Upcoming Events for 2013

The Smart Art of Friendship: Tune Up Your Friendships

Friendships are good for our mental, emotional and physical health. As we go through life, friendships shift and change. Healthy friendships support and help us as we navigate the challenges and transitions in our lives. This tele-seminar is an opportunity to become more conscious and intentional about the flow of friendships in your life.

Join us for this interactive tele-seminar focused on fine-tuning your friendship awareness and skills. Together, we’ll explore these questions and topics:

*Why have friends at all?

*Why make new friends?

*What’s the impact of different types of transition on friendship?

You’ll leave with:

• An understanding of the stages of transition in friendships
• 7 essential qualities of strong friendships
• 4 strategies to help you navigate friendship transitions

Facilitators: Amy Brassert, MSW, RSW, Relationship Coach and Ruth Tamari, MEd, CPCC, ACC Life + Transitions Coach

Our next event will take place on:

Date: Thursday, October 24, 2013
Time: 7-8:15pm EST / 4-5:15 PST

Stay tuned for registration and teleconference information!

ReDesign Your Life For Retirement - Fall 2013 class

If you’re approaching or in the midst of your retirement transition, you may be in the process of asking yourself what you want now and how to achieve it. In this 8-week class, we’ll explore the transition process, what it means to redesign your life, discover new ways to expand your social network and make conscious choices that will bring you fulfillment in your work, leisure, health, home and more!

This program is for you if you want to:

• Learn about the stages in the transition process and the tools & strategies to help you navigate successfully,
• Clarify what fulfilling work and lifestyle mean to you including your health, leisure and relationships,
• Experience weekly accountability that keeps you in action and grows your self-awareness,
• Discover and learn through interactive discussions, personal experience, and reflective exploration,
• Connect with others going through the retirement transition, and
• Participate in life long learning and personal growth.

Topics that we’ll explore include:
The topics that we’ll explore include: What does it mean to Redesign Your Life and what parts of your life (and yourself) are you redesigning, Your core personal values and their significance in transitions, dealing with The Unknown and Uncertainty, Your beliefs and relationship with leisure, work and health, Your Dream Team & Toolkit of resources to help you stay connected to your vision & dreams and more!

What participants have said about the class:
“This was a very unique topic, not found anywhere else. Hope that it will be offered again so other people can experience the same benefits as our group did.”
“Each week was a very pertinent, interesting topic that really caused me to re-think and appreciate my life.”
“It made me aware that I was not alone in looking to redesign my life.”
“Excellent and inspiring experience. I met a lot of very interesting people and I think I have made a few friends.”
“I wish this (class) could go on and on, and…”
“I am very fortunate to have taken this course!! And I feel better prepared to face life’s challenges.”
“I realized that I was full of fears, tendency to procrastinate, unable to say the “real things”. Clearer sense of what I must work on to achieve my goals.”
“The most impactful part of the course for me was learning to honour myself and appreciate what I’ve done and what I can still do. To move beyond the stuck mode.”

Registration for the Fall 2013 ReDesign Your Life for Retirement class starts August 12, 2013.
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