A New Perspective
The workshop offers a safe place to explore feelings and experiment with changes in attitude and behavior. No one tells you how to run your life. You identify and work on what is important to you with the support of creative experiential exercises, personal reflection, expert facilitation, and group participation.

Areas one might consider strengthening include:

* setting and achieving personal goals
* relating to others in a honest yet caring manner
* handling fears and inhibitions
* finding constructive and rewarding ways to take risks
* achieving deeper levels of intimacy
* finding satisfying work
* understanding and appreciating sexuality
* creating a community of support
* learning to have fun
* making choices and living with decisions
* participating and taking leadership in groups
* communicating clearly and effectively

After The Workshop
The Workshop is primarily a beginning. After graduation, the real work of making and sustaining lasting change begins in earnest. This ongoing work requires ongoing support.

While each graduate creates support in his or her own way, a number of structures have been created by the hundreds of people who have graduated from the workshop in Philadelphia since 1989. Each workshop goup meets for a reunion following the workshop, and many groups have continued to meet thereafter. A Newsletter keeps the growing community informed. The network of graduates has been helpful in job-hunting, finding people with common interests, and making other kinds of connections.

There is no obligation to participate in community events, but all graduates can participate in support groups, social events, community service projects and a variety of other activities created by graduates. Many enjoy the continuing connection and find that keeping in touch with other graduates helps to maintain and develop what they have begun in the workshop. The number of people involved in the workshop community for years following their workshop indicates the vitality of the ongoing support system and the continuing benefits of the Workshop, not just for a weekend, but for a lifetime.