Specifically, we train you in the effective use of our structured materials and exercises. You go through the same process your clients will experience. In particular, you'll learn how to identify your dreams, gather clues, write a clear, concise and nuanced mission statement, and set goals/action plans for yourself and your clients. We review a broad range of coaching applications: individual, group, and seminar modalities, private practice, corporate or education settings, and focus on your preferred modalities. We teach you Life Mission theory and adult learning methods. With the use of various instruments, we demonstrate how your particular personality, cognitive preferences and skills shape your learning, teaching, marketing, work style and of course your mission. Further, we help you identify and overcome any personal blocks, boundaries and obstacles to Life Mission work. And finally, on the basis of your well-developed sense of mission, we help you identify and develop individually designed strategies to reach your prime target markets.

Especially suited for LMATP are teachers, counselors, vocational and corporate trainers, business owners, entrepreneurs, and those in the spiritual and helping professions, i.e. psychology, ministry and social work.

LMATP is divided into three phases. The comprehensive package includes a total of 36 training hours, including intake and follow-up telephone consults before and after the completion of each phase. The first and second phase of training are best completed in two three-day training sessions, or a total of 24 hours, spaced at sufficient intervals for you to digest and assimilate what you have learned. The third phase consists of 12 contact hours with the goal of preparing you to mount a Life Mission Workshop in a setting of your choice. This material can also be covered in a combination of face-to-face sessions, e-mail or telephone consults, according to our assessment of your individual needs. For those clients who have worked with us in the past, credit can be applied toward this fee, depending on the amount and type of work completed. We establish the training dates by mutual agreement.

The LMAPT program includes training materials, the Personal Profile, Self-Directed Search, Myers-Briggs, LMA books, exercises and tapes. The fee for our training is $1800 for each phase, or $5400. If you pay in advance for all three phases, you receive the special rate of $5,000, if you complete the three phases within 180 days of your initial Phase I session.

You may elect to have an initial intake session for $100, to ascertain whether you qualify for our training, or whether we are an emotional fit. This amount will be applied to your first training phase if you initiate it within 30 days of the intake session.

OUR LMATP PROGRAM

PHASE ONE: Getting to Know Me

Needs Assessment and Goal Setting: Prior to your first intensive, we review and discuss a personal handwritten, three-page autobiography, a questionnaire and additional exercises we arranged for you to prepare in advance. This can be done by phone or in person.

Topics:

• Life Mission Theory and Practice
• Application of the Personal Profile in understanding self and others
• Exercises and training in the use of the Fulfill Your Soul's Purpose Book and Fulfill Your Soul's Purpose Workbook
• Identifying and working through blocks, barriers and boundaries
• The Clue Process and work on the String of Pearls clue board
• Development of a provisional Life Mission statement

PHASE TWO: Diving for Pearls: In-depth Exploration of Self and Client

Topics:

• Continued in-depth analysis of Life Mission Theory and Practice
• Application of the Personal Profile in counseling and group settings
• Additional instrumentation: the Self-Directed Search and Myers-Briggs
• Further work in the Fulfill Your Soul's Purpose Workbook
• Assessment of your progress with personal blocks, barriers and boundaries
• More clue work and a fully developed Life Mission Statement
• Adult learning methodology
• Developing effective action plans for you and your clients

A laboratory presentation on a LM topic with follow-up critique concludes Phase II.

PHASE THREE: Putting Your Knowledge into Practice

Topics:

• Designing and managing a Life Mission Practice
• The ethics and methods of the entrepreneurial pursuit
• Building your business
• Developing individually designed strategies to identify and reach a prime target market
• Group process and training methodology.
• Effective self promotion with advertising, brochures, web sites, conferences and networking
• Setting and collecting fees
• Dealing with problematic clients and situations
• Selling books, workbooks, tapes and other materials
• Effective follow-up procedures

Mounting a full day workshop for your target audience/group concludes PHASE THREE.
After the successful completion of LMATP, you are qualified to receive discounted rates on all LMA materials and instrumentation, back-up supervision and consultation as needed, the permission to advertise as a Life Mission Associate, plus valuable links to our web site and resource networks. We encourage our trainees to operate independently, but nevertheless to remain in close contact. Our goal is to maintain a permanent informal partnership with you, for the benefit of all.

WITH THE LIFE MISSION ASSOCIATES TRAINING PROGRAM, YOU WILL:

• increase your sense of purpose and self-actualization.
• develop a clear, concise and nuanced mission statement.
• achieve enhanced creativity, zest, curiosity and enthusiasm for your mission.
• hone and enhance your coaching skills.
• discover your most effective style of Life Mission Coaching.
• learn Life Mission Coaching methodology and affectively apply it to your clients.
• conduct your life and business with more effective focus and purpose.
• design a viable professional path which reflects your special gifts and talents.
• renew and validate your contribution to society.