Skills for Better Living

The Aspire Package

Aspire^sm is a psycho-educational program designed for adults needing assistance in changing behaviors that interfere with personal and interpersonal success. Aspire teaches participants skills that change their lifestyle, enhances their therapy and assists them to live more productive and fulfilled lives.

Aspire has nine self-contained modules with three 90 minute sessions per module—27 sessions total! Participants have time to learn concepts, practice and receive feedback from peers and implement the new behaviors in their lives.

We suggest that you print the free sessions and review. The FREE sessions are hot linked to PDF files.

Coping with Fear

Session 1: Why are We So Afraid?
Session 2: I Am Afraid
Session 3: I Can Handle My Fear

Microsoft PowerPoint Slides for Transparencies or Projection

Session One
Session Two
Session Three

Or, PDF downloads that help you make Transparencies

Session One (pdf)
Session Two (pdf)
Session Three (pdf)

Coping with Nervousness and Stress

Session 1: Why are We So Stressed?
Session 2: What Causes My “Bad Nerves”?
Session 3: Overcoming Nervousness and Stress

Connecting with People: How to Talk to Anyone

Session 1: Overcoming Shyness
Session 2: Issues in Communication
Session 3: Difficult Conversations

Creating Positive Relationships

Session 1: Relatively Speaking
Session 2: People in the Workplace
Session 3: Close Relationships

Creating Positive Self-Talk

Session 1: Discover Our Inner Dialogue
Session 2: Why Do I Talk to Myself This Way?
Session 3: Believe and Succeed

Decision Making

Session 1: How We Make Decisions
Session 2: Tools for Decision Making
Session 3: Character-Led Decision Making

Forming Good Habits

Session 1: Where Do Habits Come From?
Session 2: Habits That Harm Us
Session 3: Strategies for Change

Problem Solving

Session 1: Steps in Problem Solving
Session 2: Practical Applications
Session 3: Roadblocks

Taming Anger

Session 1: Learning to Recognize Anger
Session 2: Why Am I So Angry?
Session 3: Dealing with Anger

Each module contains a facilitator guide with presentation and participant materials. Individuals may participate in each module or selected modules depending on their needs and/or the recommendations of their therapist.

You also get:

One Administrator's Guide that contains program overviews, resource information, marketing and promotional materials. Call for a free copy when you are preparing to run your first sessions.
A functional assessment tool in either .pdf format of as an online interactive form, your choice.
An invitation to join and contribute to our developer community.
The right to use Aspire with multiple facilitators
Aspire support for one year

Use income from free sessions to build your practice before investing in additional modules.

Download the special pdf offer now and begin planning for this population. If you cannot read pdf files, go on the internet to: www.adobe.com and download the free Adobe PDF reader. Having the reader installed on your system will allow you to browse and print the free Aspire files. If you have technical problems, contact us at 1-877-77A-BTEC (877-772-2832).

More about Aspire

Aspire was created using adult learning technologies and selecting most frequently needed content areas from high use psychotherapy patients. Aspire is designed in modular form. The program contains six separate modules. Each module has three sessions.

Each session is designed for

ninety minutes of instruction
interaction
skill application, and
skill building practice.

As the facilitator, you may choose individual modules at random and use the modules in any order, but it should be noted that the sessions in each module are related and may refer to information learned in the previous session(s). Because of the frequent repetition of the skills in different applications, bringing new participants into the middle of a module will not likely present difficulties.

Facilitators may choose to extend a module to last more than three sessions. The 90-minute instruction model is flexible and can be compressed or extended according to your needs.

Each Aspire session is set up to present materials using the following model:

Presentation of new material
Determining application of new skills
Practicing the new skills in a supportive environment
Implementing the new skills between sessions
Reporting and discussing the implementation in the following session

Grow into a Full Implementation of Aspire at your own speed.

The best place to start is by reviewing, promoting and then conducting these free session in your community. We recommend running them concurrently under the working title of Skills for Better Living through Aspire. Schedule one session per week. Offer the sessions again a month later, or as your waiting list grows.

Eventually, you will see the benefit (and realize enough income) to offer the total package. Additional modules can be purchased for $300 each. Discounts apply when purchasing all modules for a program at one time. It is not uncommon to pay for a complete module with just one session.

Thousands of person-hours have gone into the development of Navik products. They save you development time and represent the best practices in psycho-educational materials.

For more information on Aspire or any of the Navik Solutions, call 1-877-77A-BTEC (877-772-2832).

Benefits to your Organization

Aspire^sm is a ready-to-use program. Everything needed to market, train, present, and evaluate is included!

Aspire offers a common and predictable psycho-educational experience across locations and facilitators for the target population.

Adults can learn skills that will extend their therapy and will lower the use of higher cost treatment modalities.

Aspire can become a new and diverse revenue source for an organization as a niche service into which other professionals can refer.

Aspire assists in managing waiting lists.

Aspire is modular and flexible and can be modified and changed according to the purchaser needs.

The purchaser can receive expert assistance by calling 1-877-77-ABTEC (877-772-2832).