Swallowing Bowling Balls

SWALLOWING BOWLING BALLS

An interactive workshop about risk taking and loving it!

What’s Up with Swallowing Bowling Balls?

Ever think something like, Yikes, I’ve got a lump in my throat the size of a bowling ball? Your chest feels heavy and tight, you haven’t taken a deep, oxygenating breath in….days?  And that grating sound – that’s not your co-worker forcefully dealing with another paper jam; that’s your teeth, clamped tight and a’ grindin’ away.   You know what we’re talking about, don’t you?  That feeling you get when you’re a bit anxious about taking a risk, stepping out, trying something new or challenging like pushing a “growth edge.”  Those are the times when you have to gulp hard, swallow the bowling ball and go for it!  Maybe for you, the lump sits lower– in the pit of your stomach.  Muscles you didn’t even know you had are clenched tight, and your poor belly is making these weird yowling sounds that you have to smile away during meetings…

Well, that’s what we call the BBT’s – Bowling Ball Terrors.  Terrors like…being wrong [or said correctly, “not being right”].  Not being good enough.  Not being smart enough.  Not being something enough.  Maybe you surrender your power when you think about what others think…of you.  Of being found out as a failure.  Perhaps you’re afraid of taking risks, or going for your dreams.  Or of not having any dreams to go for.  Maybe just thinking about the future and the unknowns it holds brings on a feeling of lightheaded panic.

Bowling Ball Terrors not only terrorize you, they terrorize teams.  At the very time you need to be at your best, and you need your team to be stellar, BBT’s will have everyone hunkering down, showing up with  that deer-in-the-headlights look.  Isn’t it time to rewrite that sad-sack script?  How cool will your life be when you regularly do the impossible because you don’t ‘know’ any better?   It’ll be trés cool.  You’ll be one of those rare people who’ve mastered the art of Swallowing Bowling Balls.

Here’s How We’ll Do It

How?  Ball Busters, that’s how.  Balls, by design, go round and round.  One nudge and they’re off again – spinning.  Bust up that pattern, though, and there’s time and space to have a good look at what’s setting them off.  And to see those nudges for what they really are – choices, usually unconscious, habitual ones.   Ball Busters are a savvy combination of conversations, story-writing, visualizations, playful exercises and powerful rituals to banish the BBT’s and tap into your team’s untapped potential.

Here’s Your Take-Away

Well for starters, like all GrowthEdge Group events, there’ll be plenty of laughter about the goofiness of our humanity.  Then we’ll playfully and powerfully expand your collective capacity to  slice and dice the monster called “I Can’t”…and swallow.  Then swallow again.  See that?  You can!   You’ll quickly learn that you can accomplish way more than you ever imagined.  You’ll also discover that you’ve been playing by unwritten rules that are holding you back – AND no one is enforcing them except you!  You’ll learn to appreciate the  times you’re being stretched and go for the gusto!   Chalk up one challenge after another to your new found talent of facing your fears, taking big gulps and going to the edge!   No more choking for you.  “Open wide” to life.