REAL Training
2024
Leadership Redefined
You will improve your communication and relationship-building skills while learning to navigate challenging conversations with curiosity & openness. Together we explore models that look at managing stress and external pressure while developing a deeper awareness of group dynamics and emotional literacy. You will uncover personal strengths while giving and receiving meaningful feedback from your peers. Upon completion, you will be practiced in perspective-taking & relational leadership.
About the Training
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In the first meeting, participants are introduced to the program, leaders, assistants, and community guidelines. Students introduce themselves and engage in community icebreakers. We also brainstorm and identify topics, issues, successes, or struggles that they are facing in their relationships and in their personal world.
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You will learn the Haven Selves Model, which looks at our ideal self vs our actual self, the self-critic cycle, the process of striving and the challenging behaviours that go along with it, as well as the self-compassion process and making new choices.
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Learn how to use the Satir Personal Iceberg model to explore the motivators underneath some of their behaviours, while examining yearnings, expectations, beliefs, feelings, feelings about feelings, coping and behaviours.
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The group explores different reasons for and styles of communication. They discuss direct vs indirect communication as well as vulnerable vs protective communication. Students examine their need for connection and defences/behaviours that may help or hinder them.
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Identify their patterns of reacting vs responding, explore congruency, and the four Satir coping styles we often adopt when we’re uncomfortable.
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To conclude the training, students engage in a feedback process with each other to reflect on their time together and the changes they have experienced.
Upcoming events.
REAL Training Dates
April 27th & 28th - Downtown Vancouver - In Person
10 AM - 6PM
July 9th, 11th, 16th, 18th, 23rd, 25th - Online/Zoom
2 hours - 6:30 - 8:30 PM
July 13th & 14th - Downtown Vancouver - In Person
10 AM - 6PM
August 9th & 10th - Downtown Vancouver - In Person
10 AM - 6PM
REAL Events
May 3rd - Pop-Up Event
June 7th - 9th REAL Retreat (3rd & 4th years only, limited space)
August 11th - Summer Celebration Event
What Lumies have to say
April 27th & 8th
Downtown Vancouver
2 Full Days: Onsite
July 9th - August 1st
Tuesday & Thursday Evenings
6 Sessions: Online
July 13th & 14th
Downtown Vancouver
2 Full Days: Onsite
August 8th & 10th
Downtown Vancouver
2 Full Days: Onsite

“I can say with 10000000% certainty I was better off with having REAL Team sessions this semester! They allowed me to critically think about so many aspects of my life and I opened up to new ways of thinking when facing a problem or when feeling emotionally reactive.”
— Quote from Cohort 2019 Student about REAL Teams Spring 2023