Mindful High Performance Training program

Working in the Zone presents
The Mindful High Performance Training
Program
A comprehensive train-the-trainer / coach
program for trainers, coaches, consultants,
HR professionals and managers

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. At the Heart of the Program: Mindfulness
3. Your Benefit
4. Focus of this Work
5. Methods
6. Structure of the Integrated Learning Process
7. Description of the Modules
8. The Team
9. Booking, Terms & Conditions
10. Contact

1. Introduction
Working in the Zone presents a program that teaches you how to bring Mindful
High Performance to your or your clients’ (business) organizations. It consists
of multiple dimensions: You learn to train / facilitate “Mindful Leadership”. This
includes being able to teach mindfulness and mindfulness meditation. But as an
application to business, it goes far beyond a simple teaching of techniques. For us,
mindfulness is a quality to bring to work and life. It is the application of it to specific
situations in leadership and teams that presents the major challenge – and
opportunity – in leadership development.
You also learn “Mindful Coaching” for individuals and groups, with a focus on what
we call the “Coaching Posture.”
This program is designed for people who would like to bring mindfulness and
the approach of Mindful High Performance into their work as managers,
entrepreneurs, HR experts, coaches or trainers. Because it is essential that you
“live” these principles when you facilitate them, the program challenges you to be a
role model in mindfulness and the “Coaching Posture.” To the extent that this is not
already the case, this program is transformative. If mindfulness is not already an
essential part of your life, we ask you to commit to a regular practice of it
throughout the duration of the program and beyond.
We invite you to attend if you sense a commitment to living this approach. If you
have any questions about this, we recommend an interview with us to see if this
approach is for you.

2. At the Heart of the Program: Mindfulness
Mindfulness is at the heart of this program. Without it, there would be no
“Mindful High Performance.” Mindfulness has numerous benefits: knowing who we
are, focus and “wholehearted” presence, managing our energy, staying balanced
and healthy, more intelligent decisions and regulation of our emotions are some
examples.
Mindfulness is a natural state we have all experienced in our lives, but in today’s
always-on world we generally have “forgotten” to be mindful. The teaching of the
basic technique of mindfulness is quite simple. But it is the challenge of making it a
part of our daily lives that is so hard for most people. One widely known way to
learn mindfulness is the discipline of meditation practice. Since the essence of
mindfulness is universal, you will recognize a few techniques common to other
mindfulness approaches. But we will surprise you with a wide range of interventions
you will not easily find elsewhere, and that are specifically designed to overcome
the modern obstacles that often prevent us from practicing consistently.
Practicing the discipline of mindfulness meditation is just one of three major
approaches to cultivating mindfulness as a quality in daily life. The second
approach is to find moments of mindfulness in our daily life and work. This sounds
easier than it is. We will teach different ways to master this approach, which does
not cost our clients any additional time.
The third major approach to cultivating mindfulness is to bring it into activities,
starting with simple actions, and then gradually even to complex and challenging
activities such as communication, negotiations, and even conflicts. This is the most
demanding of the three approaches, and it is the one we spend most time on
in this program.

3. Your Benefit
• Based on the development expectation you bring to the program, you develop a
learning project as a goal you want to reach by the end of the program. This
could be, for example, conceptualizing – based on this approach – a training
program in an area you specialize in; or it might be adding mindfulness to your
coaching practice, both for yourself to be a mindful coach, as well as for using
this approach to help your clients; or perhaps you are looking for a way to help
teams you work with (as a manager or consultant) to give their best to their work,
their cooperation, their meetings and decisions, while simultaneously preserving
their energy resources and health sustainably.
By the end of the program each of you will have developed a good idea of how
to bring mindful high performance to your work through your specific
learning project. You will have facilitated a session based on your learning project
within the group on your own.
• After completing this training, you will know how to teach mindfulness to
managers and their teams, and you will be able to answer the most unexpected
questions from leaders and experts learning it.
• This program is fundamentally practical. Throughout, you will have
opportunities to test and try your new skills with the support of your fellow
trainees.

3. Your Benefit
• You will learn the basics of how to set up a business around this approach
and how to help your clients in the marketing process: often, our clients hesitate
to bring mindfulness explicitly into organizational and individual development
because they have misconceptions or because of organizational culture issues,
while they are also keen on their organization enjoying the scientifically proven
benefits. You will learn powerful arguments to convince internal and external
clients, as well as ways of adapting this approach to their needs.
• To give you everything you need to help your clients accept the sound scientific
basis of this approach, you will learn profound theory during this program:
specifically we will bring you background from positive psychology,
behavioral economics, and particularly from brain science: neuroscience can
help us understand learning, motivation, self-regulation, performance, and of
course mindfulness as a critical variable in all these.
• You will know how to integrate this approach fully into your life as a leader or
professional.
• At the end of the program you will find yourself solid in the “Coaching
Posture,” so that you can bring it into your leadership, coaching or other
development work.
• In addition to learning all this, you will have access to a pool of professionals
all sharing the same spirit, with whom you can share best practice, get
support, and generally network.

4. Focus of this work
• Learning from ourselves: It is our experience – and science supports our view
– that leaders or experts benefit most from our support when we help them
access their own potential in ways most natural to them. So we rarely teach
them behavior. In fact, we don’t try to impose anything from outside at all.
Instead, we help them understand the principles of human mind and to “learn
from themselves” by accessing their own potential using the 3 keys. When this
happens, people frequently get “in the Zone”, a state in which their strengths are
available to them effortlessly, when they naturally give their best and fully enjoy
it.
• Profound knowledge: while people best learn naturally, our clients tend to
believe in our approach more easily when they know it is scientifically based. In
order to cater to this understandable need, we provide them with knowledge as
outlined in the previous section.
• The 3 keys: Developing high performance through a combination of
mindfulness, strengths and working with limiting patterns: When we can be
mindful of our own potential and patterns as well as those of our clients or direct
reports, we have access to the most powerful levers to leadership. When our
potentials can be accessed free of obstructions, we can all give our best. It is
mindfulness that is most helpful in making this possible.

• Attentional states: It is a widespread misconception that mindfulness is a state
of concentration. During the training you will understand the subtle differences
between the various attentional states, how to invoke them, and how to teach the
same to your participants.
• Unexpected impact of mindfulness in business: When we present mindfulness
to business, we will emphasize the scientifically researched benefits. But when
individuals start practicing mindfulness, unexpected things happen. They don‘t
always just feel good. Being silent and inward-facing is not a state leaders are
used to, and they often feel uncomfortable. How to respond to these experiences
and to encourage and support leaders in this process will be an essential part of
this program.
• Understanding the mind: Apart from being able to demonstrate some
knowledge of the functions of the brain, there are aspects relating to the mind
that are hard for brain science to research. We have gathered a wide portfolio of
case studies, sources of “wisdom” and experiential exercises that help leaders
understand their own mind in its limitations, whether they be collective cognitive
traps, the limitations of our intuition or subtle rationalizations. Knowing one’s own
mind is the key to successful leadership of oneself and of others. It is the leader
who needs to experience the nature of his own mind before he can understand
that of his stakeholders; and it is the facilitator, coach or trainer who needs to
experience his own mind before he can authentically and with full credibility
support leaders to understand theirs.

• “Utilization:” This is an expression often credited to Milton Erickson which
stands for an approach of mindful appreciative acceptance towards any situation.
It is a fundamentally resource-oriented approach. A facilitator utilizing
“resistance” will work with his participants rather than against them. It is one of
our principles to mindfully utilize anything we encounter in our work. In this
training we will give you valuable ways to cultivate and remind yourself of
utilization as well as interventions to help your participants learn the same.
• Learning: Mindfulness, developing our potential, working with our patterns, and
learning are deeply connected. According to the current understanding of the
brain, there is nothing in its nature that prevents experienced adults from learning
as much as children. But adults tend to develop a mindset of “being right”, and it
is hard for an adult to let go of the way they think. But when we hold on to the
way we see things, we also prevent ourselves from learning. And learning is what
leaders need if they want to develop and go with changing times – whether in
technology, management or their understanding of themselves. For adults,
learning begins with un-learning, and mindfulness helps us let go of rigid
preconceptions, looking at things with fresh eyes. In this training, we will look at
the science of mindful learning and how to use it in our work. You will experience
mindful learning throughout the program.

• In terms of current leadership challenges, we will work with your cases. We
will also cover the basics around the following topics: Dissent / dealing with
differences / diversity; mindful meetings, decision making , emotions and self-
regulation, the management of inner resources; and the importance of
mindfulness in a time of the Internet of Things – specifically empowerment and
let-go, agility and dealing with VUCA, as well as leading while not knowing, and
multitasking.
• The imminent great leadership transformation: Mindfulness and the
Coaching Posture will be two critical competencies for leadership in the time to
come. In the context of the Internet of Things (sometimes also referred to as
„Being Digital“) leaders will be asked for radical changes to their role, their
behavior, their way of developing and leading their direct report, their attitude to
information (which will be handled by artificial intelligence) and performance
(possibly ditto). This transformation will require leaders to review much of what
they think about leadership under tremendous pressure – but when human
beings are under much pressure, they naturally rely more on their patterns, let
alone transform them. When leaders are supported with mindfulness, with a
focus on strengths and inner resources that the coaching posture focuses on,
they will find it much easier to flourish in this kind of transformation without
burning out, actually coming out of the process a much improved leader.

5. Methods
• Classroom: Our effort is to use the classroom mostly for practical work, and
teach much of the theory by way of distribution of material as well as webinars.
We want you to sense that your valuable time and travel budgets are most
effectively used.
• Webinars: These are mostly used to teach theory. Some of them will be hosted
by scientists: you can learn directly from the experts in their fields.
• E-learning support: We will use weekly blogs, recommend apps and have a
communication platform for participants to chat about their experience as well as
share resources and insights throughout the duration of the training. As new
digital options arise, we will make use of them wherever they can enhance the
value of the program.
• Learning partnerships: One of the most powerful ways of transferring your
learning into practice is by working with each other between the modules. We
call this, with a touch of jest, “experimental field work.” We believe in
autonomous learning, so this will be self-organized by participants.
• Optional individual supervision: In addition to all the above, you can opt for a
package of five hours of personal supervision, support and mentoring by Peter.
You can use this to benefit from his vast experience in conceptualizing
something related to your learning project, or to have some individual coaching
complementing the program, or whichever way you like.

6. Structure of the Integrated Learning Process
Overall duration: approx. nine months
4 Modules of presence training
Module 1-4:
12,5 days
Overall
hours: 87
3 Webinars
3 Webinars
between the
modules: total
of 6 hours
Partly with
scientists
Intersession research
Blended
learning:
weekly blogs,
apps, one
book, learning
partnerships.
Supervision
5 hours.
Optional

7. Module 1: Living in the Zone: Mindfulness
Objective: Introduction to Mindful High Performance. You start to get a feel for how
to work with people through this approach.
Length: 3 days. (Thu 14:00 thru Sunday 13:00) = 21 hours
Content:
 Introducing the idea of Working in the Zone.
 Formulating individual learning objectives / projects suited to your line and
focus of work.
 Introduction to the three ways of practicing mindfulness.
 Introduction to teaching mindfulness as a practice and discipline, as an
attentional state, and as a quality of life and work.
 Neuroscience of mindfulness and performance.
 Understanding the mind: Introduction to cognitive traps and limitations of
perception.
 Using typical examples for the application of mindfulness in real leadership
challenges.
 Brief introduction to the “three keys.”
 Brief introduction to “utilization” as a fundamental principle of this approach.
 Transfer tasks (“experimental field work”) to anchor the learning and to
prepare for module two:
 Individual learning projects
 Learning partnerships
 Optional commitments for supervision
 Self-organized learning
 Introduction to E-learning

7. Modul 2: The Mindful Leader
Objective: Learn the 3 keys practice. Familiarize yourself with Mindful High
Performance coaching as a process, a skill set and a posture.
Length: 3 days (Thu pm thru Sunday am) = 21 hours
Content:
 Reviewing progress on your mindfulness practice, learning projects.
 Introducing new mindfulness techniques.
 Exploring your own personal strengths and getting feedback on them.
 Additional interventions of “mindful appreciation and acceptance.”
 Exploring your personal patterns and learn mindful strategies to work with
them.
 Applying the “three keys” in situations relating to your learning projects.
 Introduction of the idea of mindful coaching (emphasis on the client). It
accepts the fundamental hypothesis of the ICF. It also questions the focus on
problems and goals in coaching, and focuses more on working with mindful
appreciation of what is.
 Introducing the mindful Coaching “Posture,” linking coaching to utilization and
mindfulness.
 Mindful coaching practice.
 The importance of the Coach being “in the Zone.”
 Working on participants‘ real challenges with these methods.
 Transfer tasks to anchor the learning and to prepare for module three.

7. Module 3: Mindful Organizations
Objective: You settle with the idea of the Coaching “Posture” and understand
Mindful High Performance as a non-goal but rather acceptance oriented approach.
Length: 3 days (Thu pm thru Sunday am) = 21 hours
Content:
 The mindful coach (emphasis on the coach): Techniques of cultivating a
mindful Coaching Posture.
 Working with teams / organizational units: How to transfer the approach of
mindful coaching to working in organizational development.
 Working with teams: Facilitating and consulting in the posture of mindful
coaching.
 How to bring mindfulness into working with teams: challenges, opportunities,
principles.
 Mindful reframing of reality with individuals and teams: from rejecting what is
to mindful appreciative acceptance.
 Mindfully utilizing specific challenges your clients might face when they work
with this approach.
 Mindfully utilizing any “resistance.”
 In-depth: Mindful appreciative acceptance (for you and the people you work
with).
 Working with participants’ real cases with these methods.
 Transfer tasks to anchor the learning and to prepare for module four.

7. Module 4: Integration
Objective: You settle with this approach, you feel that it has started to be “part of
your DNA.”
Length: 3,5 days (Thu am through Sunday am) = 24 hours
Content:
 “Leadership in the Coaching Posture” as a core competency in Mindful High
Performance.
 Rounding off the idea of leading / training / working in a Coaching “Posture”.
 Unique approaches in Mindful High Performance Coaching and Training.
 Case studies of leaders’ challenges.
 Each participant leads a session of a mix of theoretical input and a real case
study in the context of their learning project.
 Transfer tasks to anchor the learning and to prepare for daily practice.
 Closing the program.

7. Between the modules: Webinars and other Support
Webinar 1 (between modules 1 and
2)
A two hour webinar with the
neuroscientist Dr. Karolien Notebaert
on the brain science of motivation
3)
A two hour webinar with the
neuroscientist Dr. Karolien Notebaert
on the brain science of self-regulation
4)
A two hour webinar with Prof. Dr. Erik
Wollenweber on behavioral economics,
cognitive traps and cognitive illusions
In order to support the transfer of
learning, you can benefit from the
following options:
• A weekly blog by Peter and
sometimes guest authors
• Learning partnerships and intervision
groups
• Recommended apps to aid your
mindfulness practice
• A book to accelerate your learning on
mindfulness
• Other materials we will recommend
or hand out
• Our seminar handout
• A photo documentation that allows
you to review exactly what we did in
the previous modules
You can also book an optional,
customized package of five hours of
individual support to you with Peter.

7. Certification Training
At the end of participating in the four modules and the blended learning content,
you will receive a certificate from Working in the Zone for completing the
learning.
As a separate program, and following the trainee program, you can book a
certification process. What we call the “certification process” is an additional,
individually tailored process that will make you eligible to calling yourself
“Mindful High Performance Development Professional.”
The Certification Module consists of individual coaching and supervision, of
shadowing a training as well as co-training another which will then be assessed. It
also contains required supervision as well as a test to assess your mastery of the
theoretical knowledge we train.
If you are interested in this additional step, please contact us now or at any time
during the trainee program.

8. The Team
Peter Creutzfeldt
Peter is the master trainer on this program.
Having spent nearly 15 years in executive
positions with international high-
performance organizations, he went back
to his native Germany, bringing all of these
experiences together, and founded
“Working in the Zone.”
Ultimately it was his fascination with
questions about the nature of teamwork
and performance that drove his quest to
support others to effortlessly achieve their
best. Specializes in coaching, team
development and Mindful Leadership. Is
also trained in Systemic Coaching,
Hypnosystemic Counselling, and the Inner
Game.
Peter has been applying the spirit
of mindfulness to his life for over 30 years;
first for his personal development, then
ever more in his professional work.
Peter’s business languages are German,
English, and Spanish.
Fong Chen Chiu
Fong Chen majored in Japanese culture,
literature and history at the University of
TamKang in Taipei, Taiwan.
Before she started her career as a
coach, she spent many years in sales and
marketing, as well as serving as an
Executive Assistant in the computer
industry in Taiwan and Germany.
Fong Chen has also trained in Co-Active
Coaching, Hypnosystemic Counselling and
Neurolinguistic Programming. She
also thrives on challenges in the design
and facilitation of team development and
leadership training, particularly in Chinese-
European settings.
Fong Chen has been practicing
mindfulness, yoga and Qi Gong for her
personal and professional development for
many years.
Fong Chen’s business languages are
Mandarin and English.

8. The Team
Dr. Karolien Notebaert
After an interdisciplinary education in behavioral
neuroscience (PhD) and economics, Karolien
decided in 2000 to unite her different scientific
perspectives into a new direction:
neuroeconomics. The main focus is on how
cognitive performance and decision making can
be improved in business settings with the
ultimate goal to achieve sustainable high
performance.
Karolien's heart goes out to bringing science to
life by inspiring and coaching professionals, and
by working out science-based business
applications. Her talent to make the complexity
of the state-of-the-art neuroscientific knowledge
accessible has sparked many audiences of
executives, business coaches and business
schools.
It is through her neuroscience research that
Karolien discovered the extraordinary effect of
mindfulness on our brain functioning, and
eventually discovered mindfulness as a key
strategy to allow a person to reach his/her
highest potential –mindful high performance.
With one foot in neuroscience and one foot in
business, Karolien aims to provide high quality
training which is always updated based on the
latest neuroscience research.
Karolien's business languages are English,
Dutch and German.
Website: www.one-step-ahead.eu
Prof. Dr. Erik Wollenweber
Leif Erik is Professor of Organisation
and Leadership at FOM University
School of Business Administration.
Furthermore, he teaches
entrepreneurship and management as
guest professor at Hogeschool Venlo in
the Netherlands. In addition to that, he
is managing partner of HWMC
Management Consultants, aligning
strategy, system and culture of his
customers’ organizations.
Working as a consultant, trainer and
coach, he wondered why change is so
hard for his clients, even when the
necessity was most obvious and
urgent. Therefore he dumped the
economic theory of the “homo
economicus” and started translating
current research of neuroscience and
psychology into leadership and
management practice via publications,
trainings and lectures.
Erik`s business languages are German
and English.
Website: leiferikwollenweber.com

9. Registration Form
I hereby confirm my participation, subject to payment of the due fees, of the
“Working in the Zone Trainee Program.”
By signing below, I confirm that I have read, and accept, the general terms and
conditions
Please return this form by email to: info@workinginthezone.com, or by post to
Peter Creutzfeldt / Working in the Zone / Reichsforststr. 6 / D-60528 Frankfurt
Full Name
Company
Email
Telephone
VAT ID
Street / No.
Zip / City
Country
Date and Signature

9. General Terms and Conditions
Program Overview:
Module 1: 20 – 23 April, 2017 in Mallorca
Module 2: 29 June -2 July, 2017, location TBC
Module 3: 21 – 24 September, 2017 location TBC
Module 4: 14 – 17 December, 2017, location TBC
3 Webinars @ 2 hours each between modules. Dates TBC
Total hours of training: 93
Intersession support: E-learning, weekly blogs
□ I wish to obtain the optional individual intersession support package: Five hours of individual supervision,
support, mentoring or coaching
Investment:
The overall investment in the training is:
4.000 Euros including Webinars and e-learning support between the modules as well as training handouts and
photo documentation; optional 1.000 Euros for individual coaching / consulting / supervision.
The first module can be booked on its own for 1.150,00 Euros.
Prices include lunch, water throughout the training and coffee breaks. VAT, transfer to / from location,
accommodation and the fee for the “Certification Process” are not included in the cost.
Payment terms
1st installment 1.000,00 (1.250 with supervision) Euro plus German VAT 19% due by: 1 March, 2017
2nd installment 1.000,00 (1.250 with supervision) Euro plus German VAT 19% due by: 1 June, 2017
3rd installment 1.000,00 (1.250 with supervision) Euro plus German VAT 19% due by: 1 September, 2017
Balance payment 1.000,00 (1.250 with supervision) Euro plus German VAT 19% due by: 1 December, 2017
Maximum number of participants: 16
Language: The training takes place in English with translation to German (if required). It can be held in
German language if all participants prefer this language.
Location: We make sure our program takes place in a place conducive to what we learn together. Our favorite
are fincas in Mallorca that fit the group size exactly. We cannot always guarantee this. If there is nothing
available in Mallorca we will offer a nice location in or around Frankfurt, one of the most central cities in
Germany.

Peter Creutzfeldt
Reichsforststraße 6
D 60528 Frankfurt
+49 170 815 8377
info@workinginthezone.com
www.workinginthezone.com
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