Facilitating a Change in Perspective
Facing change can be scary as well as energising. Organising ourselves into support groups can enable deeper and more far-reaching change to take place.
Mags Clark-Smith running one of her courses
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
African Proverb
On reflection in our second spring we may be very used to the frustrations of the long haul. I recall hours shoe horning wriggling excited children into warm clothing before they dashed outside to play with each other and friends. Endless packing before a weekend away to visit family, long car journeys listening to 'Harry Potter', and 'Just William' before that. Those family times together are now fond memories, we went together, it certainly wasn't fast but we appear to have come a long way together.
The photographer Marjorie Salaterra has published a book called 'Her' with theatrical portraits of women that strengthen the individual identity of women and support of women for each other. She sees this as a dual goal for women after they turn forty. This focus on individual identity can encourage us to listen to our intuition and acknowledge our experience of life. Whilst support, in terms of giving, accepting or seeking support from other women can strengthen us further.
Our 'Moving Forward With Confidence' courses have a similar aim, to facilitate a slight change in perspective allowing you to begin to think about where you might like to make some changes. To give you a framework within which you will feel able to embrace those changes even if they do frighten you a little. Decisions that take you outside what is familiar, that is outside your 'comfort zone' can be quite scary, yet energizing at the same time. It seems pushing yourself beyond what you normally do can leave you feeling liberated, invigorated and a tiny bit proud! All the changes are led by you, the course environment is absolutely respectful of personal choice and it is confidential.
The slight changes you may decide to make may be fast as they might be connected to re discovering parts of your personality that have been on 'hold' while you dedicated yourself to work, family or other commitments that required your attention.The course will give you the opportunity to think about what is intuitive to you, what you feel passionately about, what skills you have and what makes you happy. With the help and support of everyone else on the course you will be encouraged to integrate those attributes into your decision making.
It's commonplace to agree that life experience is often underestimated, in the Moving Forward With Confidence course you will start to winkle out what skills you have learned along the way to this point. There will be a significant teaching component on what might be holding us back from realizing our potential. We will discuss the importance of epigenetics which refers to nurture rather than nature. That means your environment in terms of how you look after yourself, nutrition, exercise, mental stimulation, creative outlets, giving back and mental well-being. It turns out how you talk to yourself and how you think about others has an effect on your mental well-being. Who knew? That's why the course environment is supportive and positive and we imagine it will go far!
Link to website: http://www.magsclarksmith.com/#/moving-forward-with-confidence/
TUESDAY MORNINGS 10th, 17th & 24th MAY WEDNESDAY EVENINGS 11th, 18th & 25th MAY 2016
THREE WEEK COURSE ON 'MOVING FORWARD WITH CONFIDENCE'
LOCATION: STUDIO IN KILMACANOGUE
Dates: Mornings 10.30 – 12.30 Tuesdays 10th, 17th & 24th May
Evenings 7.30 – 9.30pm Wednesdays 11th, 18th & 25th May
3 Week Course – 6 hours €97 (early bird until Sunday 8th May, €120 full price)
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