- ONLINE COMMUNITY AND coaching
Personal Growth and Self-Actualization Academy
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to rediscover the unique and valuable treasure you have hidden within you, in order to live your life freely and authentically, with peace, vitality, purpose, and joy.
Our mission is to guide you on this journey of personal growth and self actualization. Together we will:
- discover your essential and unique hidden treasure (talents, attributes, and gifts);
- tame the subsconsious dragons in your thoughts, feelings, and habits that keep you stuck;
- choose empowering goals and create road maps to achieve what you most desire; and
- build an abundant life based on the strong foundations of truth, freedom, love, energy, and lots more!
Customized Coaching
Material is custom-designed to fit you, with support from our coaches
Interactive Community
Build friendships, be empowered within our small community
Live Events with Q&As
We tailor all our sessions to the needs of and feedback from our members
No More Pre-Recorded or AI Generated “One Size Fits Everyone” Training
We are different to most online coaches and training courses you’ve come across in the personal growth and self-actualization industry. Firstly, we have a zero AI technology policy. That means no more algorithms, social engineering, or fake “secret spilling celebrities.” Plus if you find technology frustrating or overwhelming, then we’ve eliminated that pain point for you right out of the gate. We provide clear, step-by-step “tech” processes, and access to real humans to guide you if you do get stuck.
Another thing that’s different is that we don’t drop a bunch of videos and ebooks on you that we recorded or published years ago. While we do have an archive of content, we prefer to work closely with our members to co-create content that mutually empowers for today’s (and future) needs, not what may have worked in the past.
How do we do this? Well, every week we go LIVE on a Zoom call, hosted by our founder, Deb Donnell with ALL 150 members. Together we’ll go through the personal growth and self-actualization topic of the week. And during the call, you will be able to give us direct feedback, on what you loved and what you didn’t. You can ask questions via the chat and get immediate answers. Plus you can let us know what you want more of and how we can best support you.
We believe inviting your contributions to shape each lesson and every session works to the benefit of everyone. Furthermore, it is well proven that collaborating, feedback and constant improvement (kaizen) are the secrets to success in personal growth and self-actualization journeys.
Also, don’t worry if you can’t make every live Zoom call. They are recorded and you have access to the replays as well as ask questions in the comments thread which are monitored and answered by our KATs (KESWiN Academy Team Support).
Plus we have an interactive social network, including the 4Cs Café where you can make and grow new connections, have great conversations, find companionship with like-minded friends, and contribute to growing our community.
Deb and our team want to make sure that what we’re covering is what’s going to be MOST helpful and useful to YOU during our time together. We base all our coaching on proven personal development and self-actualization psychology, tools, resources and, most importantly, our own authentic life experiences.
In conclusion, you’re getting full access to Deb and our coaches, personally, in a live setting, and we’ll be co-creating your personal growth and self-actualization journey together. Think of it like a pilot program where you’ll get SO much more involvement with us. Does that sound valuable to you?
What Will You Accomplish During Our Time Together?
Personal growth and self-actualization is a lifelong journey. However, here are some of the things members have accomplished in the first days, weeks, and months of working with our founder, coaches, KATs and other members:
- Enhanced self-awareness
- Improved communication skills
- Better control of thoughts and feelings
- Focused attention and task completion
- Ability to set and achieve goals
- Upgraded critical thinking skills
- Strengthened decision making muscles
- Clarity of ideas and reignited dreams
- Restored confidence and renewed motivation
There is much more to add to the list, but these are just some of the results you can look forward to as a member.
Note: All our members agree to abide by The Membership Promise which is a huge part of keeping everyone in our community growing and succeeding.
Become empowered with Personal Growth and Self-Actualization Coaching
As well as being passionate about helping people on their personal growth and self-actualization journeys, Deb has written and published several books, and mentored others to do the same. She has also been building websites for small businesses since 2005 and training online since 2008. In other words, she has a lot of professional knowledge and skills to offer members wanting to share their treasure in similar ways.
Our coaching, resources, tools and support are custom-designed to help you become empowered. As a member, you won’t be a passive observer. To make the most of your time with us, we take time to help you engage and participate. This helps you to eliminate overwhelm, blast through fears, and build confidence, new resources, and skills.
We don’t leave you alone and confused in the wilderness. From the moment you enter into the new member registration process, we are here to guide you along the right path every step of the way.
Our founder, coaches and every other person on the KESWiN Academy Team (our KATs) has travelled the road ahead of you. So we understand your needs, and the obstacles you face. Leverage off our professional know-how and life experiences in order to fast-track your own personal growth and self-actualization journey.
We know that you have unique and valuable treasure inside of you. And as you start to get familiar with the Academy and make new friends, we’ll encourage you to share your gems with others. This is part of the co-creating and mutual empowerment process.
And in time, who knows, maybe you will want to build an online business, write and publish a book, or something else. And we can help you with that too.
What Our Members Have to Say
Barb, United States of America
I've learned effective market research, business organization and technical skills, as well as how to write articles, build a blog and set up a sales funnel. I've made awesome friends too.
Brenda, New Zealand
The Goal Setting Workshop was brilliant and thought provoking. It allowed me to become fluid with my writing, and also achieve my personal goal to move into my dream home.
Alan, New Zealand
The eBook Publishing Master Class encouraged me to finish writing my book, and then take the next step to get it published in both print and digital format. It was awesome to produce a real book for my business.
Corinne, Canada
I really enjoyed going through the self-publishing process with my book. I've learned a lot of things I hadn't thought about. Seeing the finished book in print felt like a huge achievement. Thank you.
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