Thirty-five years after it began, The Basic lands in Melbourne. Victoria shares with us the philosophy behind the trainings – powerful questions and structured exercises can change your life.
Australia, Commonwealth of (Press Release) March 1, 2008 --
For Immediate Release
Melbourne, Australia (Press Release) February 29, 2008 – Several years ago in Holland, Victoria Shaw announced her purpose in life to a stunned Dutch audience - to bring the transformational trainings that changed her life to her own people in Australia. In May 2008, Coaching Strategies for Advancement (CSA) Australia will be offering the first Australian Basic in Melbourne, with Victoria at the helm as Managing Director.
“When I went into the Basic, I had a happy and successful life – in fact I had created everything I ever dreamed of. I went in wondering, what’s next?” says Victoria, who subsequently left her job as a behavioural psychologist to retrain as a personal coach and public trainer.
The trainings offered by CSA Australia are ultimately designed for people who:
• Have reached an age where they have achieved many of their goals and are looking for a new direction or goal in their lives
• Ask themselves every now and then, “Who am I?” and “What do I really want?”
• Want to give their personal development an intense boost
• Have not realised one or more important dreams and really want to achieve this
• Sometimes feel uncomfortable with themselves and want to change this
• Simply want to experience more freedom, inner peace, power and happiness
DISCOVER NEW POSSIBILITIES
“I was so excited by the transformation that occurred in every area of my life”, Victoria says. “Before The Basic my children woke 5-6 times per night, and my husband and I wondered why our children were born like this. After the training I was standing watching my husband comfort our crying three-year-old at 2am one night, and I suddenly became aware that we were creating this pattern, not the children. We recognised our responsibility, changed our behaviour, and three nights later our children slept through the night for the first time and have never looked back.”
Coaching Strategies for Advancement (CSA) trainings have no answers for you - all the answers and skills you need to operate at your maximum potential are already within you. You do not need psychological tricks or a new mental model to play with.
There is nothing for you to develop – we believe you are whole, creative and resourceful. To create whatever personal and professional results you desire involves you connecting to qualities in yourself that you have not or have insufficiently used – and then putting them into practice time after time in your daily life.
The Basic is a challenging and inspiring experiential training, using powerful questions and structured exercises to assist you to explore how your personal definitions of subjects such as honesty, trust and effective communication have a profound impact on your experience of life. You do these exercises – under the guidance of a CSA Trainer – alone, with another participant or in a group. Each exercise offers the possibility to discover new things about yourself.
“There is one important thing we ask you to remember,” says Victoria, “Leave your judgements at the door. We are not interested in right and wrong, good or bad – we are interested in you looking at what works and what doesn’t work in your life and in your system of beliefs.”
RESULTS THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE
William, another graduate, tells us, “I found myself doing what I thought was the right thing to do, the right career path to follow as a surgeon. I forgot about myself and what I really wanted in life. My participation in the Basic training opened doors and now I'm choosing my own path, creating joy and passion in my life again. I left the “right” path behind and opened a centre for diabetes research and treatment that has become a hugely successful business.”
Although Victoria has opened Coaching Strategies for Advancement Australia in 2008, the Basic has a long history. The first Basic was given in 1973 in the USA, with eight participants. Since then, approximately 1.25 million people worldwide have done the training – it is currently offered in the USA, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Argentina, Russia, Kazakhstan and Holland.
“I was amazed that these trainings have never come to Australia”, Victoria says. “There is nothing like The Basic in Australia right now. It seems that coaching and personal development here is very directional and offers people mental models, advice and tools to apply to their lives. This is quite opposite to what I have been taught – the only person who is an expert in your life is you. Any opinions or advice or tools that I give to you come from my point of view, say more about me than about you, and may have very little value in your life. As a CSA coach and trainer my job is to ask powerful questions that lead you to discover your own answers.”
The Basic is a program focused on self-discovery and awareness. It supports you in finding answers to questions such as:
• “What do I really want to experience, do and create in my life?”
• “What has been in the way so far?”
• “Which qualities have I not or insufficiently utilised so far?”
• “What can I do now to create my heartfelt desires?”
In this program you develop a clear vision of your future and become aware of new ways of seeing, thinking and being. The Basic is an experiential program, which means that you learn by doing, experiencing and reflecting. This requires a high level of commitment and participation from you in order to maximally utilise the means available to you. In addition, awareness requires the willingness to look at yourself and be open to looking at your own experience from new viewpoints.
MASTERFUL LIVING
CSA Australia offers a curriculum of three trainings:
• The Basic, 4 day awareness training inhouse.
• The Advanced, 5 day breakthrough training inhouse.
• Masterful living, 15 week coaching program in your life.
Each training stands alone, and also lays the foundation for the next level. The Basic is purely about you focusing on you, and The Advanced is an intense experience of focusing both in and out.
In Masterful Living you take what you have learned in the two trainings and put them into action in your life - this involves five 2-3 day training sessions, weekly coaching from our coaches and daily support from the other participants. What people inevitably discover is that the way to create what you really want in life is to give. This experience is what takes people from the realm of personal effectiveness to the realm of mastery in life.
CHANGE THE WORLD
Victoria Shaw has a purpose in life – to inspire people to love, respect and connect. Her dreams, however, extend further than offering trainings to successful people to support them in connecting to their purpose and put it into action.
“I have spent many years working as a crisis counsellor, working as a confrontational coach in a drug rehabilitation clinic, working on the streets with homeless people. I have visited third world countries and countries torn apart by war. My goal for the future is an Australian organisation of trainers and coaches who volunteer their time taking this approach to underprivileged people within and around Australia. Instead of throwing answers to their issues at them, let’s throw them powerful questions and get them connected to their own answers. Let’s support these people to get into action in a way that empowers them.”
Victoria has already started creating this dream – she facilitates a support group for people suffering from clinical depression and anxiety, and facilitates community forums on women’s issues, parenting and retirement around Melbourne.
“I came here because I want to see these trainings offered in my own country, and the best place to start is by giving”, says Victoria.
LIVE THE LIFE YOU LOVE
The first Australian Basic will be held in metropolitan Melbourne, May 1-4, 2008. There will be a Post Training on the evening of 6th May.
Jeff Cosby, one of the men who originally developed these trainings in the 1970s, will be facilitating The Basic. Jeff holds an MCC, the highest qualification issued by the International Coaching Federation. In his 34 years as a professional trainer, he has personally trained more than 250,000 people in The Basic worldwide.
“The challenge is to spend 4 days looking deeply at how you relate to yourself, others and life – and discover how you can create what really matters.”
Through this unique and life-changing training clients have experienced:
• Better balance between personal life and work
• More passion and energy
• Increased willingness to take risks and challenges
• Ability to consistently create results with ease
• More effective communication, better cooperation with colleagues
• Enhanced leadership qualities
Quality guarantee: if the outcome of participating in this program is not satisfactory, we will return your program fee.
“Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and be guided by the truth as one sees it.”
Mahatma Gandhi
For more information, coaching or interviews, contact info@csaaustralia.com, or call Victoria at CSA Australia on +613 9557 5031.
Melbourne, Australia (Press Release) February 29, 2008 – Several years ago in Holland, Victoria Shaw announced her purpose in life to a stunned Dutch audience - to bring the transformational trainings that changed her life to her own people in Australia. In May 2008, Coaching Strategies for Advancement (CSA) Australia will be offering the first Australian Basic in Melbourne, with Victoria at the helm as Managing Director.
“When I went into the Basic, I had a happy and successful life – in fact I had created everything I ever dreamed of. I went in wondering, what’s next?” says Victoria, who subsequently left her job as a behavioural psychologist to retrain as a personal coach and public trainer.
The trainings offered by CSA Australia are ultimately designed for people who:
• Have reached an age where they have achieved many of their goals and are looking for a new direction or goal in their lives
• Ask themselves every now and then, “Who am I?” and “What do I really want?”
• Want to give their personal development an intense boost
• Have not realised one or more important dreams and really want to achieve this
• Sometimes feel uncomfortable with themselves and want to change this
• Simply want to experience more freedom, inner peace, power and happiness
DISCOVER NEW POSSIBILITIES
“I was so excited by the transformation that occurred in every area of my life”, Victoria says. “Before The Basic my children woke 5-6 times per night, and my husband and I wondered why our children were born like this. After the training I was standing watching my husband comfort our crying three-year-old at 2am one night, and I suddenly became aware that we were creating this pattern, not the children. We recognised our responsibility, changed our behaviour, and three nights later our children slept through the night for the first time and have never looked back.”
Coaching Strategies for Advancement (CSA) trainings have no answers for you - all the answers and skills you need to operate at your maximum potential are already within you. You do not need psychological tricks or a new mental model to play with.
There is nothing for you to develop – we believe you are whole, creative and resourceful. To create whatever personal and professional results you desire involves you connecting to qualities in yourself that you have not or have insufficiently used – and then putting them into practice time after time in your daily life.
The Basic is a challenging and inspiring experiential training, using powerful questions and structured exercises to assist you to explore how your personal definitions of subjects such as honesty, trust and effective communication have a profound impact on your experience of life. You do these exercises – under the guidance of a CSA Trainer – alone, with another participant or in a group. Each exercise offers the possibility to discover new things about yourself.
“There is one important thing we ask you to remember,” says Victoria, “Leave your judgements at the door. We are not interested in right and wrong, good or bad – we are interested in you looking at what works and what doesn’t work in your life and in your system of beliefs.”
RESULTS THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE
William, another graduate, tells us, “I found myself doing what I thought was the right thing to do, the right career path to follow as a surgeon. I forgot about myself and what I really wanted in life. My participation in the Basic training opened doors and now I'm choosing my own path, creating joy and passion in my life again. I left the “right” path behind and opened a centre for diabetes research and treatment that has become a hugely successful business.”
Although Victoria has opened Coaching Strategies for Advancement Australia in 2008, the Basic has a long history. The first Basic was given in 1973 in the USA, with eight participants. Since then, approximately 1.25 million people worldwide have done the training – it is currently offered in the USA, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Argentina, Russia, Kazakhstan and Holland.
“I was amazed that these trainings have never come to Australia”, Victoria says. “There is nothing like The Basic in Australia right now. It seems that coaching and personal development here is very directional and offers people mental models, advice and tools to apply to their lives. This is quite opposite to what I have been taught – the only person who is an expert in your life is you. Any opinions or advice or tools that I give to you come from my point of view, say more about me than about you, and may have very little value in your life. As a CSA coach and trainer my job is to ask powerful questions that lead you to discover your own answers.”
The Basic is a program focused on self-discovery and awareness. It supports you in finding answers to questions such as:
• “What do I really want to experience, do and create in my life?”
• “What has been in the way so far?”
• “Which qualities have I not or insufficiently utilised so far?”
• “What can I do now to create my heartfelt desires?”
In this program you develop a clear vision of your future and become aware of new ways of seeing, thinking and being. The Basic is an experiential program, which means that you learn by doing, experiencing and reflecting. This requires a high level of commitment and participation from you in order to maximally utilise the means available to you. In addition, awareness requires the willingness to look at yourself and be open to looking at your own experience from new viewpoints.
MASTERFUL LIVING
CSA Australia offers a curriculum of three trainings:
• The Basic, 4 day awareness training inhouse.
• The Advanced, 5 day breakthrough training inhouse.
• Masterful living, 15 week coaching program in your life.
Each training stands alone, and also lays the foundation for the next level. The Basic is purely about you focusing on you, and The Advanced is an intense experience of focusing both in and out.
In Masterful Living you take what you have learned in the two trainings and put them into action in your life - this involves five 2-3 day training sessions, weekly coaching from our coaches and daily support from the other participants. What people inevitably discover is that the way to create what you really want in life is to give. This experience is what takes people from the realm of personal effectiveness to the realm of mastery in life.
CHANGE THE WORLD
Victoria Shaw has a purpose in life – to inspire people to love, respect and connect. Her dreams, however, extend further than offering trainings to successful people to support them in connecting to their purpose and put it into action.
“I have spent many years working as a crisis counsellor, working as a confrontational coach in a drug rehabilitation clinic, working on the streets with homeless people. I have visited third world countries and countries torn apart by war. My goal for the future is an Australian organisation of trainers and coaches who volunteer their time taking this approach to underprivileged people within and around Australia. Instead of throwing answers to their issues at them, let’s throw them powerful questions and get them connected to their own answers. Let’s support these people to get into action in a way that empowers them.”
Victoria has already started creating this dream – she facilitates a support group for people suffering from clinical depression and anxiety, and facilitates community forums on women’s issues, parenting and retirement around Melbourne.
“I came here because I want to see these trainings offered in my own country, and the best place to start is by giving”, says Victoria.
LIVE THE LIFE YOU LOVE
The first Australian Basic will be held in metropolitan Melbourne, May 1-4, 2008. There will be a Post Training on the evening of 6th May.
Jeff Cosby, one of the men who originally developed these trainings in the 1970s, will be facilitating The Basic. Jeff holds an MCC, the highest qualification issued by the International Coaching Federation. In his 34 years as a professional trainer, he has personally trained more than 250,000 people in The Basic worldwide.
“The challenge is to spend 4 days looking deeply at how you relate to yourself, others and life – and discover how you can create what really matters.”
Through this unique and life-changing training clients have experienced:
• Better balance between personal life and work
• More passion and energy
• Increased willingness to take risks and challenges
• Ability to consistently create results with ease
• More effective communication, better cooperation with colleagues
• Enhanced leadership qualities
Quality guarantee: if the outcome of participating in this program is not satisfactory, we will return your program fee.
“Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and be guided by the truth as one sees it.”
Mahatma Gandhi
For more information, coaching or interviews, contact info@csaaustralia.com, or call Victoria at CSA Australia on +613 9557 5031.
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