Unexpected Leadership: How Breakdown Led to Breaking Through to Authenticity
“When the voice on the inside is louder and truer than those on the outside, you’ve begun to master your life.” This talk will address the psychology and journey of self-awareness and finding intrinsic inspiration in the midst of a competitive field facing uncertainty.

Boston University School of Music presents a workshop with Dana Fonteneau. Ms. Fonteneau has coached leading performers, artistic organizations such as the San Francisco Opera, teachers, to academic institutions including Juilliard, Rice, MSM, and C-level executives about optimizing talent, fulfilling potential and achieving peak performance. In her workshop, “Life After School 101: How to Design Your Career Before You Graduate,” she’ll be providing practical tools for helping students imagine their career futures, define success both personally and professionally, and gain clarity on actionable steps toward these futures. This event is free and open to the public.

This day-long workshop is devoted to you finding your WHY- your internal clarity of vision and internal mission.

Using the Demartini Values Assessment Process, you will learn your hierarchy of values and what your life demonstrates is truly important to you. When you can listen to that truth it reduces frustration, futility and self-criticism. Clearing that emotion helps you set clear, congruent goals and objectives.

So often we focus on the WHAT. WHAT to say or do in any given moment. Or we are so busy focusing on OTHER and micro managing others to try and control external outcomes. Rarely do we stop and assess HOW we are BEING when we engage in any specific moment.

We can get lost in the futility of trying to control the external world.

Instead the true power is within and being present with HOW we are being: becoming aware of our state, our bodies, our mindset. These are the things that truly impact our outco

This private event is a curated workshop for the Merola Opera Program on optimizing the performer’s mindset. Living and working in a competitive professional environment can often lead to a fixed mindset where the performer is focused on proving one’s worth and value by comparing to and competing with others. This workshop focuses on the self-awareness skills to transform a fixed mindset to a growth mindset when needed to optimize learning, mastery and performance.

Master Your Emotions.

Empower Your Perceptions.

Optimize Your Actions.

This private event is a curated workshop for the Merola Opera Program on optimizing the performer’s mindset. Living and working in a competitive professional environment can often lead to a fixed mindset where the performer is focused on proving one’s worth and value by comparing to and competing with others. This workshop focuses on the self-awareness skills to transform a fixed mindset to a growth mindset when needed to optimize learning, mastery and performance.

Dana will return to guest present to the attendees of the Akropolis Mastermind Intensive on topics of mindset, self-mastery, mental wellness and how to strategically design a healthy and fulfilling career.

Guest Presentation by Dana Fonteneau, LMFT for the International Artists Managers’ Association on Mental Resilience

Dana will join a panel of fellow Oberlin alumni to speak with Oberlin Conservatory students about the power of building meaningful relationships as a part of intentional career designing in the arts.

When the voice and the vision on the inside are louder and clearer than those on the outside, you have begun to master your life.

Times of massive change, disruption and uncertainty provide an opportunity to stop, reflect, re-assess and re-evaluate WHO you are, WHY you’re here, WHAT you would love to accomplish and HOW you will go about achieving those outcomes.

Knowing your WHY is not just an abstract concept, but an intrinsic, internal GPS unique to YOU that drives your perceptions, decisions and actions.

If you listen to this internal wisdom, you have the tools and inner direction to design the life you would love to life. If you drown this inner voice out by the shoulds, ought tos, have tos of the outside world, you may live a life of quiet desperation trying to achieve the goals others have set which mostly likely don’t line up with what actually has deep meaning and truly inspires YOU.

This 6 hour workshop is designed to help you:

• Reset your vision and path post pandemic

• Clarify your WHY through the Demartini Values Determination Process®

• Learn how to listen and acknowledge your internal and external feedback

• Learn the seven areas of life and know the fears that hinder them and the tools that empower them

• Set short, medium and long term goals designed to fill your purpose

• Prioritize your daily actions to achieve those goals

• Be in a like-minded community of people doing the same

This workshop is for novices and veterans alike.

Register here: https://danafonteneau.as.me/UnlockYourWHY

When the voice and the vision on the inside are louder and clearer than those on the outside, you have begun to master your life.

Times of massive change, disruption and uncertainty provide an opportunity to stop, reflect, re-assess and re-evaluate WHO you are, WHY you’re here, WHAT you would love to accomplish and HOW you will go about achieving those outcomes.

Knowing your WHY is not just an abstract concept, but an intrinsic, internal GPS unique to YOU that drives your perceptions, decisions and actions.

If you listen to this internal wisdom, you have the tools and inner direction to design the life you would love to life. If you drown this inner voice out by the shoulds, ought tos, have tos of the outside world, you may live a life of quiet desperation trying to achieve the goals others have set which mostly likely don’t line up with what actually has deep meaning and truly inspires YOU.

This 6 hour workshop is designed to help you:

• Reset your vision and path post pandemic

• Clarify your WHY through the Demartini Values Determination Process®

• Learn how to listen and acknowledge your internal and external feedback

• Learn the seven areas of life and know the fears that hinder them and the tools that empower them

• Set short, medium and long term goals designed to fill your purpose

• Prioritize your daily actions to achieve those goals

• Be in a like-minded community of people doing the same

This workshop is for novices and veterans alike.