Rising Strong™ Workshop is based on the latest groundbreaking research of Dr. Brené Brown.

Would you like to learn positive, proactive tools and strategies to live a more satisfied and wholehearted life?

Come enjoy this workshop yourself and/or refer your clients, family and friends that could benefit.

Brené Brown's research findings help people find the strength and courage to rise strong in their personal and professional lives.

The Rising Strong ™ Workshop is led by Robert Hartford, LICSW with Becky Pfordresher co-hosting.

Robert has helped individuals, couples, groups and organizations lead more meaningful lives and create more satisfying relationships for over twenty years.

Robert Hartford, LCSW is a Certified Daring Way™ and Rising Strong™ Facilitator, Licensed Systems-Centered Practitioner, International Trainer, and Organizational Consultant in private practice in Washington, DC.

Over the Rising Strong ™ Workshop Weekend, Robert will guide you and the group with many positive psycho-educational and experiential exercises, personal exploration, videos from Brené Brown created specifically for Rising Strong™ participants and an opportunity for personal reflections and growth in a safe, supportive, positive and fun environment.

Rising Strong™ Workshop is based on the latest groundbreaking research of Dr. Brené Brown. If we are brave, we will inevitably fall. Her research unfolded how people find the resilience, strength and courage to rise strong.

Brené Brown's research findings help people find the strength and courage to rise strong in their personal and professional lives.

• Do you want to have more joy, gratitude, contentment, authenticity, courage, calm and creativity in your life?

• Would you like to have more compassion and acceptance of yourself and others?

• Do you need strategies for getting back up after a fall, disappointment or setback in a personal or professional setting?

• Are you going through any life transitions?

• Is it time for you to become more empowered to make positive changes in your life?

Rising Strong™ is based on the simple physics of vulnerability: If we are brave enough, often enough, we will fall.

When we take risks in our lives, we will inevitably fall and experience disappointments, hurts, failures and heartbreak.

This is a program about what the research finds it takes for us to get back up, live a more wholehearted and satisfying life, and how owning our stories of struggle gives us the power to write our own daring new ending. By participating in the Rising Strong™ Workshop, you will have the opportunity to explore how to live bravely every day by showing up in the arenas of your life and relationships to become the best, most authentic version of you. The method is designed for work with individuals, couples, work teams and organizational leaders. It can be facilitated in clinical, educational, corporate and professional settings.

The Rising Strong™ Urban Retreat will include:

• Specialized video addresses by Brene' created for this workshop

• A specialized workbook designed for Rising Strong™ workshop participant

• Lunch on Saturday, and Beverages & Snacks provided throughout the weekend
  

• Introduction to Yvonne Agazarian's method of Functional Subgrouping
  

The Rising Strong™ Workshop led by Robert will be safe, supportive, positive and fun.

Space is limited. Please register early to guarantee space. We look forward to meeting you!

 Robert G. Hartford

  LICSW, LSCP, Licensed Systems-Centered® Practitioner, Certified EFT therapist

About the presenter:

Robert Hartford is a licensed therapist, international trainer, relationship expert, executive coach and organizational consultant with over twenty years of experience.  He is 1 of 25 licensed Systems-Centered® Practitioners in the world.  Having attended the first international training with Brene' Brown in London for the Daring Way and Rising Strong™ he is a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator.  He is also endorsed by the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy as a Certified EFT Therapist.  He was also selected to present at the International Congress for Group Psychotherapy and Group Process in Cartagena, Columbia and Rovinj, Croatia.

Robert is committed to working with the community and to empower people to make choices that move them closer to living the lives they want.  He is passionate about encouraging and helping people to identify and reduce the choices that take them further from what they want and deserve.  

Clients find Robert’s style to be accessible, warm, down to earth and fun.

Robert speaks at various conferences on topics including, Linking Brene' Brown and vulnerability to the Theory of Living Human Systems, Systems-Centered theory, communication, executive coaching, and relationships.

Over the course of the weekend, Robert will guide you through a three part whole-hearted, and transformative path.  The Rising Strong™ Workshop will include psycho-educational exploration and experiential exercises, videos from Brene' Brown created specifically for Rising Strong™ participants, and an opportunity for personal reflections in a safe, supportive, warm and fun DC setting.

Becky Pfordresher

Becky Pfordresher is the founder of Opal Coaching and Wellness and will be Co-Hosting with Robert for the Workshop.

Here's what people say who have attended this workshop:

I attended the Rising Strong workshop on impulse. I was unfamiliar with Brene’ Brown and her research prior to taking the course. The idea of “rising strong" was so appealing as I was going through some turmoil in my life at the time but the idea of the work with strangers was way outside of my comfort zone.   Robert Hartford led the group in a way that made myself and everyone there comfortable and at ease.  He guided us all through the experience with compassion and without judgment.  I would recommend Robert Hartford and the Rising Strong workshop to anyone who wants to open up to a new way of seeing themselves and the power of self-love.

Amy D.

Robert Hartford served as a compassionate teacher, as he guided our group through the Rising Strong workshop, using thoughtful stories and personal examples to showcase how this process can be transformational. He created a safe space for each of us to explore our authentic selves, encouraging us to remain vulnerable, curious, and non-judgmental.

The experience of attending the Rising Strong workshop provided a new lens through which to view the stories our minds automatically form following difficult obstacles. I found the workshop tremendously helpful both personally and professionally as it offered practical guidance for acknowledging, getting curious about, and overcoming both uncomfortable emotions and on a larger scale, life challenges.

Kate, M.,LGSW

Dear Bob,

I haven't stopped processing our special weekend together. I got so much from it and I am so grateful to you for setting the tone, the safe place to do the work we did together. You provided the opportunity for our growth through your knowledge of the material and your kind and gentle heart. The story you shared about your swim experience will stay with me forever. I gained so much from the simple piece on how we are emotional beings and that made a shift in me to be more compassionate to myself that I am being fully human when I feel a range of emotions instead of shaming myself for feeling the negative ones. There is so much more I learned and am trying to reinforce so that the new and liberating insights become part of me.

Bob, you were wonderful. Thank you.

Please send my name and e-mail address of our group. Have you considered a part two for our group? Maybe a one day workshop to go a bit further. I feel so fortunate to help to alleviate suffering in my work with my clients and I want you to know that you helped me so much. I wanted to see a person who could look into the further and simply tell me certain things in my life will work out then I could stop worrying, and then realized I can be the person for myself! I learned that from our weekend, from you.

Most sincerely, (I really want to sing that with, love),

Ellen

Ellen C., LCSW-C

Psychotherapist/Life Coach

Where is the retreat located?

Reception, Beverages and Snacks provided by Slipstream

Venue is subject to change.

For questions, email Robert@roberthartford.com or call 202-412-0253


 
ABOUT BRENÉ BROWN:


The Daring Way™ and Rising Strong™ method is based on the research of Brené Brown, Ph.D. LMSW. Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past twelve years studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. Her groundbreaking research has been featured on PBS, NPR, CNN, and Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul Sunday. Brené is the author of three #1 New York Times Bestsellers; Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, (2012), Rising Strong: The Reckoning, The Rumble, The Revolution (2015). She is also the author of I Thought It Was Just Me (2007). Brené’s 2010 TEDx Houston talk “The Power of Vulnerability” is one of the top ten most viewed TED talks in the world, with over 23 million viewers. Additionally, Brené gave the closing talk at the 2012 TED conference, where she talked about shame, courage, and innovation.
 

Further information is available at: www.brenebrown.com     
And: http://www.huffingtonpost.com

Act I: The Reckoning – We Walk Into Our Story. We get curious about our emotions and feelings and how they connect with the way we think and behave
Act II: The Rumble – Owning Our Story. We get honest about the stories we are making up about our struggle, then challenge the confabulations, and assumptions to determine what’s the truth, what’s self-protection, and what needs to change if we want to lead more wholehearted lives
Act III: The Revolution – Process Becomes Practice. We write a new ending to our story based on our key learnings and use this new, braver story to change how we engage with the world and to ultimately transform the way we live, love, parent, and lead.

Friday August 4th, 2017: 

Start time is 12:00pm ending for the day at 4:00pm

Saturday August 5th, 2017:

Start time 8:00am - lunch included - ending at 4:00pm.

Cost is: $595.00

Space is limited so register now.

For any questions about Writing A New Ending To Your Story: Rising Strong™ 

Contact Robert Hartford, LICSW at:  Robert@roberthartford.com or 202-412-0253.