In a TNT – Time-Numbers-Technology – Driven & Distracted Culture, work environments and their people face new and ongoing demands as well as pressures to productively and innovatively adapt. The vital question: How to encourage both individual creativity and interactive community so that everyday challenges yield opportunities to discover and design new and enriched ways of thinking and acting, communicating and relating? Have no fear, Mark Gorkin, MSW, LICSW, the Stress Doc ™, is here. A national speaker and workshop leader, and Stress Resiliency/Team Building Retreat Leader for the US Military (and former Stress and Violence Prevention Consultant for the US Postal Service; he’s battle-tested), the Doc brings high energy and thought-provoking ideas, as well as FUN interactive exercises and valuable take home tools. You’ll be challenged to broaden your cognitive complexity and diversity awareness and skills; learn the Doc’s “Passion Power” Model – expand and energize your presence while making your message compelling. Finally, engage in a group exercise that reveals the dynamics of “passion power” as a leadership tool for stimulating humility, humor, and trust as well as collaborative and synergistic problem-solving: not only is the whole greater than the sum of the parts but, most importantly, parts can evolve into partners.
Objectives
1. Strengthen Your Mindset through a Challenging of Association Exercise – enhance cognitive complexity-cultural diversity awareness and competence
2. Learn and Explore the Stress Doc’s “Four ‘P’s of “Passion Power” Model and Exercise – affirm your mind-mood strengths and assess interactively personality facets to be developed
3. Integrate and Illustrate the Passion Power Model Exercise – demonstrating a capacity for risk-taking, playfully yet purposefully bring the multi-faceted model and your compelling message to life
4. Discover the Secret of Wisdom and Experience the Doc’s Pioneering Efforts in the Field of Psychologically Humorous Rap Music – talk about “Passion Power”
Seek the higher power of Stress Doc humor: May the Farce Be with You.
Don’t miss your appointment with the Stress Doc!
Mark Gorkin, MSW, LICSW, "The Stress Doc" ™, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, is an acclaimed keynote and webinar speaker and "Motivational Humorist & Team Communication Catalyst" known for his interactive, inspiring and FUN programs for both government agencies and major corporations. A training and Critical Incident/Grief Intervention Consultant for the National EAP/Wellness Company, Business Health Services in Baltimore, MD, the Doc is also leading “Stress, Team Building and Humor” programs for various branches of the Armed Services. Mark is the author of Practice Safe Stress and of The Four Faces of Anger. See his award-winning, USA Today Online "HotSite" – www.stressdoc.com – called a "workplace resource" by National Public Radio (NPR). For more info on the Doc's programs, his personal coaching, or to receive his free e-newsletter, email stressdoc@aol.com