STEPS to Excellence for Personal Success
The Proton Foundation is an officially recongised and accredited TPI partner. We believe that the personal development training facilitated through The Pacific Institute programmes allow individuals to realise their current mindset, assess their goals and aspirations and provides tools to enable them to achieve success in any environment that they are engaged in.
STEPS to Excellence for Personal Success is a developmental programme which has earned a reputation as a powerful tool for individual and community regeneration.
For individuals, it is an opportunity to take a fresh look at their lives. The programme helps them to see how much they are truly capable of achieving and offers the tools to make it happen.
In communities, STEPS increases participation and ownership of local initiatives, provides a common language for articulating a vision of a better future and offers a proven approach to making the vision a reality.
HOW DOES IT WORK
The STEPS programme is based on the best research from the field of cognitive psychology and on studies of the way that effective and fulfilled individuals think and act in their lives. STEPS confronts the beliefs that limit achievement, aiding participants to build a stronger sense of self and an expanded sense of potential and possibility. The programme helps individuals move beyond where they have become stuck to more fulfilling and successful lives.
APPLICATIONS
STEPS has been implemented with success in a variety of settings: it has been particularly effective in helping long-term unemployed people develop the motivation and self-belief to complete other training and successfully find jobs, but has also been used to enable those being made redundant to develop a new future for themselves. In community regeneration projects, the programme has fostered grass roots change initiatives along with a renewed sense of possibility and community; in prisons it has helped reduce recidivism and aid re-assimilation in the community.
RESULTS
The programme offers measureable results: an independent study of a STEPS programme run in Kent found that amongst long-term unemployed 56% of STEPS participants moved into a job, training or further education, as compared to 22% of a control group who had not been through the course. Another study showed that STEPS participants were 2.5 times more likely to be in employment three months after the programme than those who had not attended.
Participants in STEPS programmes regularly report the following changes:
- Raised confidence and self-esteem
- Increased willingness to try new things
- Improved personal relationships
- A feeling of using more of their potential
- More openness to change
- Being more confident as parents
- Taking greater accountability for their lives
With the STEPS program, the responsibility is very much left with the individual to implement the courses findings in their own life. For those who do take onboard the information and are motivated to put it into action, their lives are invariably changed and for those who don’t outwork it, they are still challenged in their current mentality and are encouraged to raise their level of expectation for their personal and professional lives.
“STEPS was a great opportunity to equip me with the necessary thinking-oriented skills set to be successful at what I do. It helps weed out negative and untruthful beliefs while all the while instilling positive thought and affirming processes… As a person whom has recently completed the STEPS programme from TPI, I would certainly recommend it to anyone who is interested in expanding their mindset and vision with some key breakthrough thinking skills.” –Janelle
“I found steps to be a very enlightening course, in which I learned a lot about why I do what I do. It addresses the root of the issues you want changed, and gives you practical methods in which you can achieve that goal… found it definitely to be a worthwhile investment of my time and energy. It is definitely something that I would recommend to friends all over.” –Connie
“I walked away from STEPS feeling empowered. It created an understanding and self-awareness of my thought patterns and how they affect my future. Overall, I believe it will become an invaluable tool to reference as I move forward in to the dreams I’ve had in my heart where perhaps previously I would have limited myself. STEPS affirms that all things are possible and the mind is the greatest battlefield to achieving my goals.” -Jennifer
“Taking STEPS was a great opportunity to continue my own journey to greater self-awareness. I knew my time had been well spent when recently I was able to share a principle I had learned and applied with benefit – confident it would be helpful.” – Linda
“It was a fantastic investment as both of us came away from the program believing that we can do more in our lives, in our marriage and in our family.” -Sheldon & Anna
“I was left with a greater sense of belief in myself. I gained so much from the course, it helps me to understand and recognise when negativity is projected onto my life and enlightened me on how to avoid it becoming part of my belief system. Truly a remarkable course. Now my responsibility is to get cracking and implement the tools to a greater degree in my life.” -Steph
“Lots of courses focus on changing your behavior, then your thinking and ultimately your life. However, STEPS switches the process around and focussed on changing your thinking, then your behaviour and thus your life. My beliefs and thinking are more powerful than I had realized. This in turn, affects my perceptions and reality, which then means I have much more control over where I am and what I am doing than what I had previously thought. STEPS gave me the knowledge and background on why I am the way I am, which is where many courses stop. However, STEPS took me further by giving tools which actually show me how to change.” -Christine
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