Free Course on Personal Transformation

Hi All,

I’d like to share some updates about a new free course now available on my website, an upcoming virtual workshop, as well as a new two-day in-person training I’ll be offering in November.

Last week, I published my second free online course. This one is all about Personal Transformation. It includes about 70 minutes of video content wrapped around five principles of transformation that I’ve found valuable in my own work as well as with clients and groups:

Principle 1: Self-Observation and Self-Reflection

Principle 2: Create Space

Principle 3: Dig for Your Purpose

Principle 4: Learn How to Suffer for What’s Important

Principle 5: Let Your Dreams Serve as Guides

I came to the question of personal transformation work after many years of activism and systems change efforts. Participating in numerous social change efforts that struggled to hold themselves together through difficult moments got me wondering how we might start closer to home in building our capacity for creating a better and more authentic future.

What I found is that the principles for human change work across various levels of social interaction. The principles that support personal change also work in relationship, community, organizations, and even at the level of society itself.

While this course is focused on personal transformation, I think the principles can be just as effectively applied to the other levels of human relationship - although how they’re applied will look different depending on context.

I hope you’ll check the course out. If you do, I would so love to hear your questions or feedback. Please send them over to me!

I’ll be offering a 90-minute virtual workshop dedicated to exploring the first practice I outline in my course, which is self-observation. My workshop will happen on Tuesday, September 24 from 6-7:30pm Pacific. If you’d like to join us, you can use this link to register. There is a $17.04 registration fee.

Finally, on Friday and Saturday, November 1-2, I’ll be offering a two-day deep-dive into third principle of my course, “Dig for Your Purpose.” This training will happen in-person in my West Seattle living room between 9am - 4pm on both days. It will be a pretty intimate convening, with a maximum of ten people. Each participant will have the opportunity to work personally with me on dreams, aspirations, fears, or any other experiences that come up for them during the training.

I suggest a contribution of $200 to support the costs associated with the training, and I will offer it on a pay-what-you-can basis. That means that you are welcome to attend whether you can pay $0 or $500. I will trust you to offer an amount that feels right for you and your financial situation.

To register your interest in the training, send me an email at james.boutin@mailfence.com.

Thank you all so much for taking the time to read this update. I appreciate you more than I can say. Please feel free to reach out to me with updates about yourself, questions, or comments. I absolutely love hearing from you.

Lots of LOVE,

James
www.jamesboutin.com

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