Bigger Game
On the wonderful coaching journey of the past 23 years, I met Rick Tamlyn. He was one of the co-leaders of the Leadership program that I participated in during 2009. He and Laura Whitworth, another inspirational Coaches Training institute Coach, created a powerful workshop called The Bigger Game. This workshop explores nine different aspects of what is needed to create a “Bigger Game”. These topics are arranged on an attractive game board, and during the workshop each participant gets to experience and explore each of them in detail.
The Bigger Game is designed to help people answer two questions.
What is my compelling purpose in this world? What am I here to be and to do?
At this time in my life, how can I live out my compelling purpose in a practical way?… what is the ‘ Bigger Game’ I want to be up to in my world?
In December 2009, I attended a Bigger Game workshop in Westford, Connecticut. I loved the workshop, and found it to be both elegant and transformational. I loved it so much that I decided to become certified to lead the workshop for the benefit of my patients, coaching clients, and friends. I hosted my first Bigger Game workshop in my studio June 18-19,2010! My co-facilitator was Meni Mantzavrakos. (www.troubleshootingconflict.com) Over the next few years we offered the Bigger Game workshop in Peterborough and London, Ontario, several times, to about 100 people in total. On April 30, 2016, we hosted a Bigger Game Alumni event in my studio in Peterborough. Together we experienced again the power of the Bigger Game game board to bring clarity to our lives, and we got to celebrate what was going on in each other’s lives and support each other as allies in our world.
Endorsements for the Bigger Game:
“Before I began the Bigger Game weekend I wanted focus and simplicity. Guess what I got? Focus and Simplicity!”
- Sheila Hannon, http://sheilahannon.myarbonne.ca
“Bigger Game is a paradigm shift. It changes the way we view the world and also changes the way we play in our world. Bigger Game combines critical elements into a comprehensive way to think about change.”
- David Gillespie, creator of the program "Swim to Survive"
"Bigger Game catalyzed a huge perspective shift that gave me the confidence I needed to finally begin my life's work of changing education. The Indigo Project was born of this magical weekend."
- Sheri Smith, CEO and Founder, Indigo Project
"I participated in Sue's Bigger Game workshop in 2010. I was transitioning into a new professional role and hoped to reconnect with my deepest sense of purpose and develop a clear vision for my work. Through individual and group exercises and through one on one time with Sue, I deepened my understanding of what energizes me and found courage to create structures in my life that I need for my own health. I learned tools I could apply beyond the weekend and a language that I return to when I need to step back and look at the big picture."
-Michelle Fraser MD, Author of Love Makes Us Beautiful: A Book of blessings. Available at www.lulu.com
"I participated in the Bigger Game workshop with Sue in 2010, at a point in my life when I felt lost and purposeless. The workshop weekend was intense, energizing and life changing! As a result of the Bigger Game I went back to school for documentary film, created a short film that played in a festival and have now just wrapped production on my first feature documentary. I am grateful to the Bigger Game and to Sue for helping me find my path."
-Megan Murphy. Follow Megan's film at www.murphyslawfilm.net
Sue made the workshop fun, as well as practical. As a result, the workshop weekend became the pathway to discovering my life purpose!
-Phil Barber. Author of Fatherless available at www.amazon.com
At present, we haven’t set a date for the next Bigger Game workshop. The fee is $750 for this powerful two day workshop.