06.30.09
Posted in Courier Articles, Events at 6:09 am by Nancy
Women’s Retreats
Blue Moon Yurt, Tenants Harbor
Summer 2009
Seeking your Soul: SoulCollage® Retreat
6:00 pm Wed. July 15 to noon Sun. July 19, 2009
(or come for a day or two!)
Do you long for a sense of deep connection? Enjoy exploring different parts of yourself? Come learn how SoulCollage can open intuitive pathways to the “inner jewel” that resides within you. As you create small collages that embody your soul, you will discover how they offer guidance and insight into your life. Reflective inner work, yes, but also FUN! Each day, I will introduce a different aspect of the process. No artistic experience necessary. All materials provided.
Cost: Nonresidential: $295, includes Wed. dinner and daily lunch. Thurs-Fri-Sat: $85 for 1 day, $75 for 2 or more days, or bring a friend and each pay $75. Lunch included. Residential info on request.
Claiming Your Inner Spark Retreat
6:00 pm Thursday August 13 to noon Sunday August 16, 2009
What awakens your inner vitality? Gives you a sense of well being? This retreat offers a meditative yet exuberant environment in which to explore such questions. Together we will discover playful ways of reconnecting with the zany and intuitive parts of ourselves that get pushed aside by daily life. Simply slowing down allows your innate creativity to surface. All welcome–no artistic background needed.
Cost: Nonresidential: $225, includes Thurs. dinner and daily lunch. Residential info on request.
Pam Swing, Ph.D., photographer and writer, is a trained facilitator for SoulCollage®. She has many years of experience offering creativity workshops and retreats for all ages in Massachusetts and Maine, including at Greenfire Women’s Retreat. She is currently writing a book about stones in her life.
To register: email pam.swing@gmail.com. Some scholarship money available.
For more information: 371 6203 or 978 835 9784
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04.19.09
Posted in Events at 4:18 am by Nancy
ON Feb 8 we had a great group of people experience the first Camden Complaint Free ‘play’shop. The general consensus was that this is a great way to ease into the awareness of keeping our sights on the ‘glass half (or more!) full’. Here’s a link to the Village Soup story:
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Please join us for
A Complaint Free World
An afternoon workshop to explore
the benefits for you and your world.
This is based on the work of Will Bowen and his book: A Complaint Free World
Sunday April 19, 2009
1-4 pm
Donations accepted
The Wellness Center
69 Elm St.
Camden
FMI
Nancy Lubin
nancy@intention.com
236 4069
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04.16.09
Posted in Events at 5:22 pm by Nancy
ON Feb 8 we had a great group of people experience the first Camden Complaint Free ‘play’shop. The general consensus was that this is a great way to ease into the awareness of keeping our sights on the ‘glass half (or more!) full’. Here’s a link to the Village Soup story which ran about the March 8 workshop:
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http://knox.villagesoup.com/commbriefs/story.cfm?storyID=147473
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http://knox.villagesoup.com/commbriefs/story.cfm?storyID=147473
Please join us for
A Complaint Free World
An afternoon workshop to explore
the benefits for you and your world.
This is based on the work of Will Bowen and his book: A Complaint Free World
Sunday April 19, 2009
1-4 pm
Donations accepted
The Wellness Center
69 Elm St.
Camden
FMI
Nancy Lubin
nancy@intention.com
236 4069
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03.08.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 1:18 pm by Nancy
This was in a newsletter from www.intuitionzone.com
“The Installation of Love”
Installing Love on the Human Computer:
Tech Support: Yes, how can I help you?
Customer: Well, after much consideration, I’ve decided to
install Love. Can you guide me through the process?
Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?
Customer: Well, I’m not very technical, but I think I’m ready. What do I do first?
Tech Support: The first step is to open your Heart. Have you located your Heart?
Customer: Yes, but there are several other programs running now. Is it okay to install Love while they are running?
Tech Support: What programs are running ?
Customer: Let’s see, I have Past Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge and Resentment running right now.
Tech Support: No problem, Love will gradually erase Past Hurt from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory but it will no longer disrupt other programs. Love will eventually override Low Self-Esteem with a module of its own called High Self-Esteem. However,you have to completely turn off Grudge and Resentment. Those programs prevent Love from being properly installed. Can you turn those off ?
Customer: I don’t know how to turn them off. Can you tell me
how?
Tech Support: With pleasure. Go to your start menu and invoke Forgiveness. Do this as many times as necessary until Grudge and Resentment have been
completely erased.
Customer: Okay, done! Love has started installing itself. Is that normal?
Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other Hearts in order to get the upgrades.
Customer: Oops! I have an error message already. It says, “Error - Program not run on external components.” What should I do?
Tech Support: Don’t worry. It means that the Love program is set up to run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been run on your Heart. In non-technical terms, it simply means you have to Love yourself before
you can Love others.
Customer: So, what should I do?
Tech Support: Pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the following files: Forgive-Self; Realize Your Worth; and Acknowledge your Limitations.
Customer: Okay, done.
Tech Support: Now, copy them to the “My Heart” directory. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching faulty programming.
Also, you need to delete Verbose Self-Criticism from all directories and empty your Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.
Customer: Got it. Hey! My heart is filling up with new files.Smile is playing on my monitor and Peace and Contentment are copying themselves all over My Heart. Is this normal?
Tech Support: Sometimes. For others it takes awhile, but eventually everything gets it at the proper time. So Love is installed and running.
One more thing before we hang up. Love is Freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules to everyone you meet. They will in turn share it with others and return some cool modules back to you.
Customer: Thank you, God.
God/Tech Support: You’re welcome, anytime.
ANON
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01.11.09
Posted in coaching at 5:41 pm by Nancy
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12.16.08
Posted in Events at 7:38 am by Nancy
The PR is out and registrations are coming in. I love hearing from return participants what great impact this workshop(see events page) has had in their year. A few quotes:
“I was better able to hold a new perspective all year, and it really made a difference, thank you”
“This will be my 4th Resolutions workshop with you. Each year has turned out closer to what I envisioned than I would have thought possible”
And I look forward to meeting in person those who have called or emailed to register for the first time.
My friends and I have been enjoying putting the day together and we are eager to spend the day with you.
Gather your friends and make 2009 GREAT!
Go to Blog events page FMI
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Posted in Events at 7:34 am by Nancy
REVOLUTIONARY RESOLUTIONS
Fifth (5!) Annual
New Years’ Resolutions From the Inside Out
Make and keep your good intentions alive during the year ahead. On this interactive day:
• Remember your deepest values
• Mine the riches of 2008
• Imagine 2009 as an individual expression of
what you want most for yourself and your world.
Nancy Lubin CPCC is a certified life coach specializing in intentional living. Fabulous friends will assist her to enhance your experience.
We offer this day on a donation basis to anyone wanting to participate.
Materials fee $25 upon Registration. Pre-registration recommended.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 2009
9:00 am - 4 pm
The Teen Center
10 Knowlton St. CAMDEN
Coffee and Tea will be provided.
For questions, registration, or in case of inclement weather,
please call Nancy @ 236-4069, cell 596-9855 nancy@intention.com
www.intention.com/blog
“The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating.
The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them
changes both the maker and their destination.”
- John Schaar, sociologist and professor emeritus at the U C Santa Cruz
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04.01.08
Posted in Courier Articles, coaching at 1:38 pm by Nancy
last snow
You have my permission. For what? You have my permission:
• To let go of guilt — it slows you down;
• To bypass negative self talk — it blinds you to wonder;
• To give up worry — it keeps you from taking action;
• To banish the shoulds — they weigh down our emotional backpack.
You also have my permission to:
• Take a predetermined break to read, or take a walk on a beautiful day, to or do a sudoku or crossword puzzle or watch your favorite TV show;
• To slow down enough to enjoy whatever you are doing.
Why am I saying this? Surely you do not need MY permission to do anything.
And what I hear wherever I go, and coming out of my own mouth, is “I really shouldn’t”: Eat that cookie, have a double latte, watch TV when there is … to do, spend money on …
And the list goes on:
Is he eating that cookie? YES
Am I having a double latte? YES
Is she watching TV instead of … ? YES
Are they buying … ? YES
You have my permission, and it is conditional. My only request is that you enjoy whatever it is — fully enjoy it. When you are done, get on with whatever is next. Go back to your eating plan or dive back into the ever-available to do list. Get up from the TV or the crossword puzzle and re-orient yourself to the pleasure of having things to do. And if you are worried, make a plan to handle what you do have control over and skip worrying about what you don’t.
Let me suggest this. Make a plan for to reach your goal — long term or short-term. It might be reduced stress, healthier eating, more savings, an exercise routine, or a trip you have longed to take. You choose. Make sure you have specific actions to take to reach that goal, and then decide your level of commitment based on a realistic assessment of your life. Don’t commit to what you cannot possibly fulfill and then beat yourself up because “diets never work,” or “there is never enough money or discipline.” If you can exercise 10 minutes a day, great — make that promise to yourself and keep it. Or edit it and say I‘ll walk 10 minutes a day, five days a week. You can always increase it if you want to. Eventually, if you keep this promise to yourself, you’ll find time and energy for that increase. If one day you just can’t get out the door, OK, that’s one of the two days out of seven that you are not walking. No guilt, no shame, no blame. Tomorrow go back to your commitment.
And go back to your commitment with pleasure. Am I kidding? No. My experience is that when we look for pleasure, we find it. Having had the long-term experience of outdoor facilities, I find myself taking pleasure in cleaning the bathroom. My clients report that by fully enjoying the guilt-free breaks they take, they find themselves re-energized and more focused on the next task. I take pleasure in knowing that I chose many of the “to dos” on my list. If I choose to have things, I choose to maintain them. If I choose to be healthy, I choose to enjoy the time I spend exercising, taking pleasure in finding new muscles or tasting new foods, If I choose to read all weekend then I am choosing not to do laundry or visit with friends or fill the wood box, etc. We are choosing all the time. We can choose to enjoy what is in front of us to do, or we can make it harder. Our choice. And you have my permission to enjoy yourself in whatever you are doing because it just makes life easier.
Have a great day. Enjoy.
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02.16.08
Posted in Courier Articles, Handweaving, Uncategorized, coaching at 4:01 pm by Nancy
Here we are - in the quiet of mid January. The holidays are over, New Year’s resolutions made…or not, the depth of winter unfolding before us. What now in this place that feels almost like the void? Well, I am still thinking about resolutions and how to gently move them into practice. Please note the word gently. As I was reading the 43 (yes, 43) newsletters that arrived in my in box along with 2008, I was surprised to find so many claiming that resolutions were a waste of time. Well, you have already read my opinion on that (http://www.intention.com/blog/?page_id=23). So I dug a little deeper. The Latin root word of resolve means to loosen, or release. Quite a different experience from the tension we might feel about the commitments we made to ourselves at the turn of the year. In the spirit of loosening up I am looking at this quiet time as an opportunity to ‘practice’ the new behaviors and thought patterns I want to create in 2008. Back to the dictionary to learn about practice. This is where ‘gently’ comes into play: ‘the repeated performance or systematic exercise for the purpose of acquiring skill or proficiency’. That’s what I want, and experience tells me what we all want is to learn or improve. It is human nature to stretch ourselves, and when we do we feel more alive, more awake and generally happier. Sometimes we name it differently but the spirit is the same. If we are exercising we call it a routine, if we are learning the piano we call it practice, if we are changing a thought pattern we call it awareness, but it all amounts to knowing that we will engage ourselves on a regular basis to shift into a new way of being. Read more http://www.intention.com/blog/?page_id=20
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12.20.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 4:51 pm by Nancy
I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.
It covers:
- The best blogging techniques.
- How to get traffic to your blog.
- How to turn your blog into money.
I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it’s still free.
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