The Heart of Stillness:

Career Guidance from Within

What do you do when “it” isn’t working for you anymore?

In life, you embarked on your path for many good reasons, yet years later you can find yourself no longer enthusiastic about what you’re doing. This can lead to feeling bored, stuck, fearful, or sad. The old life no longer fits, and you don’t know what you should do.

When disenchantment strikes, it is very scary to decide how to move forward. Should you stay the course or start something new? You don’t want to make the wrong move and end up disenchanted again. You may feel like you’re running out of time, so the consequences of change might not be worth the risk. How can you be sure?

If you are experiencing anxiety or loss about your career path, please understand that you are not alone. The concept of “mid-life crisis” has been around for years, but we now understand that it can occur at any time in your life and around many issues.

Get in touch with your core signals to step forward without internal conflict.

To forge a new direction in life that you can feel confident in, the first step is to gain insight into your overarching patterns and your internal signaling process. How does a “yes” feel? That is, how do you know that what you are doing is right for you and increases your sense of power and possibility? On the other hand how does a “no” feel? We all have some contracted, resistant feeling when we are doing or thinking something against our higher good or against some essential part of ourselves.

Receiving, paying attention to, and understanding your own body’s signaling process gives you access to a place of knowing we call the “Heart of Stillness.” This is a place within you where you can resolve complex problems with confidence. Gaining effortless access to this place allows you to consistently create solutions that are not in conflict with any part of your essential self. The more you do this, the easier it is to make decisions, and the more it feels like everything is just falling into place, the Universe is conspiring with you, and everything will just naturally flow with your plans.

Living from the “Heart of Stillness” also means taking time out to grieve for lost parts of our selves and our identities. Even if we have outgrown them, those parts of ourselves were once important and deserve honor and respect before we move on.

Benefits of the “Heart of Stillness” Workshop

“Heart of Stillness” is a workshop designed for professionals who have reached a decision point in their lives and would like to dramatically increase the level of confidence they feel around their next career moves and around making the best continuous course corrections that any journey will entail.

• Gain clarity on what you do when you are pushed out of your comfort zone. What’s the pattern? What’s useful (or not) about it?
• Identify core signals. Learn what your “yes” and “no” signals feel like on a cellular level as well as a logical one.
• Reframe your experience. Gain support and the felt experience that your stuck place is really a still place full of rich information and the seeds of life.
• Align your decision-making process with the needs of your essential self so that you feel and act congruently with your deepest needs and desires.
• Steer your career from within. Ultimately this is what will lead to a happy and productive career path.

Registration Information

Date: Saturday January 30 (10am to 6pm) through Sunday January 31, 2010, (10am to 1 pm)

Fee: $265; register by January 22nd to receive a 15% earlybird discount and pay only $225

Location: Novato Oaks Inn, 215 Alameda del Prado, Novato, CA, 94949

To register go to: http://heartofstillness.eventbrite.com or use the form below

For more information please call: Deborah at (415) 346-6121, Janet at (510) 530-8905, or Amy at (415) 710-8403

About the Facilitators

Deborah Gavrin Frangquist: Deborah is passionate about how work affects real lives, and she has a special gift for helping people recognize the patterns of their own best and most satisfying work. Her business, Chosen Futures, serves both individuals and sustainable businesses who are ready to define and achieve success on their own terms. A gifted spiritual teacher and Reiki Master, Deborah combines spiritual depth with practical coaching to help you reach your goals.

Janet Schieferdecker: Janet is a trainer, coach, and consultant. She holds an MBA from London Business School and has worked in many different management roles for different sized companies all over the world. Janet heads Quantum Growth, a business and personal development training company, and works on the training staff at NLP Marin. Janet specializes in working with self-employed professionals on the “inner game” of becoming a recognized expert, attracting more and better clients, and owning a business that runs like a well-tuned engine.

Amy Conger: Amy is an artist, teacher, and changemaker. She combines techniques from transformative arts, neuro-linguistic programming, and family constellations into a unique blend that is sure to shift your present reality. She brings years of experience as a facilitator, counselor, artist, & creative professional to the workshop. Her compassion and sense of fun can be experienced one-on-one in creativity counseling and in group workshops.