Patience

Virtues Summer Institute & MentorShip

Virtues Summer Institute & MentorShip

Come to the beautiful Pacific Northwest for this FIRST EVER Virtues Summer Institute & MentorShip.

Aboard this “MentorShip,” choose from a menu of interactive workshops guaranteed to transform your thinking and acting personally and professionally. For individuals, educators, parents, business people, and community members.

Would you like to:

Navigate confidently through tough times?
Discover your true moral compass and act from it
Set clear boundaries with relevant consequences for yourself, in your family, at work?
Learn a new positive language with virtues?
Reduce fear, criticism and negative behavior?
Chart a clear course for yourself, your goals, and your life?
Create an environment of respect, integrity, and excellence in schools, organizations, and families

Learn to navigate by the light of your virtues and use the five strategies of The Virtues Project™ to plot your course.

*"The Virtues Project has truly transformed every aspect of my life. As a teacher, I now have tools to help me in positive communication with students. I remain calm and have the words when a challenging situation presents itself. As a mother, I wish I had had these tools when my children were younger! But even with grown children, our relationships have been strengthened with the tools to support each other when challenges arise. " -Linda Myrick, Bellevue, WA*

All programs are held in Seattle, WA at Seattle University; lodging and meals are available at reasonable cost.

Introduction to The Virtues Project™: Awakening the Gifts of Character

The Virtues Project™ is an award-winning, non-sectarian program that teaches simple elements of character honored by all cultures and spiritual traditions—52 virtues. This 12-hour course includes the basic principles and the five strategies of The Virtues Project™.

Mon. & Tues., July 6 & 7
9:00 AM to 4:30 daily
Master Facilitators: Lynda Brooke & Betsy Lydle Smith
Fee: $297 early bird rate ($347 after June 1) includes materials & snacks
Course description: http://virtuestraining.com/Introduction

Setting Your Sail/ Mentoring-Part 1 A one-day practicum to integrate the virtues and strategies you’ve learned in the 2 Day Intro. using arts, crafts and fun activities. Also available as a refresher for those taking the Facilitator Program July 9-11.

Wednesday, July 8
Master Facilitator: Lynda Brooke
Fee: $97 early bird ($127 after June 1)
May only be taken with Introduction to The Virtues Project or The Virtues Project Facilitator Program.

The Virtues Project™ Facilitator Program (pre-requisite: Introduction to The Virtues Project)

Thurs., Fri., Sat., July 9, 10, 11
9:00 am to 4:30 daily
Master Facilitators: Betsy Lydle Smith & Lynda Brooke
Fee: $547 early bird ($597 after June 1)
Includes The Leader’s Manual CD, materials & snacks
Certificate as VP Facilitator & membership in world-wide facilitator network

For course description, go to http://virtuestraining.com/The_Virtues_Project_Facilitator_

Taking the Helm- Mentoring Part 2 (for Virtues Project™ Facilitators & Master Facilitators who wish to receive mentoring)

Based on preferences of the participants, topics may include:

Best practices & teaching strategies
Structuring your workshops
Marketing, pricing, promotion
Working with schools & organizations
Offering facilitator training (for Master Facilitators)

There are also opportunities to facilitate a segment of the Intro. or Fac. Program, with evaluation and suggestions by the master facilitators.

Taking the Helm may be taken with other programs or by itself.

Sunday, July 12
9 am to 3:30 PM
Master Facilitator: Betsy Lydle Smith
$197 ($247 after June 1) includes materials and one hour follow-up consultation by phone or email.

10% DISCOUNT FOR REGISTERING FOR MORE THAN ONE PROGRAM

Special discounted rate for Virtues Project Facilitators for July 8-12 workshops. Contact betsy@virtuestraining.com for details.

CLOCK HOURS AVAILABLE FOR WA STATE TEACHERS

HEAR WHAT OTHERS SAY: http://virtuestraining.com/22_testimonials

More about the Facilitators: Lynda Brooke, of Vancouver, BC, Canada, is a Master Facilitator of The Virtues Project with 30 years of experience in the business sector. She has also worked with government, nonprofits, and NGOs. She facilitated dozens of Virtues Project workshops in several Carribbean countires in recent years, bringing her amazing storytelling and hands-on activities, and her joyful spirit to diverse audiences.

Betsy Lydle Smith, of Bellevue, WA, is a certificated K-12 teacher who has taught in five school districts. A Virtues Project Master Facilitator since 2001, she has facilitated hundreds of workshops for educators, parents, and organizations in several states, Canada and Japan.

"Patience is quiet hope and expectation based on trust, that in the end, everything will be all right. Patience means waiting. It is enduring a delay or troublesome situation without complaining. It means having self-control because you can't control the way someone else is acting or when things don't go as you'd like. Patience is being calm and tolerant when difficult things happen. Patience is seeing the end in the beginning."

-excerpts from the Virtues cards with permission from The Virtues Project™

Questions for reflection:

How do I practice patience in our fast-paced world?
What helps me to be calm and tolerant when difficult things happen?
How can I help the children in my life to be patient?

I recently facilitated a 2 day Virtues Project workshop for the wonderful, dedicated staff of Discovery Montessori School in McAllen, Texas. Here's what Director Robin Cain wrote about Montessori and The Virtues Project:

"It supports Montessori's philosophy and methodology beautifully. Recognizing that virtues are 'the gifts from within', the Virtues Project affirms Montessori's observations of the child's inner guide, and the need for the child to learn to connect to the inner guide to choose what is best. It gives the children (and adults) a beautiful and simple format to cultivate a complete language of the virtues. In addition to the virtues we often use in our Montessori philosophy, those of grace, courtesy, respect, caring, love and kindness, children and the adults in their lives are enriched by learning to fine tune some useful virtues like moderation, tact, assertiveness, enthusiasm, purposefulness, diligence and idealism. We use the language of the virtues to ACKNOWLEDGE the beautiful 'gems' that children are developing, and thereby help them recognize they can use these gems in a variety of situations. We use the language of the virtues to GUIDE children to a virtue that will help them handle a situation with peaceful integrity. We use the language of the virtues to CORRECT children with a virtue that will help them avoid a problem in the future."