Biographical exercises are practiced, language awareness is strengthened, and soul types are considered. Time is allowed each day for self-reflection through journal writing and conversation. Groups need to clarify what they mean by consensus, and understand how the nature of the task, as well as the size and composition of the group, influence decision making. This leads to an enhancement of consensus through collaboration, empowering individuals to make decisions as independent spirit beings in conscious collaboration with others. Differing leadership styles are identified and applied during role-playing sessions.
Participants identify their own leadership capacities and build on their strengths.
Whether in a faculty meeting, a mentoring session, or a parent-teacher conference, effective communication is the foundation of a healthy social life in a school. Throughout the Institutes, the instructors model clear, nonjudgmental, and objective speaking, and offer specific listening and speaking skills that ease difficult situations and lead to resolution of recurring frustrations. New understanding can liberate the knots of frustration that often arise from self-administration. Simply working with the fourfold or sevenfold human being can shed new light on a given subject. The institute was much more relative to my school situation and environment than I had expected.