PERSEVERANCE WORKSHOP
If you are unemployed, underemployed, uncertainly employed, or a business owner, and you’re feeling worn out by the struggle to find work, come learn how to tap into new sources of energy and direction. This program is for professionals who have been impacted by the economic downturn and are in need of ideas and support. It is primer on the best practices for dealing constructively with the new economic reality through strategies for coping with change over the long haul.
This program is being offered as part of the monthly dinner meeting of Business and Professional Women of Lower Cape Cod at the Bookstore Café in Wellfleet on March 8, 2011. The public is welcome. Call 774.722.0339 or email Jamie Burge for information. The cost for dinner and the program is $25.00.
BEING IN TRANSITION
The fact that women appear to manage change well may create the illusion that we’re "good at" transition, but this external competence brings with it an internal unrest when we are addressing only the surface level of change (the coping part) and missing the opportunity that being in transition offers to enrich our lives when it is accepted and embraced consciously. Often we adjust, adapt and move on without "mining" (as in gold mine) the change for its real value—being more of who we were meant to be.
On March 9, at 1 PM, I will speak on Transition at the First Parish Brewster Unitarian Universalist Church in Brewster, MA, in a program sponsored by the First Parish Women’s Alliance. Call 508.896.7087 for more information.
We live in a world where change is constant, and yet we make little space in our lives for dealing with it. Even the most painful and significant events get swallowed up in our culture’s pervasive impetus to move on. Retirement, the loss of a job, a major illness, the death of a spouse or partner, the limitations of aging—these are but a few of the major transitions in our lives. They are also opportunities for growth.
