Common Thread Coaching

• SPACIOUS MIND, SPACIOUS SELF: Clearing the Old to Connect Anew •

Co-Presented by Nancy G. Shapiro and Stephanie Bennett Vogt

at LifePath Retreats

San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

February 13-14, 2010

Behind the stress and clutter in our lives is an infinitely spacious place one might call stillness or joy. This is our natural state of being, but we hardly know it because we are caught in a web of attachments to things, worries, and outcomes.

Practical and profoundly simple, this two-day program is designed to give you a direct experience of spaciousness by inviting you to call back what is yours, and let go of what isn’t: to slow down, reflect, release, rebuild…. remember.

Saturday’s Program

What are the key ways you hold on and resist your true nature? Through personal inquiry, guided meditation, group sharing, and a closer look at the role of the fight or flight response, we will explore this question. Stephanie will create a space for you to reflect on and get to know your holding patterns really well!

The afternoon segment will be your time to release the stressful charge that has been building throughout the day. With a simple “personal clearing” technique, Stephanie will show you how to use awareness to clear people, things, and thoughts that keep you stuck. With practical tips on how to support your journey and care for yourself, you will come away feeling lighter, refreshed, and inspired to deepen your experience of spaciousness on Day 2.

Sunday’s program:

Nancy will introduce accessible ways to rebuild thought and language patterns in the morning session. Writing exercises and simple experiential tools will engage and connect you to the spaciousness formed from the previous day’s experiences.

The afternoon session will allow you to remember the vital and profound wisdom within yourself. Through the creation of a personal altar, the spacious spirit of Mindful Intention will emerge. Manifested into a beautiful handcrafted art piece that can be renewed with new intentions, you will be able to remember and connect, again and again, to your innate inner knowing.

About the Presenters:

Nancy G. Shapiro, CPC, is a life coach specializing in personal and professional transitions, and the founder of Common Thread Coaching. A writer and poet, she’s currently working on a book titled Common Thread Living: Re-creating the World, One Person at a Time, a transformational guide based on the common ground of our individual brilliance and shared humanity. Her essays have been published in Spirituality & Health magazine and several anthologies. Over the last 15 years, Nancy has taught writing workshops in the U.S., Mexico, Costa Rica, Africa, and Bhutan. She lives in San Miguel de Allende, and works with clients internationally and at LifePath Retreats. http://commonthreadcoaching.wordpress.com

Stephanie Bennett Vogt, MA, is New England’s leading expert in the field of space clearing and the author of Your Spacious Self: Clear Your Clutter and Discover Who You Are. With more than 30 years of teaching experience, Stephanie serves on the faculty of the New England School of Feng Shui and the Women’s Well, and is the founder of SpaceClear, a consulting practice dedicated to bringing homes and their occupants back into balance. Stephanie writes and speaks widely on topics of home tending, simplifying, personal clearing, dowsing, honoring the feminine, and cultivating what she calls “spacious detachment.” www.spaceclear.com

Workshop Schedule:

Date: Saturday and Sunday, February 13-14, 2010. 10 am to 5 pm

Where: LifePath Retreats, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Cost: $240 (includes 2-day workshop, lunches and materials). Early Bird 10% discount for December—$215

CEUs: Sunday’s portion of the workshop will count for 6 continuing education units for licensed MFTs and LCSWs in California. (California Board of Behavioral Sciences, PCE #2704)

Contact/ Register:

• Nancy G. Shapiro, nancygs53@gmail.com, 760-322-5754
• Stephanie Bennett Vogt, stephanie@spaceclear.com, 978-369-3629

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FOUND WORDS • FOUND WISDOM: An At-Home Writing Workshop

“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.”

—Flannery O’Connor

Location: As an antidote to hectic schedules, traffic jams, and dwindling personal ‘downtime,’ I’ve  created Found Words • Found Wisdom as an “at-home” workshop to allow each participant the freedom & luxury to create their own schedule. The entire workshop takes approximately eight hours to complete & is divided into four sections. I recommend that each section be completed within two to three days to keep  the creative flow intact. Material is emailed or shipped. (see Fee)

Overview: The Found Words • Found Wisdom writing workshop focuses on creating a personal ease around  writing, along with a mindfulness of writing’s innate characteristic to bring about insight and personal  wisdom. Incorporating personal stories, examples of prose and poetry, and supporting exercises, you  are guided through different aspects of writing that provide an accessible and informed structure from which you can then explore and expand your own writing practice.

This workshop is suitable for people just beginning to cultivate an interest in writing, and for writers looking for a fresh breath of air to revive an abandoned manuscript or writing practice.

CEUs: Found Words • Found Wisdom is an approved Continuing Education workshop for 8 continuing education units for licensed MFTs and LCSWs. (California Board of Behavioral Sciences, PCE #2704)

Fee: $90—This includes an emailed PDF version of the workshop (to be printed out on your printer), and a certificate of completion for CEUs if applicable. If email is not an option, and you would like me to mail a hard copy of the workshop, an additional $10 printing and shipping fee is required. Materials will be emailed or shipped on clearance of PayPal payment.

Testimonials:

• I sense a new level of confidence in myself, a willingness to “go for” whatever lies before me. Tapping into my creative storehouse was inspiring. —Sharon McErlane, MFT

• This course was absolutely fabulous! I loved every minute of it, and was sad when it was over. I intend to repeat it as a form of exercise and to again transport me into words in the magical way that it does. What a treat, and beautiful experience! Thank you, thank you. —Ginny Fleming, MFT

• If 10 is the best, that’s what I rate [this workshop]. This was wonderful. It stirred up parts of myself that have lain dormant for a long time. Thank you. —Jill Klepetar, LCSW

• [I was able to] override the censor/judge and create space to say what wanted to be said. —John Florman, MFT

• I was amazed at the amount of writing I could do that was so creative. —Maria Mathias, MFT

• I felt glorious writing [poetry], and felt it was time to return to writing poetry on a regular basis. So cathartic. So healing. I am grateful for this course and how it made me feel. —Risa Gordon, MFT

• This opened me up to the possibilities of feeling that I have more to say than I believe I do. I have been so out of touch with myself! This workshop was just what I needed and need. —Marlene Roberts, MFT

Please email me at: nancygs53@gmail.com if you would like to embark on your writing adventure.

Wishing you peace, wellness and time to write—Nancy