Leading Out Of Drama (LOD®)

This introductory workshop considers the basics of Compassionate Accountability®,  outlining strategies for transforming the energy of conflict into meaningful contribution. Understand your role in drama and negative conflict. Learn to adjust your behavior for healthier and more effective interactions. Feel more confident in engaging others and be the person who can do conflict without all the drama. This course includes the online Basic Drama Resilience Assessment ®. 

This one-day training workshop introduces the core theory and concepts of NextElement’s Compassion Cycle. All participants take the online full Drama Resilience Assessment® (DRA). This course will launch participants on a journey of self-discovery, provide new insights for dealing with drama, and set the stage for further applications of LOD. 

Live and Online workshops catering for groups of 4 - 30 participants, the course is available for 1:1 training as part of MTG's Tools-based Coaching program.

Three separate but complimentary one-day workshops, (or in online live webinar format eg 4 X 2hr by Zoom), after which you will have acquired the full suite of PCM Core skills . The workshops comprise: 

• Communications Essentials workshop 
• Personality Structure and Motivation Essentials workshop
• Miss-communications and Distress workshop   or in online live webinar format (4 X 2hrs ) for groups of 4 - 12 persons

After this intensive three-day training workshop you will have the skills to:

• Observe and decode behaviour through learning to hear what others are saying
• Predict and identify the onset of disruptive behaviour
• Improve your leadership potential by using adaptive communication
• Motivate yourself and others
• Detect and correct miscommunication before it creates a problem
• Find out why conflicts have escalated
• Respond quickly to defuse tricky situation
• Invite others back into positive communication and behaviour
• How verbal and non-verbal clues help us to assess a situation and how to motivate ourselves and others and communicate effectively

Advanced three-day training workshop. As well as perfecting techniques learned in PCM 1, you will discover:

• The underlying emotional issues each personality phase has which may cause periods of long-term and intense distress
• The role our early environment plays in our behaviour and how it can lead to miscommunication
• How personality types, their needs, channels, perceptions and distress patterns all come  together and are highly predictable
• How those distress patterns are linked to particular 'scripts' , which are the negative blueprints of life by which we can sabotage ourselves
• How long-term distress patterns influence the 'life' of organisations and family
• How to analyse letters and emails to understand the author and identify distress