RHYTHMS:
Riding the Ebb and Flow of Life
2nd March 2008
(9.30am - 5.00pm)
Fawkner Park Community Centre
65 Toorak Road West
South Yarra, Victoria
Leader: Ken Mellor
When we have plenty of energy and feel like being active and involved in things, life seems easy and enjoyable. However, we commonly have other experiences too. There are times when, if we did what we feel like doing, we would do very little at all. This can be a big challenge when living the busy and demanding lives so many of us do these days. Another challenge comes during those times when we seem to lose direction, doubt that what we are doing is worthwhile, or feel strangely disconnected. We can begin to think something is very wrong if this sort of thing lasts for long, as sometimes it does. While surprising to many, these shifts are completely normal and we can learn to manage them well.
Come to the workshop where you can find out what is going on. Also, come and discover how to adjust what you do and the way you do it so you thrive on the shifts rather than struggling with them. The life energy available to us in each of the three phases is slightly different and using that energy to best effect requires that we adjust the way we act. This is exciting and, for some, relieving information to have. Lots falls into place and our lives can change dramatically.
Fees: In addition to the fees below, there are scholarhips available for this workshop, including one to cover the full fee.
+ Students Pensioners Unwages: A$100.00
+ Early Bird (pre 1st February): A$135.00
+ Regular: A$150.00 |
DECISION-MAKING:
Getting Our Priorities Right
4th May 2008
(9.30am - 5.00pm)
Fawkner Park Community Centre
65 Toorak Road West
South Yarra, Victoria
Leader: Ken Mellor
Some decisions are easy to make: The options are clear, the outcomes to what we could do are obvious, and we can go ahead and make them with confidence. Others are not so easy: Many options are involved, each one is filled with complexity and the consequences of each are very significant, maybe even life-changing. These decisions are much harder to make. Of course, all decision-making is somewhat easier when we are clear on our priorities, because they can guide our choices.
During the workshop, we will explore three areas: deciding on our priorities, making decisions and evolving decisions. When we have information on these three areas, we can find it much easier to manage. Knowing our priorities influences both decision-making styles; knowing what is involved in making decisions is clearer and therefore we can act more systematically; and discovering how to evolve decisions enables us to manage very much better those complex, life-changing choices with which we are sometimes faced. Life gets easier, often much easier.
Fees: In addition to the fees below, there are scholarhips available for this workshop, including one to cover the full fee.
+ Students Pensioners Unwages: A$100.00
+ Early Bird (pre 1st April): A$135.00
+ Regular: A$150.00 |
USING FEELINGS AS FUEL FOR LIFE
3rd August 2008
(9.30 am - 5.00 pm)
Fawkner Park Community Centre
65 Toorak Road West
South Yarra, Victoria
Leader: Ken Mellor
When we feel strongly, we know just how powerful feelings can be. Intense happiness, love, confidence, sadness, anger or fear are all good examples. Also, think of situations at home, at work or elsewhere, in which your feelings seemed to interfere with what you or others were doing. When we have any of the first three feelings we usually see them as desirable and celebrate them and we want as much as we can get of them; by contrast, the last three are usually not seen as desirable – we want as little of them as possible.
Many people don't know, however, that all feelings contribute to our vitality and aliveness. They don't know that they are tremendously helpful, provided we know how to harness and use them. Feelings feed our bodies, our thinking and our beings. Well managed, they also promote health, emotional well being, and mental alertness, perceptiveness and understanding. Feelings are also signals to what is going on in and around us and each one signals that different types of things are happening. So there is a lot in feelings that could be very helpful to us all.
Fees: In addition to the fees below, there are scholarhips available for this workshop, including one to cover the full fee.
+ Students Pensioners Unwages: A$100.00
+ Early Bird (pre 1st July): A$135.00
+ Regular: A$150.00 |
STANDING OUR GROUND:
Learning to Be Assertive
5th October 2008
(9.30 am - 5.00pm)
Fawkner Park Community Centre
65 Toorak Road West
South Yarra, Victoria
Leader: Ken Mellor
Even in the most pressured of situations we can be balanced and relaxed. We can manage Standing our ground is fundamental to ensuring we live happily and cooperatively with others. Many people, however, think the opposite, that taking a stand creates conflict and contention, so they don't do it. Of course, some people are afraid to do so because of past experience where they have paid a high price for doing so. Yet, the fact remains, that standing our ground is important, whatever experiences we have had with it.
Forget about being a doormat, forget about bullying or acting rebelliously. Learning to act assertively while taking account of yourself, others and the world around you is wonderfully liberating. People start to change with us, even when the changes we make are quite small. This workshop will take you on a journey into understanding and experiencing how to be strong, clear and assertive. You can learn to say, No and Yes, when to say, Not that way, this way, and when it is right for you to say each. Come and learn what true personal power is and how assertiveness is a powerful path to cooperation and mutual respect.
Fees: In addition to the fees below, there are scholarhips available for this workshop, including one to cover the full fee.
+ Students Pensioners Unwages: A$100.00
+ Early Bird (pre 1st September): A$135.00
+ Regular: A$150.00 |
