03 The Heart of Being Helpful: For Everyone

For anyone seeking to be more empathic and helpful to friends, family members, coworkers and clients.

The Heart of Being Helpful is not a coaching program, a therapy program, a certification program, or a licensing program. It can help the most highly credentialed people but its planned for every well-meaning person, which means most of us. It is about having helpful conversations and building good relationships, including friends and family who are suffering through emotional distress and turmoil. It can also be helpful to professionals working as attorneys, emergency first responders, or therapists.

You do not need permission from us, from a certifying agency, a licensure board, a university or anyone else to build good relationships and to help other people. We humans have been helping each other grow emotionally and overcome crises for the ions that humanity has existed—or we would not have existed at all.

Sometimes just “being there” is enough to bring comfort to someone in distress. Yet even “being there” seems like the hardest thing to do when you’re in a stressful situation with someone else, especially if they really matter to you.

Other times, you may have wished you could do more than simply be there—when you’ve wished you had the information to say meaningful things to someone in despair. This course will help you not only to be there for others, it will help you talk in a useful manner to people who are in emotional crises.

This course is presented in two parts.

Part I of The Heart of Being Helpful starts with you becoming the “best you” that you can be. The more centered and happy you are, the more pleased with your life that you are—the more you will be able to help others.

You’ll learn how to constructively look at your past and your present circumstances, your successes and failures, your relationships with others, and how to transform yourself to live your best life. Ultimately you will learn how to identify your self-defeating reactions to life and to replace them with positive, rational and caring approaches. Insight into your own experience, and continually fine-tuning yourself to live and to relate better, provides the basis for helping others with their lives.

Part II continues with your learning how to apply what you’ve learned to helping others – not by delivering therapy, but by helping people through the same self-transformation experience you’ve undergone for yourself. Helping ourselves and those we touch to live fuller and more satisfying lives is an ongoing process that all people can share with one other, sometimes through a lifetime together.

See Course Description.