Make a Change
This 20-week program designed to help you examine who you are so you can better understand your thoughts and decision making habits. This program is open to the public.
Course Description
Program Details
- Course length: 20 Weeks
- Dates: Saturdays, January 18,2025 – May 31, 2025
- Time: 1:00pm – 3:00pm
- Location: Eileen’s Place, 7401 Armstrong Ave., Kansas City, KS 66112
- RSVP: Required (seating is limited). Contact Kaitlin Fields, Homeless and Housing Services Case Manager at 913.416.4416 or kaitlinfields@mlmkc.org to reserve your spot.
This program is open to the public from any county/state. All materials will be provided. You do not need to attend all sessions but are welcome to at your discretion. Each participant will get a certificate for each completed session.
Life is not just a game of chance where things happen without reason. Although things will always happen that you do not expect, you can have a huge say in your own destiny. Even when things happen that are out of your control, you always have the ability to choose how you will deal with the situation. Problems, self-made or by circumstance, can become the stepping stones to a more successful life. You can change your life patterns and behaviors.
This program is designed to help you examine who you are so you can better understand your thoughts and your decision making habits. It will help you understand the secret to real success is in wanting something so bad that you are willing to make positive sacrifices to get it.
Yesterday is over. You must now focus on what you will do tomorrow. You can continue in the same path, or decide to put this place and these circumstances far behind you. If someone has told you it is impossible, they are lying. If someone has told you it is hard, they are telling it straight. The real truth is that most people are not willing to pay the price to get what they really want. They find it much easier to blame their problems on everyone and everything around them.
YOU control the success or failure of this program. If you choose, you can use this time to learn new skills that will affect every aspect of your life. Skills that have proven to be the building blocks of successful people. This program is self-directed and designed to help you learn by thinking, talking, sharing, and doing.
What do you have to lose? This could be the time and place you find answers to the questions you have been asking all of your life. You could discover who you are and what you really want. If you invest the time and energy, you will be rewarded for your efforst. Remember, it is up to you!
Weekly Course Breakdown
January 2025
January 18th: My Life Map / What Are My Real Values?
- We will work together to plot a course for the life that you want in the future as a map to measure personal progress. We will identify your learning and personality style.
January 25th: Environmental Power
- You will learn to see the affect that the environment has on your decisions and to help you realize that you can overcome the influence of your environment.
February 2025
February 1st: It’s All In The Attitude!
- You will learn to understand the relationship between your values, attitudes, actions, and how they are affected by your personality.
February 8th: When I’m Out of Esteem
- You will understand how being in or out of esteem affects your personality and how that causes you to act.
February 15th: My People
- Recognize the personality style of the people you associate with and understand how differently each style responds to situations and problems.
February 22nd: Stop and Think
- Learn how to think BEFORE you act.
March 2025
March 1st: The Source of Freedom
- Learn the real source of freedom by building your own civilization and setting up laws and government types.
March 8th: You Can Control Your Thoughts
- Understand the effect of tragic thinking on the decision-making process.
March 15th: Picking Yourself Up
- You will learn to understand the role of a positive self-image in the process of becoming more successful.
March 22nd: Learning From Mistakes
- Understand that mistakes are an important aspect of human development.
March 29th: Decisions
- Understand personal preferences in the decision-making process.
April 2025
April 5th: Accepting Strengths and Weaknesses In Others
- You will learn the importance of differences in all people and to help them appreciate themselves for who they are.
April 12th: Becoming More Responsible
- Understanding the benefits of being more responsible.
April 19th: Harnessing Conflict
- Participants will understand the skills necessary to peacefully and successfully overcome life’s conflicts.
April 26th: Your “Hot Buttons”
- Understand why violent behaviors often show up in intimate relationships and how to avoid this destructive pattern of behavior.
May 2025
May 3rd: Point of View
- Understand the need to examine problems from a point of view that is different from your own.
May 10th: Keys to Better Communication
- Understand the keys to successful communication
May 17th: Understanding Sexuality
- Understand the difference between sex, love, and intimacy.
May 24th: Increasing Workplace Success and Productivity
- Understand the basic skills you must have in order to get and keep a job.
May 31st: Wrap Up and BBQ
- All Participants will gather to meet each other, talk about their experience, share the experiences of the sessions they participated in, ask questions, and eat BBQ!
