Empowered Living and Leading - Montclair, NJ 

Martha Creek, Trainer and Facilitator leads "Empowered Living"

ALL ARE WELCOME.  No Registration Required.  Donations gratefully accepted.

This transformational workshop is designed precisely for a time of rapid changes and supports participants to: 

 • Develop courageous patterns of relating

• Learn to focus on strengths & cultivate options for future

• Boost confidence in responding to life's challenges

• Learn to lead with calm connectedness

• Guide self toward healthy functioning and presence

• Gain skill/mastery in staying present during difficult times

Tenets of leaders in healthy organizations include: 

Persons follow an inner compass.  They are guided by their own clear, coherent beliefs, principles and life goals.

Persons take responsibility for self.They are aware of their own feelings, and neither blame others nor require others to share those feelings. They ask themselves regularly “What can I learn from this situation?”

Persons respond to anxiety. They anticipate and recognize heightened anxiety (due to change, loss, & crisis) and accept periods of tension to address issues and complete tasks.

Persons are challenged.  They allow persons to work through times of stress or pain. They tolerate the discomfort that can go along with the stresses of having a significant mission and individual growth.

Persons respect boundaries.They recognize and respect where one person ends and another begins. Agreed upon roles, structures and procedures are respected. Individual thoughts and feelings are respected. There is little pressure to “go along” with the group.

Persons stay in contact. They resist tendencies to distance or cut off from those with whom there is disagreement. They work together for a sufficient amount of time to maintain relationships.

Correlation of Healthy Organizations Tenets Include:

Surviving Traits                                               Thriving Traits                           

Deny differences                                                                Accept differences

Focus on weaknesses                                                      Focus on strengths

Focus on issues                                                                Focus on mission

Deny conflict exists                                                           Manage conflict                                          

Act rigidly                                                                             Act creatively & flexibly

Depend on skill & technique                                            Increase Presence & Functioning

Stewardship is begrudged                                              Stewardship in gratitude