Do you remember what you felt like on your first day of high school?
When I look back, I can remember feeling uncertain and a little bit scared in that new place with those new people. But I can also remember feeling a spark of excitement at the beginning of a whole new adventure.
And many of the practitioners who signed up mentioned feeling this same way – a mix of excited and nervous – because they were about to embark down a path they had never explored before.
Some people, many actually, told us they were nervous about the technical side of things.
Some practitioners said they felt concerned about how to make an online program experiential.
But, like parents and teachers often do on the first day of class, I’m there to assure them that the staff and I will be with them every step of the way, and that we will be giving them the tools they need to build a program that can impact people in a whole new way.
The practitioners joining us for the program (I actually think of them as pioneers) have already got some great ideas in the works – I’m so excited about them that I just had to share a quick snapshot of a few of them:
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- Marzia Hassan, LLb, MSW from Toronto, Ontario, is a psychotherapist who works with couples and families in Toronto. She has been presenting online webinars on Parenting for Muslims for a couple of years, but her plan for these next six weeks is to develop an online program focused on helping people to enrich their marriages.
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- Kris Freeark, PhD, from Ann Arbor, MI, is a psychologist and family therapist who focuses on adoption, early childhood, and the power of open family communication. She plans to build a program to help adoptive parents understand what their child is thinking, and increase cooperation and sense of belonging in families.
- And Michal Regav, PhD, from Vancouver, British Columbia, will be using her experience and expertise helping women struggling with depression and anxiety during and after pregnancy to build a program that can give them hope and help them realize they’re not alone.
Now that’s just a taste of some of the programs that will take shape during the training. There are so many different ideas. I’m excited to see them come together.
The next six weeks will be filled with learning, new experiences, and community-building as we delve into the steps it takes to build an online program.
I hope you’ll send your own positive vibes to the practitioners who are embarking on this new journey, because they’re part of something truly revolutionary. And when someone breaks through doing something new, it takes courage.
Have you ever had hesitations about starting something new? What were they? Please let us know in the comments section below.
You really saved my skin with this inortmafion. Thanks!
Hello Dr. Buczynski,
This sounds like a great program- I would love to hear more about it and be kept in the loop for when it runs again.
Sincerely,
Francine Silver, Ph.D.
I wish success to all of group and to people aimed! This is great!
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Offering Executive and Leadership coaching may be an interest opportunity. I have not explored that possibility, even though I do a lost of coaching via phone. I could definitely see the value in it. I’d like to learn more about the course and how it would glued those of us who are not very technical!
My concerns are fist and foremost, my lack of technical skills, secondly receptivity of clients and finally, the ethics of an online practice…how to guard the client’s privacy, etc. are these thing addressed in the program?
Mary Beth
i am a Yoga teacher in a small settlement in New Zealand surrounded by other scattered small settlements. Many of my students would love an on line class, as travelling to weekly classes doen’t always suit, but they are committed to a regular practice and hate missing sessions. I can see the potentual for on -line weekly classes, and for developimg more specialist courses on various Yoga topics.
My fear of failure with computers and technology holds me back. I don’t have anyone to guide me through the processes and find the on line “help ” features on my computer very unhelpful.
From an inspired techno phobe with regards Jenny
It sounds exciting where you are all going in your career. Currently I am up to my ears in change with Behavioral Health and like some others don’t have time to focus on the classes. Maybe next time.
It sounds very exiting and exhilarating. I wish you all those who are participating and Ruth & her staff, wish all the best. At present I am involved in something so I wouldn’t have been able to give my 100% but next time around I might take up on this programm.
What wonderful comments and this joint effort of support and growth is to be honoured.
Judith your energy is palpable. Thanks
yes, after living in California for some time, I moved to Mexico and started a practice. Lots of challenges and uncertainty. Languages and culture were just the tip of the ice berg. It has only been a couple of years now and slow going but I love what I do. Maybe some day I can take your course. It is just what I need. all the best.
I love these aresiltc. How many words can a wordsmith smith?
Change and starting new things is usually scary. Nonetheless it is great when you find out you can really do more and better things. Our resources are the, waiting got us to take the first step and achieve our next goal
Of course it is frightening to shine our light out ever brighter.
By shining out your own lights you are inspiring more of us to do the same.
Look out world–a new and brighter age is dawning.
Judith Friedman, MSW
Heck yeah babey-e keep them coming!