Vision Quest
uncertainty:
in the human brain; uncertainty is registered as an error in the orbitofrontal cortex. Thus, uncertainty monopolises the brain, leaving little attention for anything else. We are surrounded by uncertainty… But with a vision of your future, you can build your own certainty.
in the human brain; uncertainty is registered as an error in the orbitofrontal cortex. Thus, uncertainty monopolises the brain, leaving little attention for anything else. We are surrounded by uncertainty… But with a vision of your future, you can build your own certainty.
the Vision Quest is a 10 week programme designed to:
- equip you to imagine your most desirable future
- enable you to articulate that future
- give you a strategy for achieving it
- equip you to imagine your most desirable future
- enable you to articulate that future
- give you a strategy for achieving it
Built around the three primary human motivators — autonomy, purpose, and mastery — with a thread of happiness/flourishing running underneath. Participants work through a series of personal experiments designed to clarify, strengthen and align all four.
These experiments are designed to empower you, so that you can formulate a Vision of your future from a place of opportunity, meaning, and strength.
These experiments are designed to empower you, so that you can formulate a Vision of your future from a place of opportunity, meaning, and strength.
Quester reviews
- It challenges what personally drives people and rekindles the passion they have to produce great work.JennaInterior Designer
- A platform of tools to refocus, readjust and realign with your goals and purpose. Sometimes things are revealed through the exercises that you wouldn't have known before.KelseyInterior Architect
- Vision Quest gave me the tools I needed, to handle situations I never knew I could.MartinArchitectural Technologist
- Makes you better at life.AndreArchitect
A Vivid Vision of your future
When you "lean out" and grab hold of a clear vision for success, you're more likely to achieve your desired goal. A Vivid Vision starts when you plant one foot in the present and then lean out and place the other in the future, the 'what could be'.
the story of the vision quest
In mid 2017 I was approached by a client who requested that I design a Vision Quest for her company - her brief was that she wanted to: get staff to a level where they are happy with their own career path.
I squirmed... I am a business consultant, not a coach, and unless I can see a clear business case for an intervention, I feel like a fraud.
But... she's a great client, and she's really smart, so I pondered.
One of the aspects of my consultancy that fascinates me is the conundrum of human motivation; self motivation, employee motivation, customer motivation, and in my ponderings I started seeing the link between a personal vision & productivity at work.
Social science presents the three primary human motivators as Autonomy, Purpose & Mastery, so; what if I could design a Quest that strengthened participants in these three areas, and then sprinkled it with skills for flourishing / well-being / happiness?
Four months later, after endless hours of research, writing, designing, and editing, the first Vision Quest launched.
The delegates got stuck in, and really seemed to be benefiting, but the big surprise was ME - facilitating the Vision Quest was incredibly energising, I am normally a cheerful person, but suddenly I was operating on a whole new level of vooma and focus. My confidence levels went up, my ability to see solutions and opportunities expanded, and my relationships improved.
And then, my daughter and I were attacked by three armed gunmen, although they only managed to steal my handbag, it was still a fairly traumatic experience, but, I came through it unbowed, and philosophical - due in large part, I am sure, to the influence of the Quest.
The best part is that I have rediscovered old dreams that had been buried under the effort of parenting and earning a living; and now I have a vision for my future which is in bright technicolor and is as exciting and tangible as a trip to Mars.
I squirmed... I am a business consultant, not a coach, and unless I can see a clear business case for an intervention, I feel like a fraud.
But... she's a great client, and she's really smart, so I pondered.
One of the aspects of my consultancy that fascinates me is the conundrum of human motivation; self motivation, employee motivation, customer motivation, and in my ponderings I started seeing the link between a personal vision & productivity at work.
Social science presents the three primary human motivators as Autonomy, Purpose & Mastery, so; what if I could design a Quest that strengthened participants in these three areas, and then sprinkled it with skills for flourishing / well-being / happiness?
Four months later, after endless hours of research, writing, designing, and editing, the first Vision Quest launched.
The delegates got stuck in, and really seemed to be benefiting, but the big surprise was ME - facilitating the Vision Quest was incredibly energising, I am normally a cheerful person, but suddenly I was operating on a whole new level of vooma and focus. My confidence levels went up, my ability to see solutions and opportunities expanded, and my relationships improved.
And then, my daughter and I were attacked by three armed gunmen, although they only managed to steal my handbag, it was still a fairly traumatic experience, but, I came through it unbowed, and philosophical - due in large part, I am sure, to the influence of the Quest.
The best part is that I have rediscovered old dreams that had been buried under the effort of parenting and earning a living; and now I have a vision for my future which is in bright technicolor and is as exciting and tangible as a trip to Mars.
Why it works
the four motivators
- AutonomyControl over your own work and life. We use meditation as mental hygiene — clearing out the noise — alongside character-strengths work to give you what you might call your fair unfair advantage.
- PurposeA clear sense of who you are, what you stand for, and what you're for. When linear careers are no longer the norm, knowing your purpose is the difference between drifting and choosing.
- MasteryNot the goal — the process. The work itself, and getting better at it, is what drives sustained achievement. Mastery is why you stay.
- Happiness/flourishingFor evolutionary reasons, our brains are wired to focus on threats. Flourishing requires actively practising attention to what's good — and getting into the state psychologists call Flow.
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