1.To introduce participants to the concepts and practices in 10 essential life skills not widely taught in current educational systems. These skills are; Self Respect, Undivided Attention, Concentration, Memory, Listening, Imagination, Breath, Reasoning, Intuition, and Entrainment.

POWERS OF TEN teaches participants how to look at different aspect of life through understanding the mathematical phenomenon of exponential notation.  A film called Powers of Ten by Ray and Charles Eames begins and ends the day.  This gives participants an objective perspective of their relationship with everything around and within them, showing them that “truth” or “reality” is all a matter of perspective. It helps them to realize that people need to understand their own perspective as well as the perspective of others in order to communicate on common ground.

Understanding the mind transforms the stigma of mental health or illness to investigating the frontier of human potential. Understanding the ten essential life skills helps participants to clarify and identify the exact cause or imbalance for difficulties in responding to life’s challenges, whether within oneself or one’s relationships with others. Developing proficiency with these skills helps practitioners to understand their clients better, to more accurately identify their needs, to listen more completely, and to be more imaginative in creating responses and solutions to the challenges they face.

POWERS OF TEN presents these life skills so the practitioner has the knowledge and skill to apply them in two ways:  1)  The ability to utilize the skills to separate and identify areas which could open new avenues of treatment.  Understanding the life skills helps practitioners to see how their clients are using each of these skills (or how they are misusing them). The practitioner can then see where education or increased practice with these skills could aid their clients.  The life skills are a tool the individual may use to be able to learn more effectively, to respond to difficult situations, to reason with and resolve problems, to improve communication, and to understand more completely what is being said to them.

2)  Social Workers need to become proficient in the life skills themselves as a way to expand their own thinking.  Self respect enables the practitioner to see from other points of view; for example, to understand the difference between his or her own way of thinking and the thinking of his or her client(s). Oftentimes practitioner make basic assumptions that are not always held in common with their clients, especially if those clients are from another culture. Many of the practices in Powers of Ten enable practitioners to experience and see through the eyes of others.  This expanded perception enables the Social Worker to have the perspective they need to be effective in aiding the people they serve.

2.To increase participant's effectiveness, responsiveness, and confidence/authority by grasping the power of the present moment through building the skill of neutralizing situations thus achieving Zero Point. 

Removing the limitations of judgment is the work of Zero Point – the power to neutralize any situation.  Whether dealing with psychological states, family situations, or crises, your ability to neutralize your own and other’s attitudes can make the difference between success and failure. Neutralizing any situation comes from learning to 1) look for the good in any situation, 2) identify the learning (or potential learning) available in any situation, 3) discovering the causes for inferiority or superiority complexes and 4) reclaiming one’s personal sense of power and freedom to cause change. This enables individuals to break unhealthy patterns such as alcoholism, depressive thinking, anger, etc.

3.To give concrete uses for mental powers resulting in clarity of thought, cooperation in attitude, and decisiveness in action that can be applied at work, home, and school  Many times the situations social workers encounter are hard to release.  The POWERS of TEN experience culminates in a ten-step process called Resolution.  By employing reasoning and intuition together, difficult situations are resolved and emotional release is possible.  Resolution enables those engaged in aiding others to continue their work free of prejudice, regret and remorse. Resolution aids practitioners and clients to move forward in their thinking and their life, to change unhealthy patterns of thinking and to have greater resolve in helping others.

4.To expand the definitions of health and its application to human relationships in the present, the past, and the future.  Through a holistic approach that entrains the Mind, participants achieve new levels of self-evaluation, self-awareness, self-discipline, and self-revelation. Mental and Spiritual states of health determine emotional and body health.  Human problems that lead to disease in mind and body are produced and encouraged by undisciplined thinking.  The undisciplined memory produces doubt, the undisciplined imagination produces fear.  These are universally true. Participants learn how to apply memory and imagination for self-awareness and self-evaluation. The practices experienced throughout the day strengthen self-discipline by calling it into action.  The objectivity that comes by the end of the day results in self-revelation. By the end of the day participants will know how to use reasoning to resolve troubling memories, will have skills that enable them to look for the good in any situation, will have a greater awareness of how to learn from any situation, and will have access to tools to be more effective at problem solving.