Our 'Growing a Life' Foundation Course 

Overall Course Aim

The overall aim of our Foundation Course is for you to be better able to take more control over the development and direction of your life, in ways you value:

  • personally,
  • in the workplace, and
  • in relationships
Specific Course Aims

By the end of the course, you will have had an introduction to better understanding, valuing, practicing, and improving the skills of:

  • Self-awareness, active awareness, and awakened awareness

  • Accepting yourself, other people, and life’s issues (as a foundation)

  • Discernment (good judgment) and managing your thoughts, emotions, and externals events.

  • Controlling and directing your life towards doing more things you value, find meaningful, or just enjoy more.

  • Being better in relationships, through noticing, appreciating, and being grateful and kind more.

  • Committing to life-long personal growth and development, with hope and patience.

"You will develop and practice attitudes, perspectives, and skills that will allow you take more control over your life, in ways you care about."
Richard Frost
Founder Twenty2Beyond

"Supporting you to make your own decisions." 

Twenty2Beyond
Unit 1
Weeks 1-4
Towards More Awareness, More More Control, And More Acceptance

Focusing on:

Module 1 Active (Mindful) Awareness
Module 2 Self-Awareness
Module 3 Autonomy Towards Agency
Module 4 Acceptance
Unit 2 
Weeks 5-8
Towards Your Ikigai: Thinking About and Doing More Things You Value

Focusing on:

Module 5 Awakened Awareness
Module 6 Meaning
Module 7 Reflection 
Module 8 Discernment and Direction

Unit 3
Weeks 9-10
Moving Forward in Ways You Value

Focusing on:

Module 9 Doing as Being
Module 10 Action: Going Long 

Foundation Course Outline

Unit 1

Modules 1-4
Towards More Awareness, More Control, and More Acceptance
Week 1 

Module 1 
Active Awareness

1.1 Active Awareness: Overview

1.2 Listening and Noticing in Action
1.3 Activation Practice: Towards Connection, Clarity, and Choice
Week 2

Module 2
Self-Awareness 


Self-Awareness

2.1 Of Things You Have Valued and What You Believe

2.2 Of Things You Want and Want to Do
2.3 Activation Practice: Of Your Self-Talk Around These 
Week 3

Module 3
Towards Agency

(In M3, there is Deeper and More Focused Work and Understanding)
3.1 Your Real Freedoms to Attain Well-Being (Capabilities Approach)
3.2 Freedom of Mind - Mindfulness: Towards Counterfactual Choice
3.3 Activation Practice: Looking Forward and Learned Optimism (I)

Week 4

Module 4
Acceptance

(In M4, there is Deeper and More Focused Practice - Building on Modules 1-3: Towards Self-Management)

4.1 Of Your Thoughts
4.2 Of Your Emotions
4.3 Activation Practice: Accepting External Events and People


Unit 2

Modules 5-8 
Towards Your Ikigai: Thinking About and Doing More Things You Value
Week 5

Module 5
Awakened Awareness 

(Towards Social Awareness)

5.1 Our Social Interconnectedness and Interdependence
5.2 Understanding and Noticing Synchronicity
5.3 Activation Practice: Towards Appreciation and Gratitude
Week 6

Module 6
Meaning

6.1 Need for Meaning

6.2 Inner Wisdom
6.3 Activation Practice: Striving for Meaning and Awakened Awareness
Week 7

Module 7
Reflection 

(In the context of your Ikigai)

7.1 Reflection as Doing
7.2 Reflection as Being
7.3 Activation Practice: Towards your Ikigai
Week 8

Module 8
Discernment (Judging Well) and Direction 

(Self-Management)

8.1 Judging Well
8.2 Design
8.3 Activation Practice: Discernment and Direction


Unit 3

Modules 9-10
Moving Forward in Ways You Value: Doing as Being & Going Long

Week 9

Module 9
Doing as Being

9.1 Review & Focus: Self-Awareness and Self-Management

9.2 Review & Focus: Appreciation and Kindness
9.3 Activation Practice: Valuable for You
Week 10

Module 10
Action: Going Long 

(Awakened Awareness and the Tripartite System of Goal Attainment)

10.1 A Clear Path
10.2 A Process
10.3 Activation Practice: On Your Perspective and Character
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