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Practice of Empowerment
A Professional Training in Facilitating Behavior Change and Deep Transformation
with David Gershon and Gail Straub
David Gershon and Gail Straub are world-renowned for their pioneering work on empowerment and their mastery of personal growth facilitation. Developed over three decades, their empowerment methodology has been used by thousands of practitioners worldwide to enable behavior change and deep transformation at the personal, organizational, community, and societal levels. Their methodology was described in one longitudinal study as “unsurpassed in changing behavior.” This introductory training provides the knowledge and skills to apply this methodology both professionally and personally.
Who Should Attend
- Educators from grades K to 12 wishing to integrate an empowerment approach into their curriculum to accelerate learning, academic performance and development of pro-social behaviors in students.
- Health professionals (doctors, nurses, nutritionists, trainers, health educators, public/community outreach agents) wishing to empower clients or patients to adopt specific health-related behaviors and take greater personal responsibility for the long-term maintenance of their health.
- Corporate trainers teaching leadership development, team building, communication skills, diversity and inclusion, and other organizational skills who wish to enable behavioral change around their content that can be sustained over time.
- Community organizers, educators, and facilitators of public engagement processes who wish to further pro-social behavior change and transformation within a community.
- Trainers who wish to make their exisiting or new training transformational and capable of eliciting behavioral change.
Empowerment Framework
Pactice of Empowerment Videos
The Empowerment Model
Beyond Having the Answers
The Tools to Transform Lives
Empowerment Program Participants Describe Their Experience
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Sponsor the Practice of Empowerment
The Practice of Empowerment can be customized for a professional association, organization or training program. To learn more about this opportunity contact Empowerment Institute.
Become Certified as An Empowerment Facilitator
Empowerment Institute Certification Program led by David Gershon and Gail Straub builds deep competence in the practice of empowerment methodology and facilitation skills and supports you in applying it to a specific transformational change project. To learn more click here.
Transformative Social Change
To learn more about the Social Change 2.0 framework and research underpinning this transformative change methodology, read the free download from the book's introduction, "Reinventing Social Change."
Empowerment Audio
Listen to excerpts from David Gershon and Gail Straub’s best-selling book Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life As You Want It, read by the authors:
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- Part One - Getting Ready
- Part Two - Crafting Reality with Thought
- Part Three - Personal Power
- Part Four - Core Beliefs
- Part Five - The Journey, Emotions
- Part Six - Money
- Part Seven - Work
- Part Eight - Spirituality
- Part Nine - Returning Home: Always Growing, Making Your Passion Happen
Practice of Empowerment Testimonials
"David and Gail present a complete cosmology for how to be an inspiring, effective facilitator of empowerment. One walks away with an excellent map and kit full of tools for doing their work."
— Meryl Bringer, manager