“You won’t get a canned presentation. Rick is a master of process and he operates with a graceful certainty and a genuine respect for participants that allows deep-seated personal and professional growth to occur naturally and at each participant’s own pace.”

Ronald A. Royne, ACSW New York State Coordinator Alcohol Treatment Services

Taming Your Gremlin®: A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way

If you’ve read Taming Your Gremlin® and you want to learn more, this is a great place to begin. This workshop, through it’s experiential nature and small group size, will give you an opportunity to learn and begin to integrate the foundational principals underlying the Gremlin Taming Method. You will learn 3 Dynamic Systems and Sixteen Key Principals to help you hone in and channel your natural gifts. You will have plenty of opportunities to catch yourself getting in your own way and learn how to quickly guide yourself to your place of choice. This workshop is a pre-requisite for any of the following advanced workshops.


The Art of Guiding Graceful Change

As in all of our workshops, experiential and didactic methods are used with an emphasis on the former. Participants in this workshop learn to use the wisdom of the Tao Ti Ching and the Zen Theory of Change in their own lives and with those they serve. Participants learn a streamlined specific 3-step roadmap for inner trekking, the 7 keys to creating a context in which perpetual personal growth can occur swiftly, and how to create and restore their own and their clients’ emotional equilibrium even in the midst of outrageous upheaval. This workshop is available in 1/2 day, 1 day, or a 1 1/2day format.


Mastering Your Craft

This intensive training program consists of 10 weekly 1 1/2 hour groups. Enrollees may participate in as many 10 week patterns as they choose. It is not uncommon for groups to stay together for several years. Mastering Your Craft is also available as a 1 and 1 1/2 day workshop.


Planning and Conducting Superlative Workshops and Presentations

This one month program is comprised of a 1 day session and 3 half-day sessions. Participants not only hone their presentation skills, they finish this course with a personally designed workshop for a market of their choosing along with specifically designed handouts and experiential activities.