I just put the finishing touches on my web version of my How to be Real Superhero workshop and wanted to share.

This workshop is great for all ages, though it's aimed at adults and older kids as presented now. You could just use it for yourself, or create a class or workshop based on it if you like. I imagine this would be a ton of fun to do with an elementary school class or after school program, with costumes and everything. I've done a very simplified and open-ended version for preschool kids, and that worked really well, and I had a comic making class with elementary kids based on this idea.

I've also offered it to environmental/social activists and had a lot of fun with that group, too, as they like to dance and play and make lots of noise! It could work in a more professionsal business or organizational setting, as well, as a way to get people thinking so far outside the box that the box is a tiny, tiny dot far below, because the workshop participants are flying high up in the sky above the clouds.

I've incorporated a lot of NLP, as well as my own developmental theory (based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Spiral Dynamics/Integral theory), and added a touch of my small but most superb friend Super Turtle for a bit of extra zip!

Enjoy: Super Turtle's How to be Real Superhero

Feel free to use this material in your own trainings and workshops, and please credit me and/or point folks to my website if you do use it. the more real superheros we can help create, the better off we'll all be, right?

Also, feedback is very much appreciated.

Peace, Love, and Bicycles,
Turtle

I really enjoyed that turtle. I think it's a great example of adapting things to your target audience. I could see teenagers benefiting from that. I think sometimes people just need an authority figure to let them know it's ok.

Glad you enjoyed it Sam. And yes, I think a lot of the power of something like this is simply due to the idea that it's OK to be powerful. And then, of course, I think it's important to encourage people to find really great things to do with their power.

Peace, Love, and Bicycles,
Turil

Turil,

I love your workshop! Being a person who works with children, I do understand the benefit of play and playfulness for all of us! Adults like to play as well, they just don't like to call it that! Let's give ourselves permission for a change!

Let's hear it for SUPER TURTLE!!!

Turil,

I just LOVE Super Turtil! Keep it up!!

Venus :-)

Super Turtle is great!

Violeta