with reinventing the work of my life?
Beyond getting things done is uncovering your motives for doing them. Rather than solely focusing on achieving already defined goals you know you have, the 8-week “SMart About Work” Human Intelligence Workshop is designed to bring forth understanding of the goals you have yet to discover, and fresh ways of discovering and finding value in what you don't yet know you didn't know.
● The “SMart About Work” Human Intelligence Workshop lets you break free of the constraints of certainty, and experience uncertainty as a rich resource, rather than as a limiting threat.
● At the end of the eight weeks, you will have installed powerful and effective new habits of perception, discovery, and self-identity creation that will serve you for years to come regardless what may come your way.
4. What happens during the 8-week SMart About Work Human Intelligence Workshop signature coaching program?
Each week you learn how to apply and benefit from new sets of tools to reinvent the work of your life:
Lesson Topics:
Week 1: Uncertainty is the Only Resource
Week 2: Ordering Off the Menu with Directed Allowance
Week 3: Materialization Matters
Week 4: Point of Being
Week 5: Feelings Aren’t Everything
Week 6: Self-Leadership Dialogs
Week 7: Co-Creation
Week 8: Where the Future Begins
The Workshop follows a similar sequence each week
You and your fellow participants meet via Zoom for 90 minutes at the same time each week for 8 weeks to:
● Review and discuss the content of that week's lesson you have been sent a few days earlier
● Compare notes about what you have learned during the past week
● Have conversation about what has stood out most from the daily “Self-Agility Headstart” habit-building course emails
● Engage in live interactive exercises with each other
Between the weekly meetings, participants:
● Are encouraged to apply what they are learning in their everyday encounters
● Write about their experiences in their personal online portal from the regular journaling prompts they get sent
● Interact with their accountability partner if they have chosen to co-create with a fellow participant
This 8-week workshop is a 'learning by doing' immersive experiential learning experience
One that you co-create with other Self-Leaders as you learn together how to practice reinventing the work of your life.
It's a self-study program in how it teaches you how to study and apply new ways of thinking about your self.
At the end of the eight-week workshop you will be better prepared than ever to always be making Work work for you.
5. How much time does it take?
You've got to be committed for 8 weeks to attending and fully participating in the 8 weekly 90-minute online interactive classes, with another 30 minutes each week for personal homework.
You also have the opportunity to pair up with a fellow participant as an accountability partner which may require additional time if you choose.
6. What if my schedule prevents me from attending one or more of the weekly class meetings?
All weekly classes are recorded and available for you to view online later when convenient to you.
But by not being there 'live' you will miss out on the immediate interaction learning opportunities and exercises with other participants (some of which are not recorded).
All recordings and learning materials content will be available for you to freely access for one year after the end of the 8-week workshop.
Should you find other priorities are interfering with your ability to fully participate in the workshop, upon request you can withdraw from the workshop to complete it at a later time more suitable to you.
7. What kind of results can I expect?
- Being freed to explore new creative ways of experiencing work
- Transforming anxiety and worry into constructive momentum at will
- Finding clarity in the fog, and discovering something new beyond what you thought mattered most
- Connecting (and re-connecting) with the internal source of courage to be the ideals you stand for
- Discovering your own unique point of view (unlike anyone else’s)
- Being emboldened to step forward and share with the world what you think is most important
- Being better able to successfully navigate when you take yourself to places where there are no maps
- Discovering more of what you don't know you didn't know you wanted to invite into your life
- Uncovering the most rewarding thing on which you want to focus your time
- Stepping outside herd mentality to be able to ask better questions
- Unleashing the originality of your thinking and the courage to express it
As you progress through the eight weeks, you discover more new previously unknown relevance coming to your attention, and more new more relevant things for you to consider to be choosing from.
What is most important, just for you, emerges like a brilliant beacon shining amidst all the noise of overwhelm and information overload.
8. How much does it cost?
Your investment in the 8-week program, including the 8 live weekly classes, is USD $3,500.
Also included at no-cost is a subscription to the "Self-Agility Daily Headstart" email habit-building course, that kickstarts your Self-Agility thinking every day.
9. Is there a guarantee?
No specific results can be guaranteed, as results are unique to each individual participant and cannot be known in advance.
You will be taught tools and techniques, and what you make of them can only be known by you by applying them.
And like climbing Mount Everest, partial commitment to this personal discovery adventure does not work, and there is no point in beginning this program without the intention to complete it.
However, if at the end of the third week of fully participating in all of the weekly classes to that point, and have completed all of the weekly homework, and you find the “SMart About Work” Human Intelligence Workshop is not working for you, I will happily return your full tuition on request (less a 20% processing fee). Otherwise, no refunds are offered.
Should you find other priorities are interfering with your ability to fully participate, you can also withdraw from the workshop to complete it at a later time more suitable to you, but again no refund is offered.
10. What about confidentiality in this group coaching workshop?
What happens in SMart About Work stays in SMart About Work.
● Everything that occurs and is said within the SMart About Work Human Intelligence workshop is to be considered confidential. Such content may be shared outside of the SMart About Work only when it cannot be linked to any specific person or organization, and contains no personally-identifiable information, or has the explicit consent of the relevant parties.
● You may not without prior written consent make any audio, video, or visual recordings, nor enable transcriptions to be made of any part of the SMart About Work Human Intelligence workshop (which includes turning off/disabling any AI transcription tools you may have installed on your device or computer).
As a participant you will be expected to follow the Ground Rules & Community Guidelines.
● Your active participation is essential, as this is a doing program, as well as a learning program
● All Zoom meeting sessions are conducted with all participant cameras "on" for the greatest benefit for all participants, and any and all recording and transcribing functionality is to be turned off and/or disabled
● Everything that occurs within the context of the SMart About Work Human Intelligence Workshop is to be considered confidential
● You are at all times responsible for your own conduct and outcomes.
● Come and stay with a curious and open mind, always allowing space for opposing viewpoints, perspectives and opinions
● Exercise ongoing respect for your fellow participants, adhering to both the Golden and Platinum Rules
Golden Rule: Treat others as you would want to be treated by them
Platinum Rule: Treat others the way they want to be treated
You will also need to review and agree the General Terms & Conditions:
TLDR Executive Summary
● All purchases are final, with no refunds given, except if at the end of the third week of fully participating in all of the weekly classes to that point, and have completed all of the weekly homework, and you find the SMart About Work Human Intelligence Workshop is not working for you, your full tuition (less a 20% processing fee) will be returned on request.
● You are responsible for your own outcomes. Jonn Kares accepts no responsibility or liability for the suitability or compatibility of participants, and is not liable for any damages of any kind.
● Everything that occurs within the context of the SMart About Work Human Intelligence Workshop is to be considered confidential.
● By participating in the Workshop you agree to abide by the Workshop Ground Rules & Community Guidelines
● You may not at any time retain, copy, reproduce, publish in any form, share, sell, dispose of or otherwise make available to a third party in any way any of the proprietary intellectual property of the SMart About Work Human Intelligence Workshop.
● Violation of any of these terms constitutes grounds for dismissal from the SMart About Work Human Intelligence Workshop with no refund being given.
11. How do I get started?
Curious? Let's have a quick 1:1 conversation, and get your questions answered.
Book a free 30-minute no-obligation Strategy Session with me, and we can both find out if the SMart About Work Human Intelligence Workshop signature coaching program would be of benefit to you.
Try it for three weeks. If you don't like it, get a full refund. (less a 20% processing fee)
You have nothing to lose, and you never know what you might discover...
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