HumaNext 2010 Learning and Trainer Certification

• Emotional Intelligence at Work
• Diversity and Inclusion at Work
• Cross Cultural Competency
• PLUS: Our Heart & Mind Learning Methodology for training design and facilitation.

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• While you are learning the powerful concepts of emotional intelligence, creativity and innovation, and diversity and inclusion, you will also be experiencing our unique “Hear & Mind Learning”  methodology.
• It is a methodology that ensures that your event enjoys special features that turn ordinary training sessions into great learning experiences.
• Heart and Mind Learning is based on the following:
• If you don’t arouse the heart, you can’t engage the mind.
• If you don’t offer inspiration, you will waste the information.
• People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.

You will receive the complete Facilitator’s Guide and PowerPoint slides for Heart & Mind Learning program after experiencing its powerful concepts, techniques and activities during the event. In H&ML you will learn how to design and deliver a different kind of training that produces breakthrough results based on the following set of powerful "Insights":

• What people focus on becomes their reality: We invite people to shift their focus from the problems they want to fix to the bigger picture of the exciting future they want to create for themselves and the organization.
• Taking the best of the past to the future: The most confident way for people to move to the future is to carry forward the best parts of the past. We help people identify what worked best for them and take it forward to create larger accomplishments.
• Change starts with the individual: We invite participants to adopt Gandhi's principle, "We must become the change we want to see in the world." We believe that people are capable of change once they choose it themselves. Our work helps participants access the source of motivation for change.
• Erring on the side of hope: We hold the belief, supported by research, that the state of being hopeful is one of the key marks of emotional intelligence and effective performance. Our work creates optimism and positive expectations for participants, and enables them to create the same for their clients.
• Commitment to action is self-generated: One of our key "Insights" is that everybody wants to do good work that brings them self-satisfaction and the recognition and appreciation of others. Participants learn how to build upon this to inspire a desire for action and achievement in themselves and others. Because this desire is self-generated, it produces much better results than external incentives and rewards.
• Heart & Mind Learning delivers many more equally powerful insights, twenty in all, that work to create real change in the way people learn, think, and act.

Thank you for making this learning voyage both productive and pleasant. I have begun to consider the challenge, and opportunity the training presents in my personal life, administrative roles, and consulting practice. - George Roets, Director, Public Health Services, Watkins Glen, New York.

You were all so impressive and inspiring, and the materials so interesting – Thank you for sharing your spirits so freely! - Rick Richard Hammett, Full Time Doctoral Student & Graduate Assistant, Texas A&M University.)

Francois, Thank you so much for the wonderful class is New York, which I will never forget. It was one of the most rewarding classes that I have taken. I look forward to collaborations with the great people I met at the class and a rewarding relationship with HumanNext. - Bobbi Ball, Executive Director, Partners in Community Building, Chicago.

I have weaved some of the concepts (of the training) into what I am doing here at the Army... Francois leads his 'Applying Emotional Intelligence' class with a highly effective mixture of kindness, compassion and expertise. He creates and nurtures a cooperative and cohesive classroom environment, where participants are motivated to use their collective synergy to find solutions to their unique challenges."

- Andy Kirkpatrick, CERDEC Executive Coaching Program Director Employee Resources Services US Army

• Trainers who want to learn about emotional intelligence, diversity, inclusion, and cultural competency.
• Trainers who want to take their training design and facilitation to the next level by learning our Heart & Mind Learning methodology.
• Managers and leaders who want to lead their teams with emotional intelligence, diversity, inclusion, and cultural competency.
• Professionals who want to build or expand a training business.
• HR professionals interested in building a culture of emotional intelligence, diversity and inclusion, and cross cultural understanding and competency at work.
• Professionals who want to get certified to deliver our workshops to their internal or external clients by taking the post-event webinar certification option.
• Coaches, consultants, and educators looking for powerful transformational concepts and innovative ways to create personal and organizational change.

People have come from as far away as Australia and the Philippine; from India, England, Ukraine, and Kenya; as well as from Canada and the US to attend our past events.

"This has been a great experience. I have already offered each of the workshops twice at our corporate office and they were all very well received."€ - Jason Dugger, Manager of Development and Retention Pitt-Ohio Express

• While emotional intelligence, diversity, and cultural skills are by their very nature subjects that stir participants’ feelings, our learning experience balances the emotional side with thought-provoking concepts and solid practical applications. That’s why our events have attracted and engaged diverse participants representing those with right and left brain preferences, the high touch and the high tech sides of the training business, and the MBA and Psychology sides of academia.
• Our past participants included the Executive Coaching Program Director, US Army; Head of Media at Mayo Clinic; several university professors including an MBA program director; executive directors of several non-profit organizations; independent consultants and coaches from around the world; training professionals from various American organizations; and others.

You will experience our Learn-by-Teaching approach, learn how to incorporate it in your training, and discover why it has these many benefits:

• It helps each participant present him/herself to others as both a learner and a teacher who has something useful and unique to offer. This has a tremendously positive effect on participants.
• It helps bring a very rich diversity of view points and experiences into the materials being learned, as each participant brings his/her best ideas and experiences to integrate into the content being learned.
• Finally, this approach helps participants get to know each other on many levels, as learners, as teachers, and as supportive colleagues, and gradually as friends.

1- You will experience the event's timely theme: Change Can Happen. As the United States and the world embark on a new decade, what better time to learn and live the powerful experience of change in both its personal and business manifestations.

2- From the moment of your arrival to the event, you will get involved in the exhilarating process of engagement and change. You will not sit back and get lectured to as a passive attendee. You will experience the Heart & Mind Learning in practice. You will be put on a discovery journey where you will be engaged in continuous activities, discussion, exploration, and transformation.

You will receive the complete Facilitator’s Guide and PowerPoint slides for the Heart & Mind Learning program.

3- You will experience the core competencies of “Applying Emotional Intelligence at Work” and its powerful impact on the corporate culture. You will receive the Emotional Intelligence Participant Workbook.

4- You will experience the core competencies of “Diversity and Inclusion” as a vital force for creating a work culture of respect, understanding, creativity, and collaboration. We will cover one benefit of diversity not usually covered by other programs, which is creativity at work. You will experience how diversity fosters creativity and how this helps people achieve breakthrough results.You will receive the Diversity and Inclusion Participant Workbook.

5- You will experience the core competencies of “Cross Cultural Understanding and Communication”. You will receive the Cross Cultural Participant Workbook.

6- You will have the opportunity to get certified to deliver our workshops and methodologies yourself as a HumaNext Certified Facilitator by taking our optional post-event online webinars.

You will learn and sharpen your training design and facilitation skills by learning our Heart & Mind Learning, and you will receive complete Facilitator’s Guide and PowerPoint Slides to enable you to deliver the workshops of your certification, such as:

See some of the photos and comments of the attendees of HumaNext 2009 June event: http://www.humanext.com/humanext-photos.html  

•  Experience the dramatic session opening activities that together deliver a jolt of joy, surprise, and  inspiration. In the first hour of attending you will realize how different this event is and you will start your exciting journey toward discovery, professional learning, and personal transformation.
• Learn why today's leaders need to develop critical emotional intelligence (EQ) competencies.
• Understand the nature of emotional intelligence and how the human brain works.
• Learn the four dimensions of EQ and the key EQ competencies and skills associated with them.
• Develop Self Awareness and understand its impact on attitude and personality.
• Develop and apply Self Control and Management skills in ways that boost leadership and accomplishment.

In this second day morning session we continue Applying Emotional Intelligence at Work. You will:

Diversity and inclusion training can be a powerful agent for changing the organizational culture and creating a positive, productive and respectful workplace. We help participants see and work with diversity as a cultural “state of mind” and “a way of doing business.” We cover all key aspects of diversity, including:

• Cultural Diversity at work:
• • You will understand the dynamics of majority / minority cultures and ethnic groups.
• You will learn how to work effectively with people of different cultural backgrounds.
• You will explore the inclusion / exclusion dynamics in society and the workplace.
• Gender Diversity:
• Our program explores the different ways men and women think, communicate, and work together.
• The research-based content, case studies, and discussion in this area – often neglected by some diversity programs, add an important, highly relevant aspects to diversity and inclusion training.
• How to Work with Persons with Disabilities
• The training covers the area of ability and disability at work and offers guidance and case studies.
• Participants will be able to understand what the law requires and how to work more effectively and fairly with persons with disabilities.

In the third day morning session we continue Diversity at Work, covering:

• We cover, with research based content and case studies, the key characteristics of the four generations of workers in today’s workplace; The Mature Generation; the Baby Boomers; Generation X; and Generation Y.
• Participants will be able to identify and better understand the value system and preferences of each generation, enabling them to work more effectively together.

• We will cover one benefit of diversity neglected by other programs, which is creativity at work. You will experience how diversity fosters creativity and how this helps people achieve breakthrough results.

We then move smoothly to cultural competency and start the third workshop:

• The Cross Cultural Skills and Global Competence workshop will equip you with cross cultural skills and global competency, including understanding the dynamic of cultures and how they impact behavior, and experiencing group activities and case studies that enhance cross cultural understanding and global competency.
• You will explore and understand the main cultural groupings in the world, covering traditional cultures (African, Middle-East, Asian and Latin American), European cultures, and American dominant culture and subcultures.
• You will learn how to analyze and contrast different cultures, including your own, and gain the deep awareness and skills necessary to succeed across cultural differences.

• The workshops described above have been designed and will be facilitated using our proprietary Heart & Mind Learning methodology.
• You will experience this exciting and powerful training methodology first hand through its application to the event's workshops.

"Heart & Mind Learning can change lives!! It has changed mine. Thank you!" - Kitty May Brandel, Ohio (After attending HumaNext 2009 in June).

The exciting learning will take place both indoors and outdoors (weather permitting.)

Lunch will be provided (included) either in the garden patio or river-view restaurant in the hotel.

Most rooms have New York or river views. We select our learning venues carefully to ensure the best environment for learning.

(Travel and hotel costs are your responsibility.) HumaNext has reserved a block of rooms at the reduced price of $99 per night. Call the hotel and ask for HumaNext event special rate.

• Crowne Plaza Hotel
• 2 HARMON PLAZA
• SECAUCUS, NJ 07094 UNITED STATES
• Hotel Front Desk: 1-201-348-6900

We hold our HumaNext events only once a year. In previous events we had to apologize to those who wanted to register after we filled the limited seats available. Register now to ensure your place. Your fee includes lunch for the three days and your Participant Workbook. It Does not include travel and accommodation expenses.

Attending Without Certification: Early Bird Registration for our May 15, 16, 17, 2010 event: Save $400 off the regular fee of $1595. Pay only $1195

If you want to pay in two installments, you can pay as follows:

Contact HumaNext at info@humanext.com

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This question lies at the heart of training, as it invites the larger question of “Does training work?” What makes this question more challenging is the prevailing view that people’s minds and personalities are formed by the age of seven, or even younger. So how can we expect them to change by attending a training workshop at the age of thirty or fifty?

In her book, “Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain” Wall Street Journal science columnist Sharon Begley states, "Yes, the brain can change, and that means we can change.”

Until recently, the reigning theory was that neurons in the brain didn't regenerate. Begley documents experiments showing that new neurons are created in the brain every day, even in people in their 70s. The book provides a convincing account of recent discoveries in brain neuroplasticity. With these discoveries, we can more confidently say that training can be part of a difficult but not impossible change process available to the learner. Yes training does work and yes people can change. But change is not magical nor does it happen at a moment notice. It is a long and difficult journey.

But you cannot change what you don’t know. So for people to truly start their change process, they must first understand their mind, their personality, and themselves. It’s suggested that a training workshop on change at work covers the following points:

1. Introduction of the latest research on brain neuroplasticity (ability to be molded) and emotional intelligence concepts.
2. Exercises to help participants discover themselves using personality type / preferences tools.
3. Activities to help participants discover their genius, or core talents, skills, competencies, and life-calling.
4. Activities to help participants turn their discoveries and insights into behavior.
5. Finally, exploration of ways to apply the learning at work, using role-plays and simulations of daily work problems.

To experience some of these concepts, attend HumaNext 2010 event. Read more about it on this page.

What makes a group of perfect strangers become close partners in personal growth and learning to such an intense level that they write things like, "Only time will truly tell the enormous impact that you have had on my life", and "Listening to you all and learning from you has changed the way I see the world, and helped me build a vision far greater than I'd ever imagined."

Who were these people, why they met, and how they got so engaged in learning and growing?

These were the attendees of HumaNext 2009. They came from various countries and cultures. What made their intense learning experience possible? It's a training design and delivery methodology called Heart & Mind Learning. Here is some of what it meant for this group:

• Attendees didn't just sit still listening to lectures. They got totally engaged through a variety of provoking concepts, discussions, and carefully structured experiences.
• Many participants became also teachers of the materials, practicing the principle that says that the best way to learn a subject is to teach it.
• Participants got involved in a discovery type of learning where they discovered more about themselves, their purpose, and their genius.
• Participants experienced, through role-playing, what it means to actually be saying and doing the concepts they are learning about.
• Inspiration is more important than information. Direction more important than speed. Imagination more important than knowledge. Context comes before content. These are just a few of the Heart & Mind Learning Insights that participants found themselves experiencing and practicing in a natural, effortless way.
• Fun was a constant part of the process. Heart & Mind Learning ensures that learning be exciting while at the same time deep and profound. That is why at the end of three days attendees would write words like, "I loved every moment of it."€

At the end of the event, each of the 24 participants wrote a personal note on a card given to the facilitator, with words like, "It's worth the $6000 it cost me to travel from very far away to attend," and "Much more soul-lifting than any other training program I've ever attended," and "This has been an amazing journey. Thank you."