Emotional Results
Commit to yourself that you will persue a course of Emotional Intelligence and understanding. Give it a few years (2-4) and I guarentee results. massive, life-enhancing, incredible results. Depending on how deep and ingrained your "issues" are, it may take as many as 5 or even 7 years. but so what? do you have something [...]
#1 Top Life Skills
#1 Most Powerful Interpersonal Communication Skill: Shut Up and Listen #1 Most Important Relationship in Life: Your relationship with Yourself #1 Best Thing you can do for you and your family’s Present and Future: Increase your Emotional Intelligence #1 Deepest, most life-trashing, relationship-blasting, sex-ruining, self-esteem-bashing, hopeless event we can experience: Being molested or violated as [...]
Sound Bites
—12.1 heard at ND… it feels good to be in my skin, to be me. I don’t think I’m all that just a nice centered "I’m Ok". I like being me. I know I’m exactly where God meant me to be. I have found a happiness that I only remember feeling a few times in [...]
Tame the Beast Within
Get a Clue about your Feelings and how they affect you. Get a Grip on the reigns, so you’re makin’ the plans and runnin’ the show. Get a Life, build a Life, CREATE a LIFE that’s Joyous and Happy and FREE!! — Our Feelings & Emotions are our COMMAND CENTER. If we don’t know who’s [...]
New Directions Can Help you Heal!
As you may know, this site was started to express some of the many powerful teachings and lessons we learned while teaching our incredibly intensive, feelings-based workshops over the last 20 years. New Directions is the most challenging, life-changing, emotion-expressing, pain-healing, love-generating workshop I’ve ever seen or heard of. Here’s an unsolicited testimonial sent to [...]
Creating the Self
"The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates." – Thomas Szasz (1920-) American Psychiatrist We’re about Feeling — and part of Feeling is Feeling GOOD!- We laugh, a lot.- We dance, a lot.- We hug, a lot. it’s fun. it’s Aliveness, it’s freedom from the negativityand the Shouldsand the [...]
Intro to L.J.
~It’s almost 2:40 am and I can’t sleep. The past few days have been intense for me, and maybe that’s why I can’t sleep. I have been sick, overwhelmed and busy…and in the midst of it all, I have gained a complete sense of clarity that I used to believe only happened when I asked [...]
NDers vs. non-NDers
Ha. It finally came to me. Just now.I’ve been watching us long term NDers who are usually waaaaay Happier, often more successful and certainly more ALIVE and FEELING than our counterparts and I keep wondering, What’s the Difference between NDers and non-NDers?What is it the one thing that ND teaches that is so Effective and [...]
Feel Better
Want to Feel better?- are you feeling down, or angry, or scared all the time? Want to Feel more?- do your feelings seem far away or self-contained in a little box? Want to actually get in-touch with your Feelings?- are you Clueless when it comes to managing your feelings and emotions? We can help. In [...]
Statement of Direction
New Directions Workshop’sSTATEMENT OF DIRECTION——————————————–I am through being a Victim.And finished blaming myself, and others. NOW WHAT?!? Even though I am Afraid, I am turning my Anger into Love, Sadness to Joy,and Depression into Personal Power. Now I choose to feel ALIVE!!
People don’t know
As teens and young adults, people don’t know that they are going to marry their mother or their father, depending on which one they have the biggest issues with. People don’t know that their current beliefs and behaviors are so interconnected to their childhood traumas. People don’t know that you can beat the voices in [...]
Feelings Revolution Calls
Hmmm… what to talk about on the next Feelings Revolution call… So far, we’ve discussed: Turning Anger into Love Benefits of being "In Touch" with your Feelings Being Fully Expressed Self-Processing: Getting to the Heart of the Matter … and others. (I just realized that when I am the most believable, is when I speak [...]
A Feeling of Hope
10 of the hugest benefits people get from the ND weekend workshop. a new understanding and appreciation for: How powerful their feelings are/can be The fact that everyone has them, and that’s where we Connect with others. The newly-found sense of Personal Power, and Confidence, and Pride. The sense that I AM in control of [...]
Here we go…
Well, I have class again this weekend. I’m leaving at 5am to drive to Berkeley for a meeting at 8, then to Sacramento for a meeting at 11:30, then I’m throwing a reunion party at 6. On Friday, play racquetball at 5am, to see a customer, then to Fresno by 5 to setup the room [...]
Check it Out!
The New Directions weekend is a real life-changer (and a darned good deal, too). For $299, you get the weekend, Doc’s awesome book “Taking Control of Your Life”, a long weekend of incredibly intensive growth, a cool celebration graduation and after-class follow-up (by yours truly)– plus, once a graduate, always a friend so coming back [...]
“Constructively deal with my life issues”
“Since taking the workshop I have been able to really take a look at myself and understand how certain events that happened to me in my childhood. adolescent and adulthood years thwarted my growth as a mother, wife, and friend. Now I have learned and am still learning how to constructively deal with my life [...]
LEARN!
Learn to Love again. Learn to Laugh again. Learn to Feel again. Take Control of your Feelings & Emotions at the New Directions Weekend Workshop! http://www.NewDirectionsWorkshop.com
Are You Mentor Material?
Are You Mentor Material? – by Patti Sarr, teacher, writer, thinker Over the years, I have come to realize that having a great mentor can truly have a positive impact on my life—not only as a busy mom and career woman, but as an individual seeking to expand emotionally and spiritually. Personally, many of the [...]
Let’s Join Forces!
Hire me to stand beside you To support you To encourage you To boost you up and cheer for you! To stand beside you when you weep. To be that loving voice you need now and then. Feeling stuck? Not reaching your potential>? Repeating unsuccessful patterns? Not living the life you want to live? As [...]
Violence = Powerlessness
“I don’t feel verbally angry anymore.” “I don’t feel violently angry anymore.” – Jayne D. (after attending the New Directions Workshop a few times. “All violence comes from feelings of Powerlessness.” – Doc Downing, PhD, LMFT, MSW
Mental Illness Widespread
GLOBAL STUDY FINDS MENTAL ILLNESS WIDESPREAD Mental illnesses are common and under-treated in many developed and developing countries, with the highest rate found in the United States (26.4 of people!), according to a study. The most common ailments everywhere except Ukraine were anxiety disorders, which include panic attacks, phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder. (Wow. All [...]
Before and After
"How it has become" (before ND) forever ambiguousnever tryingnowhere flyingdeath becoming time spyinglove defyingcaught in a trapin a recursive miserywithout a way out remembering the pastliving in a memoryforegoing the futurefor moments that don’t last finding a song to passmaybe a drink to lastwithout a hope or desiretrying to be an animalfighting care and…fuck it [...]
New Directions Breakthrough Workshop
Learn to Trust and Love again (even if you’ve been burned) Find Answers to: Why Do I Keep Doing This? Understand Yourself and Others Take control of your Anger, Guilt and Depression Heal your Past and Shape Your Future Make your life FEEL ALIVE! Yes, in one short weekend, for one low price, you can [...]
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New Directions Breakthrough Workshop “Let’s Get to the Heart of the Problem.”
Definitions
Life: Understand it, Own it, LOVE it! Feelings: Understand ‘em, Accept ‘em, Express ‘em appropriately Emotions: You take control of them, or they will take control of you New Directions: Know yourself, Understand people, Take control of your Life – Once a graduate, forever a friend.
MORE INFO on Feelings and Emotions
MORE INFO I just came across a wonderful psychotherapist, Dr. Claude Steiner, who has done much work in Emotional Literacy. We call it Emotional Intelligence, but it’s VERY much the same concepts that we teach at the New Directions Weekend Workshop. At minimum, please read this short, amusing children’s story, which makes a VERY good [...]
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