Introduction: Learning from life
More To Life offers a range of courses based on applying the primary tools of the program and practicing them in your life. Advanced courses within the program allow you to get a deeper grasp of your potential and focus on specific areas of your life.
The place to start is the More To Life weekend or one of the short courses, such as the Art of Response-ability, the Power of Purpose, the Power of Self Esteem and the Power of Connection, where you learn the basic tools and practices.
Following the More To Life weekend, you may take any of the focus courses offered or you may go for the first of several residential courses, such as Way of a Warrior. Each follow-on course is designed to allow you to make new steps of learning and growth in every area of your life.
More To Life Weekend
The experience of your life
The More To Life weekend is an intensive 2½-day course designed to transform the way you perceive the world and yourself within it. This course is broadly made up of three experiential activities
1. Learning to use the tools and skills of the course
2. Practicing them in your course journal
3. Learning from the experiences of other students
Participants receive a set of free CD's summarizing the techniques of the course, and in some places experienced teachers lead follow-up practice classes to help you develop and deepen your new skills.
Pay It Forward More To Life Weekend
The Pay It Forward More To Life weekend is a special offering of the More To Life Weekend course at a reduced rate with the intention of allowing the participants to pay their experience forward by pledging support to the program. Instead of the standard tuition, you pay a non-refundable registration fee, and a contribution will be requested at the end of the course. We would like you to pay the balance of your tuition forward in the same way that others paid it forward for you.
If the experience is as beneficial to you as we believe it will be, we will encourage you to pay this gift forward by:
- Sponsoring our program financially either at the end of the course or with ongoing monthly, quarterly or yearly contributions.
- Sharing your experiences with people around you (friends, peers, family) and inviting them to attend their own More To Life course.
- Partnering in the program by serving on team, participating in practice groups or any of the many opportunities to support the organization while growing personally in the work.
There will be no pressure for any of these options; we simply believe that once you have experienced the course, you will be inspired to Pay It Forward!
Short courses
Unlike the Focus and Advanced courses
More To Life short courses do not have a prerequisite class and can be taken by any adult: the Art of Response-ability, the Power of Purpose, the Power of Self Esteem and the Power of Connection.
The Art of Response-ability
Life happens...How will you respond?
Your response to the events of your life determines the quality of your life. That's the simple, yet powerful, principle behind The Art of Response-ability. When we learn to separate what is really happening around us from the interpretations we make up in our minds, we also change our way of seeing what is happening. We begin to shape a response to life as it really is, not the way we think it ought to be. The Art of Response-ability is a one-day, experiential workshop for accelerating growth in yourself, others and your community. Especially designed for successful, busy, skilled, visionary, inquisitive, adventurous, purposeful, proactive people whose lives are full, whose time is precious and who want to make a difference.
The Power of Purpose
Create what you really want
The Power of Purpose reveals the true nature of personal effectiveness and lets you become aware of when you are really ‘on purpose’ and when you’re not. At the core of the work is the insight that purpose is a product of what our goals really mean to us. The course happens over six 3-hour sessions, and you receive audio materials that will help you deepen your practice between each session, as well as after the course ends.
The Power of Self Esteem
Become who you really are
Self-esteem is the way we measure our own self-worth. The course allows you to transform the way you see yourself and your true personal qualities, and unhook your self-esteem from your verdict on past performance, or even how you happen to be performing at the time. The course takes place over a series of six 3-hour sessions, and occasionally is offered as a weekend course. You receive free audio materials which allow you to practice its tools and techniques between the sessions, as well as after the course ends.
The Power of Connection
Learn to connect with yourself and others
People have different wants and needs, and it can be hard to see how to give another person what they want, except at the cost of what we want. This course offers a unique tool for resolving conflicts and misunderstandings of all kinds. The resulting partnerships allow you to create what you want together. The course takes place over a series of six 3-hour sessions, and occasionally is offered as a 3-session weekend course. Free on-line tutorials are available to offer inspiration and guidance after the course ends.
Focus courses
Once you have completed the More To Life Weekend and have a basic knowledge of its tools and techniques, a series of courses are available to you that focus on specific subjects. These courses help you deepen your ability to make profound shifts in specific areas you want to develop. Here is a sampling of the Focus courses offered:
All the World's a Stage ~ Change the way you are by changing the way you act
The Art of Joyful Living ~ Remove the blocks you place on enjoying your life
Behold the Spirit ~ Find your sacred path in a secular world
The Cutting Edge ~ Discover the edge of your personal growth and step beyond it
Effective Parenting ~ Transform your relationship with children into one of mutual learning
Ethics of the Heart ~ Live by the ethics inspired by your own deepest values
Making Money Count ~ Master your relationship with money and practice money mastery
Opening the Heart ~ Learn to let go of fear and let in love
Relationships ~ Take down the barriers to the relationships you want
Sexuality ~ Liberate yourself from sexual blocks and release your real physical energy
Strengthening the Will ~ Learn experientially how to generate motivation and how the will is formed
Residential courses
Taking a week-long residential course dramatically enhances your personal development. Residential courses take place in inspiring locations and offer you space and time to deepen your learning with the support of our most experienced trainers and the precious company of other students who are on the same path. Here is a sampling of the residential courses offered:
Way of a Warrior ~
Getting the “No!”, going for the “Yes!”: This unique six-day course works with physical as well as mental and emotional experiences to empower you to take a stand on the cultural forces that shape your perception of the world.
Living “Yes!”: This course is part two of Way of a Warrior, which you take together with other WOW students a year after the first course is completed in order to enhance your leadership skills and contribute to the creation of the world we all want to live in.
Evolution of Mastery ~
Take a big new step into your masterful self: This course takes place in a small group, offering a series of individual and group exercises focusing on self-expression to help deepen self-awareness and develop self-mastery.
Seven Days of Creation ~
Life is creative, and so are you: This course involves a small group of advanced students working together to reveal the creativity that can come through every choice we make and everything we do.
Sixth Sense ~
Know what you cannot know, without knowing how: The course uses group work, extended encounters with the environment, a daily meditation practice and personal process work to help you develop your intuitive abilities.
The Pearl ~
Find the pearl that awaits you at the heart of your life experience: This course enables you to bring together the connection between the purpose that life has for you and the meaning of your life as you’ve been living it.
Sacred Path ~
Explore your unfolding spiritual journey: Your sacred path exists as a calling through the challenges and responses you have made to structures of values in the secular world we live in.
Sacred Path II ~
Further steps along the path: The course allows students of the Sacred Path to reconnect with one another after a period of practice and observation of their own lives, enabling you to take a further step into commitment and develop your awareness of the gifts that are on offer.
For more information and to find out when the next course is being offered in your area, visit
www.moretolife.org.
