Workshops with Charles MacInerney
IN AUSTIN, TEXAS AND OTHER CITIES

IMPROVING CONCENTRATION

IMPROVING CONCENTRATION: The ability to concentrate the mind is one of the most important skills you ever learn. Good concentration is essential to both learning and performing. The inability to concentrate is responsible for restlessness, dissatisfaction, boredom, anxiety and feeling overwhelmed. Concentration is the source of deep feelings of satisfaction, contentment, and pleasure. It is these experiences of deep concentration that we remember fondly, and that we seek to repeat. Those who think they love golf, are really seeking moments of perfect concentration. It just happens that they most often achieve that state of mind on a golf course, and so they return again and again, hoping to recapture that moment of timeless perfection when they were of one mind with the club, the ball and the universe.

This workshop teaches participants how to concentrate the mind and how to eliminate boredom and anxiety from everyday life. There is a large experiential component where participants use their newly acquired understanding and tools for promoting concentration to learn a new skill. We then examine how these same techniques can be applied in other settings like business and home life.Below is a mind map from a concentration workshop that Charles gave at the Executive Women in Texas Government Conference on Peak Performance.

AUDIENCE EVALUATIONS

University of Texas Informal Classes

"One of the finest instructors I have ever experienced. Thank you."

"I feel like this is the best two hours I have spent in my life."

"Class offered much more valuable information and ideas about life than just concentration."

"Very specific suggestions. Clean, helpful analogies and the examples were great."

"One of the top five classes I have taken."

"This class helped me a lot. I have searched for this kind of help for a long time and was really amazed. Thank you."

"The 'dangers of linear concentration' discussion was enlightening."

"Excellent teaching style and depth of knowledge of subject."

"Great class. I plan to take mind mapping, yoga, and other classes taught by this instructor."

"Charles was excellent at involving the class in the material. He kept my focus flowing and I really enjoyed the whole experience."