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Jan Denise Delivers the Empowerment of Self-Esteem ...in a Keynote, Workshop or Retreat/
Your people can't perform their best without knowing the best of who they are ... and that's the part Jan Denise helps them connect with. She leaves them motivated and empowered by the mother of all forces — LOVE.
There is no peace or happiness without self-verification; and people can only get it by aligning with who they are inside. If you want employees, clients, patients, or members who can put aside their ego-driven fears to work both efficiently and creatively toward a common goal, let Jan Denise teach them to truly know, respect, believe in, and be the awe-inspiring people they were intended to be.
Experience Gleneden Retreat Center and Accommodations
Programs (summaries of these and custom programs on request):
• Great Leadership Starts with Vulnerability
• Choosing Love
• Liberating Your Greatness
• The Truth About Why You're Stressed
• When You're Not Afraid to Fail, You Can't
• Let's Get That Chip Off Your Shoulder
• Aligning With Your Truth to Lead With Conviction
• Shed Your Ego to Find Self-Esteem
• The Goddess Is In
• Quit Trying to Get the Job Done
• Dream Team 101
• The Only Real Success
• Happiness is the Key to Everything
"Jan has a gift for understanding the many fields of psychology and delivering her results in a way that is entertaining and easy to remember." — Norman M. Brown, Ph.D., author of Love and Intimate Relationships (a college text book)
Talks and Workshops
Available to Your Group
You may choose from the following talks and workshops or simply use them as building blocks to help develop a custom talk for your group.
"Great Leadership Starts with Vulnerability"
Guarded leaders can be neither known nor trusted .. and people will only follow somebody they trust
Let me empower your leaders with self-esteem, so they can trust themselves enough to be genuine with those they would lead.
Give me 60 minutes and I'll demonstrate for your leaders the difference between leading by intimidation and leading by example. And I'll give them the tools they need to:- Develop true self-esteem — there's only one way
- Nurture self-esteem in others
- Build mutual respect
- Discover individual genius and strengths ... and capitalize on them
- Stop getting grustrated with sweaknesses and perpetuating them
- Create a cohesive team to meet common goals
- Eliminate the inefficiency of "watching your back," and pretending to be busy
- Cut to the chase in communicating
- Spend more time getting the real work done to multiply profits
- Maintain an atmosphere of support, rather than competition and conflict
- Reach what used to be the "impossible," without becoming complacent
- Share the rewards
"Coming Clean ... to get your life back"
Occasionally the truth flashes in front of us; and we catch a glimpse of what contradicts the theory that we're being honest, or that we have it all together, or that it's somebody else's fault that we don't. We're busy, though; we don't have time to sit with the truth. And acting on it is just too much this week ... this month ... and this year.
Here's your chance to spend one pivotal day:- Dismantle the defensive façade that betrays you — and be you — without regard for approval
- Tap into your potential
- Feel radiant instead of flawed
- Realize that the truth is as good as it gets, letting go of control and secrets
- Feel connected instead of isolated when you stop pretending that everything's okay
- Stop the stress and negative emotion of feeling like you can't quite keep it all together
- Replace limiting beliefs and habits with empowering ones
- Understand rather than personalize the behavior of others
- Choose consciously, rather than by default
- Love people instead of blaming, manipulating, or fixing them
- Stop feeding your ego, or your fear, at the expense of what you really want
30-minute talk, 2-hour workshop, one-day or two-day retreat
Choosing Love
- Learn what love is—and what it's not—and how to choose it
- Dispel the mother of all fears and self-defeating emotion
- Discover beliefs that keep you locked into unloving habits, and an unloving life
- Exercise the power of love in your relationships and your work
- Manifest the peace, joy, and abundance of love in the every-day stuff
- Realize that choosing love is simply choosing to be authentic
30-minute talk, 2-hour workshop, one-day or two-day retreat
Also available to individuals and couples.
Innately Good: Dispelling the Myth That You're Not
If you're still trying to meet certain criteria in order to feel good enough, Jan Denise wants you to know that you are innately good, innately love, innately more than you ever dreamed of being. She identifies the source of our universal feelings of inferiority and sensitivity to rejection. She explores not being "good enough" in our evolutionary, religious, and psychological history, and discusses the appalling negative impact on our personal and relational lives. Most importantly, she offers concrete processes for discovering our innate goodness and experiencing ourselves as "love."Learn to:
- Identify the ultimate fear of not being "good enough" as what triggers all of their negative emotion, empty pursuit, escape, and addiction of any kind.
- Invalidate the fear by discovering the truth of innate goodness, or the love within.
- Make the hero's journey from shame and isolation to all the radiance and possibility of the true self.
- Distinguish fear from love as the driving force in their everyday behavior, in order to experience love, or everything good, untainted by fear.
two-hour talk, three-hour workshop, one-day or two-day retreat
Owning the Fullness of Love
Learn to recognize all that love is ... and all that it is not. Manifest your perfection, love's perfection. And own the awe for life that seems to drift away when the busyness kicks in.... It is when we align our behavior and choices with our essence that we find peace, but often we struggle to know who we really are. We know what love is, though. We know what it feels like. We can paint a picture of love. And we can anchor the trust, the compassion, the abundance, the joy, the truth, the peace, the strength, the stability, EVERYTHING GOOD.
That means being able to align with it (and recognize when we stray from it). And when we align with love, we align with our essence! We know peace. We know happiness. But we don't just know them. We own them.
one-day or two-day retreat
Also available to individuals and couples.
Naked Relationships
Learn to take nakedness to a new level, physically, mentally, and emotionally. You'll begin to understand relationships in a way you never did before. And you'll come to know that there really is a recipe for perfect love. Find out the three basic ingredients that make up relationships, and how different types of love emerge when certain proportions of these ingredients are present. Best of all, you'll acquire tools to perfect the most important relationship of all — your unconditional love of self — so that the real you emerges, beautifully naked, ready for an honest relationship with a partner.two-day or five-day program
Loving Communication = A Loving Relationship
Learn how to empty yourself of ego and fear, so your words can be motivated by love, instead!We're well aware that we can't have much of a relationship without communication. Still, we might wait until we're fuming inside to express what we're feeling. And by then, we set out to prove our partner wrong, even if it means foregoing reason and resorting to bold exaggeration and negative assumptions. We might interrupt what feels like an attack, in order to launch another one of our own, instead of acknowledging, let alone giving credence to, what was said. We want to be understood, more than we want to understand (a viewpoint we've already decided is faulty). Sometimes we're even looking for a good reason to leave, rather than a good reason to stay.
We're scared. And that can mean getting stuck in the lower brain's fight or flight mode, which explains the absence of problem solving, reasoning, reflection, self-awareness, kindness, empathy ... and love!
Come and discover the joy of truly listening, understanding, accepting, loving ... and reaping what you sow — love, instead of fear — in relationship.
two-day or five-day program
Getting Naked ... to know the very best of you, of life and love
Learn how getting naked — mentally, emotionally, and spiritually — is finding the greatness you've tried so hard to conjure up. Get to know you and fall in love ... with you and with life. Learn how nakedness, or authenticity, is the foundation for the love and intimacy you want with others. Share all of you and attract a partner (if you want one) who's going to love you for exactly who you are. And, live happier than you have ever imagined living. one-hour talk or two-hour workshop
Dancing Naked with the Partner of Your Dreams
When we expose our nakedness, we expose the best of who we are, and we attract a partner who loves us for exactly who we are. And that's the best formula we have for dancing and living happily ever after. The formula, though, as simple as it seems, comes with a whole set of complexities. Men and women start out with innate differences. Both experience different types and levels of love and intimacy, and re-assess their commitments. They muddle through what can be confusing stages of dating, vacillate back and forth on breaking up. They learn to resolve conflict (usually the hard way), and they struggle to balance connectedness and autonomy. Ahhh, but if we can gain an understanding of the complexities and stay naked for them, we can experience the ultimate dance, the ultimate in gratification. one-hour talk or two-hour workshopPushing Fear Out of Your
Relationships to Get the
Love You Want
Fear is THE source of anger, jealousy, defensiveness and blame. Learn how to identify fear before it wields any more havoc with your relationships. There is NOTHING to fear. But until you have looked squarely at what you are afraid of, you will feel the fear. And there is no fear in the love you want! Come and transform your life with fearless love!
one-hour talk or two-hour workshop
Adding Compatibility and Passion to Love
(for men and women, singles and couples)Learn to measure your compatibility and chances of “perfect love” with a partner ... and intensify your passion rather than give it up. one-hour talk followed by 30 minutes for your questions
Your Shortcut to Being Well-Loved
(for men and women, singles and couples)Discover the shortcut to knowing how well he (or she) is able to love you. Quickly gauge his capacity and readiness — as well as your own — to love the way you want to be loved. Find the love you're looking for sooner, rather than later. And, relish every minute of it! one-hour talk or two-hour workshop