Discover Your Inner Editor by Reassigning Your Inner Critic

114 West Louisiana Street,McKinney TX 75069

22 April, 2023

Description

I AM Meta The Mission: I AM Meta puts the pen in your hand and casts you as the leading character of your life’s story. With the likelihood of realizing you have outgrown some of your past narratives, I AM Meta provides a playful, interactive storytelling space to edit, undo, write, rewrite, draft, or finalize the personal narrative that serves your unique purpose. I AM Meta uses disruptive innovation to grow community connectives through storytelling and metacognition practices. I AM Meta events inspire personal growth, emotional restoration, and authentic leadership skill building through the Art of story and the Science of empathy. The Vision: The I AM Meta experience provides a safe, social and emotional space where humor and play is encouraged, and human dignity is honored. I AM Meta creates and recreates safe spaces where people can be themselves and lead with their innate state of curiosity. I AM Meta positions people to be a beneficial presence; to be able to hold people in a light of love through restorative practices; to intentionally disrupt and innovate in the meta-cognitive and be the change we are each wanting to see in ourselves. The Why: The human brain is biologically designed to extract meaning from stories and create meaning through previous experiences. Humans like to compartmentalize our meanings into routines and regiments because prediction calms the brain by reducing cognitive efforts, like memory recall. We have the tendency to go on autopilot and lead with unconscious habits. This common human condition puts our personal narratives on Replay. We replay the same narrative over and over, and wonder why we are not gaining deeper connections with others, or a more meaningful connection with ourselves. Sometimes the story we told ourselves years ago is stuck on repeat, but its long-lasting meaning no longer serves the purpose we are living today. Stories are meant to foster, recycle, or grow meaning. It is no coincidence that when we find relevance in another person’s story, the thoughts that spark from connection inspire us to see meaning as an ever evolving storyline–one that shifts, changes, and adapts to the current temperature in the room. When we see our stories as opportunities to grow or evolve meaning, we are able to let go of worn out, unuseful stories that no longer serve our current purpose or evolved understanding of the world. Desired Outcome: To build emotional intelligence through storytelling that introduces problem-solving at the root of shared adversities and living resilience. Rather than working on yourself, or on your relationships, the practice of storytelling reveals the innate ways you are capable of working with various parts of yourself and with diverse relationships. How we nurture our natural traits will grow (or stunt) our shifting states. The practice of metacognition produces a high level of conscious thought processing and engages our authentic state of curiosity into meaning-making storytelling. We empower each other to have the choice in how we tell the stories we tell ourselves and the meanings we weave together. ©2023 All rights reserved I Am Meta LLC [email protected] Heather Rine is the Founder of I Am Meta LLC and is committed to serving individuals by mentoring from their present circumstances, into their limitless potential using mindset innovation and a cutting-edge approach to individual soul work and business restructuring. Her passion is seeing people succeed by their own definition–serving individuals, solopreneurs, entrepreneurs, and higher education in the most honorable ways possible. For the past 20 years Heather has invested in her education and personal growth. One of her valued accomplishments is earning dual Master's degrees in Industrial Organizational Psychology and Professional Counseling Psychology. Compassionately serving and playfully building others is how she thrived as a high school principal. Engaging young minds and implementing habits of success to cultivate self-efficacy, showing students how to find their place in this ever-expanding world through the lens of mental resilience and actionable entrepreneurship are just a few of her accomplishments. In fact, she has opened two high schools from the ground floor, which is a testament of her ability to spark curiosity and increase motivation with students and staff alike. Above all, her pursuit of meeting the social and emotional needs of our youth through unique programming has been the golden thread woven throughout her services. LeLand DeVaughn Jr, aka Kahri, was born and raised in Cincinnati, OH with an upbringing that exposed him to trauma, hardship, and things that expedited his maturation. LeLand was challenged early on to defy all odds. From being raised by his mother, spending time in shelters, and not having the best start to high school, he was able to find a way out on the other side. Later, LeLand became an author, an educator in South Dallas at the height of the pandemic, and a coach who empowers young men and women. LeLand has developed proven systems built from personal, academic, and professional experiences to help others overcome common struggles and recreate their futures. Coach LeLand provides a variety of speaking and coaching services: Leadership development, Motivational Success, Overcoming Obstacles, Defining Purpose, Resilience, Mental health, and Veteran advocate. With a vast background in sports, U.S. Army, interscholastic teaching & coaching and professional fitness coaching for businessmen and women, Coach LeLand has developed a unique ability to empower an audience and move people to their best. With an authentic and understanding approach, you can expect to not only be inspired but charged up to take on your toughest battles by the end of the event. Carissa Ruben shines the light on us all with her systems approach to communication, storytelling and evidenced based educational and psychological practices. She is an integrator at heart, a researcher in practice and a sunshine soldier in spirit. Carissa provides a unique set of human growth potential measurements and interventions rooted in her experiences with foster care families, military families, and families desiring to rewrite their roles in the inter-generational-pass-down of systemic traumas. Her background paints the full spectrum of therapy models, from Applied Behavioral Analysis working with individuals with autism spectrum disorder to Marriage and Family Therapy working with dynamic couples and families. She is a firm believer that change occurs faster and maintains longer when working with systems of support. As for her personal life, you can bet you’ll find her hand in many cookie jars. She dabbles in writing poetry, is training for the Pikes Peak Ascent Race, coaching Track and Field, and writing social emotional curriculum for modern day teachers, parents and mentors. Though many of Carissa’s roles over the years required solo service-providing, she has discovered her personal super powers ignite when grounded in collaborative teamwork. Careful to the touch, her inspiration is on fire! Nicolas Rine is a bodybuilder, fitness model, entrepreneur and photographer/videographer. Practiced in a mindset-goal-driven mentality and specializing in personal development as a voice for his generation.