organizational consulting


Elysian Enterprises offers a number of organizational consultation services.


strategic planning


Elysian Enterprises offers services to non-profit agencies, human services organizations, religious congregations, small businesses and educational organizations for creating a vision for their enterprise and a strategic plan to realize their vision.  Strategic planning initiatives include:

  • Conducting an environmental scan of the organization's current circumstances

  • Creating a vision of the organization's future

  • Conducting an analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing the organization 

  • Designing a strategic action plan and a process to fulfill the vision

  • Establishing a process for evaluating accomplishments over time.


expatriate services and programs


Elysian Enterprises offers services to international companies to support successful expatriate assignments.  It is well documented that expatriate assignments often do not succeed because of the failure of the couple or the family to successfully make the transition.  Elysian Enterprises offers coaching and workshops for expatriate spouses and couples who are preparing for an expatriate assignment, adjusting to life in a new country or returning from an expatriate assignment.  These services include:

  • Coaching for expatriate spouses and couples designed to foster successful adjustment and fulfillment throughout the duration of an expatriate assignment 

  • Designing workshops for expatriate couples to bring possibility, partnership and passion to their lives in a foreign country 


human services consultation


Andrew L. Miser devoted a good deal of his professional career to support families with children with disabilities.  Elysian Enterprises offers training and workshops to human service and educational organizations serving families with children with developmental and medical disabilities.  These services include:

  • Training for parents and professional staff in dealing successfully with the common dilemmas of raising children with developmental and medical disabilities

  • Designing workshops for couples raising children with developmental and medical disabilities to foster and nurture their relationship

  • Coaching to parents in transforming the common dilemmas they face in raising a child with a disability 


Elysian Enterprises also offers services to organizations serving persons with developmental and medical disabilities living successfully the community.  These services include:

  • Training professional staff in person-centered program planning.

  • Facilitating person-centered plans and project workgroups.

  • Designing and evaluating of person-centered program plans for individuals with developmental disabilities

  • Training direct services staff in person-centered programming focused on fostering their personhood


papers


couples coaching for expatriate couples

Andrew L. Miser and Martha F. Miser


Successful expatriate programs are increasingly vital to fulfilling corporations’ global business strategies. Expatriate assignments are developed to launch or expand business internationally, to build leadership expertise cross-culturally and to transfer technical knowledge as well as corporate culture.  As a result, there is much at stake in the success of expatriate assignments and the costs associated with failed expatriate assignments can be enormous.

This paper argues for the central inclusion of couples coaching in a corporation’s program of services to expatriates and their families. The high cost of failed expatriate assignments and the role that spousal and family adjustment problems have in those failures are well documented.  In addition to the services already offered to expatriates and their families, companies could benefit greatly from offering couples coaching as an available service throughout the duration of an expatriate assignment.  A coaching relationship, if made available and requested by the expatriate, can focus on the satisfactory adjustment and fulfillment of the expatriate couple and their family, areas that traditionally have been outside the control of the company and have been implicated in the success or failure of expatriate assignments. 

Such a service, coaching for expatriate couples, represents a sound investment in the success of expatriate assignments and, ultimately, in the corporation’s business enterprises internationally.

 

If you would like a copy of this paper, please make a request by email.


the power of listening: creating selfhood in people with mental retardation

Andrew L. Miser


In this paper, the power of listening to persons with mental retardation is discussed.  Within recent years there has been greater appreciation that people with mental retardation can benefit from talk therapy. Listening to the feelings and the self-expression of people with mental retardation gives them a sense of Selfhood.  Selfhood is not a function of one’s intellectual capacity; it is a function of one’s being, a being that is nurtured and fostered through listening.  Through listening, one learns how to be with another human being.  Learning to listen to people with mental retardation is learning to be with the person and not their disability.  Listening allows the person to be seen and heard.  Their Self is created as real and valid in the world and the person experiences being a whole person.  Several vignettes are presented that highlight the power of listening in revealing and creating Selfhood in people with mental retardation.

 

If you would like a copy of this paper, please make a request by email.  


from challenge to joy: transforming common dilemmas for parents raising children with developmental and medical disabilities

Andrew L. Miser and Susan Rosano


Parents with children who have developmental and medical disabilities have in common a number of family dilemmas that they deal with on a day-to-day basis. This article specifically distinguishes eight of these family dilemmas and suggests ideas for dealing with them.  First, this paper looks at the nature of each dilemma from the point of view or from the experience of the parents or the family as a whole.  Then, the task of the family over time in dealing with each dilemma is examined.  Third, different empowering contexts or perspectives are identified that parents can generate to assist them in experiencing a sense of wholeness and well-being. Finally, this paper highlights the transformative effect of shifting perspectives when parents are dealing with the family dilemmas of raising a child with special needs.

 

This paper can be found on the downloads webpage.