Understanding Achieving Success - Multidisciplinary Experiential Workshop

Understanding Success – Experiential Workshop in Toronto
📅 Date: February 28, 2025
⏰ Time: 6:15 - 8:15 PM
📍 Venue: Dance Together Studio, 10 Heintzman Street, Toronto, M6P 2J6

Dear Friends,
I warmly invite you to an interactive personal development workshop:

✨ "Understanding Achieving Success: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Achievement" ✨

This event will feature an engaging presentation on human development from two unique perspectives, followed by a practical collective meditation session to enhance learning, reflection, and self-realization.

🌟 What You’ll Explore:
✔ What is success? Insights from psychology, neuroscience, and holistic traditions.
✔ How can I achieve success? Physical, cognitive, and intuitive tools to help you thrive.
✔ What motivates me? Understanding personal drives and aspirations.

💡 Gain Valuable Knowledge:
🔹 Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers): Studies on success.
🔹 Seligman’s PERMA Model & Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan).
🔹 Neuroscience insights from Carol Dweck.
🔹 Character Education (Covey, Patanjali) & Spirituality (Shiva, Shri Shri Anandamurti).

🧘‍♂️ Hands-On Practical Experience:
🔹 Self-inquiry: Reflecting on personal definitions of success.
🔹 Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Identifying and challenging cognitive distortions.
🔹 Social Practices: Role-playing, the Shovel-Face Circle, and goal-setting techniques.
🔹 Well-being & Somatic Practices: Breathwork, body scans, progressive muscle relaxation, movement, yoga, and dynamic meditation.
🔹 Meditation: Yogic meditation & chanting meditation.

🕒 Workshop Agenda:
📌 10 min – Interactive Presentation: Gladwell’s Case Studies on Success
📌 15 min – Theory: Positive Psychology, Neuroscience, Economic & Cultural Perspectives
📌 40 min – Brainstorming, Social Practices, CBT, and Goal-Setting
📌 40 min – Dynamic Meditation (15 min active, 20 min silent)
📌 20 min – Informal Discussion & Post-Session Reflection

📖 Quotes for Reflection:
"The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues." – Marcus Aurelius
"Success is not measured by what you achieve, but by the person you become in the process of achieving it." – Stephen Covey
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill
"A sense of accomplishment is a result of working toward and reaching goals, mastering an endeavor, and having self-motivation to finish what you set out to do." – Seligman (2012)
"Whenever you are doing something, success is not in your hands. Success comes as a reaction. When the original action is good, the reaction is also good, and that reaction is the success." – Shri Shri Anandamurti

✨ Join us for an evening of learning, self-exploration, and personal growth! ✨

🔗 Reserve your spot today!

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About the Organizer:

I am a Russian-Canadian actor and educator with over 15 years of experience researching personality, spirituality, cognitive science, social dynamics, and educational psychology. For the past seven years, I have deeply explored meditation and yoga as part of my spiritual journey.

I am passionate about sharing discoveries, ideas, and inspiration with others. My calling is to support personal growth and development. If I can contribute by sharing knowledge, skills, and practices that enhance physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being, I will be truly fulfilled.

Nikolai Afanasev (Nirmal)
MEd in Curriculum, Pedagogy (Emphasis: Wellbeing, Critical Pedagogy)