Frequently Asked Questions - Personal Mastery

On our course offering page for Personal Mastery, the courses are listed in an order that will continually deepen your embodiment. We are available to customize a course of study for you that will best suit your needs and level of leadership competency. Our programs are designed with that flexibility in mind.

Most people start with Leadership in Action. This is a good lead-in course for many people as we spend considerable time with the foundational distinctions and practices of somatics and of leadership as practiced at Strozzi Institute. This course is not a beginner’s course in the broad sense of the word. Since our somatic approach is new for most people, it will be a rich and deep experience.

Our public programs will have between 12 - 35 students. The ratio between students and teaching staff is approximately 1 to 10. We will often have a teacher student ration of 1 to 6.

The structure of our courses has been designed to offer flexibility in our course of study. The timing between sessions is dependent on several factors. For most people, anytime from two weeks to six months is good timing between the sessions of Leadership in Action. It is valuable to have some time to continue the practices from one course before the next course. Some people like to have more time to incorporate the learning into their lives. For most people, continuing in the course of study while there is a momentum to the learning and changes will be important.

There are occasions that either choice is correct. We can assist you in determining the best choice for each individual to have the best outcome possible. We frequently see partners take their first course separately and their second course together. There are other times when it is clearly best to attend together to maximize benefits.

Everyone attending is a distinct individual with very individual concerns. Each course has specific topics and modules; at the same time we work closely with individuals around their own issues and concerns. People attend who are in transitions: relationship beginnings and endings, career transitions, age transitions. People use our courses to assist finding their calling and purpose. People move from being stuck in life to being a person of action. We are not a therapy or process group – even so, we work on deep core issues to bring to light the how and what of ones actions, directly related to the concerns one brings. People attend to rediscover their aliveness and feeling. This is a natural outcome of working deeply in our somatic discourse.