Life-improvement JOLT covers bases
By Jocelyn Rein
When a gentle push in the right direction isn’t enough, a jolt into action is just what’s needed.
It’s exactly the kind of life-transforming change that’s being offered by life improvement programme the JOLT Challenge.
Unlike most personal development courses, which are often one-offs or only focus on one area, JOLT Challenge – The Self Intelligence Experience is a 9 week course.
It combines applied psychology, creativity, hypnotherapy, theatre and martial arts and both Eastern and Western philosophies. JOLT co-founder Wade Jackson says it’s an holistic approach, covering all the bases – emotional, spiritual and physical.
He and friend Steve Hill spent 5 years developing the course using their combined expertise in corporate training, drawing on their knowledge of behavioural therapy and neuroscience, making it user-friendly.
Participants receive the JOLT Challenge book that covers everything in the course.
From that they read and do exercises for an hour a day, 5 days a week, recapping at the weekly group lesson.
Mr Jackson says the book acts as a toolbox that people can return to at any time.
“I wrote the book and I still come back to it, “ he says.
He says the authors’ motto when writing the book was “simple and effective”.
“People are too busy to do complicated stuff.”
The JOLT programme couldn’t have come at a better time for Charles Bailie.
Late last year, within days of starting the JOLT Challenge, Charles experienced the ultimate rough patch when he was made redundant and diagnosed with cancer in the same week.
He says the coping mechanism and techniques he learned helped him through the ordeal.
“It could have been cataclysmic,” says Mr Bailie.
“Being on the course helped me focus and look into myself.”
Even though he’s now finished, he still uses the techniques every day.
“I’m up and going now and really energised but I still draw on it.”
