Learn to Thrive 2.0
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“It seems like everyone I know is trying (grasping desperately) to stay positive but we’re all sinking bit by bit...”
These are the words of a client, and they capture what so many of us feel right now: weariness, growing despair, and a thinning capacity to “stay positive.”
But positivity isn’t what we need in these times.
Too often we mistake “positive thinking” for thinking on purpose—a life-changing skill that’s not about circumventing painful feelings but befriending them—and we end up feeling more exhausted, more anxious, and less confident of our capacity to stay afloat and take care of ourselves and those we love, let alone the hurting parts of our world that so dearly need healing and attention.
The problem is that we’ve learned that pain is a problem. Something to avoid. A liability. So, when we feel pain, our own or collectively, we don’t know what to do. We busy ourselves, over-function, under-function, numb or escape with food and substances, overwork, create drama in our relationships...
Alternately, we indulge the pain, bury ourselves in it, convinced on some level that our suffering is testament to our caring and courage.
We cling to our suffering, prizing it as fuel for right action and meaningful service…
But is either strategy truly successful, and sustainable?
Avoiding pain and indulging pain are two sides of the same coin: both leave us feeling disconnected from our creative energies, muddled, isolated, worn down, irritable, anxious, depressed, and afraid.
What we’re seeing in 2020 is a heap of pain that’s been there all along. It’s just that circumstances have aligned to make this pain something we can’t not see. Something we can’t not feel.
And this is good. We’re waking up.
We are being called, literally, to evolve on purpose: to create a new paradigm of being and seeing as humans wherein pain is understood and experienced as a call to radical presence, to curiosity, to healing, to growth, to thriving and collective wellbeing.
This is why I’ve created a new interactive group program designed specifically for these times.
Learn to Thrive 2.0 Is a 6-month group program that I created to help you transform anxiety into a sense of possibility, fear into hope, overwhelm into purpose, and feelings of loneliness or brokenness into self-love and healthy communion. Cultivating these skills is the key to knowing what right next step to take, and to taking those steps effortlessly and fearlessly—in the months ahead, and in life beyond this moment.
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As a species, we’re at a major crossroads.
Just as we individually outgrow coping mechanisms that once served us, so too do we outgrow, as a species, adaptive behaviors. To put it simply, what once allowed us to survive as a species living squarely in the middle of the food chain is killing us today. We have an enormous opportunity right now to pivot, to harness the newest parts of our remarkable brains where—amazingly—the seat of decision-making and compassion reside side-by-side. We’ve reached a point where our primal drive for collective survival is urging us to learn to thrive. Thriving is not a luxury. It’s not something we do when troubles cease to exist. Thriving is a practice of becoming on purpose, a way of living rooted in awareness (as opposed to avoidance) that activates our innate potential as compassionate, courageous, creative beings. Thriving is our calling, our imperative. It is sustainability. Thriving is also a skill, one we teach and one we learn—which means that surviving (thriving) calls us into community and collaboration.
Learn to Thrive 2.0
An Interactive Group Experience
Interactive Masterclasses
Interactive Masterclasses will take you deep into paradigm-shifting teachings and tools
Group Coaching Classes
Group Coaching Classes will provide highly-skilled life coaching that helps you identify and transform common blocks as you learn to implement the teachings.
Private Facebook Forum
Between classes we’ll extend our conversations, share resources, seek and give support, and celebrate healing and growth
As a member of Learn to Thrive 2.0, you’ll be supported by a strong, tight-knit community and deeply skilled leadership. Together, we will learn to thrive, and in so doing, contribute powerfully to our collective becoming.
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Learn to Thrive 2.0 will help you identify and transform the most entrenched, deeply-grooved limiting beliefs that hold you back, beliefs so normalized you have no idea you’re thinking them.
THESE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING…
Pain is a problem
Positive thinking is the solution
If I don’t worry, I won’t act or get things done
My fear protects me
I need to balance self-care and caring for others
Whatever I do, it won’t be enough
It’s wrong to feel happy when others are suffering
Self-care is selfish
Self-love is short-sighted
My suffering shows that I care
I need to be upset (angry, sad, despairing) in order to act
I don’t know what to do or how to help
I’m too damaged to heal
I’ve been too hurt to love
Focusing on my personal growth is irresponsible and indulgent
Something’s wrong with me
The world is broken
I’m not good enough
I just need to make it through
Things should be different than they are
If I don’t resist what I don’t like I’m condoning it
With the help of highly skilled teaching and exceptional coaching, you’ll learn to replace your limiting beliefs and the reactions they provoke with new skills, such as…
How to take full responsibility for your life without shaming or blaming yourself
How to heal your relationships and deepen connection and intimacy
How to transform resentment into self-awareness and inner peace
How to love your body and treat it well
How to practice self-love & release people-pleasing & perfectionism
How to be vulnerable and drop your guard
How to speak truth kindly and without apology
How to feel authentic and stop feeling like a fraud
How to take risks and embrace failure
How to create and enforce healthy boundaries
How to befriend your pain and heal your trauma
How to feel your most difficult feelings without losing yourself
How to stop buffering and numbing & create healthy habits instead
How to harness your anger productively
How to transform procrastination into productivity
How to be present instead of distracted
How to shift from confusion to clarity
How to cultivate and inhabit joy
How to feel more alive
How to cultivate confidence
How to discern your purpose and trust yourself
How to take fearless, courageous, and efficient action
These are the skills of thriving.
Together, they comprise a practice of living that will transform your outlook and your actions.
THE DETAILS
Learn to Thrive 2.0 will take place every other week via Zoom on Wednesday evenings, starting on October 21st. Classes will be 90 minutes long. The cost of Learn to Thrive 2.0 is $300 per month, payable by major credit card or PayPal.
In order to ensure an intimate community, class size is limited.
Let’s get started.
Now is the time. Together, we can learn to thrive.
ENROLLMENT IS CURRENTLY CLOSED. DON’T MISS THE NEXT CLASS:
About Kirstin Hotelling Zona, PhD.
Kirstin is an award-winning university professor, a certified Master Life Coach, a poet, author, and sought-after speaker, a partner and mother of two teenagers. She is a devoted community-builder and helped create the Town of Normal Community-Wide Sustainability Plan and 2035 Report Drawing on her training and research in literature and the arts, psychology, neuroscience, trauma, nutrition and wellness, gender and sexuality, ecology, and transformative education, Kirstin brings a unique and multi-faceted perspective to her coaching and teaching. Committed to bridging concepts and communities that often feel distinct, Kirstin has helped thousands of students and clients engage their full potential through deep healing and self-actualization. You can learn more about her work and her services at her website.