2012 Session Details

Breakouts | Practicums | MBI Talks | Integration Tracks

Breakout Sessions

Garlic, Hawthorn, and Eye of Newt:  The Way of the Peaceful Empath

We’re empaths and shamans, baby, and we feel our clients’ feeling in our own bodies. It’s a gift. Sometimes, though, being an empath feels like our blood is being sucked out of our necks, or we’re flung smack dab in the middle of a blind spot.  We can feel drained and miss great opportunities for deeper coaching.  In this session, Master Coach Terry DeMeo will open her bag of shamanic practices and practical tools to teach you exactly how to manage, strengthen and protect your empathic powers.  You’ll leave with a practical toolkit that will turn you into a supercharged shaman who never loses a single drop of blood, sweat, or tears.

Terry DeMeo, J.D., is a Master Certified Relationship Coach, writer, and educator who guides coaches and other smart people to create joy, success, and deep satisfaction in their relationships with themselves, the people in their lives, and their work.  She combines cutting edge discoveries from social science and neuroscience with ancient wisdom practices and a little bit of magic.   She works with individuals, couples, and groups in person in Miami, and by telephone, worldwide.  You can learn more about Terry, check out her upcoming classes, and read her blog at www.terrydemeo.com.  She can be reached by email at terry@terrydemeo.com.

Visualization & Graphic Coaching Practicum

Practice the art of coaching and take your knowledge of Martha’s tools and the use of visualization, metaphors and intuition to a whole new level.  Combine interactive graphic coaching with guided visualization and you take you (and your clients) to a vision of your future self that you otherwise might have never seen. You don’t have to be an artist, or even know how to draw.  If you have a love for colored pens and sticky notes, you’ll fit right in!

Master Coach Jennifer Voss is the Chief Truth & Well-being Officer and founder of the Truth Experience. She helps others find their Ground Truth and free their energy to hear and follow their calling. Before becoming a coach, she earned an MBA and spent 20+ years in various business ventures – ranging from owning an independent bookstore to holding an executive role within a national distribution company. She loves using her past experience to help others connect with the heart and soul of their business.  Her favorite part is nailing down a vision, mixing in a little  ”woo,” and watching a dream come to life in a whole, healthy and sustainable manner.

Death and Dying: Grief and Loss Tools for Coaches

Your client called to say her husband died. How can you help? Need new resources and tools? This is a “Grief 101″ class on steroids AND RedBull. You will find and engage your inner grief guru, learn magical expressive arts tools by doing them, laugh at bad jokes, and leave with vast amounts of added knowledge. The best part? When the next grieving client calls, you’ll be ready.

Martha Atkins loves Dr. Pepper, and Boxer Dogs. Family (chosen/not), spontaneous travel, storied photographs, and authentic conversations feed her. Mysteries of Spirit inspire. She’s traveled the dark night of the soul and much prefers the light. She’s an out of the closet healer and intends to someday have tea with Rosie O’Donnell.

Be the Change You Want to See in Your Life: Working with Adult Children to Change How They Are

Many of my clients spent much of their childhood feeling and acting very responsible and reliable – like miniature adults.  And, although they are still responsible and reliable as adults, they now often feel childlike; small and vulnerable, anxious and exposed.  Adult children tend to feel voiceless and choiceless and they frequently struggle to have healthy relationships with their work, their partners, and/or their friends and family. If this describes you/your clients, you/they are the adult children for whom I have written my book “Life Lessons for the Adult Child”. This session will refer to many of the tools and techniques I have written about in the book, tools that deal with communication, codependence and choices. This work is life-changing and will help you to help your clients understand WHO and HOW they are in their relationships – with themselves, others and the world. It will also help you to understand how being an adult child may influence your work as a coach.

Judy Klipin works with adult children to help them understand how their unpredictable childhoods have resulted in their adult anxiety and struggles with relationships, work and/or life purpose. She trains coaches to use her methods (from her book Life Lessons for the Adult Child; Penguin) in their own practices.

So Many Ideas, Plenty of Time: How to Thrive Without Finishing (or Focusing or Committing)

Do you or your clients feel like you’re constantly finding new and interesting things to try, have too many choices, working on too many things at once and never accomplishing anything?  Then you just might be what career counselor and best-selling author Barbara Sher has defined as a “Scanner”.  And guess what? There’s nothing wrong with you! Being a Scanner is not about fear or A.D.D. Unlike people who seem to find and be satisfied with one area of interest, you’re genetically wired to be interested in many things.  Join Sheila Whittington and learn how to embrace your Scanner-dom and learn tools to help you make progress in the areas you choose. There is hope for a happy and productive life – for you and your clients!

Sheila Whittington is a coach, teacher, speaker, funster, writer, wife, mother, laugh-lover and uber-experienced coffee consumer. Sheila worked 30 years in corporate America before giving up the “Have to Be Super Woman” cape for flip-flops and now lives the message she teaches: “Life is easier than we think.”

Growing Your Tribe: Deliberately Creating Clients

Join Law of Attraction Coach, Jeannette Maw, on how to create a full and thriving practice by growing your tribe from scratch.  You’ll learn what it takes to attract and cultivate raving fans who love your material, buy your stuff and spread the word about your fabulousness.  We’ll cover the essential energy work as well as practical action steps you can take to build an audience that will build you a lucrative living as a coach.

Jeannette Maw is a Master Certified Coach and founder of Good Vibe Coaching. She is a blogger, membership site host, author and coach trainer specializing in deliberate creation.  Jeannette lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with a menagerie of rescued dogs and cats, and enjoys volunteering as a foster mom for local animal rescue groups.

Retreat Shop

Interested in creating an amazing retreat experience for clients?  Want to travel, coach and have a blast?  We’ll show you how to create a retreat buzz, sparkle and shift by leading everyone through a step-by-step process to create and market a retreat.

Jackie Gartman is a Master Certified Life Coach and mentor for soul-guides in training.  She has been an Instructor for four years and recently served as Life Coach Training Coordinator.  Her speciality is mentoring newly-minted coaches who want to stop getting in the way of their own greatness (and start changing lives already!) and coaching women who are ready to illuminate their self-limiting patterns and stride into an ultra-bright floodlight of purpose and meaning – at work, at home and everywhere that matters.

As a Master Certified Coach, Susan Hyatt digs entrepreneurs and weight loss clients. She’s a speaker, retreat facilitator, and author of Create Your Own Luck, Seven Steps to Get Your Lucky On and Jacked Up On Greens. She’s known for being lucky, full of energy, and being a “get things done” kind of mentor. Find her at www.shyatt.com.

Bridgette Boudreau believes that helping her clients uncover their Truth without sugar-coating is the best possible thing she can do as a coach. She believes that there’s nothing wrong with you, the work she does with clients is about finding their deep rightness, not battling with their wrongness. She’s been a Martha Beck Life Coach Training instructor for three years, served as Training Coordinator, and currently runs the Master Coach training program. She’s also CEO of Martha Beck Inc. In her spare time, She is trying to life-coach her dog Scruffy into barking less. The problem is, Scruffy doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with her. Damn, she’s right again.

Shake It Out, Baby! Release Deeply Held Physical Tension and Trauma with TRE

TRE (Trauma Releasing Exercises) consists of a series of simple physical exercises, designed by Dr. David Berceli,  to invite gentle trembling that originates in the body’s core and travels along the spine, eventually reverberating organically throughout the entire body. Inviting the body to direct its own release in this safe and emotionally neutral way can release stored up stress, anxiety, trauma and the physical and emotional pain they cause.  This practice will, in effect, help you to forge a deeper connection with your own sweet Body.

Living in the Middle East, Susan Bainter Baghdadi is often asked what religion I “belong” to.  Most recently, in response to that question, “ I am kind of a Taoist Sufi Witch” popped out of her mouth without first checking with the filter committee! For now, the title fits well:  She aspires to surf the Way in community with Love as our map, honoring and taking cues from Body, Earth & Her denizens and the Cosmos Her recent practices include TRE (Trauma Releasing Excercises), Equus Coaching, Acro yoga and the collaborative, co-creative process of the Art of Hosting and Harvesting Meaningful Conversations. She loves working/playing collaboratively with others in groups.

Authentic Coaching with your Original Medicine

True coaching leadership and savvy does not just come from the techniques and methodologies that you use. Perfect execution of coaching tools without an authentic connection to your “Original Medicine,” is merely a shadow of what you are capable of and your clients know it. In this break-out session, Master Coaches Michael Trotta, Lori Race, and Sue Robertson will share the secrets of our native ancestors and help guide you toward your authentic medicine power.

Michael Trotta is a professional storyteller, learning specialist, mentor and artist with more than 15 years experience creating sacred space for people to build powerful connections to self, earth, others and the ancestral wisdom to which we all belong.

Susan Dahl-Robertson’s Susan’s passion is helping her clients uncover their unique gifts, strengths, passion and purpose and expressing their brilliance in the world.  She loves leading small coaching groups called BE Circles, teaching classes and individual coaching.  With a Master’s Degree in Career Development and over 10 years combined experience career coaching, counseling and recruiting, Susan also specializes in helping her clients create amazing careers that fit who they are and what they love.

The Leap of Faith: Take your Coaching Practice from Hobby to a Full-time Business

If you’ve been coaching on the side for years dreaming about what it would be like to coach full time, this class is for you.  Learn how to transition from your day job to a full time coaching practice that supports your life style. I left a six-figure job in the middle of a bad economy with no savings and am living the dream. You can too.  This class will cover:  How to build your practice while you are working full time, how to know when you are ready and creating a leap-line.

Alexis Robin is the Owner and CEO of Nourish Life and Business Coaching, a thriving west coast coaching practice focused on healing corporate America.  She left the corporate world in the middle of a recession to open her coaching practice and was financially solvent after just three months. An expert in leadership, sales and communication in the workplace, Alexis brings a professional, approachable style to her teaching and facilitation. Seventeen years in the corporate world, with Marriott, Hilton and Nordstrom have made her a strategic thinker who is combining Martha Beck coaching tools to improve the world at work. She is recognized by her clients as the coach that listens louder and delivers the unvarnished truth.

Time Management is Out, Energy Management is In – Corporate Coaching on the Pay-Off of Well Being

Being a thought leader often means being so far ahead of the pack that they don’t even get you, but that doesn’t mean they don’t need you.  This workshop is designed to demonstrate a corporate coaching approach that incorporates the tools and techniques of Martha Beck training and positive psychology into a format that speaks to the “bottom-line” benefit of energy management and well being for individuals and organizations.  Well received by many organizations this introduction will give you new language and framing concepts to approach your corporate clients with, as well as concepts, sequence, timing, and take-aways – all of which you can incorporate into your practice.

Master Certified Coach, Gretchen Pisano is the founder and President of Sounding Board Ink, LLC, a global coaching and consulting practice focused on using the best visual and verbal techniques available to drive positive change in individuals, teams and organizations.  Gretchen is fluent in strategic thinking, leadership development and positive psychology.  In addition to seventeen years of business coaching and consulting, Gretchen has a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of the SBI Coaching Resource, Energy Rich Leadership Course, i2a Strategic Thinking system and most recently, the CoachFresh line of continuing education tools for coaches, therapists and facilitators.  In addition to running her practice Gretchen is an instructor for Martha Beck Inc. and the Business Learning Institute.  She lives in Frederick, Maryland with her husband, Michael, their three children (one is off to college and the other two not even in Kindergarten yet – how’s that for planning?), two massive dogs and one stray-to-stay cat, Lucy.  Gretchen’s personal mojo comes from helping other people strengthen their practice and make their thinking visible to the world.

Practicums

• Dream Analysis
• Living Space Tool
• Though Dissolving
• Wild New World Playground

Tales from the Cape: MBI Talks

Details may be found in the TED-style Talks blog post.

1. Ubuntu: Creating A Wholehearted Life After Loss with Cath Duncan
2. The 100 Day Invitation: From Flat Lining to Rocking Out Life with Susan Hyatt
3. Rebuilding the Future with Judy Klipin
4. How To Shine In Front Of People: From Stage Fright To Spotlight! with Anna Kunnecke
5. The Closest Thing to Magic: Energy, Healing and CCT™ with Melani Marx
6. Love with Wild Abandon by Lianne Raymond
7. From Board Certified Physician to WOO WOO Queen of Animal Totems: How the Beasties Helped Me Navigate BIG CHANGE with Sarah Seidelmann
8. Social Change Coaching – How to help your peeps (and yourself!) play big in the world with Julica Hermann

Integration Tracks

By the Stroke of the Pen and the Tap of a Keyboard

Join master authors, Pam Slim, Judy Klipin & Betsy Rapoport for this hands-on deep practice intensive to get your most brilliant insights out of your mind and onto the page (works to get the garbage out too).  Writing is a powerful way to create and share your unique body of work. It will help you be a better coach, communicator and recognized expert in your field.  If you are looking to use writing as both a coaching tool for you and your clients as well as a way to market your practice, this track is for you.

Pamela Slim is a Martha Beck Master Coach and an award-winning author, speaker and recognized expert on the new world of work.  Slim spent the first 10 years of her solo practice as a consultant to large corporations such as Hewlett-Packard, Charles Schwab and Cisco Systems, where she coached thousands of employees, managers and senior executives. In 2005, she founded the Escape from Cubicle Nation Blog, which is now one of the top career and business sites on the web. Her book Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur (Penguin/Portfolio 2009) was named Best Small Business Book of 2009 by 800 CEO Read. Slim is frequently quoted as a business expert in press such as The New York Times, BusinessWeek, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Psychology Today. She is recognized as being one of the Top 100 Women on Twitter, and has a large and engaged social media following. She is working on her next book about leadership in the new world of work, which will be published in 2012.  Find her at http://www.pamelaslim.com

Judy Klipin is a Martha Beck Master Life Coach and was the first South African coach to be trained by Martha. Judy is based in Johannesburg where she has a busy private practice and also runs workshops, group events and corporate training. She is the author of Life Lessons for the Adult Child (Penguin) – a self-coaching book with a foreword by Martha Beck. In addition to her day jobs, she combines her love of life coaching with her passion for crime prevention and social development, developing programmes to provide young people with life skills and equip them make good choices and build resilient futures for themselves. In addition to her Life Coach and Master Life Coach certifications, Judy has a BA and an HDipEd from the University of the Witwatersramd in South Africa and an MSc in Criminal Justice Studies from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom.  Finder her at www.judyklipin.com and judy@stellarlifeesign.co.za

Betsy Rapoport is a certified Martha Beck Master Life Coach (www.betsyrapoportlifecoaching.com) and a professional writer/editor/ghostwriter (www.betsyrapoport.com).  She has edited several of Martha Beck’s books and is especially proud of having convinced Martha to insert the word “peckish” into Expecting Adam, which is no doubt precisely what propelled it onto the New York Times bestseller list.  Her essays and articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Huffington Post, Salon, Good Housekeeping, More, Redbook, and more. She is also the cofounder and Chief Bitching Officer of www.bitchyourselfthin.com, a humorous weight loss site.  She does private coaching and workshops and lives in White Plains, New York.

Where’s the money? Creating a Sustainable Coaching Practice

Led by Michele Woodward and Laurie Foley, this track is for coaches who want to make a shackles-off living as a coach, and need clarity around their business brand. You’ll walk away with a comprehensive worksheet which will form the backbone of your business plan; a deep understanding of what sets you apart – your strengths, preferences and mindset; a workable timeline for action items; a list of fantastic resources (web design, email programs, social media support, VAs, etc.); and case studies of successful practices which you can model to make your practice real, growing and thriving.

Career Strategist, Master Certified Coach, author, speaker and teacher – Michele Woodward has the ability to help executives get clear about who they are and what they want to do, and to develop a workable action plan to get where they want to go. A former White House official and corporate citizen, Michele works with people who want to be more effective in their work, find a new position, or re-enter the workforce. She is the Founder and CEO of The Enlightened Executive Institute™, a 12-month training/ coaching/education program for executives focusing on growing integrity, leadership, values, connection and character.

Laurie Foley is the creator of Branding from the Inside Out, a process that helps solo professionals discover their natural brand and love marketing on their own terms. She blends archetypal awareness and brand intuition with more than sixteen years of online marketing experience to help businesses grow. An award-winning blogger, she also teaches the popular class, Blog More, Stress Less, for coaches who want to learn the powerful craft of blogging in a sustainable way.

Superhero Science:  The Mixology of Positive Psychology, Coaching and a Little Woo

Intrigued by the woo?  Fascinated by the science?  This integration track is designed for the strengths of both Fact Finders and Quick Starts.  This is a hands-on experiential learning track designed to help you help your clients to reduce their resistance, shrink the change and leverage the power of Positive Psychology in their personal and professional lives.  It is about theory and application.  It is about boosting the depth, breadth and effectiveness of your coaching techniques by understanding and applying the insights provided by the study of the mind and body and how that manifests in the motivations of the spirit. Led by  Gretchen Pisano, Jennifer Voss, and Natalie Currie, this track is for coaches who want to customize their coaching mix, build out their toolbox and hone their coaching strengths.  Key concepts:  The Theory of Well-being, Positivity, Character Strengths and Values, Archetypes, Hope, Curiosity, Zest, vanquishing resistance and embracing change!

Master Certified Coach, Gretchen Pisano is the founder and President of Sounding Board Ink, LLC, a global coaching and consulting practice focused on using the best visual and verbal techniques available to drive positive change in individuals, teams and organizations.  Gretchen is fluent in strategic thinking, leadership development and positive psychology.  In addition to seventeen years of business coaching and consulting, Gretchen has a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of the SBI Coaching Resource, Energy Rich Leadership Course, i2a Strategic Thinking system and most recently, the CoachFresh line of continuing education tools for coaches, therapists and facilitators.  In addition to running her practice Gretchen is an instructor for Martha Beck Inc. and the Business Learning Institute.  She lives in Frederick, Maryland with her husband, Michael, their three children (one is off to college and the other two not even in Kindergarten yet – how’s that for planning?), two massive dogs and one stray-to-stay cat, Lucy.  Gretchen’s personal mojo comes from helping other people strengthen their practice and make their thinking visible to the world.

Master Coach Jennifer Voss is the Chief Truth & Well-being Officer and founder of the Truth Experience. She helps others find their Ground Truth and free their energy to hear and follow their calling. Before becoming a coach, she earned an MBA and spent 20+ years in various business ventures – ranging from owning an independent bookstore to holding an executive role within a national distribution company. She loves using her past experience to help others connect with the heart and soul of their business.  Her favorite part is nailing down a vision, mixing in a little  ”woo,” and watching a dream come to life in a whole, healthy and sustainable manner.

Natalie Currie is the Way Finding Coach. She works with eco and socially conscious individuals, green entrepreneurs, and social enterprises to help them discover their meaningful work and create their sustainable lifestyle.  Her core toolkit includes strength-based and brain-based coaching and positive psychology.  Following a rich 16-year career in Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Natalie pursued her dream of becoming an entrepreneur. In 2007, she launched a brain-based learning and development company. She continues to weave instructional design, consulting, workshop facilitation and public speaking into her public and corporate coaching work.  Natalie lives just north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada with her nature-loving, saxophone-playing husband Steve and their 24-year-old cat named Skye. Natalie is passionate about sustainability and is an active participant in the slow food movement.

Create SENSEsational Events

AC.TU.AL (a’kchoo el) Real. Genuine. Authentic.

Led by Valerie Steiger and Allison Cabral this track is for coaches who want to go LIVE with their coaching experiences.  Despite the conveniences of modern technology there is nothing more powerful than the collective energy of like-minded people together in room. This track will give you the expertise to design and execute sensational events that positively impact your clients and build your reputation. Topics will include: finding the perfect place, planning the details and most importantly, exploring the art of coaching and group dynamics. You will walk with the know-how to get moving on your own design and the confidence to pull it off.

Master Coach, Valerie LaPenta Steiger is passionate about unleashing women’s potential, guiding them through crisis and transition, and leading them through their personal Hero’s Journey.  She holds a BS in Business and Masters in Professional Counseling, and has a diverse practice in coaching, writing, speaking, and facilitating as well as planning workshops and retreats.  As owner of VLS Consulting, Inc. she provides workshops and retreats to corporate clients.  And in her spare time, her natural joy comes from gathering her tribe and making things happen through her event planning business, MegaJoy Productions.  You can find her at www.valeriesteiger.com or www.megajoyproductions.com.

Allison is a master life coach, yoga instructor, transformational retreat leader, and marketing expert who specializes in helping people design fun, deeply satisfying, and meaningful lives.  She  often combines life coaching with yoga to help clients find peace, presence, flexibility, and strength on and off the yoga mat.   Allison shares her coaching expertise and holistic health knowledge online, in print publications, and in books. She speaks nationally at conferences and leads retreats worldwide.   She also appears as a guest expert on television shows such as “Sonoran Living,”, “Your Life A – Z”, and “Delicious Life Challenge.”  Visit her at www.allisoncabral.com.

Woo Discovery: Woo as a Way of Life

Ready to woo-ify your life? Join Abigail Steidley, Koelle Simpson, Jeannette Maw, and Andy Newman for the integration track that will have you blissfully enjoying your unique spiritual path while also picking up your magic wand and making regular life easier. Feeling a little nervous about diving fully into “The Woo?” You are not alone.  Many coaches worry that if they allow themselves to explore this world, friends and family will view them as though they’ve gone off the deep end and literally grown a third eye. In this track we’ll show you how to integrate spiritual practices into your life so you can live joyfully in two worlds at one time and still connect and relate easily to those around you.  You’ll be glad to know you don’t have to give up whatever you love about “regular” life to enjoy and benefit from spiritual, magical living. You don’t have to be over-the-top woo all the time, nor do you have to completely reject spiritual growth. Rather, you can strike the perfect personal balance that works in your life. You can make daily life easier and at the same time ground your life in spiritual meaning. You can use your logical mind to steer you safely through spiritual exploration. We really will be teaching you how to integrate in this integration track! You’ll explore the woo world, but you’ll leave with a clear sense of what is right for you.

Abigail Steidley

I am a Martha Beck Master Coach specializing in mind-body connection tools and concepts that facilitate physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. My first intro to the woo world happened while I was searching for relief from chronic pain syndromes. I ended up lying on a massage table and practicing low-belly breathing while a breathwork practitioner conveyed messages from my spirit guides. In that moment, I wasn’t sure if I was crazy or onto something. It took several years before I was able to trust and believe in the woo side of life, and a few more before I felt confident walking in two worlds at once. I didn’t want to lose my practical, normal-life savvy or become too “out there.” In the end, I discovered the joy of using magic to make my practical life work more smoothly, and being practical as I delved into magic. Though I love the visceral sense of connection and deep spiritual joy I experience now, I’m equally appreciative of the way my woo life helps me in a very practical sense every single day. I’m eager to help others strike this balance in their own spiritual and practical lives.

Koelle Simpson

My name is Koelle Simpson and I’m a Martha Beck master coach and most people often refer to me as a horse whisperer.  I was lucky enough to grow up around some pretty remarkable four legged teachers that truly changed the way I view life.

My mind is extremely skeptical by nature. I want know the reason why behind everything.  I want the proof. I want the science.  I want it all to make sense and fit together.  My heart on the other hand has the curiosity of a child, deeply spiritual, aware, trusting and at one with nature.

Luckily learning directly from a horse has help me merge the two and opened my mind to the truly magical world we live in. Little did I know at the time, horses have been known in many cultures as the animal who can guide us with ease between the worlds of physical reality and the realm of the spirit.

Coming to understand the world of energy, spirit and the practical effect all of this has on our everyday communication, has changed my life for ever. This new perspective has taken me on an exceptional journey from the Oprah Winfrey Network series “Finding Sarah” to teaching and sharing the experience first hand with leaders, corporations, and everyday people around the world from South Africa, Europe, UAE, Canada, and all throughout the United States.

Jeannette Maw

I grew up as the epitome of the anti-woo, raised by an atheist father who sent me off to college with the instruction: “Don’t be so open-minded your brain falls out.”

But life’s answers didn’t show up for me in the classrooms or the textbooks or the churches.  The answers came when practicing the very stuff dear old dad cautioned against.  Not sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll (although that was fun, too!), but channeling and energy work and spiritual connections and harnessing the power of thought, etc.

In my heart of hearts I wanted to marry up the woo with the real world – to show everyone there’s nothing to be afraid of here; only everything to be gained.  That’s the inspiration behind my work (Good Vibe University, Good Vibe Blog, Law of Attraction for the Real World, etc.) and it’s my pleasure to invite you into the practicalities and the science of real world woo that can benefit everyone!

Andy Newman

Hi Everyone.  I am Andy Newman and I wasn’t cut out for one career.  I love having multiple activities and tying them together in a way that feels magical.  It wasn’t always like this for me. Up until age 35 I was a driven Wall Street banker concerned with rankings and making money.  I was increasingly bored and felt my job had little meaning.   I soon discovered that all my progress was focused on external attachments.  Today I still help people manage money in a shackles off environment (outside of Wall Street) where we can do lot more.  By accepting magic I have discovered that failures are really a success in disguise, an opportunity to face and dissolve fear.   Magic has allowed me to see how everything in my world is connected.  My message is that Communism is dead; Capitalism suffered a massive heart attack and is still comatose.  The new order for those who wake up and shift their consciousness is the Economy of Magic.  My coaching is about helping people peel off the unessential – the labels, the isms, to discover their deep inner awareness and their gift.  That ‘s the first trick.  Next you enter dreaming, imagining, connecting and collaborating with the world through love and empathy.  Once you have the spark, you focus on Oneness – the real You doing one thing:  living your mission, sharing your gift, again, again, and again.

Woo Woo:  Stepping into Your Gifts

This is an experiential class for those who have had a spiritual awakening, are already using their healing gifts, and desire to further integrate and expand them. Martha Atkins, Indrani Goradia, Debbie Louthan, Dave Munsterman, and Renee Sievert will lead you through a process where each experience builds on the next, opening space for stronger, clearer Divine connections. On Saturday you will learn a series of grounding exercises for different healing situations + a healing technique to identify and release energetic blocks in the chakras. These experiences will set the space on Sunday for an integration/blessing ceremony with your healing team, those from the otherside who are ready to help you further your work as as a coach/shaman/healer in this world.

Martha Atkins loves Dr. Pepper, and Boxer Dogs. Family (chosen/not), spontaneous travel, storied photographs, and authentic conversations feed her. Mysteries of Spirit inspire. She’s traveled the dark night of the soul and much prefers the light. She’s an out of the closet healer and intends to someday have tea with Rosie O’Donnell.

Indrani Goradia is the Founder of Indrani’s Light Foundation, a non-profit organization created to Inspire, Educate, Mentor, Teach all Aspiring Women. She is also an international keynote speaker, author of The Indrani Principle: Inhale Life, Exhale Joy, and has received rave reviews for her work in coaching, yoga and intuition.

Debbie Louthan is brave, authentic, and loving. She loves dolphins, horses, water she can jump in, out of the box thinking, luxurious fabrics, and nutella. And when she sings, she feels an exhilarating connection with her guides, and a powerful sense that a space is being held for healing.

Dave Munsterman works with Spirit Guides, Angels and Ascended Masters to reveal and heal energetic and emotional blocks that interfere with his clients living their best lives. On this plane Dave receives daily inspiration from his beautiful wife, children, a black poodle named “Oprah” and “Ellen”, the dancing Chihuahua.

Author, Equus Coach, and Master Life Coach Renee Sievert’s education and experience is grounded in brain science and medical research, but she has been empathic and intuitive since childhood.  Her clients are managers, helping professionals and healers who want to discover their truth and change the world.  Renee has found that her favorite co-facilitators of change are horses!