Business Concepts for New Age Practitioners
April 26, 2007

The objective of this workshop is to provide the fundamental framework of business concepts for practitioners who are just starting out, or those wanting to bring more structure into their existing practice.

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Lavender Dream Pillows

Cuddle up to these soft pillows at night as you're preparing for sleep, or use as decorative accent on a bed or couch.

The relaxing scent of lavender flowers will lull you to sleep!

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Letter from the Staff

Welcome to our March Newsletter!

We would like to thank everyone who has been contributing to our Community Stories. They have been fantastic! If you have anything you would like to share, please let us know. Be sure to check out our new workshops and our Referral Listing for some outstanding practitioners.

More than Assets

Years ago, I worked with a Senior Manager in a large corporation whose main specialization was her ability to build high-performance teams. These teams, delivering quality results, bonded together and truly enjoyed working with one another. One of the managers on the team joked that he couldn’t understand how Rebecca managed to forge a group so tight they would gladly fall on their swords for her. Yet Rebecca insisted there was no sorcery involved.

Rebecca’s success lay in the fact that she knew each person as an individual and understood their strengths and their weaknesses. The point wasn’t in trying to change a person who was a great analyst into a sales representative; it was about understanding what made each person the perfect choice for a particular role.

People thrive in an environment where being oneself is the greatest asset.

Each task depends on every person doing what they do best. Experiencing such people in action is like sitting on the shore and watching the waves roll in. Each wave rises and falls in individual beauty – an orchestrated dance blended into one.

We spend much of our lives searching for our purpose or what it was that we came to do. By the time we reach middle age, we stop long enough along our path that we find we must reassess if we are actually headed toward the right destination.

For some, our assessment results in a complete about face as we look into the distance and suddenly realize we cannot stomach another step forward in that direction. For others, we simply stand at a crossroads having forgotten where it was that the purposeful strides taken years earlier were intended to take us.

There comes a point in everyone’s life when we need our very own Rebecca standing in front of us, understanding our strengths and weaknesses. We need to hear that we are excellent as lovers, husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, workers, and professionals. We need to know that our presence makes a difference. When we focus on seeing one another’s strengths, and celebrating these, we uncover the real secret: the joy of discovering not only each other, but ourselves.

Try using a Blessing Bowl to create a sacred space, where we record on tiny scrolls those things we love and appreciate about one another. Keep the Blessing Bowl in a special place in your home and fill it with love and light.

Or create a reminder for yourself using a small stone, a tiny carved animal, a shell or one of the Kobbi stones. Anything that you can use to remember your loved ones and give thanks for the many gifts of grace in your life.

Practitioner Spotlight

In this month's Practitioner Spotlight, we would like to introduce you to Marilyn Penn, a certified Counseling Clinical Hypnotherapist (CCHt).

Loving the Butterflies by Colleen M. Quinn

Stage fright, that nauseous feeling in your stomach when standing in front of a crowd, is not usually considered a good thing. If anything, it can make you forget lines, stutter, or become physically ill. But what if instead of being nervous, it made you more confident? Stronger? Even calmer? What if any negative feeling could be resolved, and possibly used to make you feel better? It is indeed possible, as Marilyn Penn, a certified Counseling Clinical Hypnotherapist (CCHt), can tell you.

The practice of hypnotherapy had always sounded interesting to Penn, but it wasn’t until a few years ago that she looked more deeply into it. “I had an issue come up for me,” she says. “I was angry, frustrated, suspicious. As I did my research, I thought ‘I bet hypnotherapy would help.’”

Penn began hypnotherapy soon after with Zoilita Grant, CCHt, a certified hypnotherapist from the Colorado School of Counseling Hypnotherapy, in Longmont, Colorado. While resolving her own personal obstacles, Penn realized that hypnotherapy was a way to help people. Motivated by her compassion for those dealing with personal pain and trauma, whether physical or emotional, Penn studied at the school and received her certification as a hypnotherapist. She is now putting her skills into action by offering group hypnotherapy sessions and will offer individual sessions in the future.

But what exactly does hypnotherapy entail? Forget what you may have seen at fairs or on television, people falling asleep or barking like dogs. Hypnotherapy offers very real help for very real problems. “Hypnotherapy involves counseling with a client to work with issues and goals, and to facilitate the most growth,” Penn says. The most important thing to know about hypnotherapy is that a hypnotherapist works with the client: “You are not under the hypnotherapist’s control,” Penn says. “They can’t make you do anything you don’t want to, for instance, you can always come out of a trance.”

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