Guiding insight: There are different learning levels we go through when being introduced to something new: 1. Heightening our awareness 2. Transferring knowledge to us 3. Influencing our attitudes and opinions (mind-sets) 4. Learning skills 5. Changing our behaviour

The ARTT of Progress™ supports you in moving through the learning levels 1, 2 and 3 through to 4 and 5

Guiding insight: “Knowing is not enough we must apply: willing is not enough we must do. To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.” Goethe. It is not enough to know something we need to do it – which is to live it

The ARTT of Progress™ encourages knowing, insight and doing. So you are able to learn, and apply content and concepts to your daily experience – at work, at home and in your whole life

Guiding insights: Memory of things learned relies on two things, our attention and our thinking about the material we are covering. We remember what we pay attention to and material that causes us to think, or reflect, increases our memory

The ARTT of progress™ supports you to connect with the content by assessing its significance for you, relating it to your reality and context, then choosing what action to take to help you and your situation

Guiding insight: Our brain stores different things in different places. Facts are stored in a different place from facts that have personal meaning. Things seen, heard, read, spoken, written and put into practice are all stored slightly differently

The ARTT of progress™ supports you by providing purposeful prompts to assess and relate content for personal meaning throughout each Progresslift (our name for Upskill chapters). Key concepts are repeated to build muscle memory and enhance both the variety and the number of places content and concepts are stored

Guiding insight: Our default as human beings is inertia – repeating what we most recently have done. Adopting a new way requires more effort than continuing to do what we’ve always done. Our brain is wired to be efficient – to conserve energy, so relying on our internal energy or willpower will not move us forward in the long-term

The ARTT of progress™ supports you to overcome inertia by providing purposeful prompts (non-negotiables) pre, during and post an activity and Upskill (our name for a course/masterclass)

Guiding insight: Working with the brain involves reducing the need for us to think in the moment, to reduce the energy required to adopt the new

The ARTT of progress™ supports you by taking you through the ARTT of progress™ as if discussing and completing the Upskill (our name for a course/masterclass) with the Progressfull™ Facilitator – the journey is defined so you can use your energy for personal insights

Guiding insight: Working with the brain involves deciding ahead what are showstoppers, what are non-negotiables, what are rules we will follow for our benefit (no different from "I will not leave the house until I have washed, dressed and cleaned my teeth!")

The ARTT of progress™ supports you by prompting decisions and insights in each Progresslift (our name for a masterclass chapter), and throughout the Upskill (our name for a course/masterclass), so when you reach the end of the Upskill many decisions have already been formed. Consolidation and choosing which to start with, is what the last Progresslift is about. It's all there for you

Guiding insight: Maintaining progress requires personal accountability and social support. ARTT supports personal accountability by introducing you to the concept of taking action during each Progresslift (our name for a masterclass chapter) and at the close of the Upskill (our name for a course/masterclass)

The ARTT of progress™ supports personal accountability by introducing you to the practice of purposeful self-reflection and taking stock during and post each Upskill. ARTT supports personal accountability by introducing you to the practice of having a focussed 121 with a Progressfull™ Mentor after each Upskill

ARTT provides social support throughout the Upskill, your journey feels like a 121 discussion with the Progressfull™ facilitator or Mentor. ARTT provides social support by introducing you to the concept of Peer Insights post each Upskill, creating a sense of community and “being in this together and progressing together”. ARTT provides social support by having a focussed 121 with a Progressfull™ Mentor after each Upskill

Guiding insight: Lasting change happens when there is a greater motivation and reward for changing than the reward received by repeating our present approach

The ARTT of progress™ helps you unlock your higher reward by encouraging you to decide how you want to change and how this will benefit you – at work, at home, and in your whole life. ARTT provides the structure and “how to’s” for this change, starting with the Progressfull™ Principles and Releasing Practices

Guiding insight: If we celebrate what we've already achieved, won't we stop progressing? Our brain focuses on what we “teach it” is important. Our emotional state and reactions to situations/events inform our brain what is important and thus what to “scan the environment for” in the future. If we don’t accurately review our progress and celebrate our achievements the brain will quickly discard these activities and over-focus on what still needs to be done, where we are falling short

The ARTT of progress™ supports accurate assessment of progress by introducing you to the concept of purposeful self-reflection daily, weekly and monthly. ARTT supports accurate assessment of progress through 121 Mentor sessions, Peer Insight sessions and 121 Coaching sessions. ARTT supports accurate assessment of progress through a purposeful self-reflection Journal

Guiding insight: Fear of failing, and not knowing how to bounce back from adversity and setback stops people from moving forward and being progressfull. Our brain is wired to “scan the environment” and is finely tuned to spot danger, then take control and place us in lockdown (fight, flight, freeze or fantasy takes over). Every “story” we tell ourselves about what is failure, and what is a threat, teaches the brain to continue to highjack us and restricts our ability to be progressfull

The ARTT of progress™ teaches you how to change the “story” you tell yourself to one that is more hopeful, more empowering about your resilience and ability to bounce back, enabling you to become progressfull. ARTT works with the brain by providing opportunities to write a new “story” about who you are, where your hope lies, what your capabilities are and how you can respond to adversity

Guiding insight: We turn short-term memory into long-term memory by rehearsing and recalling information repeatedly in bite-sized chunks. This can be accelerated by using spaced intervals (distributed practice) and enhanced further by adding surprise prompts. ARTT supports you to accelerate your learning as well as your ability to learn “long-term” by including displaced practice - breaking Progresslifts (our name for masterclass chapters) into smaller chunks and adding purposeful self-reflections at each stage in the Progresslift and Upskill (our name for course/masterclass)

The ARTT of progress™ supports your accelerated learning by adding surprise prompts during and post each Upskill

Guiding insight: When we set a timeframe as a non-negotiable our brain moves to a more “purposeful” mode which is high focus and high energy

The ARTT of progress™ supports you to build your bench-strength in performing and functioning in a high focus and high energy mode, by setting timeframes - throughout the Progresslifts and Upskill, we call the 10 minute timeframe Take 10. Take 10 for the ARTT of Progress™ supports you after the Upskill (our name for course/masterclass) by enabling you to easily incorporate an on-going practice of purposeful self-reflection into your life. This regular practice of Take 10 to reflect on your ARTT of Progress™, means you only need to find 10 minutes to benefit, discover new insights, master your actions and track your achievements

The 5 Principles that underpin the Progressfull™ approach – this is our core offering

The 5 Progressfull™ Principles Upskills (our name for a course/masterclass) not only turn around our wonkiness, imperfections and flaws but also enable us to live life on our own terms - holding our ground, facing any challenge that comes our way - head on; supporting, affirming and encouraging ourselves to be the best version of ourselves; enjoying life, and its adventures with a childlike curiosity, determination and wonder at what is possible, together with a belief in our ability to thrive; living a life of harmony - between our internal and external worlds - being in the driving seat of our own life; engaging with diverse perspectives and feedback conversations with confidence and curiosity - all so we can release our true potential

Given you spend your entire life in your mind – the 5 Progressfull™ Principles help you make sure it’s a great place to be!

We reference Progressfull™ Principles as 'PP', just like on a letter (PP abbreviation is derived from the Latin "procurare" meaning "to take care of" so the Progressfull™ Principles help you to take care of yourself

Upskill

This is our term for a pre-recorded online course. We use Upskill as this best describes what you will be achieving - moving your skills upwards and progressing

Each Upskill includes 6-11 hours of sparky deep insights, simple practical frameworks and handy transforming tools. Each Upskill is packed full of exercises and prompts to support your progress

Each Upskill is divided into bite-sized chunks called Progresslifts

Mini masterclass

This is our term for a short, focussed course on a discrete topic. It is a taster or introduction to the word of Progressfull

We use Mini masterclass as this best describes the course size when compared with our Upskills

Each Mini masterclass includes 2-4 hours of learning on a discrete topic

This is our term for a chapter. We use Progresslift as this best describes what you will be achieving – lifting your progress

Each Progresslift is a bite-sized chunk of learning

There are several Progresslifts in each Upskill or Mini masterclass

This is our term for a learning point or mind-set shifting truth

These are things that drive and create our reality

A Restricting practice is our term for beliefs, behaviours and mind-sets that drive, restrict or hold us back from progress

Restricting practices bring to the fore what restricts us, hinders us, holds us back and keeps us stuck as a passenger being driven around by life’s events and detours. Knowing about the Restricting practices (beliefs, behaviours, and mind-sets) enables us to unstrap or unlock ourself from the back seat, move to the driving seat, undo the clutch, and start to progress 

In understanding these Restricting practices, you will start to recognise where you are strapped in and being a passenger so you can stop or redirect yourself

It is helpful for you to know that most of us hold these Restricting practices unconsciously. They are not something we deliberately set out to put into practice every day. In fact, it’s often only when the Restricting practices are revealed to us that we recognise we have been held captive by them. We can’t even recall when and why we choose to hold the belief, behave in that way, or hold this mind-set. That’s why they are restricting - they hold us back from being progressfull

A Releasing practice is our term for beliefs, behaviours and mind-sets that drive, release and enable us to be progressfull. The Releasing practices are the sparks that ignite our energy, unlock our potential, uplift our spirit, and truly put the spring in our steps. The Releasing practices are simple yet profound, practical yet transforming, and will take us from feeling overwhelmed and unfulfilled to inspired, energised and on-track

They can be used as daily activities, weekly activities, prompts and reminders that enable us to unlock our personal progress and professional potential - at work, at home and in our whole life. Building the daily habit or daily practice of applying the Releasing practices moves us forward, out of the passenger seat, so we can take the steering wheel of our life, and drive where we want to go. Driving with ease, only applying effort and focus when the road requires it, avoiding the displaced energy caused by U-turns and false starts

Our transformational framework, the ARTT of progress™, is a purposeful self-reflection process and practice which turns your learning into commitments and actions. Enabling you to take your development into your own hands - unlocking your personal progress  and professional potential

What's more this purposeful self-reflection only takes 10 minutes

The ARTT of progress™ is the methodology or the approach that helps you to identify your insights (Assess), Relate them to your circumstances, personal motivation and personal benefits, then turn them into concrete commitments and practical actions you will “put into practice” (Take Action)

The extra T in ARTT is Take Stock. This is part of the ARTT of progress™ and key in the Progressfull™ approach. Take Stock happens in a number of ways: during the Upskill; in your Upskill Journal; with a Mentor after completion of the Upskill; in a Facilitated Peer Insights session where fellow learners debrief their progress; in daily, weekly, and monthly reflections noted in your Progressfull™ Journal

Take 10 minutes to examine your life and become a first-rate you through the ARTT of progress