We think we live in reality, but more correctly we live in the narrative created by our internal monologue. The voice in our head provides a constant narration, complete with interpretations, judgments, and self-judgments, and our emotions arise as reactions to this narration. And very often, whatever difficult situation we’re in, the voice in our head exacerbates it.

Overall Benefits:

At this session, you observe your internal monologue and the huge impact it has on your experience of life, you step outside it, learn how to handle it constructively, and you stop being your worst enemy and the victim of your own narrative.

You also understand where the beliefs and opinions of others really come from, why they can be so different and diverse (even though they have access to the same information and resources as you), and you learn to accept and respect them.

Professional Benefits:

As a business leader, you’ll develop tools to appreciate differences instead of experiencing the resentment/friction caused by them, and you’ll grow a much greater respect for the opinions, beliefs and personalities of others.

For additional clarity, at Wise Humanity we use the concepts and tools of this module to run corporate workshops on Diversity & Inclusion.

Scores of studies show that people can easily and quickly learn to generate a sustained, glowing feeling of gratitude inside, and that gratitude consistently leads to profound happiness. Gratitude is a turbocharger of our everyday emotional undertone, motivation and wellbeing.

Overall Benefits:

You often know intellectually that you should be grateful for all the blessings in your life; this week, you learn how to go beyond thinking to feeling gratitude on a deeper level, and how to incorporate a practice of gratitude in your life that can nurture a profound sense of happiness.

You understand the role that gratitude plays in reinforcing resilience and happiness within yourself. You learn how to focus on the positives of others, and understand how you can spend more time expressing this appreciation to them.

Professional Benefits:

The attitude of gratitude from a leader has a big impact on others in the team, by helping them to feel appreciated. This produces a positive, safe work culture where people feel motivated to work together to achieve the leader’s and the company’s objectives.

We often unconsciously train ourselves to delay our happiness. We think we will be happy one day in the future, when we achieve certain conditions or goals. We treat the present moment as but a means to an end, and thus we create an ingrained habit that prevents us from feeling joy and fulfillment every step of the way.

Overall Benefits

This week, you start to break that self-limiting habit and enjoy the journey of life as it is lived, in the present moment. Have you ever heard someone say “You need to find happiness and fulfillment in yourself”? Well, this is the week you learn what it actually means and how to do it practically.

You may set goals and objectives at work or in your personal life that you set out to achieve, but these can often actually cause significant stress and anxiety around the prospect of not achieving them. This actually takes your focus away from doing your best to achieve them, and from enjoying and living every moment in the present fully.

At this session, you learn how to let goals give the overall direction, and then how to actually focus your emotional and intellectual intelligence on completing the tasks at hand. This is about having a clear destination and then focusing on progress as you go, and crucially, practicing the ability to celebrate progress continually along the way.

Professional Benefits:

This mindset is proven to have been prevalent in some of the most successful sports teams – those that focus on playing their best game, and celebrate successes throughout, rather than just focusing on winning and delaying all celebration until that is achieved. Basically, the more you focus on playing your best game instead of on winning, the more you actually end up winning.

By not being paralyzed by stress and anxiety, leaders and their teams become more effective. By celebrating the team’s successes and progress as they go, leaders create a more positive and motivated work environment. They also learn how to avoid dysfunctional mechanisms like blaming, complaining, finding excuses, etc., and how to create environments without them.

The structures and stresses of modern life often push us into seeing ourselves as separate individuals who need to compete for survival; “me against the world” can become our default mode and we feel alienated, anxious, unfulfilled and alone. But, while we often don’t feel it, we're always part of something bigger than ourselves.

Overall Benefits:

At this session, you learn how to harness the power of belonging and practise the concept of creating purpose in every action and situation in your life and every interaction with anyone. This is a very powerful, inspiring tool that helps you live a life fulfilled with meaning each and every day, and particularly helps you at difficult moments of loneliness, pressure and insecurities.

Professional Benefits:

Anything that we try to achieve or create depends on others in some way. Decisions need approval, projects need finance, services need consumers, etc.

This module is about moving away from the focus of leaders on themselves as individuals and embracing this understanding that we all depend on each other and are part of something bigger than just ourselves.

For example, a CEO may feel burdened with coming up with the right ideas and making the right decisions each and every time. As a result, their leadership style will be focusing more on themselves than the others around them.

If a leader focuses more on the “We” instead of just “I”, then they give more space to the others around them to share their own ideas, rather than just creating a space where people can only comment on the ideas presented by the leaders.

Truly believing that we are all interconnected allows leaders to reduce their need for control and better delegate to and empower members of their team. This also helps to create a better non-blame culture as everybody is working collectively together to achieve a goal.

In our minds, we carry stories about ourselves, our lives and the people and situations around us. While these narratives we create and hold onto are mere interpretations and cannot capture the full reality of life, they play a fundamental role because we base our choices and our entire experience of life on them. In the vast majority of cases, these stories help us go through life happily, but whenever we feel unhappy, stressed, insecure, powerless or stuck in a situation, it is because our narrative about that situation isn’t serving us well. However, no matter what circumstances, we can always create a more empowering narrative that unsticks us from those circumstances.

Overall Benefits:

In this module, you familiarize yourself with the narratives you hold about yourself and other people, and how they impact your behaviours and interactions with others. You then understand whether these narratives are helpful or unhelpful and the role of confirmation bias in reinforcing them.

You then delve into a significant narrative where you feel stuck and find where it can be unstuck and retold in a more empowering way. And while reality doesn’t necessarily change immediately, your attitude, emotions and the way you handle reality do change immediately.

Professional Benefits:

Since leaders often have to promote their ideas with unwavering confidence, they can get stuck inside their narratives even more easily. In this module, they realise that narratives can be changed, and learn how to create different narratives that work much better for them, their teams and their interactions and relationships with others.

Particularly in terms of creating effective and cohesive teams, this module helps leaders learn how to turn possible negative biases about team members into narratives of collaboration.

In this creative, laughter-filled, heart-opening session, we find a deeper level of connection that is seldom tapped but always available. You’ll have to take the Wise Humanity Foundation Course to find out what it is.

The present is the most important time – the only time when we have the power to make decisions and take action – and being present is a booster of all our activities. Yet, too often we’re held back by some past that we can't let go of, or burdened by the fear or anxiety of a future that still needs to happen... and we miss the present.

Overall Benefits:

This week, you learn about mind wandering (the opposite of being present) and your ideas about time. You experience the power of being present in the present as a booster to any activity and relationship, and you learn how to let go of clinging, control and anxiety, and make all your personal – intellectual, creative, emotional, etc. – resources available into whatever is happening right here right now.

You disempower feelings like guilt, regret, fear and anxiety. You learn how to reflect on the past, make peace and learn from it, but not linger.

Professional Benefits:

Leaders can use awareness of the present moment and mindfulness skills to help others not get stuck on past mistakes or in feelings of anxiety related to the future. Instead, they can encourage themselves and their team members to focus on the best action they can take in the present moment, given the knowledge and resources available to them.

Leaders can transform the culture of responsibility: from guilt for things that didn’t work out as intended to ability to respond in the present, with safety and trust and without blame or accusations.

In our relationships with others - whether at work or in our personal lives - we often recreate the relationship we have internally with ourselves. This is true on a very deep level, often beyond our daily awareness. A fracture within can mark all our relationships and cause instability and stress throughout our lives.

Overall Benefits:

This week, you familiarize yourself with your self-image and learn ways to practice self-love. You also debunk some myths about relationships and review some empowering tools to create and nurture more authentic, constructive relationships.

This module is also about how you build relationships with other people, how these are influenced by the expectations that you place on these relationships, where these expectations come from and how they influence how you react to situations when they don’t turn out in the way that you were anticipating (e.g., resentment, giving up on people, etc.)

Professional Benefits:

Being fully aware and taking care of their self-image is very important for leaders to be authentic, relatable and inspiring.

And when a leader has more awareness around the expectations that they build, and where these come from, they can allow these expectations to have less of an impact on their relationships with others. The result is the creation and maintenance of healthier working relationships.

Fears, big and small, are deeply ingrained in our lives. The things we do out of fear! Fear holds us back or even paralyses us, but it doesn't give us more information about the riskiness of the situation; it just tells us a story about our self-limiting beliefs.

Overall Benefits:

This week, you learn and practice powerful tools to understand where your fears come from and what they can teach you so that you truly overcome them (instead of ignoring or suppressing them) and grow beyond your self-imposed obstacles.

Professional Benefits:

In this module, leaders learn how to really grow from their fears, which are often the primary obstacle to their becoming authentic, vulnerable, creative, relatable, and empathetic leaders.

This module shows leaders how to accept fears, allow them, learn from them and finally let them flow and leave. This is a more effective and definite approach than the typical advice of fighting or denying fears.

As a result, leaders also learn how to create workplaces where people feel safe to admit to, face and outgrow their fears; workplaces of fulfilling engagement.