“The Bridge of Possibilities” - Workshop
For Personal and Corporate - Facilitated by Hal Tipper

This workshop is founded on an established, successful program for Managing Interpersonal Conflict. It is also based on Universal Psychological and Spiritual Laws that I have studied in 6 years of research. The modules below are a table of contents for the workshop and also define the most common sources of personal conflict we experience. I would like to share some solutions to these issues with you so you can experience the liberating results for yourself.

The process also offers simple, practical, tools and techniques explaining how to break the cycle of our self defeating conditioned thoughts, beliefs, values and stories around limited possibilities, resistance, lack and not being enough. We also address the idea that other people and external events have control of our lives and are responsible for our emotional states. Understanding and practicing these strategies will put you on a path of peace and through your own experience, empower you to build your own bridge to a new world of unlimited possibilities. 
Hal Tipper - December 1, 2005

Workshop Modules

Introduction / The Cost of Conflict
How does Conflict Happen? How does Conflict serve us?
 Knowledge Vs. Perception - Ground Rules

Perception & Behavioral Development
Identity, Motivation, Meaning, Morality, Self Image, Emotional Needs
How our sense of meaning, needs and behaviors are developed.
Morality, Values, Ethics, Behaviors, Emotional Needs, Motivation, Trust
These area’s determine our perception of what is possible, what motivated us,
as well as our behaviors, how we get our needs met (asking vs covert),
relating skills, what we deserve, self-worth, and also our
 sense of acceptance, forgiveness, compassion and gratitude.

Limited Possibilities Symptoms:
Six of the biggest sources of resistance, emotional conflict, limited possibilities, fear
and obstacles to peace of mind, resolution and harmonious relationships are:

1. Unsaid Expectations, Unverified Assumptions and other Mind Reading Tricks
- Expecting people and situations to meet our emotional needs, demands and shoulds,
(make us happy or feel ok about ourselves?) and behave in a certain way on our terms,
without letting them know what our terms or needs are. Assuming our opinion is right.
- Getting our emotional needs met - Judgment - Clearing
Assigning Roles - Communication Hurdles - Values

Where do our expectations and needs come from?
If you investigate the roots of psychological development, you will find that needs and expectations
are tied into our sense of morality (the philosophy of right and wrong), our personal value system
(what we value as good, bad, important, not important) and our learned self image of who we think we are.
These elements in turn largely determine what motivates us to get our needs met
(behaviors, choices) and our sense of how we perceive the world and everyone in it.

2. Needing to be Right / Pride, Pretense, Vanity (About our Beliefs)
Making another person wrong or bad. - Not willing to see another point of view.
Rules we create - Believing you know what’s best for someone else.
Control - Power Struggles - Resistance - Egocentrism - Emotional Wounds
Getting emotional needs met - Roles - Self Image - Living in the Past

3. Blame / Finding Fault / Judgment / Guilt / Projection
- Making others and external events responsible for “how we feel” or the situation
- Giving away our power - Victim Position - Living in the Past or Future (What Ifs’)
- Believing that others, the situation or yourself are “Not Enough”
Blame is a belief in “Lack” - A person or situation is not good enough.
Withholding Love - Accountability

4. Taking Things Personally
- Believing that “who we think we are” is being challenged by an opinion.

5. Lying / Withholding / Not Telling the Complete Unarguable Truth
 “All men do what they think is for their good” (In their best interest) Plato
- Believing if we tell the truth, the situation will be worse.
We will be punished, blamed, yelled at, abandoned or rejected, etc...
Getting emotional needs met - Asking - Trust Issues - Motivation
Needing Approval - Manipulation - Self Worth - Clearing

Why do we Lie? (My definition - Hal)
“We say what we think the other person wants to hear to get our own emotional needs met.
(Peace, Happiness, Validation, Security, Approval, Pride, Vanity, Greed.....?)
 

6. Needing Approval / Withholding Love
- Things we do to feel OK about ourselves - Obligations - Guilt
- Believing that withholding Love will get our needs met or what we want
- Thing we do to keep our pride and vanity intact - Virtuousness
- Things we do to not rock the boat - Living in the Past or Future
Meeting our emotional needs - Self Image

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Miracles Toolkit - Unlimited Possibilities Solutions:
for Managing or Resolving Inner Conflict

Practice, Implementation and Integration
- Rising above and beyond human forgiveness to see the intrinsic,
sacred value of ourselves and everyone else. - Rev. Carol Carnes

Busting Our Stories and Core Negative Beliefs - Support
Reframing, Remembering and Believing in our own and others
Divine Heritage of innocence and conscious, co-creative power.

Establishing a mental foundation of:
Unity, Integrity, Gratitude, Compassion, Reverence

Dominant Thoughts of:
Willingness - Gratitude - Awareness -  Higher Love
Connecting to the Source - Self Honesty / Truth - Accountability
Acceptance - Wonder - Presence - Intention - Peace
Forgiveness - Commitment - Purpose - Laughter / Play
  Wholeness - Detachment - Compassion - Surrender / Faith

The Continuum - Holding the space that yourself and others are “enough”.
Having a conversation with a new possibility instead of the past.

Be / Do / Have - New Possibilities Worksheet
If you're not doing what you want or don't have what you want with your current beliefs,
there is only one question to ask. Who do you need to BE to get there?
Your beliefs and self concepts determine what you think is possible to do or have.
Only a new belief or thought about what might be possible will create a new possibility.

It’s not what you’re not getting that causes suffering,
it’s what you’re not giving..... A Course in Miracles

Workshop Schedule, 2006