Spa for the Mind Coaching & Communication Inc. — Designing success in personal and professional environments

Workshops

I offer workshop curriculum design and delivery in the areas of communication skills — written or oral — leadership, team-building, facilitation skills, mindfulness and meditation in organisational settings. Clients may themselves deliver the training or programme developed by me or contract with me to do the training and facilitation. I can customize the workshop format to fit any particular organisational need for professional, corporate or non-profit groups.

The skills I bring to my workshops have been honed over 25 years, during which I worked as an international journalist, an adult educator and a university-level instructor for eight years, the latter for eight years after completion of my PhD. I also completed a learning-centred programme for which I was awarded a certificate on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education from the University of British Columbia in January 2001.

The customised work I do for specific organisations or corporations on leadership, team-building and facilitation skills is proprietal in certain aspects, which limits what may be disclosed outside of the contracted context. Read the review I received for one such corporate workshop here.

Here are the programmes that I offer on an ongoing basis, on-site and off, to individuals, organizations and corporations.

Avoid Taking Years to Become a “Paperback Writer”: Techniques for Kick-Starting the Writing Process, Maintaining Momentum and Ending Aptly
(includes video of workshop venue).

Wisdom from Wine: In Vino Veritas & the Truth about Wine. To be delivered at Solaris Wellness Spa in Kitsilano, Vancouver, on Sept. 10, 2009.

Getting Started Without the Muses: Techniques for Kick-Starting the Writing Process. Delivered at Solaris Wellness Spa in Kitsilano, Vancouver, on July 11, 2009.

Don’t Let’s Wait for the Muses. Given off-site on Mayne Island at La Casa de Inspiracion in June 2009.

From Writer’s Block to Writer’s Cramp©: Techniques for Kick-starting the Writing Process, Maintaining Momentum and Ending Aptly. Eight hours, $1,000.

Mental Makeover.© Eight hours, $1,000.

Buddha in the Boardroom©