In this course, you'll learn how to create curriculum for adult learners.
You'll synthesize all your information – no matter how vast – and learn how to decide what stays, what goes, where things go and in what order, to deliver a world-class program.
This course is for you if you've been wanting to:
design a course (in-person or online)
create a workshop or retreat
move from one-on-ones to working with groups
re-focus and re-invigorate your work
I know that many intuitive practitioners, healers, and coaches often have so much embodied knowledge, they don't know where to start when it comes to offering their skill as an information product.
How do you take what's in your head and organize it all? How do you know what to edit? How do you decide what is beginner and what is advanced knowledge? When should you use video and when is written or audio more appropriate? What's the best way to present a "touchy feely" kind of topic that can sometimes be a bit hard to pin down?
How do I take everything I do in a one-on-one session with a client and make it useful, replicable, and valuable in a broadcast format?
If you're struggling with this, I can relate. For years I was told I should create a course for intutitive development or at the very least write a book. I didn't feel like writing a book, though. Then a client who happened to be an adult education expert said, "I can help".
I'm a Type-A personality with a strong perfectionist streak, but I knew I'd found someone with the right combination of intellect and sensitvity to help me organize my work. Hooray!
Since then, I've created three online programs that have netted between four and five figures each at launch. They've continued to be a nice source of residual income for me and my family for the past four years.
When I lead in-person retreats, group programs and Quests, I'll earn anywhere from $1000 - $9000 a day. Which is amazing!
But for every hour I teach, it's taken ten hours of planning and organizing. And my husband has probably put in another hour of tech or emotional support. And I've paid my web designer to pitch in when I don't have time to create marketing materials. I've hired support people to help with client care or admin.
And the marketing! OMG, the marketing. When there's a launch date, the stress can really mount. It's hard not to become preoccupied with it in the lead up to the big day. As you might imagine, my family dreads it.
So creating an online course, or a workshop, or a retreat, is not a project to undertake on a whim of inspiration. You can't pull together something really outstanding in your field in just a weekend.
But you can make a good, important start.
You can map out your curriculum, complete with troubleshooting strategies for your learners and bonus materials.
Once you do that, you'll be able to step back and see what you're working with. You'll have what you need to decide how you want to deliver, price, and market your offering.
I believe that well organized, compelling content demonstrates caring.
Yes, also expertise. Yes, efficacy.
But the caring is the thing. It's about consideration.
I'm sure you want your students to get it, right? It's a terrible feeling for everyone involved when we don't have shared understanding.
How crestfallen do you feel when you ask, Are you with me? and are met with,
"I guess."
Helping people successfully integrate information they highly value is an act of love and service. It's a form of nurturance. It's connecting.
It's also a skill that can be learned, practiced and mastered.