Coaching - Center for The Empowerment Dynamic

Who Do You Want To Be?

Coaching with The Empowerment Dynamic

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An online course that blends life-changing insights with small group practice and real-time experiential learning.

Facilitated by Donna Zajonc, MCC

The Empowerment Dynamic is a revolutionary approach to creating an entirely new human operating system. This groundbreaking personal development experience is designed for professional coaches, experienced human resource specialists, counselors, therapists, leaders, and others who are supporting people in their personal and professional development.

People are experiencing extraordinary levels of stress and overwhelm, both personally and professionally. To support them we must first free ourselves from our own drama and personal stories. We simply cannot partner with others unless we are first liberated from our own self-imposed limitations.

The Empowerment Dynamic coaching course is a profound, yet clear and simple method to free yourself from your reactive habits. When you embrace The Empowerment Dynamic roles of Creator, Challenger, and Coach, something amazing happens. Reactive drama is transformed into results and dreams that really matter.

At the end of this powerful course, you will leave with an expanded experience of how to trust your inner guidance as your true source of wisdom and creativity and be ready to partner with others as they strengthen their impact as a leader and coach.

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Meet the Faculty

Donna Zajonc, MCC

Donna Zajonc’s mission is to partner with individuals, teams, and organizations who want to bring their innate wisdom to life and work through the application of TED* (The Empowerment Dynamic)®. Donna is a Master Certified Coach and Director of Coaching for the Center for The Empowerment Dynamic. Her new book, “Who Do You Want To Be on the Way to What You Want: Coaching with The Empowerment Dynamic” was published in March 2022. Donna has collaborated with David Emerald for 15 years to bring The Empowerment Dynamic to the global community, working together to create unique trainings and programs that have changed the lives of thousands. Each week Donna and David co-author TED* Works!®—their free Friday blog—sharing tips on how to shift from drama to empowerment. Over 400 coaches have completed the TED* for Coaches webinars she first launched in 2012. In 2017, Donna was honored by the Washington State International Coach Federation of the Year for the advancement of coaching excellence. Speaking with Donna, you will hear her deep understanding of the concepts and her desire to authentically apply The Empowerment Dynamic in her own work and life.

Anne-Marie Clear, PCC

Anne-Marie Clear is a Teacher, Coach, Workshop Leader and Speaker. She holds an M.A. in Counseling, is a PCC Trained Coach, a Licensed HeartMath Trainer and Coach, a Licensed 3VQ Trainer and a Certified True Purpose Coach. Anne Marie shows you how to use the power of your heart to transform your life and live authentically. When you live courageously from the heart and stand in your value, your life becomes integrated and whole. Anne Marie Clear is the founder and president of Clear Directions. For over 25 years she has helped world class scientists, business professionals and people live their best life by learning to live “heart first.”

Ann V. Deaton, PhD, PCC

Ann is a leadership and team coach whose work focuses on individuals, teams, organizations, and communities experiencing significant change and growth. Ann has been engaged with TED* and 3VQ since the early days, often applying these concepts to the drama that occurs in her own life and work. Ann frequently incorporates neuroscience into her work, and is author of two books: VUCA Tools for a VUCA World: Developing Leaders and Teams for Sustainable Results and Being Coached: Group and Team Coaching from the Inside. The principle learning from this Session is that coaches partner with their clients to shift their focus from a Problem Mindset to the Outcome Mindset and the dreams they want to manifest. When coaches become skilled in this principle, they will shift how they listen to their clients, and what they listen for — problems or dreams?

After my clients go through coach training for leaders at their company, they feel quite lost in how to lead and hold their direct reports accountable. Coaching with The Empowerment Dynamic really provides a simple (yet complex) framework that is SO helpful in supporting my clients. Knowing they can step into the Coach and Challenger role has greatly impacted each of them and their ability to lead! Thank you!”

Sharon Ilstrup, SLI Coaching, Leadership & Career Coach

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Coaching with The Empowerment Dynamic is for professional coaches and those for whom coaching is an important leadership competency, this track is based on Donna’s latest book and curriculum.

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Who is this course for?

This course is ideal for you if:

You are comfortable with emotions, even strong emotions,
You have a deep desire to serve the common good,
You are an experienced professional coach, therapist, counselor, minister, or human development specialist,
Your thinking goes beyond the worrisome “what should I do with my life” to excitement about what you are yearning for and creating,
You are recovering from a fixing and pleasing mindset,
You trust that clarity resides in the gap of “not knowing” and you want to be adept at relaxing into the tension of deep personal growth, and
You have an inkling of your deeper longings, and you want to hang out with others who are attracted to conversations about life’s meaning and purpose.

You may still have questions, of course, about “where do I fit” and “how do I best bring my gifts to the world?” You also want to learn more about The Empowerment Dynamic coaching principles, skills, and tips on how to support and coach others as they clarify their gifts and desired outcomes.

This course is not for you if:

You are looking for someone to tell you what is the best coaching technique or skill that you should learn,
You have done little personal growth work or have never been coached or in therapy,
You look for external reasons for your struggles,
You want focus on learning how to set up your business and attract more clients, and/or
You are simply looking for continuing education credits.

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Course Details
May 2022 Course Closed.

2022 Dates: Tuesdays 8:30-10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time

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- Orientation: May 17 (8:30-9:30 AM PDT)
- Week 1: May 24
- Week 2: May 31
- Week 3: June 7
- Week 4: June 14
- Week 5: June 21
- Week 6: June 28
- Break: July 5
- Week 7: July 12
- Week 8: July 19
- Week 9: July 26
- Bonus Session: August 2
Additional weekly pod work outside of scheduled Tuesday sessions.

Cost: A one-time payment of $1450 USD or 4 payments of $375 USD

The Course Purpose

The main purpose of this course is to wake up your inner wisdom that will show you how you want to be of service in the world. This wiser part, your Creator essence, is the essential foundation of The Empowerment Dynamic. The course intention is to awaken your heart and mind, not just for your own well-being, but also to bring your gifts and wisdom to others—indeed, to the world. What could be a better purpose than that!

Applying your new awareness to real-life situations, the easy and the difficult ones, you can continuously grow and evolve. You will learn to let go of your own confusion and limiting stories that can get in the way of who you say you want to be and how you wish to serve. When you make this courageous commitment, you find that everything matters. Each moment becomes an opportunity to practice nurturing your Creator essence as your natural and true self.

When your highest vision is to awaken yourself to your abiding goodness—goodness that resides in you and all people—you have a greater ability to positively influence others. As you follow your yearning to wake up from the slumber of your reactive habits, little by little you are making space for a profound new identity of who you say you really are.

A Game Changer: Coaching with The Empowerment Dynamic

The Empowerment Dynamic (TED* for short) is a dynamic approach to upgrading the human operating system. It is a bridge to a new paradigm where the focus is on creativity, co-operation, collaboration, care, and passion—where individual gifts are integrated to create a new and more dynamic whole. In order to evolve into the new system, one must dive deep inside their current human operating system that blinds, and binds, you to the old. That is what makes TED* a game changer. It accelerates self-awareness of outdated systems in order to unleash new and unlimited possibilities that are waiting to emerge.

During this 12-week learning journey, you will deepen your own understanding of the mindset in which The Empowerment Dynamic rests. You will learn clear and simple tools to deepen your creativity and strengthen your impact as a coach and leader.

A mindset is a set of beliefs that shape one’s thinking and actions. The Empowerment Dynamic mindset is anchored in the belief that each person embodies an innate creative intelligence and basic goodness as their true nature. This principle asks that you experience and wake up to this knowledge in your own life. Accompanying others on this powerful inner journey happens only in theory unless you first experience it for yourself.

The Who Do You Want To Be? course is based upon an empowering mindset that is outcome-focused and purpose-driven and inspires continuous learning, while remaining flexible and resilient. When our mindset shifts from focusing on a set of problems and limitations to a desired outcome we care about—and we believe the outcome is possible—an extraordinary shift happens in our mind and heart.

But humans have an inner conflict. Even as we strive to improve our lives and be the best people we can be, our brains are wired to gravitate toward our shortcomings, looking for danger around every corner. Fear and worry keep us attached to unhelpful but familiar habits, which in turn perpetuate a resistance to the very change and growth we seek. Resolving this dilemma is the basis of our revolutionary approach to personal transformation.

The curriculum is therefore designed for you to learn to welcome a full range of emotions (both positive and difficult emotions), calm your neurology, strengthen self-reflection, and feel more confident that you can consistently access and trust your Creator essence.

Many personal transformation programs teach communication techniques and human relationship skills. Other programs offer personality assessments and feedback tools to explain why we humans want what we want. Coaching with The Empowerment Dynamic’s unique approach goes further by teaching advanced self-reflective strategies, with numerous tips and tools for how to be your best self on the way to what you want to achieve.

Within this innovative approach to life which is based upon Donna Zajonc’s book, Who Do You Want to Be on the Way to What You Want?, reactive habits that get in the way of being who you want to be are instantly illuminated. The Empowerment Dynamic and its roles of Creator, Challenger, and Coach bring the Creator essence to the forefront, empowering you to become a fearless champion for your own personal transformation and that of your clients.

What Participants Will Experience
The Who Do You Want to Be? course curriculum is designed for participants to experience The Empowerment Dynamic in new ways. The Empowerment Dynamic rapidly helps you come out of a box you didn’t know you had put yourself in for most of your life. It is a liberating revelation to get free of old drama stories and feel more freedom, ease, and aliveness. Participants will be guided on an experiential journey of:
- Becoming familiar with your body’s sensations and heavy feelings when you are caught in the Drama Triangle roles of Victim, Persecutor, and Rescuer.
- Feeling your emotions shift toward passion, enthusiasm, and desire when your mindset shifts from problems to outcomes.
- The glorious experience of fully knowing and trusting your Creator essence.
- Becoming deeply curious about the conscious and unconscious connection between thinking, emotions, and behavior that make up the human operating system.
- Awakening your inner observer and expanding your ability to witness and accept all emotions with compassion, insight, and a deeper awareness of how you have previously made meaning of your life experiences.
- Incorporating somatic exercises to feel, experience, and welcome the creative energy in the gap between what you want and what you really have, and,
- Trusting your experience with new confidence and the joy that comes from expressing your unique and creative gifts.

What Participants Will Learn
The world is evolving at Mach-speed and our bodies and minds are racing to catch up to this new level of complexity. Do you want flexibility and resilience so you can offer your creativity and positive impact to this emerging world? Do you want a new you, not caught in the undertow of your reactive emotions and habits? You will learn all this and more.
- More awareness of the human tendency to default to the Problem Mindset as an anxiety management system and not a problem-solving system.
- Deeper recognition of problem-focused thinking and language and how to reframe problems to outcome statements.
- Greater understanding of the latest neuroscience research and how to break free of old and toxic patterns of reactivity and drama.
- Deeper appreciation of the art of curiosity—what it is, what it isn’t, and how to expand and nurture this astonishing way of being.
- How to be comfortable with strong emotions and the ability to self-regulate one’s emotional experiences.
- How to cultivate reflective practices that help distinguish between reflecting and ruminating.
- Deeper awareness of self and one’s intuition—our Creator essence—as a profound insight and wisdom.
- Clearer insights into your true motivations and intentions behind your actions.
- How to take baby steps even in the paradox of “not knowing” and the power of incremental learning.
- How to appreciate humor and be in a joyous relationship with the human experience.

The Course Organization

The course has two parts. The first part is a self-based online eCourse titled, 3 Vital Questions: Applying the Power of TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic) to Work and Life. This is a 100% self-directed course with 18 mini-videos and a 30-page workbook that will give you a strong foundation in the principles of The Empowerment Dynamic. You will receive full access to this course when you register.

The second part of the course includes live group learning sessions that will meet via Zoom video calls. These sessions are approximately two hours and will include theoretical frameworks and breakout sessions to practice the principles in real time.

In addition to the larger cohort sessions, you will work in a small group, or “pods,” of three to four participants. These sessions, which also take place via Zoom video calls, allow for more intimate sharing, application, practice, and learning together. The combination of the full cohort and small pods sessions occur over 12 weeks alternating between meeting in the full cohort and pods. The group sessions will explore the principles of The Empowerment Dynamic, while the pod work will emphasize experiential learning with your accountability partners.

ICF & ACSTH
At the completion of this course, coaches may request:
- An estimated 35 ICF CE credits (application to ICF for CE credits is pending) and,
- Course materials to support your ACSTH application.
What’s Next?

In the fall of 2022, a second course will be launched that focuses on how to coach others with The Empowerment Dynamic framework. Together these two courses will greatly enhance your personal development as well as how to apply the TED* tips and tools to coach others. When both courses are complete, coaches may apply for the designation “The Empowerment Dynamic Certified Coach.”

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Deepen Your CREATIVITY and Strengthen Your INFLUENCE as a leader and coach.

How do I, and my clients, learn from our reactive habits instead of pushing them away? Why do the same habits keep reappearing in the first place? How can my drama patterns show me the way to being the person I want to be?

This new book is a fundamental element to Donna’s Coaching Course. Read more about the new Coaching Course which launches in May below:

BRAND NEW!

Who Do You Want To Be On the Way To What You Want:
Coaching with The Empowerment Dynamic
is available on Amazon.

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Thank you for your new book. You have helped me make sense of so many of my burning questions. A few things stand out:

Appreciate the role of focus much clearer – confirmation bias, role of 3 stories, listening model

Drama roles in response to uncomfortable emotions – had not seen that as clearly before

Gaining clues to ‘what I want’ from all parts, emotions, roles and triggers

The role of attachments to what I want and how that generates a problem reactive stance.

Clearer links with TLC reactive tendencies”

Mark Mercer

This course has given me language and structure as a coach and leader to engage with others and hold my fire more, allowing others to find their way forward. It’s working! I’m a great rescuer and this has actually been freeing to me. So more present with the other person. I see how much more empowered they feel too. Thank you.”

Rosemary Clark, Director of Sacremento Area Sewer District Operations

If you want a holistic approach to coaching, this is The Course for you. Not only will your clients have an opportunity to address their shadows and move into a richer appreciation of self but you as a coach will make leaps and bounds in the mastery of transformation.

Shauna Kalicki, SHRM-SPC