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Carolyn Shaffer's 2008 schedule December Working Visit to the San Francisco Bay Area Friday, December 5, through Tuesday, December 9 Please contact me soon if you live in or near San Francisco's East Bay and would like to sign up for a private, in-person session during my visit. I'm scheduling sessions now with current and new clients. I usually return to the Bay Area three times a year to see clients face to face (always a treat for me). This year, due to a family medical emergency, I was only able to schedule two such visits. (The family member, my husband, is fine now.) In 2009, I intend to return to my usual three-times-a-year schedule of Bay Area visits. Check this page after Thanksgiving for the dates of my next scheduled visit, probably in February. Here's when and where I will be seeing clients this December: Fri., Dec. 5--Monica Simms' Berkeley office (Shattuck near Ashby) Sat., Dec. 6--Monica Simms' Berkeley office (Shattuck near Ashby) Sun., Dec. 7--Monica Simms' Berkeley office (Shattuck near Ashby) Mon., Dec. 8--[not scheduling appointments] Tues., Dec. 9--Sandra Lewis' Berkeley office (Webster near Telegraph) If you want a session with me but are unable to schedule one between Dec. 5 and 9, please consider making an appointment for a telephone session. I've been conducting these for over 20 years. Clients--including those who have never met me face to face--have told me, time and again, that these phone sessions are highly effective. (For more information on telephone sessions, please return to the home page and check the right column.)
FREE initial 20-minute telephone consultation If you're considering working with me and want to talk with me about whether my work would be a good fit, please call or email me. I'd be happy to schedule your initial free, 20-minute telephone consultation.
Tell your friends about these FREE telephone consultations If you've already worked with me and your friends ask about the experience and whether it might benefit them, please send them to this web site or give them my phone number or email address. Tell them that I'd be happy to talk with them for free for 20 minutes and answer any questions they might have.
WORKSHOPS ALSO AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
Whether you are interested in partnership, childbirth or community, I can tailor a workshop to the needs and desires of your group or organization. If you are inquiring as an individual, I'd be happy to talk with you about how you might generate a workshop group in your area. (You receive your tuition free if you take responsibility for organizing the workshop or you host it in your home or place of work.) To discuss requesting a workshop, contact
Carolyn This workshop clarifies misperceptions about romance, love and commitment that can distort your capacity to make wise relationship decisions and introduces you to a method for making these decisions that allows you to feel whole, joyous and powerful no matter what the outcome. Using the tools of intention, journaling and guided imagery, you identify:
I offer two versions: one for singles, another for those who are partnered. (I can also tailor the workshop to women-only and men-only groups.) The workshop for singles focuses on how you can best attract—and recognize—the kind of partner you want (as well as get clear about whether you really want one). The workshop for those who are partnered* helps you discover how you can reshape your current committed partnership so that it better matches who you are and what you desire—individually and as a couple. You also clarify to what extent you are ready and able to make these changes and the consequences of not making them. *Some people prefer to attend this workshop as a couple, others without their partner. You can request either a couples workshop or one for people who are partnered attending without their partner. What people are saying about Carolyn's relationship work:
For more on what people are saying about Carolyn's relationship sessions and workshops, please see the sidebar on the top right-hand side of this page. Hypnosis for Childbirth–for Moms and Birth Companions: Ease and Enhance the Birthing Process Through a combination of intention setting, guided imagery and self-hypnosis training, this workshop helps you increase your confidence as a birthing mom or a birth companion, enhance your capacity to relax under stress, and bring your full power to the childbirth experience. If you're the birthing mom, you learn how to reduce pain by releasing fear and resistance and activating your body's natural anesthesia. This improves your chances of moving the birthing process forward naturally and can help reduce your need for medication. If you're the birthing companion—mate, friend, doula, labor coach—you learn how to relax and be fully present so that you can better help the birthing mom stay focused, calm and confident. Both of you develop a tool kit of highly effective practices and receive an array of useful tips plus a set of audio recordings to help you reinforce what you have learned. What people are saying about Carolyn's self-hypnosis training for childbirth:
Creating Community Anywhere: Based on my book, Creating Community Anywhere (coauthored with Kristin Anundsen), this workshop introduces you to the benefits—including the health benefits—of community, the major pitfalls and how to avoid them, and the many forms—residential and non-residential, high-commitment and low-commitment—that community can take. Using the tools of intention, journaling and guided imagery, you clarify what you want most and what you have to give, take stock of the community-building assets you already possess (probably more than you realize), and develop a set of simple, concrete steps to generate the support and connection you desire. Dr. M. Scott Peck, author of the best selling The Road Less Traveled, wrote in his Foreword to Creating Community Anywhere:
Build greater community among those you already know:
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