Foundation Courses are offered on line in an interactive web-based workshop format as well as on-the-ground, in-person. These foundation courses are designed for individuals who are seeking personal and relationship development through increased understanding of self and others and the resulting improvement in communication. In these courses you will learn about the core organizing principles that drive your natural tendencies, form the foundation of your strengths, provide a sense of well-being, create blind spots, and are sources of stress. You will learn practices to help you Center, Open, Relate, and Expand.
Type enthusiasts will find these courses enlightening as well since they take people deeper into the different lenses of type as well as into the CORE processes and practices. And of course, these courses form the foundation for practitioners seeking to increase their knowledge base for their work using these lenses. Some of these courses can lead to either licensing or certification should you decide to pursue that level of training.
In-person workshops:
In person workshops give us an opportunity to experience how our personality tendencies tend to play out in every day life. They can be more interactive than on-line programs. We will be adding to the list of in-person workshops as soon as we can determine if there is a need. Please let us know what kinds of workshops you would like or if you would like to sponsor one of the described workshops in your organization or as a public workshop.
Mastering the CORE of Self-Leadership
This is a workshop for anyone who wants to better understand themselves and others. This workshop provides the opportunity to not only learn more about yourself, but it gives you processes to help you lead yourself. If you are a leader, you know that leadership starts with yourself. Give yourself the gift of this workshop in a supportive environment that is rare to find. If you want to use this information as a practitioner, this experience will be invaluable and is a prerequisite for licensing and certification. Click here for a detailed description.
The Communication Zone® Workshop
This workshop is for anyone who wants to improve their communication and relationships. In this 2-day workshop you will learn how to use the 3 keys to The Communication Zone. Using the Berens CORE Approach and the CORE Lenses of Interaction Styles and Essential Motivators, you will learn to use 3 three keys to develop rapport and build relationships.
1. Knowing Yourself—understanding yourself and others
2. Making Space—for yourself and for others
3. Shifting Your Communication—to meet others at their view of the world
Dates and Locations are yet to be determined. If you have an interest in this workshop, please contact us to set one up in your area or to urge us to set some dates.
On-line Workshops: The Communication Zone®
Entering The Communication Zone—Knowing Yourself
The focus of the first set of of 7 workshops is Self-Knowledge. In these 2-hour web-based workshops you will identify your core personality drivers and preferences and build the foundation for:
- Building Rapport through an understanding yourself and other using the Interaction Styles lens of personality
- Building Relationships through an understanding yourself and other using the Essential Motivators (aka temperament) lens of personality
- Achieving Clarity of Communication through understanding yourself and other using the Cognitive Style lens of personality.
The first workshop, Getting Into the Communication Zone®, is free. It will lay the foundation for you to get into The Communication Zone. It is more than a webinar and is a pre-requisite for the other on-line Communication Zone workshops.
The other workshops are $125 each. Sign up for the first set of 6 for $600 and save $150. Contact us directly to register for the set.
If you have to miss any, don’t worry. All who sign up will be given access to the recording for you to review as many times as you want.
Once you register, we will send you an invitation for the on-line workshop. We are looking forward to meeting you on-line.
Contact info: 714-625-9475 or info(at)lindaberens.com
Getting Into The Communication Zone®
This free 2-hour web workshop will lay the foundation for you to get into the communication zone. It is more than a webinar and is a prerequisite for the other six workshops in the series.
Free
If you need this workshop as a prerequisite and miss the live session, the recording will be made available to you. Other dates will be added.
Building Rapport 1: What’s Your Interaction Style? What’s Theirs?
Rapport is established and maintained in subtle ways during our interactions. The Berens Interaction Style lens gives us information about our natural energy pattern and how to shift into neutral or a different energy. But first you need to recognize your own natural inclinations and recognize the patterns in others. This workshop will help you identify your own style through a facilitated process of self-discovery. You will become aware of the drivers of many of your interactions as well as the stressors that result when they are not met.
Registration now available on line. Contact us directly if you have questions. 714-625-9475 or info@lindaberens.com
$125
Prerequisite: Getting Into The Communication Zone
Building Rapport 2: What are your Interaction Style Dynamics?
An understanding of Interaction Style Dynamics helps you identify some of your blind spots in interacting with others. It also gives you specific ways to shift your communications and role relationships to improve your communication. This workshop will help you identify your own Interaction Style Dynamics preferences through a facilitated process of self-discovery. You will become aware of ways you may be confusing or turning others off.
Registration now available on line. Contact us directly if you have questions. 714-625-9475 or info@lindaberens.com
$125
Prerequisites: Getting Into The Communication Zone. It is recommended that you will have attended Building Rapport 1
Building Relationships 1: What are Your Essential Motivators? What Are Theirs?
Building relationships requires understanding yourself, establishing trust, and taking the perspective of others. The Berens Essential Motivator lens gives us information about our deep motivational patterns and how to honor and speak to those motivations in others. But first you need to recognize your own natural inclinations and recognize the patterns in others. This workshop will help you identify your own core psychological needs, values, and talents through a facilitated process of self-discovery. You will become aware of what motivates you deeply as well as the stressors that result when these needs are not met.
Registration now available on line. Contact us directly if you have questions. 714-625-9475 or info@lindaberens.com
$125
Prerequisite: Getting Into The Communication Zone
Building Relationships 2: What are your Essential Motivator Dynamics?
An understanding of Essential Motivator Dynamics helps you identify some of your blind spots in relating to others. It also gives you specific ways to shift your communications and role relationships to improve your communication and relationships.This workshop will help you identify your own Essential Motivator Dynamics preferences through a facilitated process of self-discovery. You will become aware of ways you may be limiting yourself in your communications and inadvertently offending others.
Currently scheduled for
March 8 10:00 am-12:00 pm Pacific Time
Registration now available on line. Contact us directly if you have questions. 714-625-9475 or info@lindaberens.com
$125
Prerequisites: Getting Into The Communication Zone It is recommended that you will have attended Building Relationships 1
What Is Your Cognitive Style?
We have identified four basic Cognitive Style patterns. Each style has a cognitive quest that sets up a mental ‘craving’ and leads us to actively engage in certain behaviors. We will tend to seek out information that lets us satisfy this craving by fulfilling specific requirements.This is an innovative look at our cognitive style that gives us useful and memorable information about what we like to think about and how we tend to think about those things.
In this workshop you will explore your own cognitive style and identify the talents you have to help you satisfy the craving that it sets up. Find out what you must have in order to feel satisfied and where you are likely to focus. How are you inclined to approach a situation or task? What roles are you likely to take? What outcomes do you tend to seek? What are your blindspots and stressors? How does your Cognitive Style help and how does it hinder communication?
Currently scheduled for
March 22 10:00 am-12:00 pm Pacific Time
Registration now available on line. Contact us directly if you have questions. 714-625-9475 or info@lindaberens.com
$125
Prerequisites: Getting Into The Communication Zone and other Communication Zone workshops or their equivalent. To benefit the most from this workshop, you will have settled on a best fit type. We recommend that you have completed the other workshops in the Foundations of The Communication Zone Series. Contact us to see if you have met the equivalent to the prerequisite.
What Are Your Cognitive Dynamics?
Your Cognitive Style influences what kind of information you pay attention to and how you are inclined to organize and evaluate that information. There are sixteen personality types, each with different preferences for accessing information (aka perception) and evaluating that information (aka judgment). There are four identified preferences for information accessing. We tend to actively use only one and maybe a second one of these and we tend to ignore other information. The same is true for the evaluation processes.
This workshop will help you identify which processes you give privilege to and which ones are your blindspots. It will help you understand the true meaning of the popular personality type code based on the work of Isabel Myers. Once you recognize the processes you give privilege to, you can see how you may be overusing some processes and underusing or even ignoring others. Then you can be more open to different kinds of information and evaluation processes rather than dismissing them. And you can decide which processes you need to engage more and develop more. The first step is to understand your dynamics and what each of the processes are like.
Currently scheduled for
April 5 10:00 am-12:00 pm Pacific Time
Registration now available on line. Contact us directly if you have questions. 714-625-9475 or info@lindaberens.com
$125
Prerequisites: Getting Into The Communication Zone and knowing your own best-fit type. Therefore we recommend you have completed the other workshops in this series or have experienced the self-discovery process with a qualified facilitator. Contact us to see if you have met the equivalent to the prerequisite.
Going Deeper into The Communication Zone—Making Space
When you are deep in The Communication Zone, you can more easily disengage and manage yourself so you get your needs, drives, and quests satisfied. You can open up to new opportunities, make space for yourself and for others, and better shift to meet others at their view of the world. The workshops are $125 each if taken separately. Sign up for this series for $300. If you have to miss any don’t worry, you will be given access to the recording to review as many times as you want.
Deeper into Interaction Styles
In this workshop you will explore decision making, communications, stress and conflict in relation to your own best-fit Interaction Style pattern. You will have an opportunity to clarify your own style as well as understand the energy patterns of others so you can recognize them more easily.
Currently scheduled for
April 12 10:00 am-12:00 pm Pacific Time
Registration now available on line. Contact us directly if you have questions. 714-625-9475 or info@lindaberens.com
$125
Prerequisites: Entering The Communication Zone. It is recommended that you will have attended Building Rapport 1 and Building Rapport 2 or equivalent.
Deeper into Essential Motivators
In this workshop you will explore the Essential Motivators pattern using the Targets. This will help you clarify your best-fit pattern and help you target getting your own needs met and your talents ‘well used.’ It will also help you shift your perspectives so you can truly get into The Communication Zone in your relationships.
Currently scheduled for
April 19 10:00 am-12:00 pm Pacific Time
Registration now available on line. Contact us directly if you have questions. 714-625-9475 or info@lindaberens.com
$125
Prerequisites: Entering The Communication Zone. It is recommended that you have attended Building Relationships 1 and Building Relationships 2 or equivalent.
Deeper into Cognitive Styles
In this workshop you will explore the other aspects of your psychological type such as the roles each process plays in your psyche. This session will give you the opportunity to explore your ‘shadow side’ so when you get stuck in it, you can more effectively get yourself out and into a more satisfying and productive way of being.
Currently scheduled for
April 26 10:00 am-12:00 pm Pacific Time
Registration now available on line. Contact us directly if you have questions. 714-625-9475 or info@lindaberens.com
$125
Prerequisites: Entering The Communication Zone. It is recommended that you attend What’s Your Cognitive Style and What Are Your Cognitive Dynamics? or equivalent.
Communication Zone Skill Building Workshops—Shifting
These will be added later in the year so stay tuned. They may be offered on line or as on-the-ground, in-person workshops.
Remote Individual Coaching
The Self-Discovery Experience with Dr. Linda Berens
This experience includes instruments, a self-assessment survey, Booklets and from 2- 3 hours of individual telephone/web based interaction with Dr. Berens. Individuals seeking personalized self-awareness and coaching will find this experience eye opening!
By appointment
$500
Coaching for Type Clarification, Transitioning, and other special needs
By appointment
Ranging from $150 – $300 an hour. Varies by coach and context
Please contact us for more information info(at)lindaberens.com or 714-625-9475
