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Who Is This For?
This course is for Educators, Facilitators, Community Leaders, Managers – anyone who wants to get MORE results from individuals, classes, teams or groups.
How Will It Help Me?
Are you are constantly working to inspire, direct, teach and engage people? Are you challenged by how hard it is to get groups on the same page and participating? If you want to increase engagement in any group you are working with, you are in the right place. The Mind The Gap Master Class will give you the solutions to those challenges that help you build relationships, increase learning and productivity and foster collaboration.
We have spent 25 years training leaders to build highly productive teams and classrooms. We use a beautiful framework that simplifies the complexity of working with groups – we know it will make a difference for you!
For Educators: Getting students interested and engaged while developing their own voice and expression is so hard when they can so easily keep their distance. With a combined 40 years of teaching and training educators K-16, we can help you create relationship-centric classrooms that you are proud of and get students participating as agents of their own learning.
For Facilitators: Fostering dialogue, participation and getting buy-in when people are apathetic or checked out is so difficult! Instead of tricks or gimmicks, we train you in specific processes to build alignment and engagement so the group you are working with is tuned-in and with you.
For Team Leaders: We know the challenge of bringing people together, dealing with apathy and getting everyone on the same page. The Master Class will help you facilitate better meetings, foster buy-in and support people being their best selves – even in virtual environments!
Helpful in the Current Moment…
This is a short video welcome from Michael Donahue and Brady Rhodes, the Instructors for the Course, that we added to the course after COVID began impacting schools and communities. There was clearly a need for new engagement strategies and the Course helped many educators deal with remote school. While COVID is not disrupting things at the level it was in 2020-21, there continue to be serious disruptions to how we engage with others in the world today and this welcome is still relevant. This video is simply a thank you for your interest and a chance for you to ‘meet’ us.
How Much Does It Cost?
We do our best to keep the cost manageable. Please contact us for group rates. The fee is fully-refundable if you are not satisfied.
One-Time Payment
Your payment gives you access to all six modules, the printable templates and products, the group discussion page and regular live discussions with the instructors!
Payment Plan
Your payment gives you access to all six modules, the printable templates and products, the group discussion page and regular live discussions with the instructors!
Course +1hr Private Coaching
Full access to the course as well as an additional hour of private coaching specific to your need by either of the instructors. The hour of coaching is even available after you complete the modules if needed.
How Long Will It Take?
Most participants find that the class is thought-provoking and can disrupt normal habits of working and being with people (in a good way)! Taking the time to think about and apply the learning will really help. While you could go through the six modules in 10-15 hours total, we recommend taking 2-3 weeks. Learn 1-2 modules a week and take time to reflect and practice the ideas during your normal activities and interactions.
What are the Deep Dives?
The Deep Dive Discussions are a weekly video chat opportunity to learn from others, ask your questions and get support specific to your own situation. They also help hold you accountable! While the Deep Dives are not mandatory, we highly recommend participating. We find that learners who do are more engaged and have higher ownership for their learning. We schedule at least one a week at and can poll current participants to learn the best time and day. The Deep Dives are a great chance for you to problem-solve current challenges and brain-storm solutions with the experienced course instructors and other participants.
What is the Format of the Modules?
Each module starts with a recorded Zoom-style presentation that uses the Prezi presentation platform to visually explore the Framework, while the instructors narrate and provide deeper explanation. This makes it easy to pause and return to different segments as needed. Accompanying each video are further written descriptions, some audio introductions and templates to print out and use on your own. Most importantly perhaps are the Practice suggestions and Reflection Prompts: using the newly-learned material in your real life workspace and personal life will enrich the learning experience and deepen your understanding. Plus it makes for great conversation during the Deep Dives!
The Course Outline can be viewed below and each Module’s components are described so you can get a sense of what each one focuses on.
Can I Try It Out First?
There is free access to most of Module 1 below and you can see all the different lessons and get a sense of how the course is structured.
Can I Get a Refund If I Don’t Like It?
Absolutely! If you are not satisfied with the course, please contact [email protected] and we will be happy to refund your payment.
The End Result…
MUCH Greater ownership, achievement, engagement, partnership.
MUCH Less apathy, drama, miscommunication, distance and low participation
Professionally AND Personally
All BoldLeaders courses are designed with the whole YOU in mind. Our work will be immediately useful in the workplace for sure, yet these are human-centered practices that work in any environment. We know they will be helpful to you personally throughout your life with friends, family, partners and more.
Certification
An end of the course assessment is available for everyone who would like to receive a certificate of completion from BoldLeaders. We are working on developing the course for Continuing Education Credit and will apply that as it becomes available.
Course Instructors
The Mind the Gap Master Class – Free Material and Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction and Learn to Create a Shared Intention
Each week we host a Deep Dive Discussion into the content and ideas. The Deep Dive takes place via video conference (or your phone if needed) and is your chance to talk live with the course instructors and each other and clarify common challenges. The Deep Dives are just that: an engaging way to explore a course concept or tool.
Module 2: The Value of Causing Relational Environments
The video presentation for this Module introduces the Framework and sets the overall context of the Relational Environment that is the crux of the whole thing. We will build the Framework throughout the course until you can activate it in a number of ways and get that social energy of an effective group, class or team going!
Two short readings that focus on a facilitator/leader’s role in being available so that the group can then in turn be available also.
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This reading describes the three aspects of the Integrity Triangle and poses questions for reflection. The Practice Lesson for the week is to do the work of the Integrity Triangle for yourself.
The practice for this Module is to reflect on the Integrity Triangle questions for yourself and in the company of others. The act of reflection itself will draw you closer to your work with others.
Each week we host a Deep Dive Discussion into the content and ideas. The Deep Dive takes place via video conference (or your phone if needed) and is your chance to talk live with the course instructors and each other and clarify common challenges.
Module 3: Generating Participation, Learning and Collaboration Begins With You
This Module’s presentation of the Framework looks at You. We review the Integrity Triangle, introduce the Pre-Questions and then add two more of the First 10 – all designed to help you mind the gap between yourself and that relational environment.
This is a description of the three Pre-Questions: vital ways to look at working with a group and balance your way of doing and being…We use these before every time we work with a group.
This Lesson includes a printable worksheet and gives you a chance to practice the Pre-Questions. They are useful in any situation, and we recommend you try this out a few times.
Each week we host a Deep Dive Discussion into the content and ideas. The Deep Dive takes place via video conference (or your phone if needed) and is your chance to talk live with the course instructors and each other and clarify common challenges.
Module 4: Using the Metaphor of the Elephant Rider and the Value of Cause Pause
This video presentation looks at the metaphor of the Elephant Rider as a way to describe the processes we need to take into account when working with ourselves and others.
In this lesson we identify the value of Cause Pause in relation to the Elephant/Rider metaphor and summarize the five elements of the First 10 that we have introduced so far.
The practice for this Module includes DOING several of the First 10, including Information and Non-Normal. You can apply these to any daily interaction.
Each week we host a Deep Dive Discussion into the content and ideas. The Deep Dive takes place via video conference (or your phone if needed) and is your chance to talk live with the course instructors and each other and clarify common challenges.
Module 5: Understanding the Value of Best Self in Creating Relational Environments
This week’s lesson helps us understand how the idea and context of ‘best self’ can work as a foundational context for the Framework for Availability and also be used as an operational tool. We flip the script on our goal as well and see how the framework can be used to reverse engineer results.
This reading helps reinforce the idea of Best Self as a generator and something generated by the Framework for Availability.
Practice for this Module gives you a chance to think through the lens of best self for yourself and for others and notice the impact.
Each week we host a Deep Dive Discussion into the content and ideas. The Deep Dive takes place via video conference (or your phone if needed) and is your chance to talk live with the course instructors and each other and clarify common challenges.
Module 6: Causing Availability in Others: the First 10 and Tying It All Together
A video presentation to complete the First 10 and give a final overview of the Framework, full of context and structures.
A profound aspect of working with individuals or groups and a practice that is often skipped over or assumed, Permission can quickly alter listening for individuals and groups and enlarge joint ownership.
The First 10, all together in a PDF as a printable cards. This Module puts them all in one place for your ease of use.
As expected, the Suggested Practice is to use the First 10: find opportunities to use each of them in any setting and see what difference they make.
Each week we host a Deep Dive Discussion into the content and ideas. The Deep Dive takes place via video conference (or your phone if needed) and is your chance to talk live with the course instructors and each other and clarify common challenges.
