The Ten Essentials of Pathwise - Course List

601: Suspension of Attention

Suspension of attention is a skill; a practice for increasing one’s level of thinking and perception beyond one’s opinions and personal reactions; a step beyond unseen assumptions and mental models. In this session you will learn to differentiate between higher and lower levels of perception and to access and sustain a more strategic level of perception. Suspension of attention is central to the Pathwise Leadership curriculum and will be cultivated through continued practice over the course of the program.

602: Transference Analysis

Transferences are the powerful yet unseen dynamics coming from yourself and others that can affect you and can create counter-productive reactions in others. By understanding transference, you can then learn to respond to others in ways that result in desired outcomes.

603: Dialectic

Dialectic takes in the principles and structure of the Socratic mode of thinking and discourse. In meetings and during times when critical decision-making is required, you will learn how to elicit maximum creativity, contribution, and motivation from yourself and others.

604: Cognitive Development

Cognitive development addresses motivations and perceptions that can shift dramatically and are often dependent upon one’s stage of cognitive maturity (or “Level of Thinking”). You will understand personal stages of cognitive development and learn to assess, predict, and influence behavior based on your understanding.

605: Psychodynamic Personality Types

Human behavior can be predicted and influenced by understanding personality types. You will learn to quickly perceive patterns of personality types by using yourself as an instrument of perception. This segment includes a deep investigation into identifying one’s own personality type.

606: Resistance & Defenses

Learn to quickly assess the resistance patterns people use. You will learn to manage, remediate, or even overcome resistance to attain mutual goals.  In this segment you will learn the primary types of resistance patterns. By learning your resistance patterns and defenses, you will gain a perspective and understanding of yourself and an understanding of the patterns that can get in the way of your leadership development.

607: Advanced Listening

Advanced listening skills are used by top-caliber leaders to motivate and to understand. You will learn how advanced listening compels others to provide you with exact information. At the same time, advanced listening skills will allow you to improve your capacity to better hear and comprehend information. Learn how to listen and understand simultaneously the cognitive, emotional, non-verbal, and unconscious modes of communication.

608: Intrinsic Motivation

Human motivation is much more complex than what is commonly understood and leveraged in organizational settings. In this section you will gain a much more effective understanding of human motivation. You will learn how to concretely categorize and discern the most powerful mechanisms of intrinsic motivation, and you will become more effective at understanding how to motivate others.

609: Systems Thinking

Systems thinking is a way of understanding complex problems in organizations; problems that cannot be reduced to single individuals or simple processes. People attempt, instinctively, to solve problems in terms of simplified cause and effect relationships. This style of problem solving predominates in leadership behavior today. You will learn basic tools of the systems approach and recognize systems behavior in common situations. This session provides the tools to perceive and intervene strategically in highly complex business scenarios.

610: Archetypes

Underlying every group or organization are archetypes of universal human interaction patterns. The archetype collectively mobilizes the instinctive part of the brain. Archetypes occur throughout human interaction and have recurred over the two million years of human evolution. Archetypes often arise and operate in organizations out of the accidental formation of archetypal human situations. You will learn how to perceive archetypes operating in yourself and within your organization. You will learn to identify and mobilize more productive and useful archetypes.