How do we rise strong from this moment and thrive again?
Join us in the Rising Strong online course starting Thursday Jan 13th, 2022, as we learn how to bounce back, heal and rise strong from life’s face-down moments with an 8 week dive into the Rising Strong curriculum by Dr. Brene Brown.
For the past several years, I have been coaching and teaching this work to mission-driven heart-centered professionals and leaders of diverse backgrounds including medicine, research, education and finance who see to thrive not only at work but also personally.
Learn the tools and skills of reckoning with the stories we tell ourselves when we fall, rumbling with emotions such as anxiety, grief, anger, frustration, shame, offloading hurt , learn how to cultivate trust through healthy boundaries, accountability, reliability, generosity, integrity, confidentiality and non-judgment.
Learn how to become more resilient, wholehearted and write a new ending to the stories we tell ourselves when we fail.
DETAILS
The course fee is $1497. But to acknowledge the moment for those who are struggling financially and need the work, I am offering a “Pay What You Can” option. Also, if you sign up before December 10th for the full amount, you can use the code RISING to get a discount (200 off) to $1297. The course fee also covers a $250 mandatory screening consultation.
The screening consultation ensures the safety of participants by exploring individual needs and interests, assessing coping agreements, current emotional state and existing emotional support for the individuals interested in the course.
Your full course payment of $1497 (Or Pay What You Can Amount) Covers:
The Rising Strong curriculum, workbook and supplies. (Value – $2500)
Online Workshop Sessions and office hours (Value – $7500)
8 weeks of connecting, growing and sharing heartfelt stories with a community of wholehearted kindreds in a positive, empathetic, safe and supportive space with a multi-certified professional who is passionate and well-versed in the work! (Value – Priceless!)
You will also be added to our own private FB group where you can connect and share stories before and after the Course so you can deepen the bonds of lifelong friendships you began. Limited spots available – Only 10 participants allowed.
AGENDA
Week 1: Introduction, Clarity of Values
Week 2 The Reckoning, Offloading Hurt, Strategies for Reckoning with Emotion
Week 3: Act II: The Rumble, Common Rumbling Themes
Week 4: Rumbling with Vulnerability, Rumbling with Shame
Week 5: Rumbling with Living BIG, Trust and BRAVING
Week 6: Rumbling with Grief and Forgiveness, Rumbling with Anxiety and Criticism
Week 7: The Delta, Act III: The Revolution
Week 8: Integrating and Creativity
You deserve to rise again. You deserve to live aligned with your ideals. You deserve to thrive in all arenas of your life as you make your positive impact in the world.
Course begins Thursday, Jan 13th, 2022 and Ends Thursday March 10th, 2022.
Workshop: Thursdays at 4-5:30pm Pacific/7-8:30pm Eastern.
Office hours: weekly: Fridays at Noon Pacific, 3pm Eastern (optional)
REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS 11:59pm Pacific on Dec 31st, 2021! NO REFUNDS. Payments will be applied to another workshop, course or coaching sessions of equal value.
To sign up for the full amount, click HERE. Don’t forget to use RISING for a $200 discount before Dec 31st, 2021.
To sign up for a PAY WHAT YOU CAN amount, Click “Buy Now” below.
I am honored to help you do your work to rise strong from the falls, failures, transitions and setbacks of your life and thrive again. See you soon!
Sincerely, Yvonne Whitelaw, MD, MPH Coach, Facilitator and Advocate for Physicians and Helping Professionals Certified Daring Way Facilitator Certified Dare To Lead Facilitator Founder, Thriving Idealist Founder, Thriving Physicians “Grow into your ideals so that life will not rob you of them.” – Dr. Albert Schweitzer “I don’t know what your destiny will be; but one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will be truly happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.” – Dr. Albert Schweitzer
Holidays are supposed to be times of connection, fun, tradition and celebration.
Something about the holiday season makes it an especially stressful time. The holidays are already challenging as with family reunions, political conflicts (vaxxed or unvaxxed?), work schedules, loneliness even when surrounded by others. But now with the pandemic with long frayed nerves and exhaustion, the holidays have taken on a new intensity of stress and overwhelm
Boundaries, boundaries, boundaries.
You feel resentful, angry and overwhelmed because you know your boundaries and values are being violated all the time, your needs and expectations are not being met.
You find that you are bracing yourself. You wonder which conversations you really have bandwidth for and which ones you should just let slide. And chances are, with the cooler weather and more time spent indoors, there will be more cases of flu and Covid. And it all already feels like a hot mess.
You are already exhausted and so are your support networks.
You don’t always have to be the strong one.
If you need a safe empathetic space to let your hair down and catch your breath, a respite from all the drama, chaos and overwhelm of the holidays, while also getting teaching and personal/executive/leadership coaching support from me rooted in positive psychology, unbeatable mind and optimize frameworks and Daring Way/Dare to Lead curricula (From Brene Brown), come join me in the Holiday RESPITE.
At RESPITE for the Holidays, You will:
Have a safe place to breathe, vent, let your hair down, be supported rather than always having to support,
learn skills for thriving in the holidays including breathwork, cultivating connection, expressing boundaries, grief, asking for what you need, big 4 of mental toughness, how to delegate, grounded confidence, cultivating vulnerability and courage, having hard conversations, dealing with overwhelm, discovering and aligning with your values, rumbling with difficult emotions, practices for maintaining equanimity and calm during difficult times and many more skills for resilience and thriving.
You will have a small intimate community to like-minded mission-driven, heart-centered individuals to connect to and know that you are not alone.
Receive coaching from me with a decade of experience coaching, facilitating and advocating for mission-driven, heart-centered professionals especially physicians and an increasing number of leaders in dentistry, clinical science and other helping professionals.
Review the year’s wins and challenges. Set intentions, goals, theme and plan for the new year aligned with your values and strengths.
DETAILS
RESPITE will be twice weekly to accommodate schedules starting November 22nd, 2021 to January 31st, 2022
COST is $997
You can pick either group coaching sessions – Saturdays at 10a-11:30p Pacific or Tuesdays from 4-5:30pm Pacific Time. You can pick whichever works for you and you can show up as often as you want or not. (Tuesday sessions end Jan 6th and move to Saturdays at 8am -9:30am from Jan 13th to end of Holiday RESPITE)
You will also have access to me for laser coaching if you are struggling with something and need to talk to someone.
Only 8 spots available. Deadline to register – Rolling admission until all 8 spots taken. NO REFUNDS. Payments will be applied to any other coaching programs or workshops in my store.
RESPITE Enrollments open every 2 months. You are welcome to re-enroll for RESPITE after HOLIDAY RESPITE is over.
You are worthy of a safe, empathetic supportive space.
You are worthy of the time, energy, attention, resources and even money to address your needs and support you in the life you want.
Pandemic has been rough. Finally! The world is opening up. Everyone is transitioning back to in-person activities at work and in life. Trying to navigate. Lots going on. So weird but fun moving out of Zoom-land. So many changes and so much catching up to do. Back at the office. But everyone is quitting now. It is a hot mess. You were looking forward to doing all the things you haven’t been able to do in these past 20 months.
But you feel tired, unmotivated yet overwhelmed, overstimulated and have a hard time concentrating.
You went into the pandemic sure about who you are, what you do, where you are headed.
But the pandemic stripped a lot away. And now as you exit the tunnel of the pandemic, excited to return to a new normal, you find that nothing is the same. Everything is different – including you.
And yet, you are supposed to operate as usual at work, home, parenting, love… Business as usual, productivity as usual, profit as usual…
You wanted to make a difference in the world.
You wanted to help people, make a positive impact, create something meaningful to change the world.
You made deep sacrifices to train and equip yourself for your profession. And you find yourself continuing to make more sacrifices, day in, day out.
Overwhelm, Overwork, Overgiving…
And what about the people?
Family died, marriages got rocky or “failed”, work changed, jobs lost, people quit, kids developed mental health issues… Now everything feels harder, awkward, out of sorts. Out of control. You are working harder and harder but You feel scattered, lacking confidence, uncertain and not really feeling in touch with yourself or the world. .
You seek a way out.
Numb, escape, avoid…
It’s the holidays!
So you plan the vacations, binge on Netflix, self medicate with wine, shopping, food, but deep down you know these are temporary fixes. You will return to the problem after a week or two of vacation. You will be roughly in the same position after the numbing, escaping and avoiding.
I hear you. I see you.
For over a decade, I have been on a mission to help highly skilled mission-driven professionals overcome disillusionment, overwhelm, compassion fatigue and burnout to thrive while making their positive impact in the world.
Personally and professionally, the pandemic was rough for me with reckonings in every arena of my life – parenting, race, faith, identity, work, love.
Steeping even deeper into this work as I taught, coached, facilitated saved me again and again. I was able to show up for myself, children, work and my community when fetal position would have been completely understandable. I am deeply grateful for it!
So, I know, there is a way forward with clarity and purpose.
You will need a strong practice, an evidence-based framework and community to help you get through the next 3 -6 months.
I invite you to a more aligned option.
I am offering my 12 week Dare To Lead online workshop starting January 11, 2022 I Invite you to join a group of mission-driven professionals in learning the skills for answering your personal call to courage, the call to show up and live your life fully, the call to brave leadership.
You will learn all the skills for brave leadership and courageous cultures at work and home including transitioning from Armored leadership to Daring Leadership, Rising Strong from Failure and Setbacks, Living into Our Values, Braving Trust, Rumbling with Vulnerability.
“Yvonne, I am too tired to take care of myself, much less lead anyone. I am not a leader. Why should I attend your Dare to Lead workshop?”
“A Leader is anyone at ANY level who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes adn has the courage to develop that potential.” – Brene Brown
I have run several Dare To Lead Groups through out the pandemic. I have seen the powerful transformative impact this work has had on individuals and organizations alike.
This is about learning how to show up as you are.
I say, dare to show up – Show up for yourself. Show up for those you love and serve.
What if in place of feeling lost, you discovered your compass, your values and learned how to live them?
What if in place of feeling stuck and paralyzed by the setbacks, disappointments and failures, you learned to grieve, learn from the experiences, rise strong from them and thrive?
To find out more, read below for details. To register, click below. Here’s to you thriving!
A 12 week Online Workshop Two hour Sessions: Tuesdays 4-6 pm PT, March 8th -May 31st, 2022
“To be the person who we long to be—we must again be vulnerable. We must take off the armor, put down the weapons, show up, and let ourselves be seen.” – Dr. Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts
You sense there is something more for you. You know you are capable of so much more- you have more to give, accomplish, discover – but you can’t quite tap into it. On the surface everything looks fine. But you feel like a mess on the inside. You long to take off the mask and armor and really show up as yourself. You long to set boundaries, have those hard conversations, take courageous action, align with your values and cut out the habits that are no longer serving you so that you can focus on what really matters to you. You long to tap into the truest and highest expression of yourself in your work, marriage, parenting, leadership and relationships.
If you find yourself longing for a more courageous life, you are in the right place!
About The Dare To Lead Workshop
Hello!
Thank you for your interest in the Dare To Lead ™ Workshop.
The “Dare to Lead” Workshop is based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown. Dare to Lead™ is an empirically based courage-building leadership program designed to be facilitated only by Certified Dare to Lead organizational development professionals.
The most significant finding from Brené’s latest research is that courage is a collection of four skill sets that are teachable, measurable, and observable. The Dare to Lead™ program focuses on developing these courage-building skills through workshops, trainings and coaching to help individuals, teams and organizations move from armored leadership to daring leadership.
This 12-week Dare to Lead™ Workshop will help you:
Be the kind of leader others will want to follow
Be the kind of partner/parent/friend you want to be
Get results and be even more effective and productive
Create a stronger, more effective team
Tap into your values and lead authentically
Individuals who successfully complete the full 24-hour Dare to Lead program will receive a Dare to Lead Trained certificate and badge that can be posted on their LinkedIn account.
Align with your values and who you really are by digging deep into the principles of wholehearted living featured in Daring Greatly, Rising Strong and the Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown. Dare To Lead is the application of these principles in the workplace and organizational setting. Connect with a growing tribe of wholehearted professionals like you who value authenticity, creativity, compassion, connection, vulnerability, altruism, empathy, embracing imperfection and resilience. Get inspired and equipped to thrive in the life you deeply desire to live.
You and 9 other wholehearted professionals will step out of your autopilot life for 12 weeks of laughter, growth, insight, inspiration, rejuvenation as you explore and realign with your own values, connect and discover new friends and like-minded kindred. You will dig deep into exploratory exercises on creativity, authenticity, rising from failure, Daring Leadership, connection, shame resilience, letting go of perfectionism, mindfulness, to name a few.
Total cost is $2499 and covers workshop, workbooks, certificates and teaching. You will also receive a “Dare To Lead Trained” badge on LinkedIn. NO REFUNDS. Your fee will be applied to a coaching program or workshop of your choice at equal value. REGISTRATION ENDS February 28th to allow the workbooks to be mailed to you on time. If you sign up later than Feb 28th, you will receive your workbook days after the start. Only 10 spots available. For a $250 fee per installment, Payment plans available HERE. Or Email thrivingideals@gmail.com for details about a pay what you want scholarship if you are a frontline professional financially hit by the pandemic.
Series of 12 Weekly Gatherings (each session is 2 hours in length) Sessions: Tuesdays , January 11th – March 29th, 7-9pm ET, 4 -6 pm PT Office Hours (Optional): Fridays 3-4pm ET, 12-1pm PT
Session 1: Introduction – Brave Leaders & Courage Cultures LESSON 1 – The Heart of Daring Leadership Session 2: LESSON 2 – Armored Leadership versus Daring Leadership Session 3: Brave Leaders & Courage Cultures (cont.); Rumbling with Vulnerability LESSON 3 – Self-Awareness & Emotional Literacy LESSON 4 – The Myths of Vulnerability Session 4:Third Meeting: Rumbling with Vulnerability (cont.) LESSON 5 – Shame Resilience Session 5:LESSON 6 – Empathy and Self-Compassion LESSON 7 – Armored Leadership to Daring Leadership Circle Back Fourth Meeting: Session 6: Living into Our Values LESSON 8– Living Into Our Values LESSON 9– Grounded Confidence and Rumbling Skills Session 7: Living into Our Values (cont.) LESSON 10 – Engaged Feedback LESSON 11 – Armored Leadership to Daring Leadership Circle Back Session 8: BRAVING Trust LESSON 12 – BRAVING Trust LESSON 13 – Armored Leadership to Daring Leadership Circle Back Session 9: Learning to Rise LESSON 14 – Learning to Rise: The Reckoning Session 10: LESSON 15 – The Rumble and The Revolution Session 11: LESSON 16 – The Revolution (cont’d) and Integration Session 12: LESSON 17 – Armored Leadership to Daring Leadership Circle Back LESSON 18 – Closing
Here’s to you cultivating Daring Leadership and inspiring courageous cultures wherever you lead, love and work!
Sincerely, Yvonne
Yvonne Ator, MD, MPH Coach, Facilitator & Advocate Certified Dare To Lead Facilitator Certified Daring Way Facilitator Certified Unbeatable Mind Coach Certified Personal and Executive Coach in Positive Psychology Founder, Thriving Idealist Founder, Thriving Physicians “Grow into your ideals so that life will not rob you of them.” – Dr. Albert Schweitzer
What was going on in your life before working with me? How were you feeling?
Prior to working with Yvonne life was a struggle to plow through the pandemic, but at least the kids were returning to in person learning. I was feeling a sense of languishing and despair from staffing shortages and a sense that there is no end in sight.
How was your experience during the first session? The first session feels so long ago! I was nervous to share so openly with complete strangers, but Yvonne created a container of support and trust.
How was your experience for the duration of the course? What were the sessions like? Each session was better than the last with a growing foundation of grounded confidence and expanded self-awareness. The sessions really valued everyone’s unique voice and perspective and it was really great to be supported by such like-minded strong positive women.
What results or benefits did you gain from the sessions? What were the results of working with Yvonne? What exists now that didn’t before and how do you feel about that?
I feel like the course exposed the tip of the iceberg for where this journey of living BIG can take me. I feel like I have a better sense of the type of person, leader and mom I want to be. Yvonne was a great facilitator, which was enhanced along the way with her coaching nuggets of knowledge and insight. The course would not have been as impactful if she didn’t take the script to a deeper place that was personal and specific to each of the members in the group. I had not ever really thought about how important values are to every decision and action I take. I want dig deeper into the values work for myself and my team that I support.
How would you describe Yvonne’s coaching style? What did you enjoy about the way Yvonne works? Yvonne’s coaching style is kind, positive, direct. Yvonne has so much training and coaching knowledge and her laugh is infectious. She makes you feel very comfortable from day one is not afraid to go deep with personal vulnerable moments from her own life experiences. This gives permission for others to share similarly.
What worked for you? What was your biggest aha? Hearing everyone’s personal stories really connected me to the work. My biggest aha’s: if I’m feeling burnt out I need to have more self-compassion for myself; stand in my power but also be aware of the effect my power has on those that I lead; living BIG!!, awareness of values and how they guide actions.
Would you recommend a workshop or coaching by Yvonne to others? Definitely!!
Anything else you would like to share? I want to continue on this journey through coaching. I will be reaching out in the future 🙂 Thank you so much!!
Best, Courtney Anders, DVM she/her/hers Pearl Animal Hospital
About Your Dare To Lead™ Facilitator
Speaker, Coach, Author, Facilitator and Advocate.
Yvonne Ator, MD, MPH is deeply passionate about helping helpers thrive. Nicknamed, “Helper For the Helpers, Yvonne has served several mission-driven physicians, veterans and other helping professionals for the past several years.
After her own burnout experience in medicine, Yvonne founded Thriving Idealist and Thriving Physicians committed to helping idealists thrive and serve sustainably as they make their positive impact in the world without succumbing to burnout, compassion fatigue or disillusionment. She became a certified Daring Way Facilitator and Certified Dare To Lead Facilitator to help create a more wholehearted culture in healthcare and helping professions. She is also a certified Personal and Executive Coach in positive psychology and certified Unbeatable Mind Coach focused on Mental Toughness and Emotional Resilience.
She is a Speaker around the country on several topics including “Rumbling With Vulnerability”, Daring Leadership, the Thriving Idealist, Burnout, Mental Toughness etc. A co-author of the acclaimed book, “Thinking about Medicine?”, she also writes the wellness column for the internationally published Radiant Magazine and other popular websites such as Productive Flourishing.
When she isn’t playing with her two warrior-princess daughters, she is meditating, reading, latin dancing, playing guitar, writing, serial questing or geeking out to all things Oprah!
