Practica Leadership
Get a sustainable spiral of growth in your community
This is a 3-month small-group coaching program exclusive to Swing Literacy alumni, designed to guide you how to set up, run, and get regular coaching for a WCS practice group
Feb-Apr 2024
This Focus Group will help you...
Get more dancers in your area to practice with so you can grow your own skills
Provide your community with practice structure and guidance to motivate them and keep them on track
Help dancers feel more connected socially beyond dance parties
Inspire more dancers in your community to invest in improving their dance, creating a spiral of growth
Establish a strong foundation and habit cycle with a core group of dancers in your community who can model for more
Expose more dancers to the Swing Literacy skills you've been enjoying
If you're ready to take leadership and start or improve a Group Practice in your city, this Focus Group is for you
In this 3-month Focus Group experience, you will:
What's included
3 months only: Feb-Apr 2023
February: Planning
We'll meet weekly on Zoom in a small group of about a dozen Swing Literacy trained dancers like you who have similar needs, goals, and community circumstances.
We'll plan together how to simply and efficiently:
- handle the little administrative things like venue, schedule, and accounting
- how to market your Group Practica
- plan the content of what to practice & how
- plan how to run the session & manage the "players"
March & April: Execution
Week 1:
You host your first in-person practica, coached by Myles or Tessa online so you have a strong model of structure, pacing, drills, and feedback exchange.
Week 2:
Meet Focus Group on Zoom to debrief and discuss any concerns or adjustments needed
Week 3:
You host your own in-person practica by following up on the homework so you have structure and action items to stay motivated and avoid getting distracted
Week 4:
Meet again with your Focus Group peers to debrief and exchange notes on what worked and didn’t work
PLUS...
After completing a Focus Group, you are eligible to join Mastery League, our VIP membership that includes Momentum and where you get ongoing private and small-group coaching on Momentum themes as well as whatever your personal WCS goals may be.
I work M&T in their Fast Track and it's the best thing I've ever done for my dance. Tessa is a peerless diagnostician. I swear it's like her eyes see dance in slow-mo X-ray. She once told me to stop curling my toes while dancing... when I was wearing boots at the time!! Her teaching methodology is absolutely impeccable. She doesn't just list concepts; she teaches you how to practice and learn dance so that you can retain the information. Most of my biggest breakthroughs in dance are thanks to Tessa and the more I learn about this dance the more I realize how right she is about basically everything. She got me out of Novice and now she's gotten me out of Intermediate. The plateaus in my dance not-so-oddly coincide with the periods of time when I was working with her less regularly
Is it worth it compared to just private lessons? 1000 times yes! Honestly, I have a spreadsheet that calculates the value and shows how Focus Group in the end saves you thousands of dollars in improvement! It is just SO good!
It's hard to put into words but it has been invaluable after taking MANY private lessons. It's helpful to have this long period of meeting with one another, like. a game plan, to work on many coinciding goals, leading to a rounding out of the student's dancing and an overall upleveling.
A local pro may know you and be able to provide great advice, but M&T's program with the ability to codify and measure your improvement using carefully detailed rubrics and lay down multiple step-by-step paths for improvement help you to feel like you are in control of your improvement, that you can walk the path and not feel like you are simply going to a miracle worker, AND understand why and how they are doing so all while at the same time getting the same benefits that a private lesson might provide - it really is leaps and bounds more beneficial beyond an average private lesson.
Imagine...
...Having a stable of keen & trained practice partners you can choose from
...Feeling a sense of belonging with a group with similar goals
...Respecting each others' perspectives and being able to grow by sharing feedback in a healthy way
...Cheering each other on as you make new discoveries and feel the improvement in your social dancing
...Being able to access higher level skills because your practicing has helped you retain and myelinate so much more
What difference can it make?
Veteran Momie and Focus Groupie Sarah Rempel (Stiltskin) shares about the difference Focus Group made for her.
Sarah is now a member of Mastery League, our VIP membership that you can graduate to after Focus Group.
Tuition
$597USD*
For one OR two people!
IF you already have a buddy you organize with, you can include them in your registration so you can join in all the calls and plan together.
This Focus Group will pay for itself!
Example: If you can recruit 10 dancers to participate in the practica you host, and charge $10 each, you will already have recouped $400 of your tuition by the end of the Focus Group!
We'll show you how to continue to make the Practica financially sustainable.
How much of a time commitment will it take?
Besides the schedule above, you will not need more than one hour per week to complete your planning homework tasks.
Can I involve a partner? YES!
Since this is not a course or membership, and you are likely to have a buddy you are already either practicing with or organizing with, they can be included for the same price! No, they do not need to already be Swing Literacy trained.
When will the coaching calls be?
This is up to you as a group. We'll conduct a Doodle scheduling poll to find a time that works for everyone in your Focus Group. If necessary, we are prepared to offer 2 separate groups
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Practica Leadership
Focus Group
$597.00USD
INCLUDES:
8 group coaching calls
2 guided group practicas
Planning & Marketing templates