Meet Sharon

• author and emotional intelligence trainer •

Sharon Kuhn, author and emotional intelligence trainer, has worked for over 30 years coaching executives and leaders in optimizing their teams’ unique potential, strengthening company identity, and maximizing team cohesion and productivity.

What she’ll do for you: Sharon will affirm your company’s strengths, find the gaps, and customize tools for maximizing your team potential for achieving your goals. She’ll apply the hard science behind the soft skills of success. For individuals outside the business setting, see the Health Families page.

You and your employees will understand one another on a whole new level, reduce stress and interdepartmental breakdown, increase wellness and align skillfully to drive your mission and ROI through this expert empathy training. Empathetic teams understand each other thereby fast tracking innovation and continuous improvement through the peak performance program, Your Interior Design.

Her commitment to your ROI – is measured and assessed by engagement, productivity, harmony, and reduced leaves of absence as emotional wellness translates into physical wellness and job passion. Clients report gains on multiple levels of thriving. Thriving leaders and employees means thriving teams and outcomes.

The Model Your Interior Design is a fun and innovative approach to putting 10 personal and professional unique competencies to work. Growing awareness in these identity assets increases confidence for interpreting and empathizing with the thoughts and feelings of others and maximizes organizational health.

C-Suite Executives see improved interdepartmental cohesion and increased productivity. To start, Sharon will perform a fast and “painless” root cause analysis that provides a cultural assessment for eradicating disengagement, silos, and turf wars. She’ll harness emotion, change toxic drama (wasted energy) to cultural cohesion and train you and your teams to maintain focus and flow. You’ll gain thousands of dollars in productivity.

Applying the tools of Your Interior Design will greatly enhance your emotional intelligence. You’ll polish your delivery and communication skills with emotional insight. You’ll gain confidence for transforming confusing behaviors and conflict into astute awareness for uniting and utilizing the potential of all players. This model, outlined in Sharon’s book, Empathy, A Guide to Maximizing Human Potential is recognized by top industry leaders. Harvey Deutschendorf, author of The Other Kind of Smart, and FAST Company Contributor, says of Sharon’s book, “Leaders should read this book in order to become a leader.” Thank you Harvey! And Patrick Lencioni, Founder of Table Group and international leader in organizational health shares, “Empathy is such an extraordinarily rich and useful book. Which is no surprise because it is written by Sharon Kuhn, a wonderful, thoughtful person who has a passion for helping people heal in the most profound ways. I can’t recommend this book enough, and most everything else that Sharon does.”

Background: Sharon’s experiences and research have earned her the admiration of her colleagues in the business and educational settings.  She wrote Your Interior Design, formerly Unique EQ, emerging from her original model used by mental health professionals named Attach, Attempt, Achieve.

Sharon’s genius talent is: Creating abundance where none exists. By idealizing a best outcome and creating a compelling structure sufficient to engage both people and resources. Sharon crystallizes the full potential for all who play. She believes that full individual expression leads to ultimate success.*

She is trained in two genius models:

  • Evoking Genius*

  • 6 Types of Working Genius

She is passionate about motivational speaking and organizational training in self-esteem and talent mastery. She collaborates nationally and internationally to bring wellness into all settings whether personal or professional.

Sharon would love to discuss your vision and help you maximize your success. Take advantage of a complimentary 30-minute call at 260-443-3056 or virtual meeting. Contact Sharon to schedule a one-on-one coaching session.

Your Interior Design in the School Setting

 

YOUR INTERIOR DESIGN – AN OVERVIEW

Based in attachment research, Your Interior Design is an  approach for developing self-esteem for lifelong learning and relational effectiveness. Research shows that emotionally encouraging relationships influence a child’s developing brain, endocrine, and immune systems. In the school setting, the art of mirroring emotional acknowledgement and acceptance to a child is foundational to a healthy mind/body and the ability to receive love and sustain joy for whole brain learning, health, and success.

This model is Sharon Kuhn’s mission to equip all people to be their true self, develop, express their full potential, and live in self-esteem. Self-esteem is defined as the ability to have a focused self, not a self-focus. With a focused self, confidence and self-expression to ultimate success. Children grow to be their true self, take part in co-creating healthy communities and share community conscience.   

A BRAIN BUILDING MODEL:

Research shows that the brain is experience dependent and shaped resiliently in the novel experience of feeling emotionally, physically, and mentally felt, seen, and heard. For that reason, the safer and happier a child feels, the more their brain is shaped with chemicals for developing their intelligence. This model equips practitioners with a series of best practice tools for increasing empathy and capacity to share and identify with a child’s thoughts and feelings bringing inner potential, the inner mind of the child, out of isolation and into belonging. Ten  tools identify a set of unique features making up a composite to be considered as the child’s unique circuitry of self-esteem. In reality it is a way to identify, organize and affirm brain “maps” for learning.

 

THE EXPERIENCE:

Through group training and 1:1 coaching, participants learn foundations of resilience and trauma-informed modalities for ensuring the psychological safety essential for coregulating students’ vulnerability in learning. Sharing states of mind is known to flood the brain with emotional security which elevates mind/body chemistry for focus and collaboration. In shared states of security, students innovate rapidly.  

 

 

SKILLS - PROCEDURAL, REFLECTIVE AND METACOGNITIVE:

While empathetic environments increase students’ sense of calm, procedures that support both the practitioner’s and student’s understanding of how their body is responding to joy or stress on a biological level provides everyone with confidence to manage important shifts. This experiential learning guides practitioners and students in-training as actively involved participants. Techniques are self-practiced during workshops and home practice by applying the “tools” to real-world problems which trainees themselves are facing. This novel exposure  provides personal experience for embedding “new maps” of awareness of self-esteem and self-regulation from which to co-regulate the stress states and joy states of student’s learning and growth challenges. If practitioners cannot regulate their own stress states, they cannot calmly teach and meet the needs of the students in their care. 

 

Traditional programs have placed considerable emphasis on academic achievement alone with the emotional needs of the child being left unaddressed. Learning emotionally focused procedures for using high authority with low control enhances practitioners’ and students’ joy for transforming everyday interactions into developmentally rich experiences. In fact, an authoritative style is seldomly required when cultures are highly bonding, predictably stable, empathetic, and consistent. The procedures and reflective modalities empower metacognitive awareness for maximizing outcomes.

 

 

THE HIGHEST CAPACITY FOR LEARNING- INTEGRATION:

Brain science shows that when the right orbitofrontal cortex, housing the “self” is highly activated, organized, integrated, and regulated through experiences of belonging and sharing states of mind, this area of the brain helps the whole brain work together.

 

 

TOOLS:

Your Interior Design contains a unique toolbox of written and experiential exercises for building awareness of the inner mind thereby strengthening self-esteem and regulating stress through 10 aspects of identity and growing competencies of awareness. Users increase confidence for interpreting and empathizing with the thoughts and feelings of others.  

 

 

3 PRE-WORK MODULES FOR UNDERSTANDING TRAUMA, INSECURE ATTACHMENT, BIOLOGY OF VAGAL TONE:

-       Effects of trauma/insecure attachment

-       Secure attachment for optimal vagal tone  brain

-       Power of empathy

 

 

THE TEN ASPECTS OF YOUR INTERIOR DESIGN

 

MODULES 1-3

 

-       Attachment styles

-       Core fears

-       Love languages

 

MODULES 4-7

 

-       Styles of power

-       Personality styles

-       Multiple intelligences (9)

-       Learning styles (7)

 

MODULES 8-10

 

-        Introversion/Ambiversion/Extroversion

-       Family roles and parental projections/group roles and system projections

-       Processing speeds

-       All together now- a blend and review of all modules