Mush Personal Development Course

It’s easy enough to feel good at the Mush, where we craft an environment that removes stressors and provides support and strategies to manage challenging emotions.

But in your daily life, it’s not so easy. You’re dealing with stress, sleep deprivation, and chronic health challenges. Friendships feel superficial, and romantic connections rife with conflict, triggers, and miscommunication. Your most consistent sources of joy are screens, sugar, and shopping, while your career is stagnating. You know that you need a change, but you’re not sure what to do.

You’ll be shocked at how much you can change your life in just a few weeks. If you do nothing, things will continue on the same course. Do you want to live a purposeful, powerful life and achieve your highest potential? This course is for YOU.

After completing the Mush Personal Development Course:

-You will experience a peace and clarity of mind like never before.

-Your relationships will become nourishing, as you feel safe to share your deeper thoughts, feelings, and concerns.

-Resolving conflicts will become a simple, stress-free process that you actually look forward to.

-Your physical health and energy levels will rise to new heights.

-Your career will skyrocket, as you feel empowered to take productive steps each day.

-You will sleep deeply, wake feeling rested, and start each day with vigor and enthusiasm.

This intimate and deeply personal experience will be limited to 8 participants, offered via Zoom Video over 4 days, with instruction from me (Mush Movement Founder David Rhein), with a 3-month integration program involving ongoing guidance and a structured buddy-system to support you to incorporate these new practices into your life. Also included: access to an online community chat, the digital Mush Personal Development Course Manual, video recordings and transcripts from the live training, discounted access to Zoom Support Calls with Senior Mush Facilitators, and discounts on the Mush Facilitator Training and Mush Community Management courses.

SCHEDULE:

Nov 26-27 (Tue-Wed); 5-day break; December 3-4 (Tue-Wed).

Each day: 18:00-21:30 Berlin time (CET); two 90-minute sessions with a 30-minute break.

[ In Thailand that's 23:00-02:30; In Phoenix AZ it’s 9:00-12:30 ]

Investment: €700.

Early Bird Discount: €400 (Register before Nov 15th)

Structure of the Course:

At the foundation, we will discuss how the Mush Values—Safety, Love, Authenticity, and Autonomy—create a simple framework for decision-making. I’ll share strategies for how to apply these values in your life in the context of the topics listed below. We will allot our time based on the stated preferences of the participants.

Part 1 will focus on Personal Development: well-being, habits, mindset and productivity (points 1-4 below). 

Part 2 will focus on Community, Relationships, and Social Integration (points 5-8 below). 

1. Physical Wellness

• Physical Posture: Exploring the impact of posture on emotional and mental states.

• Diet and Emotional Eating: Understanding the relationship between food choices and emotional health.

• Physical Exercise and Emotional Wellbeing: Examining how regular physical activity influences mood and stress levels.

• Muscular Adhesions: Addressing the impact of adhesions on flexibility, circulation, and pain management.

• Importance of Physical Hygiene: Exploring how hygiene contributes to overall health and social interactions.

2. Emotional Intelligence and Mental Health

• Emotional Freedom: Balancing expression, control, and creation of emotions.

• Identifying and Overcoming Addictions: Addressing dependencies on phones, screens, and dopamine.

• Physical Health and Mental Health Integration: Understanding the interconnection between physical and mental well-being.

• Mindfulness and Meditation: Using time-tested practices to calm, balance, and focus the mind.

• Sleep Hygiene: Techniques to help you get to sleep faster, rest deeper, and wake up feeling rejuvenated.

• Finding Purpose: The key to true “happiness” and most important pillar of a life that feels meaningful, fulfilling, and worthwhile.

3. Decision Making and Critical Thinking

• Seeking More Information: Encouraging thorough research before making decisions.

• Polarizing Outcomes: Navigating decisions where extremes may be preferable to ambiguity.

• Short-term vs. Long-term Thinking: Balancing immediate desires with long-term goals.

• Recognizing Logical Fallacies: Identifying flaws in your own and others' reasoning. 

4. Personal Development and Self-Management

• Advanced Nervous System Regulation Tools: Techniques for managing your physiological responses.

• Creating Stability Through Routines: Implementing daily routines and rituals to foster stability.

• Productivity Tools: Utilizing tools to achieve personal goals.

• Reframe Discipline: Understanding it as the key to life change and true freedom.

5. Clarity in Communication

• Conscious Language: How word choice affects thoughts and actions, and the power of affirmations.

• Setting Context: Framing discussions appropriately before sharing emotional or challenging ideas.

• Giving Advice That is Received: Choosing the right Timing to Tone to set yourself up for success.

• Reflection as a Tool for Deeper Understanding: Using the Imago technique effectively.

6. Relationships and Consent

• Positive Assumptions and Story Checking: Counteracting the tendency to catastrophize.

• Relationships, Friendships, and Community: Making conscious choices about the people around you.

• Navigating Consent in Friendships: Guidelines for respecting boundaries within platonic relationships.

• Transitioning Friendships to Romantic Partnerships: Strategies for navigating consent when friendships potentially become romantic.

• Advice for Modern Dating: Tips for navigating dating landscapes, including online environments.

7. Conflict Resolution and Personal Boundaries

• Personal Boundaries vs. People Pleasing: Learning to identify and enforce personal limits.

• Identifying Conflict Early: Recognizing and navigating conflicts independently.

• Creating Win-Win Framing: Navigate conflict so that both parties feel honored, heard, and respected.

• Overcoming Fear of Rejection: Managing social anxieties and rejection sensitivity.

• “Manifestation” via visualization and NLP: a modern, science based approach to support you in getting what you want.

8. Social and Cultural Awareness

• Subjectivity of Reality: Recognizing personal perspectives and biases.

• Identifying Invisible Cultural Assumptions: Acknowledging underlying social norms.

• Reading Body Language and Micro-expressions: Enhancing understanding of non-verbal communication.

• Understanding Different Styles of Relating: Exploring monogamy, ethical non-monogamy (ENM), polyamory, and open relationships.

If this sounds interesting to you, please message me to confirm your spot! 

~Davi || Direct Message on WhatsApp (+1-530-385-8502) or on Facebook.

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About the inspiration for the Mush Personal Development Course:

The need for the course became clear while I was leading the Mush Facilitator Training (MFT), which I’ve now offered a dozen times with more than 100 participants. In the MFT I set out to share everything I’ve learned about navigating the often complex Mush environment, striving to create a safe space and guide a group of relative strangers to have the “Mush Experience,” a taste of heaven on earth, to be completely relaxed and in a state of “no-mind,” surrounded by warm, breathing bodies, dropped deep into non-verbal space and feeling their nervous system relax completely for possibly the first time in years. 

Many times during these trainings, I invited the soon-to-be facilitators to lead by example: regulate your own nervous system first, prioritize your feeling of safety, be kind, never speak while you’re frustrated, shift into curiosity, make positive assumptions, identify conflicts promptly and seek resolution. Take responsibility where you can find it, apologize and forgive quickly. It all sounds pretty straight-forward, but it’s not easy to apply these philosophies, and the MFT doesn’t leave enough time or space to delve deeply into specific strategies or practice. Instead, we focus on more tangible and logistical facilitation skills: strategies for preparing and managing the space, leading the facilitation team, empowering the participants, dealing with challenging participants, creating structures and mechanisms for registration, feedback, and community management, and of course the Mush-specific facilitation process (how to demo all the exercises, and in depth training around Mushchitecture). It’s a lot, and so I only have time to touch briefly on all these other super important life-skills that facilitators would greatly benefit from.

So this course was born. It contains the guidance and strategies that will empower you to become an exemplary Mush Community Member, and lays the foundation for going on to become a Mush Facilitator. You may wish to think of this course as the first level of the Mush Facilitator Training, where the focus here is inward; we will guide you to facilitate specific outcomes in your own life.

So, whether or not you ever intend to share the magic of the mush with another person, This course is about you and your life. You will be empowered to facilitate for yourself a healthier mindset and physical body. You will gain strategies to create healthier relationships with yourself and with others.  This course will empower you to become more powerful, self-actualized, self-expressed, and confident in your words and actions.

Message me today to reserve your spot! || Direct Message on WhatsApp (+1-530-385-8502) or on Facebook.