Spot of Grace: Reactivating Your Purpose and Passion
 a two-day workshop with Dawna Markova

What is it that enables certain people to respond differently to what might flatten the rest of us?  Not just a special few are born with this capacity; it resides in each of us.  In this multidimensional workshop, we will become a community of such angels to each other.  We will use appreciative inquiry, storytelling, music, art and movement, to help each other uncover the forces supporting our growth and encouraging us to share our gifts on behalf of what really matters.  October 18th & 19th, 2008, 9am-5pm each day.  Fee $225.  To stay in workshop mode throughout the day, women are asked to bring a bag lunch.  For more information visit www.dawnamarkova.com.  Presented by A Woman’s Way Retreats www.awomansway.com.

Registration Information: To register by phone call 928-254-1897, or mail the completed Registration Form and deposit or total fee to: A Woman's Way, P.O. Box 127,Sedona, Arizona 86339. 

Are only a few remarkable people able to sing while being incarcerated, create while everything around them is being destroyed, find wisdom in the midst of depravity?  Or are such people bearers of the possible, living their lives like a flag that reminds the rest of us what lies within: the possibility of leaping across the habitual abysses carved in our minds to make different choices - choosing, in effect, to perceive, think, and act as fully free human beings?

Not just a special few are born with this capacity; it resides in each of us. It is activated by choosing to grow the spot of grace in yourself and others on behalf of something that enhances freedom and elevates human dignity. Recent findings in neuroscience teach us that our brains have the capacity to grow for our entire lives. Thus, after we grow "up," we can grow forward. Through difficulty you grow. Through adversity and joy you become more wise and resilient. It is your nature to grow. It is all that life asks of you really: grow the seeds you were given, the spot of grace that is who you truly are.

In a standardized and fragmented world of 6 + billion people, we all need inspiration to reach across the abyss that divides us one from the other. In my grandmother's mystical tradition, it is taught that we are angels to one another. It is said that we are sent, without our knowledge, to various places in order to do our destined work and make love multiply. Thus any person on earth may be called upon to act as an unwitting angel for another.

About the Facilitator

Dawna Markova, Ph.D., is the author of A Spot of Grace, I Will Not Die an Unlived Life, The SMART Parenting Revolution, The Art of the Possible, The Open Mind, No Enemies Within, An Unused Intelligence, How Your Child is Smart, and Learning Unlimited.  As one of the editors of the Random Acts of Kindness series, she helped launch a national movement to help counter America's crisis of violence.  A former board member of the Visions for a Better World Foundation, she was given their Visions In Action Award.

Dawna is an inspiring speaker and social artist who is internationally known for her ground-breaking research in the fields of perception, learning, and the identification of intellectual capital.  She currently serves as a thinking partner to senior level leaders and organizational leadership teams.  A founder of www.SmartWired.org, she is also a former Senior Affiliate to the Organizational Learning Center at MIT, and current Research Affiliate of the Society For Organizational Learning, served as a faculty member at the Union Institute, Lesley and Antioch Graduate Schools.

 For further information please contact
 Sedona Creative Life Center  928-282-9300