Conscious Life Design
Conscious Life Design is a six-week live online course hosted by Katie Elliott.
The course will help you to get clearer about:
- your unique style of being and doing in the world
- what matters to you
- where you want to get to
- simple, everyday steps you can take to get there
This is for you if you’re trying to find a sense of purpose, direction and clarity of action in a world that’s changing fast.
Course structure
Start here (week 1)
One-to-one session with Katie exploring where you're starting from and exactly what you want to get from the course.
Noticing (week 2)
Learn to tune into the essential information you already have about what makes you tick.
Meaning (weeks 3 and 4)
Now that you’re more in touch with your individual way of being, we'll go deeper into an exploration of your personal purpose, values and gifts.
Design (weeks 5 and 6)
Having got clear about what matters to you, you'll use simple, evidence-based strategies to create practical, everyday behaviours to help you get from where you are to where you want to be.
Tell me more...
There will be a maximum of 15 participants. This will ensure that everyone will get plenty of opportunity to explore, share, be listened to and receive one-to-one support.
We’ll spend some of the time all together, but much of it working in very small groups.These will change each week, so you’ll have the chance to connect and work with lots of different people. There’ll also be opportunities for personal reflection, both during and between sessions.
From the first step to the end of the journey, we’ll take an experimental approach, encouraging deep listening and respect, both towards other participants and - most radically - towards ourselves.
We'll draw on concepts from psychology, philosophy and behavioural science to help shift old thinking, form new habits and find a gentler approach to getting the best out of ourselves.
The next Conscious Life Design course will start in early 2021.
If you'd like to know as soon as bookings open, please use the form below. Thank you!
Optional extras
The six-week Conscious Life Design is a complete process in itself. However, if you're eager to build on what you're discovering in the course, you might like to explore two additional complementary options:
1. Core Gift Discovery© process:
One 90-minute one-to-one session to be taken between weeks 2 and 5 of the course
"Designed over a twenty-year period, the Core Gift Discovery© process has been completed with thousands of people from many walks of life.
The process has five steps and takes approximately 1½ hours to complete, resulting in your individualised Core Gift Statement.
The entire process is designed to draw out your unique YOU. Unlike other popular strength-finding assessment tools, the Core Gift process doesn’t ask you to choose from pre-determined choices, doesn’t compare you to other people, and doesn’t place you into pre-determined “This is you” categories as a result of your answers. The result you come up with is designed by you, unique to you, and verified by you." (Excerpt taken from the Core Gift Institute website.)
2. Follow-up one-to-one coaching:
120 minutes of one-to-one coaching to take place within six months of the end of the course
If you'd like extra support and accountability after the course finishes, you might find it helpful to plan in some one-to-one coaching sessions. These can be taken as two 60-minute or four 30-minute blocks to suit you and can be used to help you adjust your goals, routines and habits to keep yourself on track.
Hi, I'm Katie...
Having spent the last few years exploring simple, evidence-based ways to help myself transform my own life*, I've learned a lot about behaviour change - the hard way.
Along the road, I've discovered that there are a number of things it's helpful to understand if you want to change the way you're living. For example, it helps to have:
- a well-developed sense of self-awareness
- the ability to tune into the things you know, but don't realise that you know
- a spirit of gentleness and self-compassion
- a willingness to prioritise curiosity and experimentation over judgement
- an understanding of how to set meaningful goals
- a basic knowledge of how to form new habits and shift old ways of doing things
- clarity around your personal values
- an awareness of the unique combination of skills and gifts you bring (and the difference between the two)
I'm passionate about creating safe, welcoming, attentive spaces in which people can come together to learn from themselves and one another in improvisatory, playful, mutually-supportive ways.
Aside from significant personal experience of behaviour change, I'm the host of the Adventures in Behaviour Change podcast (interviewing top experts from the fields of psychology and behavioural science), the founder of Little Connections (facilitating nearly 150 conversations between strangers from all around the world), the inventor of Amiko Cards (the self-care reminder tool), the creator and host of DO Notice (a live, online workshop in partnership with the DO Lectures), and a certified Master Facilitator of the Core Gift Discovery© Process.
*You can find the whole story here.
Testimonials:
Katie has a profound wisdom and a strong POV all delivered in the gentlest of ways. She is one of those rare people that can allow the room to be comfortable in silence.
She affords you the ability to think, to listen and to notice things you may not have ever noticed had you not been asked that one simple question that she'll likely ask you.
If you ever have the chance to be part of one of her workshops, leap at it.
You will not leave the same as you entered.
The course with Katie gave me a completely fresh perspective on purpose and my own unique abilities and gifts.
She has a rare level of presence that allows people to go deep into the most human parts of themselves and come up with gold.
I felt able to be at ease in myself and with the others in the group, and from that place I uncovered preferences, skills and desires that had been under the surface, which are helping me make more exciting new choices about what’s next.
In the madness and uncertainty of this year, I was super delighted to have met Katie!
Katie has a magnificent gift in creating intimate practical forums allowing gentle but deep exploration of self.
Katie has been brilliant in helping me to slow down and to just ‘be’. To notice and take stock and use reflections and insights to find alignment to who I am.
Ultimately this allowed me to supercharge myself and to be in control again so I could propel forward with heightened awareness and purpose.
This summer I signed up for a course Katie was running. I learned a tremendous amount.
If I wanted to find an app for a facilitator, I would download Katie Elliott. She is incredibly calm and has a really brilliant capability for deep listening. Her approach is very thoughtful, thought-provoking and insightful.
Katie is phenomenal at curating a space for people to find enlightenment, clarity and space to think. It's a pleasure to be there.
Wondering if this is a good fit for you?
Have a quick chat with me, one-to-one on Zoom to ask any questions you might have and see if this feels like the right thing for you.
Absolutely no selling or pressure to commit to anything - just an opportunity to gather some more information and say hello.
If you’d like to do this, please get in touch and we'll arrange a time to talk.
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