The mastery of Relational Intelligence is the paramount catalyst for success in every professional domain.

- Michelle Bohls

The Imago International Training Institute is committed to providing opportunities for leaders to develop their relationship leadership skills.

Learn how to create empowered learning environments by emersing yourself in this one where we will listen and lift up everyone's experience and life wisdom. Study and experience what promotes the type of risk taking that can transform an individual or team from the unconscious competitive mindset to a relational paradigm that activates and elevates each individual's talents and gifts for the best outcomes.

Four Key Components of Effective Leadership Development Programs

Each module offers the opportunity to share your thoughts, learn from others, observe, practice and receive professional development feedback in the positive-oriented methodology of Imago.

After attending this program, participants will be able to:

Support clients in setting clear agreements that are "good enough for now, safe enough to try" to unstick locked positions and move toward action-oriented outcomes.
Learn effective, embodied facilitation strategies to maintain your neutrality and presence during tension or conflict.
Make sense of individuals, dyads, groups and organizations through Imago's four frameworks: 1) the body's defensive set points, 2) understanding how one's early psychological unmet needs influence motivation, 3) how the socialization of iyr belief systems block our motivation and create tension in our dynamics with other people, and 4) habitual the energy patterns that we unconsciously embody that then influence the safety and flow of our professional relationships.
Understand how early relationship patterns, including attachment, unmet needs, and the 'characters' we experience and embody then influence our professional relationships and specifically how these patterns influence our own facilitation and leadership styles.
Understand how performance issues on teams are information about what that person needs to better perform in their roles or how to change their roles to better suit their strengths.
Explore how marketing your professional work to coaching or consulting clients connects into the same repressive messages and negative beliefs that hold your coaching and consulting clients back.

Five Modules for Greater Emotional Intelligence in your Leadership

Become an Agent of Change For the World

Relational Coaching Inspires Action

Valuing Difference Enhances Outcomes

Effective Teams Promote Growth

Feel Empowered in Your Communication

Being able to tune into other's perspectives without losing your own, allows you to build rich relationships. Relationships are the foundation for any professional task and support exceptional outcomes.

Develop your skills to coach and motivate individuals, organizations, corporate leaders, work teams, interpersonal groups, small businesses, family run businesses and business founders using Relational Leadership skills, communication tools and processes grounded in Imago's decades of relationship wisdom.

Learn Powerful New Skills

This program is a great place to start if you are baffled by the dynamics you see in a professional setting.

Mindset Feedback

Surfing is known for combining physical exertion with a meditative, "flow state" that forces you to be in the present moment.

The Imago Professional Facilitator training offers you the opportunity to spend time in the ocean learning to surf on a beginner's surf board or a board reflective of your level of experience.

Yes, learning to surf can significantly benefit your mindset and your awareness of the messages you tell yourself!

Building relationships is more than an intellectual exercise. When leaders attend typical corporate trainings, they’re inundated with theories but are left without understanding the psychological dynamics that determine how employees relate to each other - or their own unconscious patterns that can block them from reaching the next level in their professional lives.

See People Learning to Surf

Imago Facilitation

Module one (a four-day intensive) focuses on Imago's communication tools to work with individuals, dyads (any two people who are not a "couple"), and some group process, but future modules will go deeper into all of these aspects of Professional Facilitation.

Working with Individuals

Working with Dyads

Conflict is Demotivating

Learn why people polarize their perspectives and help them navigate these differences for better morale and better professional outcomes. By leveraging different points of view while remaining grounded in shared values, embracing differences can improve creativity and promote open communication.

As facilitators we understand the complexity of relationships and embrace conflict as growth trying to happen. We use structure and communication tools to promote and maintain safety.

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Connection Fuels Outcomes

Most of us accomplish our career goals in teams or groups. In Imago we think of the invisible groups or Communities of Practice where people feel a sense of belonging and team work.

Learn how to facilitate these interactions to improve effectiveness without sacrificing a diversity in perspectives.

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Working with Families, Groups and Teams

Organizations Need Love Too!

Many members of organizations experience a sense of lack of purpose and loneliness, which can significantly affect both employee well-being and organizational performance (Kahn, 1990; Ozcelik & Barsade, 2018).

Organizations operate in continuous and dynamic environments, frequently undergoing change (Kotter, 1996; Armenakis & Bedeian, 1999), often without a deeper understanding of what individuals, dyads, and groups need to transition effectively through change and maintain their motivation.

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Leadership, Teams & Organizations

Integrating Your Facilitation Skills

As you integrate what you have learned in working with a wide variety of Professional Facilitation scenarios (individuals, dyads and groups) you will design a final project (like a 3-hour training event or a small business consultation). Your faculty members and colleagues will support you in creating this project.

Join a worldwide network of Imago therapists and Imago Facilitators who with journey with you to Become an Agent of Change in the World.