Gratitude Trifecta
Hone your self-leadership practice by writing your way to what matters.
Become a more self-aware, self-accepting, resilient, and creative leader with the Gratitude Trifecta. Customized for buddies willing to grow and glow together.
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Are you driven by overwhelming negativity, anxiety, and burnout?
A good gratitude practice can help you identify your stumbling blocks, bounce back faster, find new ways to hit your personal reset button. From small annoyances to significant struggles, getting it down on paper is an excellent pivot point.
Do you need help determining your next step?
Giving yourself permission to write honestly, open-heartedly, and without filters is the best way to understand what you’re thinking and what you truly value. Move past overwhelm by grounding your days with reasons to be grateful, emboldening yourself to face the next obstacle or challenge.
Are you ready to lead with integrity, positivity, and self-awareness?
Gain clarity of thought by setting intentions that align with positivity and personal authenticity. If you want to lead with increased integrity, predictability, and greater impact, this course is for you.
Unlock Your Secret Leadership Strength: Gratitude
The good news? The start-up is easy. By incorporating a positive writing practice into your routine, caring leaders like you are building the skills to cope with change and face challenge with greater creativity and resilience. Experience the simple yet profound power shift that comes from connecting your hand to your head to your heart by writing slowly, freely, and meditatively.
How it Works
Change doesn’t happen overnight—experts suggest that it takes at least 90 days of persistence and some discomfort to develop new habits that are sustainable. Cultivating habits around your writing longhand and choosing to deepen your gratitude mindset are key to personal growth and transformation.
In this series, you’ll begin the process to reinforce habits that are life-affirming, meaningful, liberating, and improve your self-awareness as you navigate change and challenge—both personally and professionally. While honing habits that invite you to pair writing with gratitude, you’ll gain more clarity and understanding of the waters you are paddling. With fresh insight, you will connect the dots between your relationships and your personal ecology. As you develop your writing habit, you will have greater insight into your memories, thoughts, voices, beliefs, and emotions. Over time, you will notice subtle shifts – on the page, and rippling across your expanding horizons.
Find an accountability buddy and sign up for:
- Ten hours of conversation facilitated by Lorraine, in order to meet your schedule. Each online session is laced with trust, acceptance, wisdom, and empathy
- Prompts, enthusiasm, and encouragement to cultivate your writing practice
- Insights for seeing gratitude as a lens and conduit to building trust with others.
- In depth conversation with Lorraine unpacking how an authentic writing habit can serve you with your buddy as co-learner, side-kick and witness.
- A signed copy of An Ecology of Gratitude: Writing your way to what matters to guide your gratitude journey.
A Program for Your Needs
The Gratitude Trifecta curriculum was created to address the challenges people face in their everyday lives, no matter how big or small. With insight and experience, the program is now using a buddy system, encouraging a strengths based approach to growing stronger together. Hone your new skills with a friend, navigating your route and wayfinding with the support of a good mentor and your collegial accomplice. It goes both ways!
Limited Availability: Contact me today to discuss our mutual availability. You and your accountability partner. Ten hours of facilitated conversation. Scheduled within a 90 day period.
Investment: $650/person no GST when you sign up as a two-some.
Includes a copy of Lorraine’s book/person: An Ecology of Gratitude: Writing your way to what matters.
“I participated in Lorraine’s first Gratitude Trifecta workshops for leaders looking to lean into journaling and the practice of giving thanks as strategies for focusing on what truly matters in my work, and in my life. I loved it. Lorraine is a talented and perceptive model for other leaders. She uses her own lived experience, research and writing to design a safe online space where people can explore the complexities of gratitude, writing, and all of the things that can intervene as we all struggle to balance all of the things, all of the time. I had no way to anticipate the power of listening to other leaders from across Canada share their own reflections on their journalling practice or on gratitude as a lens through which they make decisions — but it was profound. Thank you, Lorraine, for this incredible opportunity to build my own capacity as a leader centred in gratitude, and for helping me to build a network with colleagues across Canada doing the same.“
Michelle Schira Hagerman, OCT | EAO, PhD [elle/she/her]
Professeure agrégée | Associate Professor, Faculté d’éducation | Faculty of Education, Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa
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Meet Your Mentor
For almost 30 years, the practice of putting pen to paper has been my personal coaching tool and helped me understand how to keep growing by putting one thought ahead of another.
Through the ups and downs, doors opening and closing, excitement with opportunity and disappointment in the face of challenge, my journal has been my personal confidante and my coach. More than 150 journals sit quietly on my shelf, testimony to hard work, messy thinking, creativity, occasional bursts of exuberance, insight, and many moments of joy.
Through my tenure as a caring and engaged citizen, as a mother, sister, team cheer leader, friend—and tens of thousands of pages written in the half-light of morning—here’s what I’ve learned:
- Writing in a journal and making gratitude lists improves my understanding of myself in the context of my world.
- Writing and reading are ways I choose to improve my social and emotional intelligence.
- Tracking my reasons to be grateful reduces my levels of resentment, fear and anxiety.
- Being grateful helps me get unstuck, click my reset buttons and find the motivation to keep moving.
I’m convinced that a daily writing practice can serve all who are willing to try. I believe that starting in the privacy of your personal journal can help you build the skills to become more positive, more compassionate toward others, and interact with others more meaningfully. By paying careful attention, opening your heart to new possibilities, and learning to honour the pause, you can fill your journal with insight and inspiration. In fact, I’ve witnessed it firsthand.
Ready to unleash your creative potential and lead with courage and confidence? Join me for the Gratitude Trifecta: Write. Appreciate. Recalibrate.
With gratitude,
Lorraine Widmer-Carson
Kind Words
Our values guide everything that happens here at Grassroots Gratitude, which means always being true to one’s core self. Leading from a place of integrity and authenticity is like following a North Star—you can never lose your way.
“I participated in Lorraine’s first Gratitude Trifecta workshops for leaders looking to lean into journaling and the practice of giving thanks as strategies for focusing on what truly matters in my work, and in my life. I loved it.
Lorraine is a talented and perceptive model for other leaders. She uses her own lived experience, research and writing to design a safe online space where people can explore the complexities of gratitude, writing, and all of the things that can intervene as we all struggle to balance all of the things all of the time. I had no way to anticipate the power of listening to other leaders from across Canada share their own reflections on their journaling practice or on gratitude as a lens through which they make decisions — but it was profound. We often work in our little silos. We interact with colleagues who are in our own lines of work, and who have been trained or brought up in similar professional cultures and practices. This group enabled me to listen to leaders working in sectors that are totally different from my own, and it was so refreshing! As it turns out, I have a lot in common with leaders in very different lines of work — and I loved bringing their voices and experiences into my own reflections on questions like work-life balance, how to sit with and respond to discomfort, grief, and difficult knowledge.
Thank you, Lorraine, for this incredible opportunity to build my own capacity as a leader centered in gratitude, and for helping me to build a network with colleagues across Canada doing the same.”
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Michelle Schira Hagerman, OCT | EAO, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Ottawa
“[Lorraine] will support you to hone your gratitude journal practice and in turn help you become more resilient to dealing with life’s curve balls and effective as a community leader.
Thanks to this program, I now realize that gratitude is the antidote to resentment; that gratitude can be a superpower in helping one overcome any number of challenges; that there is strength to be found in creating a gratitude circle and sharing life’s experiences through the gratitude lens with others.
I take joy every day in thanking someone for a kindness or service they have offered to me or that they offer to the community I live in. I draw strength from focusing each day on what I am grateful for. My relationships have improved and I feel healthier – physically, mentally, and emotionally. I am grateful for this opportunity and hope that everyone has an opportunity to reset and focus their attention to what matters – gratitude for the planet we live in, gratitude for our family and friends, gratitude for the community we live in. Thank you Lorraine!”
- Gratitude Trifecta Participant
“Lorraine is a thoughtful and committed leader, an effective communicator, and a model for any leader looking to understand how to leverage journaling and gratitude as practices for good decision making and focus on what truly matters.
Thanks to this program, I now realize the power in meeting with leaders from across Canada grappling with similar questions such as how to balance work and life, how to focus energies on what matters, how to lead in ways that are authentic and grounded in my values, how to set intentions for my day that enable me to remain focused on the activities that are of greatest importance, and how to use gratitude as a framework for reflection and decision making.
Authentic gratitude is complex. It is not simply the performance of appreciation. Rather it is an intentional and negotiated commitment to listen, to observe, and to recognize the good things, especially when they may be very difficult to find. Indeed, I have learned that it is in those times when things are most difficult that authentic gratitude becomes most important.”
- Gratitude Trifecta Participant
Are You Ready To Grow?
To learn and grow is the journey of a lifetime and the path is not linear—let the Gratitude Trifecta experience help guide you. I created this program for all those who see themselves as leaders in community. This program is for you if:
- You are interested in cultivating greater self-awareness, standing taller with higher levels of positivity.
- You are eager to transform relationships and use gratitude to grow your feelings of connectedness.
- You’re committed to life-long learning, and interested in developing skills that challenge your personal thoughts and beliefs.
- You already know that gratitude and kindness are not weaknesses, but true character strengths—and you are eager to strengthen your own traits with intentional training.
- You’re prepared to build a writing habit that will serve you as you grow into a more authentic leader, serving with grace and gratitude.