VIP Consultations: Live the Medicine in Six Phases

"My decision to take a more professional approach to my work reflects a sincere desire to help you achieve success and not just acquire paraphernalia. More precisely, I have noticed some trends that characterize the work I have done with my most successful clients. Based upon these trends, I have created a process that I'm calling my VIP Consultation process, which resembles the Appreciative Inquiry process:

1. Dream: This can seem odd when you're in fight or flight mode. But there is such much more to life than fighting for survival. Before we set out on an adventure, it's important to get clear about where you would really like to be and how you would like to live.
2. Define: This is meant to identify where exactly you want to go and in what time frame. 
3. Discovery: Every journey is based upon your point of departure. The Discovery phase is a tine for gathering relevant information about your life, as it is. This includes the qualitative and quantitative aspects of your present-day situation. Here is also where I go into the lab, so to speak, to consult with various members of my team to analyze the information from a multidisciplinary perspective. This includes determining whether you have sufficient financial, emotional, intellectual and social resources to reach your goals. Likewise, this is point at which I will determine if my team has the capabilities to address your needs and create superior results for you and the people you serve.
4. Design: Here, my team and I will design a Live the Medicine (LTM) Plan, based on our understanding of what you want in the future and your current strategic position. A road map to your expressed goals is drawn to facilitate the achievements of those goals. 
5. Deploy: This is the phase during which we carry out the strategies in the plan, using the various resources allocated for the purpose. Here, it is important to emphasize how important it is to monitor and adjust the plan so that it remains consistent with your goals. Periodic reviews are undertaken to check for misalignment and changes in your situation. If there is any significant change to the situation, the strategies and goals in the financial plan are revised accordingly.
6. Debrief: Once we have completed the process, we need to evaluate what we planned and compare it to what actually happened. This gives you and me the chance to learn more about the dynamics involved in the work at hand. And, if necessary, we can use those findings to inform our next engagement.

These six phases can be carried out within a month and a half or as long as a year. It depends upon the scope of your desired outcomes and available resources. Let's get started! Call me at 510.485.2336 and set an appointment. Live the medicine. Please feel free to visit www.ObafemiO.com for details."

Obafemi Origunwa, MA | www.ObafemiO.com