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Experience Transformation With

Cultivate Upstate

About Us

 

Cultivate Upstate is an organization committed to providing experiential opportunities for individuals to explore and expand in the areas of personal growth and authentic connection while enhancing their leaderships abilities and building meaningful community throughout Upstate NY. We envision the work required to create a positive and intentional impact on our state as similar to planting and maintaining a beautiful garden, thus inspiring the word “cultivate” for the transformation we are bringing to the lives of participants, their relationships, and our beautiful state.  

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Cultivate Focus is a 10-day experiential training process grounded in the concepts of personal growth and leadership development. This truly unique and profound experience is spread out over the course of 3 separate weekends to allow space to practice and integrate concepts from each weekend into your life before moving onto the next. We operate under the belief that within each human being is a leader, showing up as leaders in some capacity and in various areas of our lives: at home, at work, with family, with friends, even amongst strangers. 

 

The saying goes “You cannot love others until you know how to love yourself.” As leaders, we all carry with us the ability to influence others and we ask you this, how are you stewarding that influence? We all can think of experiences in which we were exposed to someone in leadership that did not manage their influence well. The reality is, we all have blind spots and limiting beliefs that hold us back from engaging and leading from a place of our full potential. In doing so, we limit our effectiveness and poorly steward the influence we have in the process. Most often this results in broken relationships, fear-driven decision making, and communicating shame-based messages to ourselves and others. 

Cultivate Focus

​Cultivate Focus is an opportunity for to you to learn more about yourself; to discover awareness around your "blind spots" and limiting beliefs that create barriers to your own effectiveness. You will engage in exercises that provide opportunities and equip you with tools to navigate through these barriers. This will increase your ability to reach your potential and to empower you live an abundant, inspired, and connected life.

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Objectives participants can expect to cultivate and strengthen in each weekend experience, include the following:

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1

Shift

  • Take inventory of current place in life and assess what’s "working" versus "not working"

  • Increase awareness around the barriers created by comfort zones, limiting beliefs, and self-defeating behaviors that impede effectiveness and success

  • Examine limitations caused by current POVs and explore new perspectives

  • Learn how to shift from a Victim to Accountability mindset to empower you to engage in effective change 

  • Repair and strengthen connection within personal and professional relationships

  • Create an abundant life grounded in the authentic self

2

Transform

  • Develop skills to shift from reactive to responsive in communication and decision-making

  • Learn how to give and receive feedback in a non-judgmental, compassionate, and courageous way

  • Breakthrough barriers caused by comfort zones, limiting beliefs, and self-defeating behaviors to experience meaningful and sustainable transfomation 

  • Create thriving and healthy relationship with self and others

  • Explore and expand creativity, self-expression, self-confidence, self-love, celebration, and freedom living life from your authentic self

3

Create

  • Learn how to maintain and sustain personal effectiveness and transformation gained from CU2

  • Shift mindset from that of a Power model to one oriented around Growth

  • Manage, reduce, and resolve reactive, sideways behaviors and increase ability to learn how to respond to people and circumstances in more productive ways

  • Redirect negative, unproductive, and/or false self-talk that inhibits growth and effectiveness in relationships

  • Foster congruence between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors 

  • Pursue goals and intentions within new framework of living from a place of authenticity and abundance

  • ​Utilize DISC personality profile to understand self, communication styles, and attunement skills to increase effectiveness in relationships

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