bodymindspiritworks   LLC

Your life is a rich mosaic of emotions and experiences. How can you get a handle on them to give your life greater shape and clarity? The Intensive Journal® method is an integrated system of guided writing exercises to access and work with your experiences and feelings in order to gain awareness about your life. The Intensive Journal® will help you in many areas of your life: creativity, energy and momentum, self-esteem, healing, intuition, and decision making.

Intensive Journal® workshops led by Thomas D'Alessio, Certified Consultant. Tom received his training with Dr. Ira Progoff and has provided accredited Intensive Journal Workshops since 1990. "Intensive Journal" is a registered trademark of Dialogue House Inc. Click on the image for more information!

Stress is a given for all life, and it is not all bad! Without the background stress the natural environment continually puts upon all living things, there would be no life at all. So what are we stressing about? Plenty! The problem is that today much of the stress in our lives is different from what our physical and emotional systems were designed to handle: it is greatly increased, it doesn't let up, much of it we cannot even influence let alone control, it comes from many other sources than the natural environment, it has become chronic and permanent.

Our bodies live in an almost-steady state of "fight or flight." Chronic stress has devastating negative consequences in our lives, physically, emotionally and spiritually.

"All Stressed Up with Somewhere to Go" is an integral approach to dealing with the experience of being all stressed up with NOWHERE to go.

Instead of focusing on "stress reduction" or "de-stressing" (which often amounts to avoidance), the workshop will focus on identifying the sources of stress unique to the life context of each participant, determining which are outside the participant's control, which are within, and which might, at best, only be influenced. The workshop will teach the responses most effective in each of these areas. The intention is to help participants move from "coping" toward "mastery."

The schedule for this one-day experience begins with check-in at 9:30 a.m.; session begins at 10:00 am. and concludes at 4:30 p.m. Lunch is included. This workshop will initially be offered Sunday 8 March 2009; participants limited to 10. More workshops will be added on future dates. This is a full-day immersion experience. As a result of the work, participants will:

1. Invest a day in a peaceful environment conducive to peacefulness and relaxation.
2. Be nourished by healthy and flavorful lunch prepared with care.
3. Learn about distress ("bad" stress) and eustress ("good stress") and the consequences of chronic stress of any kind; learn about our natural biological responses to stress (known as general adaptation syndrome) and why it may actually be counter-productive in today's world.
4. Identify the specific areas of distress in their lives.
5. Learn specific body-mind-spirit practices and techniques for responding to stress effectively.
6. Create an action plan for dealing with primary sources of distress.
7. Create a sustainable plan for ongoing healthy response to stress.

It takes ambulances an average of 8 minutes to respond once they get dispatched (it takes about 3 minutes for an emergency call to get routed to the correct agency for dispatch). Brain tissue starts to die within 4 minutes and brain damage is likely. After about 8 minutes, brain damage becomes irreversible. CPR helps prevent brain and heart damage, making community awareness and skills essential to a patient survival.

Classes are offered at Bodymindspiritworks in Grafton, WI or at another site of your choosing, and are limited to 6 students. Minimum class size for off-site instruction is 3 students. Classes are led by Jennifer D'Alessio, CC/NREMT-P, an American Heart Association CPR/BLS Provider Instructor.

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