Legal Wellness: A Compassionate Legal Guide for Women
Legal Wellness: A Compassionate Legal Guide for Women
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Getting There: The Rocky Road To Success
Getting There: The Rocky Road To Success
Have you ever wondered why some people succeed when so many others fail? Some of the most successful men and women you know were once considered failures.
The path to success is rarely easy or direct. Before making it big, Anderson Cooper couldn’t get an interview for an entry-level job at ABC, Warren Buffett would become physically ill at the mere thought of speaking in public, Rachel Zoe was her boss’s scapegoat for stealing, and Graydon Carter was thrown out of two universities.
These are a few of the many stories shared in Getting There: A Book of Mentors, an inspiring new book in which thirty leaders in diverse fields reveal their secrets to navigating the rocky road to the top. In an honest, direct, and engaging way, these role models describe the obstacles they faced, the setbacks they endured, and the vital lessons they learned along the way. They dispense not only essential and practical career advice, but also priceless wisdom applicable to life in general.
Beautifully photographed and edited by author Gillian Zoe Segal, Getting There also features stories from Michael Bloomberg, Frank Gehry, Marina Abramović, Daniel Boulud, Hans Zimmer, Sara Blakely, Matthew Weiner, Jillian Michaels, David Boies, Laird Hamilton, Kathy Ireland, John Paul DeJoria, Leslie Moonves, Wendy Kopp, Ian Schrager, and Jeff Koons, among others.
Getting There is for everyone—from students contemplating their futures to the vast majority of us facing challenges or seeking to reach our potential. So join us, as Gillian shares these unguarded, inspiring stories and distills the essential ingredients necessary to achieve success.
There will be a book-signing following the conversation and books will be available for purchase at the event.
Colette Baron-Reid
4 Steps To Teach Kids To Manage Their Emotions
Helping children handle their emotions is finally somewhat of a priority in education these days. To meet this goal, there is growing popularity in the practice of mindfulness: active attention on thoughts and feelings in the present, without judgment. Being aware of your emotions in the moment, and learning to stop yourself before reacting is a great first step in strengthening the spiritual muscle of restriction. But the steps that follow are what can create long-term change in children’s behavior—and ultimately in the way they will handle challenges throughout their lives.
In Lesson Number 8, Level 1, of our Spirituality for Kids program, we introduce children to the 4-Step Formula, which is the process we use when a situation triggers a reactive emotion. It goes like this:
STOP (Don’t do anything; pause)
CHILL OUT (Meditate; take 10 deep breaths; listen to music; take a walk…)
ASK (Ask your True Voice to guide you)
SHARE (Find a way to share in the situation)
We can help our kids (and ourselves) to accept and be less judgmental about reactive emotions, by understanding the concept of the Two Voices. As a result, we recognize that constant conflict naturally exists inside each and every one of us. When children get this idea, they no longer feel like “bad” boys or girls, or that something is wrong with them if they feel reactive.
Another important point kids take away from this lesson is that they have the power to choose whether or not to react. They start seeing that these emotions are no longer an inseparable part of them, but rather something they can put on the side, look at, and decide how much power to give them.
The Light I reveal by controlling my reactive behavior, and the insight I gain about myself, and others, by listening intuitively to my True Voice, makes me emotionally stronger. This is the key to resiliency in life.
In the last step of sharing, kids can transform a challenging situation into an opportunity. For example, a common conflict between siblings can be when one is being mean to the other; in most cases the one who is being mean is the one having a bad day or difficult time. We can teach our kids to not immediately take mean behavior personally and react, but also consider the other person and ask, “Is everything ok?” or “Do you need any help?”
Empowering our children to be aware of the processes they are going through, and their options, not based on fear or forced morals, but based on the Universal Spiritual Laws, will help them to make a real and lasting transformation.
Like Albert Einstein said, “If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”
Dr. Marc Rosenbaum
Dr. Marc Rosenbaum holds an advanced degree in Applied Psychology and is the founder and director of Education for Excellence, an organization dedicated to enhancing the positive development of children through parent and teacher education and empowerment. For the past 23 years, as a way of forwarding those visions, Education for Excellence has presented social/emotional learning programs to more than 5000 New York City, California and Colombia South American parents and teachers.
His books, Masterful Parenting —The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read, El Arte de Ser Padres and Education for Transformation, serve as the curriculum guide and foundation for these programs. Dr. Rosenbaum is an adjunct professor at Touro College where his book, Education for Transformation, is the text used for his three-credit Masters in Education course.
Masterful Parenting
Masterful Parenting
Parenting is hard -- yet it’s one of life’s most rewarding and fulfilling experience.
It’s also, one of the most researched areas in the entire field of social science, yet there is no parenting manual. Current research shows that the most important thing a person can do to be a better parent is to focus on developing him or herself – to look inward.
For the past 23 years, Education for Excellence has offered Masterful Parenting Training®, a dynamic growth and development course based on the premise that, as parents, “we teach who we are”. This uplifting and inspiring course supports parents in developing essential life skills they can teach their children by example -- qualities such as:
- Focused Listening
- Feeling Valued and Loved
- Assertive Communication
- Peaceful Conflict Resolution
- Forgiveness, Empathy, Acceptance and Joy
- Taking responsibility
- Making Conscious Choices
It is well known that children thrive in a supportive home environment created by parents who embody, and teach by example. So, join us for this important Self Mastery social and emotional learning program, if you want to know what it takes to develop the essential skills to help your child thrive and flourish. This in-depth introductory class will be lead by Dr. Marc Rosenbaum, founder and director of Education for Excellence.
The full 18-hour Masterful Parenting Training®, parent leadership training, growth and development program will be offered in a 6 week workshop beginning April 28th and continues for six consecutive Tuesday evenings from 6:30-9:00 pm. Details to come.
“The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.” – Peggy O’Mara
On Your Case
A comprehensive, compassionate and only slightly bossy legal guide for every stage of a woman’s life.
Getting There
How To Free The Writer Within – Part 2
How To Free The Writer Within - Part 2
We have been asked to provide a follow up class to our “How to Free the Writer Within” – the introduction to memoir writing workshop, lead by author, entrepreneur, and lecturer, Marva Allen.
To take this class as a prerequisite you would need to have taken a basic introduction to writing class, or our “How to Free the Writer Within” workshop, with clear understanding of such aspects as characterization, plot, voice and more.
In this workshop, limited to 5 people, we will actually work on your Memoir...you must have at least three chapters of your memoir written...we will take a deep dive into developing the first chapters of your Memoir...finding your theme, drilling even as far down as word choices.
Join us and get that those meaningful and important memories on paper – let’s write!
Disruption
Disruption
Social Disruption – Can You Handle It?
Marriage is being disrupted. Once upon a time in America, marriage was the norm for adults. But now, for the first time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking these numbers in 1976, there are more single Americans than people who are married. About 50.2 percent — or 124.6 million American adults — are single.
Gender is being disrupted. The University of Vermont recently established a third category that students can identify as – it’s called ‘neutral gender.’ In this system people can choose a gender in adulthood, whereas our current system assigns everyone a gender at birth.
The family is being disrupted. The modern family is the new normal -- traditional families are history.
Media is being disrupted. There is a new balance of power online - the rising power of social network movements, the creation of online video ‘celebrities,' musicians, writers and more.
Business is being disrupted. With the rate of change going on, do you think your company will be around in the next 5 years? Futurist, Dr. Peter H. Diamandis believes that 40% of fortune 500 will be gone in 10 years.
We are in the middle of significant shifts. The world has changed and will continue to change rapidly. Have we humans really caught up with or understand this incredible transformation? How do we adapt to this changing world and even thrive in it? What are the opportunities? Is disruption simply the theory of evolution? Let’s talk.
The conversation will be co-moderated by Sarika Jain. Sarika Jain is a trusted business and personal transformation advisor with several years of experience in the corporate strategy, facilitation and coaching space. She works with people and organizations on defining their vision, removing limiting belief systems, and successfully executing strategic plans, with a focus on gaining insight, meaning and purpose during the process. Sarika has a background in engineering, international development and management consulting, and is a Wharton MBA graduate, and has worked with Merrill Lynch, The World Bank, Bain & Co and Yahoo!.
Television legal analyst and attorney Lisa Green has written a compelling, hilarious and compassionate book: On Your Case: A comprehensive, Compassionate (and Only Slightly Bossy) Legal Guide for Every Stage of a Woman’s Life. The book offers something new: a witty, direct and empowering legal guide for women, filled with accessible information they can employ to understand and respond to common legal issues throughout their lives, from dating, marriage, and kids to jobs, retirement, aging parents, and wills.
Lisa Green has an urgent message for women of all ages, especially those who consider themselves fully briefed on nutrition, personal finance, good schools, and great bargains:
What about the law?
Whether or not you invite it into your life, the law will find you. When it does, will you be ready to respond?
Leveraging her professional training as a lawyer and her personal experience as a wife, ex-wife, mother, and daughter, Lisa explains common, even complicated, legal issues in practical, easy to understand terms. Sharing true stories, from jaw-dropping court cases to her own personal challenges, Lisa explains how readers can make the best possible decisions when problems arise. And legal problems will arise, Lisa counsels, so women need to get smart, and get ready.
In her warm, yet firm, voice, Lisa guides readers through the potential legal issues around:
As Suze Orman demystified personal finance and put women in the driver's seat of their own financial future, Lisa Green now does for legal know-how. With On Your Case, Lisa empowers you by equipping you with the tools you need to take care of yourself, your assets, your family, and your career.
Don’t miss this powerful conversation. She will share the 3 legal documents every adult should have.
“Lisa Green’s compelling and breezily conversational book gives us the tool kit we’ve been waiting for to wise up and open our eyes. It’s a must-read for all women – and the earlier, the better.” – Lee Woodruff, New York Times bestselling author of Perfectly, Imperfect: A Life in Progress