FREE LECTURE SERIES:

There is no charge for these introductory lectures.  Each of them will introduce GrowthClimate® RELATIONSHIP BASE CONCEPTS in the context of the topics listed.  There will be time for questions and answers at the end of each of them. 

They can be attended at GrowthClimate® Training Center in Provo.  [See the CALENDAR on www.growthclimate.com ] 

You can also schedule any of these lectures at your own location by calling GrowthClimate® at (801) 623-3211 or 423-2151.

[These lectures are available directly from GrowthClimate® Corporation, from Certified GrowthClimate® RELATIONSHIP SPECIALISTS™, and from Certified GrowthClimate® SELF-WORTH THERAPISTS™. 

FREE Lecture No.1
SEXUAL INTIMACY & RELATIONSHIPS:
What Your Parents Should Have Told You, But Probably Didn’t Know in the First Place.

Youth who learn what is presented in this lecture will have a sound basis for saying no, even in the face of peer pressure.  Too frequently, parents tell their children “no” without giving them the “why”.  Only when they know the why are they really free to say NO for themselves.  The material presented will also provide adults with insights into challenges they may have faced personally in their own lives.  

The adults and youth who attend will not only be forearmed for dealing with this accelerating crisis, but will also be able to assist those who are already hurting to reverse direction and feel good about themselves again. 

In a refreshing way, this lecture will examine the obvious and the not-so-obvious traps both youth and adults face today. Among the topics which will be discussed are these: the threshold of excitement, sexual fixation, the principle of least interest, how to tell whether love is real or not, and the effects of premature sexual intimacy on the individuals and the relationship. 

FREE Lecture No.2
Backing Out of DEPRESSION & ANXIETY:
There IS Light at the End of the Tunnel

Most people at one time or another have brief bouts with depression. or anxiety.  An increasing number, however, even among our youth, are experiencing this dilemma more frequently and n more deeply.  The typical approach in dealing with depression and anxiety is to ignore it by telling themselves that “I can’t let this show!”  “I need to bigger than this problem.”  “Only weak people allow themselves to be depressed.”  Statements like these keep us burying our problems and our worries.  More often than not, depression and anxiety are strong indicators that a person’s self-worth is in trouble!

Management skills, as in stress management [and depression and anxiety is a manifestation of stress], simply give the person who is seeking relief the capacity to carry more and more stress.  What becomes operative here is the “straw that breaks the camel’s back.”  People need to acquire revival tools, not merely survival skills.  There is no need to keep burying and carrying unresolved issues.  Just know that the beliefs individuals have acquired are the bad guys not the individuals.  There is light at the end of the tunnel—both anxiety and depression have beliefs that can be UPROOTED! 

FREE Lecture No.3
Working with TROUBLED TEENS:
Getting the Horse Back into the Barn; Taming “Tigger”

Have you ever stopped to think that when parents and teachers and leaders seek to stop the misbehavior of a trouble teen, they may actually be increasing the troubles for that teen?  Misbehavior is almost always the symptom of another problem.  A recent correlation of studies, done on discipline problems in our schools, reduced the number of recurrent problems to sixteen.  These same sixteen appear in varying forms.  The purpose in correlating the studies was to find the most effective techniques available to stop misbehavior, and then to make those techniques available to schools.  Similarly, there are studies and techniques for helping parent deal with the behavior of their kids.  THE REAL TARGET SHOULD BE A GENUINE PERSONAL CONNECTION WITH THE TEEN, NOT THE TROUBLES.  When adults truly learn to relate to teens, the troubles tend to take care of themselves.  The focus of this lecture is to assist parents, teachers, and others in breaking through the protective barriers our youth have placed around themselves for survival.  

FREE Lecture No.4
An Alternative to
SEPARATION & DIVORCE:
Marriages Made in Heaven Don’t Need to End Up in “Hell”!

Sad, isn’t it!  What is it that destroys the spark and puts out the flames of love?  Just as critical, how can fires that have gone out, or are nearly out, be rekindled?  Have you ever wondered why you are no longer able to communicate?  Or why nearly everything you say is somehow misunderstood or twisted by your spouse?  Life’s experiences, unless viewed through a base-line of principle, lead to the positioning of faulty communication filters in each of us.  And just as filters on cameras lenses can cause false images on the retinas of cameras, so faulty communication filters cause us to see and hear messages differently than they are intended.  This lecture introduces a new set of filters—PRINCIPLES—which, when put in place, increases the probability that each party will not only hear what is REALLY being said, but can communicate more accurately themselves.  What appear to be insurmountable obstacles to the reawakening of warm relationships are more frequently found to be misperceived molehills.

FREE Lecture No.5
HEALING FROM ABUSE:
Getting Your Voice & Your Life Back

In our work over the past 23 years we have had the privilege of walking side by side with individuals who have experienced physical, sexual, psychological, spiritual, emotional, and financial abuse.  One thread that keeps surfacing in these survivors is the fact that they often feel they have lost their voice.  Silence for them was the better part of valor.  To take a stand and speak out meant they would be subjected to being re-victimized.  Saddest of all is the loss of their sense of self.

Learning how to claim back your lost self can be one of the most exciting journeys you will ever experience.  You are a person of worth—“God did not make any junk.”  To survive you may have put on a façade.  Thank goodness you did!  That is why you are here today.  Know that your gifts are not lost.  They have just been protected and stored in a secret compartment deep inside.  Come learn how to claim back who you really are, see that the tools to recovery are truly at your finger tips, and that your past experience can be the foundation stones to wisdom and self understanding, and that YOU are the most important person in this world.  Learn how to let the REAL YOU STAND UP.

FREE Lecture No.6
SELF WORTH:
What IS it?  Where is YOURS?  How to RECLAIM It!

At the root of many emotional issues, personal struggles, frustration, anxieties, depressions, or even suicidal ideation (thoughts) are beliefs  that governs how a person views his sense of self.  On the other hand at the root of success, great achievements, happiness, personal accomplishments, dreams, hopes, confidence, and personal trust and faith are also beliefs that governs how one view his sense of self.

• Learn how self worth is bought caught and taught.
• Learn how you can be empowered to alter that negative sense of self that you picked up along the way to an authentic sense of self—vibrant alive and whole.
• Learn that the seeds to the solutions to your problems lie deep within and regardless of race, religion, past history, genetic propensities, you are truly most powerful. 

Your negative self-worth is NOT who you really are.  You are NOT the bad guy.  The beliefs you have adopted about yourself are the bad guys and they can be uprooted.  You see, your STRESS IS THE KEY TO SELF DISCOVERY.  If you have had a tendency to look at life half empty, come learn how to lift the filters of the mind and see life half full.

FREE Lecture No.7
Understanding
PORNOGRAPHY ADDICTION:
Avoiding & Escaping “Bare” Traps!

FREE Lecture No.8
BREAKING WEIGHT HELPLESSNESS:
Let the INSIDE YOU Take Charge!  

Gain weight; lose weight.  Inflate; deflate.  Up and down like a yo-yo!  When attempt after attempt at losing weight fails, it is enough to cause a body stress!  Did you ever stop to think that much of the weight a person gains is because of stress?  If you were to label overeating as misbehavior [which is typically how it is labeled by insensitive onlookers], and then recognize that misbehavior is an outgrowth of or manifestation of stress, you may be able to see this weight problem from a far more exciting perspective.  Most of the effort, and it IS effort, used to get weight off is spent overriding what appears to be our natural propensities.  Or we choose an appetite suppressant or device to do the overriding FOR us.  What we tend to lose more of than any thing else is our own sense of worth.  This lecture introduces a process of getting to the root cause of our stress and subsequent behavior.  If you are one who has gone back to bingeing, or given up on your most resolute decisions to diet or to exercise, you can acquire the tools to get to the very motivators for your behavior.  Alter the root and you can alter the fruit!  You will hear things in this lecture you have never heard before!