The Art of Getting Over Yourself
Online Course for Facilitators
GET OVER YOURSELF
Harness the power of play to create engaging live experiences that build lasting belonging for your people…and yourself.
Whether you’re a team leader, an entrepreneur, event planner or an aspiring community facilitator, this online course is designed to provide you with the guidance, support and accountability you need to take your community-building goals—both personally and professionally—to the next level.
Digital Course
For facilitators, leaders and community builders ready to deepen their impact and level-up their belonging-building strategies during meetings and live events.
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Lesson 1: Belonging 101
We’ll tap into tried and true mindfulness techniques (including, but not limited to meditation, yoga and astrology) to redefine your relationship to yourself. Until you embody belonging, you can’t truly create space for others to feel it, too. We’ll map out a new “Belonging Plan” for yourself with various recipes to help you get over yourself and get uplifted.
We’ll tap into tried and true mindfulness techniques (including, but not limited to meditation, yoga and astrology) to redefine your relationship to yourself. Until you embody belonging, you can’t truly create space for others to feel it, too. We’ll map out a new “Belonging Plan” for yourself with various recipes to help you get over yourself and get uplifted.
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Lesson 2: Setting the Stage & Developing Your P.L.A.Y. Plan
Here’s where we decide what your “practice” gathering event will look like, and map the course to get there. Understanding the touch points of your community, we’ll work together to optimize them for belonging-sparking in live moments of human connection.
Here’s where we decide what your “practice” gathering event will look like, and map the course to get there. Understanding the touch points of your community, we’ll work together to optimize them for belonging-sparking in live moments of human connection.
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Lesson 1: The Performance of Belonging
Connection occurs in your facilitation of it. Here’s where you’ll rehearse your upcoming gathering step-by-step and work out any snags. (We invite you to practice in front of an “audience” of friends!)
Connection occurs in your facilitation of it. Here’s where you’ll rehearse your upcoming gathering step-by-step and work out any snags. (We invite you to practice in front of an “audience” of friends!)
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Lesson 1: The "You" of It All
It’s time to get honest about your personal and professional vision and how you’re showing up for it. During this week, you’ll work on customized homework tailored to your unique facilitation goals. This includes answering self-reflection prompts (Ex: Who are your people and are they serving your purpose? More importantly, are you serving theirs?)
It’s time to get honest about your personal and professional vision and how you’re showing up for it. During this week, you’ll work on customized homework tailored to your unique facilitation goals. This includes answering self-reflection prompts (Ex: Who are your people and are they serving your purpose? More importantly, are you serving theirs?)
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Lesson 2: Integration
After your gathering, we’ll talk about what worked, what didn’t, and how we can refine for the future. Additionally, we’ll address best strategies for you to follow up with attendees to ensure continued engagement and sustained belonging.
After your gathering, we’ll talk about what worked, what didn’t, and how we can refine for the future. Additionally, we’ll address best strategies for you to follow up with attendees to ensure continued engagement and sustained belonging.
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As a facilitator, you’re good at what you do and you care about making a difference in the lives of those you do it for.
Maybe you’re an event planner coordinating regular off-sites, a leader in charge of facilitating meetings with team members across multiple time zones, or an entrepreneur ready to broaden your reach. In any case, you’re ready to more deeply engage with your audience, but feel ill-equipped to do so.
You may be experiencing:
Burnout or lack of enthusiasm with work that used to excite you.
Driven to create more playful, joyous gatherings and social interactions for those you lead, but unsure of how to start.
Ready to build the community you want to live (and/or work!) in.
Together, we’ll hone your skills and vision to create a unique and effective community engagement strategy, making it easy for you to have a bigger impact doing what you love…and have more fun in the process.
Meet your
instructor
I'm Eli, the internationally-acclaimed founder/author of the Drunk Yoga® phenomenon. I pioneered the wellness entertainment movement to bridge the gap between #selfcare and #communitycare, and now I help social impact-driven revolutionaries like you do the same: break the rules to spark radical belonging for yourself and for your people by leading more playful and engaging live experiences. The purpose? To build deeper belonging in the modern world.
My online course is designed to help you go from delivering your knowledge and expertise in the conventional, low-impact way to embracing your authentic voice, vision and purpose to engage your community, do more good, and have [so much] fun in the process.
Get over yourself, engage your community & cultivate belonging that lasts.
At the end of this program, you will have a belonging toolkit equipped with:
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A reusable template to facilitate interactive gatherings any time, anywhere.
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A renewed sense of purpose as a part of a mission greater than yourself; That feeling that says, “Oh yeah, this is why I love what I do.”
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A clear, tangible strategy or ‘map’ to innovate your live community-building events in order to better engage your audience effectively and authentically.
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Tried-and-true (albeit out-of-the-box) presentation hacks to overcome marketing, sales and messaging obstacles that prevent you from attracting “your people.”
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A deeper understanding of what “belonging” means, and why the art of facilitating the experience of it is crucial to your success.
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Bootcamp-style practice facilitating interactive gatherings while implementing Eli’s P.L.A.Y.-ful strategies with the support of a safe container.
What you’ll get:
15 hours of course instruction (self-study)
50% off one Power Hour(s) coaching session with Eli via Zoom
6 free months of Eli’s UplifTV membership for additional resources and support
Free P.L.A.Y. Plan guide for future facilitation success
A more engaged, authentic and purpose-fueled community awaits you.
Investment: $297
Begin your belonging journey today.
✺ Frequently asked questions ✺
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Nope! But you do need to be ready to create one. If you’re a facilitator at heart but you’ve yet to “find your people,” this program will help you jump start that process.
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Yes! Whether you facilitate 1:1 meetings or large group gatherings, the principles of belonging remain true, and the material you’ll hone during this bootcamp will not only help you optimize your meetings and gatherings for engagement, but also personal fulfillment. (I’m here to help you bring joy back into your facilitation work, whatever shape that may be!)
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Nope! This course is designed for someone just like you. While a small component of this course curriculum addresses best practices for breaking down the 4th wall while facilitating gatherings, the bulk of the content is geared towards practical live experience design, and how to optimize and structure your interactions for engagement by creating an environment ripe for belonging.
A Note
from Eli
Ever since the pandemic, I’ve been mildly…(okay majorly) obsessed with the structure of belonging. See, when quarantine began, I was full-time CEO-ing Drunk Yoga®, and needed to quickly pivot all of our corporate events to virtual. Of course, because the nature of our interactive yoga party game is just that…a game, in order for us to play, it was vital for participants to turn on their Zoom cameras. This was a problem. Doing yoga—especially in front of coworkers virtually from their living room—can feel vulnerable. Unfortunately, at the time, my livelihood (literally) depended on it.
So, I got to researching. What are the essential components of community engagement? What makes humans want to participate within a collective experience (i.e. turn on their Zoom cameras)? On the flip side, what makes us feel the need to disengage and simply observe? After months of reading, inquiring, and trialing a variety of strategies, as well as developing a new *virtual* teacher training program for my instructors, I unlocked these four fundamental truths that remain consistent across all industries and demographics:
1) A feeling of belonging can only be sparked within live moments of human connection.
2) Belonging opens the doorway to community engagement. (In other words, community engagement occurs when belonging is felt.)
3) Breaking “the rules” sparks belonging; structured play deepens it.
4) The event facilitator is responsible for all of it.
After I discovered the above, I started developing my P.L.A.Y. Method as a recipe to help all facilitators (not just yoga teachers!), lead more engaging gatherings. And, with a newfound appreciation for the incredible power social impact driven leaders and entrepreneurs (like you!) hold in shaping a greater sense of belonging in our modern, isolated world, I created this Bootcamp. Now let’s P.L.A.Y.
