Mentorship Program

 

Advanced Training in Personal and Professional Development for Leaders, Healers, Coaches, Counselors, Mentors and Teachers

Benita A. Esposito, MA, Facilitator

Purpose of the Program: To create healthy personal and professional relationships, eliminate self-defeating behavior, increase health from a wholistic paradigm, enhance intimacy, develop intuition, heighten business success, increase sports performance, and unleash creativity.

This Program attracts people who value deep, meaningful self-awareness practices within a bonded group. Participants receive expert coaching, and they support each other to unpack their full human potential and to assist others to do the same. This is a high-level, deep-dive program. (See pre-requisites below.)

You’ll want to consider enrolling in this group if you (1) Realize you can be the most effective change agent when you do your own transformational work. (2) Want to empower yourself and other people to unleash their full potential. (3) Want to develop mastery in mind-body-emotion-spirit principles and tools. (4) Passionately desire to manifest your fondest dreams. 

You may enroll in the program for the sole purpose of your own growth and/or to facilitate others to reach beyond their perceived potential.

Premises: To be a powerful wise leader and mentor (of yourself and others) you must be intimate with your Higher Power, present in your physical body, and express authentically from your heart. You must be inspired by your visions, sharp in your intellect, and fueled by the passion of your pure emotions. Then your very presence is healing. As you grow in self-awareness, wisdom and unconditional love, you will improve your communication skills and the ability to resolve conflicts. You will increase your ability to listen empathically and to assertively deliver your messages so you develop healthy personal and business relationships. You’ll be able to set healthy boundaries. Natural by-products include increased prosperity, balance, more joy, and healthier communities!

The Program’s Values: We stand for wisdom, peace, integrity, authenticity, honesty, depth, love of Nature, purity in intimacy, wholeness, creativity, prosperity, fulfillment and unconditional love. In order to manifest these qualities on our planet, in our families, and in our work places, we have to do our own inner work so we become that which we want to see in the world.

What will you will learn and experience?

• Resolve self-defeating behavior so you can be an even more powerful, wise leader.

• Apply formerly bound-up energy to achieve your most precious dreams.

• Experience more happiness and well-being.

• Create healthier relationships.

• Thrive in a more intimate relationship with your Higher Power.

• Learn how to transform energy blockages in your physical and emotional body.

• Study mind-body-emotional-spiritual transformation. 

• Apply healthy communication and conflict management skills to the group interactions..

• Practice being present with others from your Authentic Self.

• Tap into the power and love of Nature for deep connection with your Authentic Self.  

Format: This committed group of people will develop skills and bond together over twelve months. Through the safety of the trust built over time, people will be able to lay down their social masks and connect deeply from their Authentic Self.  There is a maximum of 12 participants to ensure the bonding of the group. Short lectures combined with holistic experiential activities ensure maximum learning. All of the learning will take place in beautiful Nature settings. 

Techniques: Enhance your creativity and innovation by combining cognitive and experiential techniques such as relaxation skills and inner voice dialogue. Learn how to use metaphor, music, breath, and movement to facilitate personal transformation, and eliminate pain.

Dissolve resistance and sabotage patterns. We all have different aspects: an inner female, inner male, wounded child, adapted child, critical parent, nurturing parent, the wise one, rebellious adolescent, the clown, etc. We get stuck in ruts in our lives when there is poor communication or conflict within our inner family. You will identify your inner aspects and enhance the communication between them so your energy opens and flows. As a consequence, your external relationships will flourish.

Practice forgiveness. You’ll learn the true nature of forgiveness, which is not commonly practiced on this planet. As a by-product of forgiveness, resistance and self-defeating patterns disappear. Learn how your inner conflicts are mirrored in your external relationships when you are not in a state of self-forgiveness.

Recognize and eliminate self-defeating patterns that stop personal and career fulfillment. Learn to be fully present with your colleagues and your loved ones from your Authentic Self, not your public image. We coach you to become aware of when you are not fully present. You will develop skills for handling other’s judgments onto you, and open the flow of communication.

Practice healthy relationship, communication and conflict resolution skills. These are the backbones of every personal and business relationship. With them, we build effective bridges verbally and non-verbally.

You will help co-create a healthy group. Every participant is responsible and accountable for the success of the group. Everyone has a voice. The group interaction will serve as a mirror for you to see where you are fully empowered, or to see that you feel disempowered. It is OK to make mistakes and learn from them. You don’t have to be perfect. Everything is used for the learning, because learning is the highest value of the group. We will all learn from each other and raise the consciousness of the entire group.  This is a process group. That means we use current life circumstances as our teaching tools. The group is a practice ground for communication skills and all the other skills. The group format can include all the above topics and others as the need arises. Topics will be presented in the order that will be most conducive to the specific participants.

Prerequisites: You must demonstrate a high level of commitment to personal excellence. You must have already done considerable personal growth work. You must be ready for deep, moving experiences. There is nothing superficial about this program. I must be able to determine your skill level.  Therefore, new clients are required to attend a minimum of three private sessions before you enroll in the Mentorship Program. People join by invitation only. If you enroll, and it becomes clear to me that it would be better for you not to attend future sessions, I reserve the right to ask you to step down from the group, and you will get a refund for any payments you have made for future sessions. You may attend the first session, and we will decide if it works best for you to continue.

If you are a new client, please call to schedule your first private session. If you have had one or two private sessions, call to schedule your remaining session to meet your pre-requisite of 3 sessions. Call 770.998.6642. You may opt for phone sessions if you live outside Atlanta. If you are not accepted into the Mentorship Program, you may participate in other groups, teleseminars, workshops, retreats or private sessions to increase your knowledge level so you are ready to enroll at a future date.

Required reading: Get started now! Please read the first 3 books before the first meeting. (1) The Dark Side of the Inner Child by Wolinsky. Detect and transmute unconscious self-defeating mechanisms. (2) The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz. Learn how to consciously create. Your left-brain will like this.  (3) The Wizdom Within by Irving Oyle, M.D. Inner voice dialogue used in physical healing. Buy on Amazon.com as a used copy. It might be out of print.  (4) Becoming Naturally Therapeutic: A Return to the True Essence Of Helping by Jacquelyn Small. Paperback - Jan 1, 1990  (5) Creating by Robert Fritz. How to consciously create. Your right brain will like this.

Venue: Beautiful Nature settings are one of the hallmarks of my work.  We convene at my home in Young Harris, Georgia nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains overlooking Lake Chatuge at the Georgia-North Carolina border. In good weather, we trek through the woods, gather by the shore, or swim in the lake. If it is more conducive to do deep work at home, we stay there. Young Harris is 2 hours north of Atlanta, Georgia. 2 hours from Asheville, NC and 2 hours from Chattanooga, TN.

Commitment: Starts January 2009. This Program is similar to a college level course, and there will be assignments.  We meet one Saturday every 6 weeks for 8 sessions, 9:30a.m. - 7:30 p.m.  People who want to develop the highest level skills will enroll for 1-4 years.

Dates: January 24, March 7, April 18, May 30, July 11, August 22, October 10, November 21.

SAVE BIG!  Regular Tuition: $275.00 per meeting.  Due to the economic crisis, I am extending a special offer to you. When you make your $100 deposit by December 15, you may attend for $160.00 per meeting for the first 4 meetings.

* When you pay for 4 sessions at one time with a check, you will receive a $30 (5%) discount, for a total of $610.

I am making another allowance for you: You may commit for the first 4 sessions, (instead of 8 sessions). You can decide in May if you want to continue for the remaining four sessions. (Other people may be added at that time.) If you feel like this program will be truly helpful to you, and if I feel you are resonate with the group, we will figure out a way for it to work for both of us.  Talk to me and tell me your needs.

Try it before you make the full commitment. You may attend the first session, and decide if you want to commit for further sessions. 

Lodging and Meals: You are responsible for lodging and meals. If you want to arrive the night before, there is limited sleeping accommodations in "slumber party" fashion at my home in Young Harris. *Note: I have 3 cats. There are hotels within 5 minutes of my home. Click here for the hotel list.

There is a maximum of 12 people and a minimum of 5 people required for this program. 

To Register: Call Benita Esposito (770.998.6642) to make an appointment to discuss your participation in the Program. After you are approved to participate in the Mentorship Program, a $100 non-refundable deposit is due to hold your place. Use your credit card at PayPal.com. Ask me to send you an invoice. Please contact me at Benita@EspositoInstitute.com.

Facilitator: Benita A. Esposito, MA Bio

Tagline: Your Authentic Life. Anything Else is Compromise.

Got Questions?  Call Benita Esposito, M.A. at 770.998.6642 or email her at Benita@EspositoInstitute.com.

UPDATED November 10, 2008

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