Primary Services
EgoMechanics, Inc. can work with individuals and organizations in a variety of ways that enhance communication, productivity, and personal growth. The expected outcomes of this work are extraordinarily valuable to each participating individual. Listed below are the primary workshops for team building and also other workshops offered by EgoMechanics, Inc.
Individual Assessment Interviews
These are used to determine the current organizational levels of
- safety
- risk taking
- authentic communication
- empowerment
- accountability
- initiative
- conflict resolution
- and more
These interviews give the consultants a general picture of what’s working and what’s not in terms of team communication and functioning.
These interview sessions are also used to explain to the staff the nature and purpose of the team training, introduce the consultants, answer questions, give guidelines and timetables, as well as creating the groundwork for safety and authenticity in the consulting process.
Egos and Communication Training Workshop
Usual duration: 2-3 days
These sessions cover the following items:
- Identifying different communication styles within teams
- Normal contradictory energies in teams are described
- Operating principles of high performance teams described
- Concepts of systemic and team functioning introduced
- Rules of team functioning currently in place are identified
- Identifying the forces that limit or close authentic communication
- Communication principles for maintaining authentic, intimate, transforming, empowering, team experience are explained
- Introduction of the Authentic Communication
- Feedback Format (ACFF)
- Feedback given by team members to each other using the ACFF
- Strengths and weaknesses in team communication identified through ACFF
- New agreements and methods of communicating are created and defined
Follow-up Training Sessions
These sessions are designed to:
- Establish the new Authentic Communication Feedback Format in the daily life of the organization and its teams
- On site monitoring and refining use of the ACFF by teams
- Problem solving unforeseen performance issues
- Coaching individual team members regarding development of personal power, interpersonal intelligence and job satisfaction.
Expected Outcomes
The following outcomes are expected following the experience of the team training and the regular use of the principles and practices of developing High Performance Teams:
- safety and trust
- willingness to risk
- new ideas/insights jump and flow
- genuine acknowledgment/meaningful criticism
- accountability becomes normal
- release from fear
- ease with complexity
- continuous team learning and improvement
- deeper access to collective intelligence
- deeper access to collective creativity
- high quality problem solving
- powerful/coordinated actions
- real support for each other
“it’s OK to be myself” - leadership is everywhere
- high Interpersonal IQ
- deep respectfulness
- genuine joy, satisfaction and celebration
Other Services
Family Systems Communication Workshop
Provides empowering and effective knowledge of healthy and unhealthy family functioning and a new communication format that the family uses to build collective strength and wellbeing as a team on a progressive basis.
Shame, Unawareness and Defensiveness in Interpersonal Communication
Provides a clear definition and description of shame, its role as a driving force in addiction, and the problems it creates in early recovery. Practical tools for identifying hidden shame and releasing from its grip are introduced.
Ego Types, Character Types, Family Roles
Training in identifying ego, character and role types, their effects on the course of both addiction and recovery. Strategies for avoiding and managing the triggers and trps of each type are introduced.
Love, Need, Dependency and Survival
Provides clarification of the differences and interaction between love, dependency and survival. Introduces methods for the development of personal power and choice in relation to each.
The Male Ego in Recovery
Describing the unique role of the male ego and identity in recovery. Methods for developing authentic inner strength in men are introduced and practiced.
Being in the Moment
Being in the moment is powerfulbut not always liberating or pleasant. The meaning, power and misunderstandings of “being in the moment” are presented and methods for expanding one’s presence in the moment are introduced and practiced.
Inner Adult and Inner Child
The differences between the authentic inner adult, the grownup, and the inner child are presented. Methods for developing the authentic inner adult and integrating the inner child are introduced and practiced.
Growth of Therapeutic Skills and Growth of the Therapist
The skill with which a therapist uses a therapeutic technique in a given moment with a given client is directly related to the level of the therapist’s personal awareness in that moment. Methods for developing both technique and awqreness will be presented.
The Role of Play in Treatment and Personal Growth
The power and pleasure of “playing” with barriers, limits and possibilities are explored. Methods for the adult use of play to foster personal growth and pleasure are presented and practiced.
Spirituality and Personal Growth
The close relationship of psychological change and spiritual awareness is explored and experienced.
Other Resources
For further information, please contact Dr. Lou Cox (212-717-6997)
EgoMechanics, Inc. can work with individuals and organizations in a variety of ways that enhance communication, productivity, and personal growth. The expected outcomes of this work are extraordinarily valuable to each participating individual. Listed below are the primary workshops for team building and also other workshops offered by EgoMechanics, Inc.
Individual Assessment Interviews
These are used to determine the current organizational levels of
safety
- risk taking
- authentic communication
- empowerment
- accountability
- initiative
- conflict resolution
- and more
These interviews give the consultants a general picture of what’s working and what’s not in terms of team communication and functioning.
These interview sessions are also used to explain to the staff the nature and purpose of the team training, introduce the consultants, answer questions, give guidelines and timetables, as well as creating the groundwork for safety and authenticity in the consulting process.
Egos and Communication Training Workshop
Usual duration: 2-3 days
These sessions cover the following items:
- Identifying different communication styles within teams
- Normal contradictory energies in teams are described
- Operating principles of high performance teams described
- Concepts of systemic and team functioning introduced
- Rules of team functioning currently in place are identified
- Identifying the forces that limit or close authentic communication
- Communication principles for maintaining authentic, intimate, transforming, empowering, team experience are explained
- Introduction of the Authentic Communication Feedback Format (ACFF)
- Feedback given by team members to each other using the ACFF
- Strengths and weaknesses in team communication identified through ACFF
- New agreements and methods of communicating are created and defined
Follow-up Training Sessions
These sessions are designed to:
- Establish the new Authentic Communication Feedback
- Format in the daily life of the organization and its teams
- On site monitoring and refining use of the ACFF by teams
- Problem solving unforeseen performance issues
- Coaching individual team members regarding development of personal power, interpersonal intelligence and job satisfaction.