Introduction
What is Climb Today's Mountain?
Climb Today’s Mountain (CTM) is Pittsburgh's only
ongoing
personal growth and goal-attainment program. You
can use it to:
Build time, money and energy – get off
the treadmill of stress.
Set and reach personal goals –
enjoy daily success.
Live your personal vision – change the
direction of your life.
The purpose of the program is to provide
adults with a supportive environment for reaching goals and making lifestyle
changes. When we were children, our parents, friends and
teachers had the expectation that we would learn, grow and
develop new interests--and we did! But as adults, most
of our family members, friends and co-workers expect that we
will stay more or less the same. Unwittingly we can buy into
this and stagnate. In contrast, the Climb Today’s Mountain
meeting provides a liberating atmosphere of support and
expectation for change. Because everyone is there to make positive
changes, they energize each other. And
outside the meeting, Buddy
support or mentoring can help participants keep the momentum!
The weekly two-hour format includes a Goal
& Growth small group, an open period called the Action
Hour, a round of
networking, and "Summit," a round for celebrating
accomplishments. Participants usually
become engaged in the program by choosing to work on one or
more goals or projects.
The program's significance can be
summed up in three statements:
1.
You have goals and you also have obstacles to those goals.
These obstacles also slow your personal growth.
2.
You currently have a certain ability to reach your goals. In
other words, you have a certain amount of available time,
money, physical energy and skill. Since you know your ability,
you can pretty much predict your chances of success or failure
in the next two to four months.
3.
Intelligent use of the methods in Climb Today's Mountain can
significantly boost your ability to act, and so increase
your success and personal growth in the next two to four
months.
What makes Climb Today's Mountain so powerful?
First, it's ongoing. Self-help books, workshops and
motivational speakers only provide brief bursts of motivation.
They often don't support you long enough for you to really
anchor the desired changes in your life. Second, Climb
Today's Mountain is like a Swiss Army Knife: it combines
multiple tools for lifestyle learning and change.
Third, you design your own program by choosing and using only the
tools you need.
What's the weekly meeting like?
7:00-8:00 Action Hour / Skill-Exchange/ Hour
of Power/ Sounding Board/ Lifestyle Lab/ Advancement
You work on what you consider to be the best, most loving
use of your time in a supportive atmosphere. Options include:
Skill-Exchange: teaching or learning a practical skill in
small groups or in pairs; doing personal goal-setting; taking
part in a personal growth exercise; working on projects that you
lack motivation for on your own; or Sounding Board: getting
honest feedback on your plans
and progress. More.
8:00-8:05 Break
8:05-8:45 p.m. Goal & Growth Groups. In groups
of three to five people, participants take turns speaking in three areas to clarify their plans and
receive support:
- 1st round: What progress have you made in the last week toward
your goal or mission? What are your specific plans for next week?
- 2nd round: What did you learn last week to advance your goal
or mission?
- 3rd round:
What have you appreciated this week?
8:45-8:55 "Looking For…"
You network for the things you want. Participants sit in a
large circle and take turns making requests for resources,
information or help. You could be looking for anything, such
as a reliable mechanic, information on budgeting,
someone to teach you a computer skill, or a job lead.
Then if you have the information or resource someone wants, you can let them know
after the meeting.
8:55-9:00 Summit
In a large circle, participants who have had major accomplishments
or appreciations can share, if they wish. An optional social time
follows, the Half-Hour Café.
What are some Climb Today's Mountain themes?
- Path Management: Keep asking yourself, "What is the
best, most loving use of my time, right now?" -
then do it!
Make reasonable stretches. Trust arithmetic: small
transformations add up!
- When it comes to success and change, many people are "locked
OFF target" because they are missing one or more
critical ingredients of lasting change. If
you feel stuck in part of your life, you’re probably
missing one or more of these ingredients for learning and
change: a well-defined
goal, ongoing support, practical know-how, feedback, time
set-aside for practice or action on a regular basis,
concentration, etc. The program has many of these
ingredients built-in, and it can help you identify and
find the rest.
- Climb today’s
mountain! "Sing
while you still have a song."
- Keep your promises to others and yourself.
- Do things that make you feel good both today and
tomorrow.
- "Where there is no love, put love, and you will find
love." - Juan de Yepis y
Álvarez
Feedback from others is critical for learning and success.
Who's going to love Climb Today's Mountain?
- Adults who want ongoing personal support and
encouragement to reach their goals. Those who want
to be around others who are making progress and growing.
- Single adults (and those married) who are tired of
superficial conversions and bar scenes, who want to talk
about something more meaningful.
- People who've spent hundreds of dollars on self-help
books or seminars and who've gotten few real benefits.
For a fraction of the cost, they can use the CTM program to
help them review or master the knowledge they've already
paid for.
- People who want to be part of an ongoing learning
community, for example, those tired of making friends in
community college courses just as the course ends.
- Those who want to network to locate or
offer professional services.
- Nonprofit organizations who tell their volunteers and
donors about us. Since some of our project
tools can boost
the participant's spare time, money, energy and skill, they'll
have more to give to their favorite causes. The
more Climb Today's Mountain is embraced, the more it can increase the pool
of volunteer energy and donor dollars that nonprofit
organizations depend on.
What are some other benefits of participating?
* Being part of a community of actively growing people * The energy and expectation to
change
* Original methods for managing your life better: Path
Management and Want Management * Honest feedback * Meeting new people
* See Program
Options for fifteen different ways you can use the
program.
Where and when is the meeting?
The first Climb Today's Mountain location is
at the Pittsburgh Mennonite Church, 4005 Murray Ave.,
Squirrel Hill. The meetings are weekly, on Monday evenings from 7:00-9:00
p.m. For
directions.
What does the program cost?
Your first two meetings are free. You then pay $25
for two months or $40 for four months, so that you treat the
program as a two- or four-month course in reaching goals that
you create for yourself. The 32-page "Climbing Gear" Starter
Kit is included with initial participation.
Who started Climb Today’s Mountain?
Climb Today's Mountain is a program of World Peace One, a tax-exempt
nonprofit organization. World Peace One’s mission is to help
people look at their lives and make changes that improve the
quality of life for all. Since 1989, its executive director
has been Tim Cimino.
Disclaimer:
You can read through this whole site, even download and
use the free forms, and still not know the power of this
program to change the trajectory of your life.
That's because ideas don't change people as much as people
change people. People are gradually changed by the
fact of contact. That's why we encourage you to attend a
meeting to experience the program first-hand.
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Contact
Information:
Tim
Cimino
now@climbtodaysmountain.org
World
Peace One
(412) 825-0260
300 Northern Pike, Pittsburgh, PA
15235 USA
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