Skull & Bones Society is a growth and development company based in Los Angeles, California. We work in-person and virtually with individuals, couples, teams and organizations who want to get more out of life. We offer coaching, facilitate workshops, and create resources for intentional living.
Skull and Bones Society 0 Skip to Content Philosophy SERVICES Coaching Financial Coaching Chaplain Wedding Officiant Workshops & Events Workshops Team Challenge Values, Vision and Goals PREP for Couples DiSC Foundations Couples Retreat RECORDINGS & DOWNLOADS Blog BOOK A COACHING SESSION Open Menu Close Menu Philosophy SERVICES Coaching Financial Coaching Chaplain Wedding Officiant Workshops & Events Workshops Team Challenge Values, Vision and Goals PREP for Couples DiSC Foundations Couples Retreat RECORDINGS & DOWNLOADS Blog BOOK A COACHING SESSION Open Menu Close Menu Philosophy Folder: SERVICES Folder: Workshops & Events RECORDINGS & DOWNLOADS Blog BOOK A COACHING SESSION Back Coaching Financial Coaching Chaplain Wedding Officiant Back Workshops Team Challenge Values, Vision and Goals PREP for Couples DiSC Foundations Couples Retreat YOU CANNOT WANDER INTO A MEANINGFUL LIFE. LIVE, GROW AND LEAD WITH THE END IN MIND A MEANINGFUL LIFE DOES NOT HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT. WE OFFER GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR ORGANIZATIONS, TEAMS, COUPLES & INDIVIDUALS WHO WANT TO GET MORE OUT OF LIFE. The Skull and Bones Society is dedicated to the pursuit of living better by living with the end in mind. We offer coaching, facilitation, workshops, consulting, and chaplain services. We work with organizations, teams, couples, and individuals who want to get more out of life and build a better world for ourselves, our loved ones, and our communities. WHAT WE DO OUR PHILOSOPHY >> COACHING >> RECORDINGS >> WHAT WE DO VALUES, VISION AND GOALS WORKSHOP >Our time-tested system for discovering your values and crafting goals that are meaningful and motivating. TEAM CHALLENGES >Half-day or full-day immersive team experiences for building team trust and cohesion CHECK OUT MORE WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS >> PROFESSIONAL COACHING >Coaching provides honest questions and steady accountability so you can grow faster. PERSONAL FINANCE COACHING >Finances impact every area of your life. Dial in your budgeting, saving, expense tracking, MORE ABOUT COACHING >> CHAPLAIN SERVICES >Life’s most poignant moments call for transcendent practices. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ★★★★★ “Wanted to let you know that the goal-setting I did with you two years ago has worked… I have set up my own consulting business and it has done so well that I just signed the purchase order to buy my sailboat! Truly a lifelong dream. Boat is on a ship from France and will be here in a couple weeks! Thank you so much for all you do.”— M.S., goal-coaching client ★★★★★ “This course forever changed the way I set my goals. With Cecily's guidance, I was able to discover my true values and set specific, achievable goals based on things I want to improve upon and habits I want to incorporate into my life.”- A.T., goal-setting workshop attendee ★★★★★ “It was a pleasure and incredibly helpful for my wife and I to work with you. You are a very good man who is extremely well-intentioned and has a lot to offer. We were lucky to be able to work with you.” — coaching client ★★★★★ “I am always seeking knowledge on how to live a better life and become a better human. The Anchor Course helped me in that quest by further clarifying what matters most to me, operationalizing those values, and reminding me of how to live with the end in mind.”— Rich F., Anchor Course attendee ★★★★★ “This course is excellent for driving a team towards understanding their own values and drives in life, and when they better understand themselves, they are better able to serve the organization and community around them. Define, Reflect, Act. Dusty and Cecily do an excellent job conveying a sense of safety and trust of everyone in the seminar.”—Kolby, team workshop client ★★★★★ “We worked with Dusty from Skull & Bones Society with a focus on finance coaching. His ability to connect on a personal level with us and navigate our unique situation was invaluable. Having a neutral third party with tons of knowledge and clearly has our best intentions in mind allowed us to make tremendous gains during our sessions. We made so much progress and feel so good coming out of our coaching sessions with Dusty. I would recommend anyone who can should hire Skull & Bones.” — Pat Barber, coaching client ★★★★★ “Cecily and Dusty were incredibly kind and empathetic to our group's emotional climate. These conversations and topics have a tendency to be tough and I felt that we were in the safe space everyone needed to dive deep. The Anchor Course materials they provided were easy to navigate while still giving us all the information we needed, and forcing us to interact so that we could get the most out of everyone's time. Would highly recommend, and gladly be in another course setting with them.”—A.K., team workshop participant ★★★★★ “Living a value-based life is indispensable in our current cultural milieu. Cultural narratives are constantly shifting around us, making it difficult to anchor our life, work, rest, family, and a variety of other everyday realities. Enter Dusty and the Anchor Course. Dusty has labored to gather and build a trajectory for others to be anchored in value-based living. Dusty is engaging, insightful, and disciplined. The Anchor Course will bless your story, regardless of the season you are writing.”— Anchor Course participant ★★★★★ “The Anchor Program was excellent! It helped me to identify my Values more clearly, which gives me more hope for the future. We are never too old to evaluate Values and Dusty did a wonderful job facilitating the program.”— Anchor Course participant Item 1 of 9 ✚FREEBIES, DOWNLOADS, AND VIDEO-GUIDED COURSES Get started today from wherever you are. All our video-guided courses come with a downloadable PDF workbook filled with exercises and learnings you can revisit again and again. Just follow the link in the workbook to open the online course video. Three Principles for Building Friendship with Your Partner THE COUPLES GARAGE ANCHOR COURSE How to Live a Values-Based Life FREE SEVEN DAY CHECK-IN CHALLENGE Build intimacy and communication with this daily habit. FREE GOAL SETTING CRASH COURSE (QUARANTINE EDITION) How to Not Lose Your Mind During Quarantine ✚ON THE BLOG Featured Nov 2, 2022 7 Habits Training Nov 2, 2022 Over the past three days, I've participated in a FranklinCovey 7 Habits of Highly Effective People training course in partnership with the US Army. As the Army values building individual resilience, growth, and development, they have partnered up with FranklinCovey to offer training to chaplains throughout the military. Stephen Covey's landmark book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was released in 1989 and has gone on to sell over 40 million copies around the world. It is regarded as one of the most successful books in history; it is a NYT Bestseller, and it has been called the most influential business book of the 21st century. High praise for a book filled with “simple” concepts. Nov 2, 2022 Sep 2, 2022 Free Workshop: Beyond Bouncing Back Sep 2, 2022 Wed, September 28, 2022, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PDT on ZoomeResilience is often defined as the ability to bounce back from a difficulty and is a critical tool in the workplace and in life. But new research in post-traumatic growth suggests that individuals and employees have the capacity to do more than simply endure difficult times. In this session, Dusty will argue that adversity is not merely something to survive but can be a critical catalyst for growth. Attendees will leave with practical tools to help them face adversity in their own life as well as lead others through turbulent times. Sep 2, 2022 Aug 19, 2022 Free Workshop: Building Your Business from the Ground Up Aug 19, 2022 Going from 0 to your first $100k. Tuesday, September 20th, from 6-6:30pm (Pacific time). This is a FREE Zoom workshop where we’ll share some of our experience (and some real facts) building a real business that pays our real bills. Aug 19, 2022 Jun 29, 2022 We Burned Our Boats Jun 29, 2022 Exactly one year ago this month, we burned our boats.In the aftermath of my father's unexpected death, we spent the following weeks wrestling with all the usual things that come in the aftermath of tragedy. One of the things we wrestled with was the often cliché concept of not knowing the hour. My dad died at 68, which means the midpoint of his life occurred sometime in his 34th year. I was 35. Cecily was 33. It hit us that we might very well be in the midpoint of our own lives. So we decided to take stock of the things we've always wanted to do that we have been putting off. We realized we had been putting those things off because we were comfortable. Jun 29, 2022 Jun 13, 2022 Recommended Read: The Wise Investor Jun 13, 2022 A few months ago, Rich asked me to give him some feedback on a new book he was writing: The Wise Investor. At a surface level, the book is about personal finance, but the lessons contained within expand beyond where to invest money and instead serve as a pathway for seeking mentorship, clarifying values, and exploring what it means to live life on your own terms. That book has now been released as an eBook, where it has been a daily bestseller, and the hardcover edition is available on pre-order through Amazon. Jun 13, 2022 May 18, 2022 Everyone is an Entrepreneur—Yes, Even You May 18, 2022 When I was a kid and an adult asked me what I wanted to do or be when I grow up, I never said I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I would say I wanted to be a veterinarian, or an airline pilot like my dad, or the first female president of the United States (that always got a smile). But fast forward 20 years and an entrepreneur is what I am. I started freelancing at 24 and here I am still working for myself ten years later. Somehow I made it work. Even though I didn’t know what an entrepreneur was (probably couldn’t even spell the word) in grade school, that’s what I am today. And I have come to believe that everyone—yes, even you—is an entrepreneur. I know this because at the end of the day, we are all working for ourselves. May 18, 2022 Apr 12, 2022 Presenting: 2022 SASEA/WASEA Annual Conference Apr 12, 2022 Skull & Bones Society co-founder and facilitator Dusty Breeding is heading over to sunny Tampa, Florida, to present on resilience and post-traumatic growth—appropriate content given the events of the last two years. The workshop is entitled, The Practice of Adversity. Apr 12, 2022 Apr 5, 2022 Join us for The Garage (couples workshop) on april 10 Apr 5, 2022 One of the areas where we focus our coaching and development is in helping couples relate to one another better. Because when relationships improve, families improve, communities improve, and the world improves. Are you part of a couple? Know someone who is? You won’t want to miss our next couples workshop, called The Garage, on Sunday, April 10, 2022, from 5:30-7:00pm. Apr 5, 2022 Mar 16, 2022 New Freebie! Download the Seven Day Check-In Challenge Mar 16, 2022 Kick start your Daily Check-In practice today with the Seven Day Check-In Challenge. Mar 16, 2022 Mar 10, 2022 Anchor Course Recap Mar 10, 2022 From my vantage point (running the slides), I heard attendees share about moments from their past—both positive and painful—that contributed to who they are today. I was reminded of the way values emerge sometimes in mysterious ways and carry tremendous impact on our identity and the way we relate to others. We learned about the two kinds of values: Terminal (where you’re going) and Instrumental (how you’ll get there). Mar 10, 2022 “ The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.James A. 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