Getting the most out of Aliveworld
The tool in our Aliveworld toolbox that will have the most practical effect on you making any changes in your life is the Practice Manager. Have you tried it yet? If you have worked part way through any Aliveguide you will have set up your first practice. AND you can also just click on the TOOLS>>Practices menu and set one up without going through a Guide or Change Project.
All sportspeople, musicians, spiritual practitioners to name but a few know that practice is what's needed to instill new behaviour. Regular repetition is what makes the difference if you want to change any aspect of your life. Our practice manager allows you to track how often you practice, what you do, how long you do it for and even how you feel about doing it. And if you check the Remind Me box at the top of your list of practices, Aliveworld will send you a polite reminder once a day whenever you fall behind in your commitments. Inside the PM you can track your progress over time, add reviews as often as you want building up a practice journal as you go.
Try it -- just setting it up can be enough to get you off to a good start.
best wishes from Ivan
About ivan
I have been involved in change management in some form for thirty years, starting out in family counselling and communications skills training. For a while I combined co-Directing (with my wife) the UK's first major parent education charity with training members of the helping professionals in communication skills. I was a founding member of the Community Building in Britain group that introduced the Scott Peck Community Building workshop model to the UK and was one of the first trained facilitators for those events in the UK in the early 90s.
I was a partner in two successful organisation change consultancies during the 90s, was an early pioneer at taking spirituality into business management, as well as developing effective use of collaborative development workshop models in organisations large and small. I balanced corporate consulting with consulting to voluntary organisations and community groups, including facilitating large scale processes such as Future Search conferences and Open Space events.
I have trained extensively in Client centered counselling and consulting, NLP, Gestalt psychotherapy and various models of group dymanics. I have a MSc in Change Agent Skills and Strategies from the University of Surrey. I have written extensively on various aspects of change, development and communications over the years and been involved in the publication of books and magazines both in print and online.
I emigrated to New Zealand in 2000 with my Kiwi wife and 3rd son, leaving behind two grown up sons by my first marriage. I was involved in Aliveworld since shortly after its inception, working full-time at bringing it to fruition from mid-2002 until March 2009 when a radical change in lifestyle is my chosen solution to an operation for bowel cancer.