LIVING ALIGNED EVENING WORKSHOP SERIES With SHAWN MACDONELL and LINDA VANDERLEE

LIVING ALIGNED EVENING WORKSHOP SERIES
With SHAWN MACDONELL and LINDA VANDERLEE

By Hilda Young

Do you feel like you're chugging along on the wrong track in life? Maybe you're in need of some guidance to figure out where it is you want to go. Shawn McDonell and Linda Vanderlee have partnered up to offer the Living Aligned Evening Series in Ottawa.

“Energy meets experience” is the vision statement for the Living Aligned Evening series of workshops co-facilitated by Shawn MacDonell, founder of Creativision and Linda Vanderlee, owner of Rendezvous Rupert. Shawn MacDonell, 25, is from Shawville Quebec, a small community in the Pontiac. He is full of youthful enthusiasm and creative ideas. Rick Valin, one of Shawn’s former teachers and apprentice coaches said, “he is self motivated.” Rhonda Morrison, Outaouais CEDEC director said, "he was born an entrepreneur. He is intuitive.”

Linda Vanderlee, 50, chose to live in the small community of Rupert, close to Wakefield Quebec, where she has renovated a century old barn into a retreat center. She said that she tends to experience life challenges first then learn the theory behind them! During her life journey she has lived, worked and traveled in East Africa, Canada and Mexico. Her clients have included Carlington Community Health Services and Citizen and Immigration Canada.

Together the two make a formidable combination, as both believe in what they can bring to others' lives. Shawn's upbeat attitude is grounded in strong community support, enabling him to connect with all ages. Linda has life experience and a laid back attitude that compliments Shawn’s youthful creativity. Together they reach out and create abundance versus a scarcity mentality and stimulate others to find meaning within their own lives. Shawn encourages people to embrace technology while Linda feels enjoys connecting with people one on one.

The Living Aligned workshops series was originally conceived by Linda Vanderlee as a weekend retreat format, however as she is partnering with Shawn the set up has changed. The introductory evening will allow people to explore their connections with both Linda and Shawn. Following that will be four evening sessions in which they will explore 4 topics at a deeper level.

Linda’s philosophy is summarized as follows:

"Our beliefs determine our perspective. What we believe is what we tend to live. Remarkable things happen when a small group of individuals who share an interest in choosing to live an authentic life spend time and conversation together."

Creativision is an organization that strives to help others work with, develop and use their passions in a way that is meaningful to them and earns them a living. Creativision works on many different levels and is grounded in years of story and resource gathering and sharing.
The workshop series will be of interest to adults of all ages in transition looking to make changes in their life style or looking to define themselves better. On Tuesday, March 30th there will be an introductory session from 6 pm to 9 pm at Heartwood House 153 Chapel St., Ottawa. Cost $30. The mini sessions will touch on the four themes: Creativity, Beliefs, Vision and Support that will be explored jointly by Linda and Shawn over four Tuesday's, April 13, 20, 27 and May 4. For more information and to register visit the Rendezvous Rupert website at http://www.rendezvousrupert.org/node/209 or call Linda at 819.459.3580.

 

Padre Greg Bailey OSG ( Order of the Silly Grin)

On Wednesday evenings Padre Greg Bailey conducts an Anglican communion service at St. George's chapel. Last night his service focused on St Patrick's Day. However he did tell a method to deal with people that he learnt when he was in Manitoba. Padre Bailey tells more about the initials OSG Order of the silly grin and how they help him deal with life.
"OSG":
It came from Dean Harry Hobbs about 1978. And while he used it to refer to the inability not to smile when the Spirit is upon you, I think the idea of using it to diffuse human foibles and unpleasantness can be a strong witness in the fight to love one's enemies. It's all about serving with a gentle spirit after the example of Matthew 11:29.
I will remember that sermon for a long time as it gave me a coping technique for life and a glimpse into how Padre Bailey, a chaplain ministers to his soldiers.

Change and learning how life continues to evolve

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Well I am learning what I can do and what is out of my control. it is an ongoing process as I live in a constantly changing community. My husband works for a crown corporation: Atomic Energy of Canada Limited at Chalk River, in the Ottawa valley or Eastern Ontario. We live in Petawawa, which is home to a military army base. Soldiers from CFB Petawawa are preparing to deploy to Afghanistan.

I am an onlooker in both situations. I have learnt to laugh at some of the personalities involved and to take a back seat. I have also learnt alot about compromise. It is a challenging community to live in.

Hilda's Care plan

Just made my first visit to the dietitian at the Petawawa Centennial Family Health Centre. Judy is about my age so can relate to my problems. It felt good. I have a follow up visit in one month. Using the internet I have already been sent my Care plan.My goals are to 1: to approach my weight goal of 161-165 lbs
to gradually increase my present activity level to walking 30 minutes per day as tolerated.
I am making this public so I have accountability.
I need to do this to deal with my problems with my hips and arthritis and my energy level.
I am not as young as my new friend Shawn MacDonell!

Creativision Coaching and Consulting: Small Towns and my trip to the Eastern Townships

Creativision Coaching and Consulting: Small Towns and my trip to the Eastern Townships

Curves Pembroke is selling Grandmothers Necklace

Well I tried several times to change a posting but I was told that it had bad characters in it so will see if this publishes.
Now to talk about my day. I just returned from Curves Pembroke. The current promotion there is the annual March food drive. If you bring in a bag of groceries for the local food bank the enrollment fee is waived! That is a saving of $200. So far this month 400# have been donated.

Today I also brought 4 copies of Grandmothers' Necklace for sale. Cost is $21 including tax. All profits go to the Stephen Lewis Foundation- Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign.

Leap forward step 2

Well I now have three followers. I will try to keep them entertained with some humour! I spent Saturday in Ottawa. It was my second trip in a month alone. I took the Quebec route again so it seemed easier however I was not in the turning lane when I needed to take the Island Parkway entrance from Gatineau so drove in abit further then turned around . I managed to get a little lost again as I drove past the War Museum and missed the merge lane at Wellington. Eventually I found my way to the parking lot near St.Peters Lutheran church. Another minor adventure as I tried to pay for parking. I could not read the instructions as the paper was washed out . I tried all my credit cards but it would not accept any.. walked away, phoned my daughter then tried again.. -When all else fails read the instructions. I had to turn the credit card with the black signature sign up! Hurray- it worked the first time!
My mini adventure continued as I had lunch with my daughter at the Scone Witch then spend 30 minutes exploring the area around the parking lot.
this blog will be continues

Return of the Red Canada Olympic mit

I am known for leaving items behind! Recently I attended a book launch in Deep River. As usual I had extra stuff with me including my pair of medium adult Olympic mitts. A friend asked who they belonged to at the event. I was told to be careful with them and hid them as they were hard to come by! Dutifully I hid them in my hoody.At the end off the evening I climbed into the vehichle of another friend who gave me the ride to Deep River. They asked me if I had everythng.. yes..mitts and all...

However when I unpacked at home one mitt was missing. I phoned the Bean House and the Deep River contact - no mitt. Well-it's gone I thought . I tried to replace it last weekend but Zellers was sold out.
I attended another event - World Day of Prayer in Petawawa where the Grandmother's Necklace book was being sold. Eileen Barber my driver from the Deep River event asked me if I had lost a mitt--Yes--. She found it in the back of her car and could not remember who had had a mitt. So my lost mitt is found...