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Volume 4 | March 2007 | 403 subscribers For more information and to view this newsletter online go to our website now !
" Time is not a line, but a series of now points." ~Taisen Deshimaru
In relation to the quote, Valentine’s Day
must have been one of the “now points” that I missed wishing all of you.
Hope you all had a wonderful one surrounded by those you love. I had eye
surgery and was delayed in writing my newsletter, as too much time at
the computer can be irritating to my eyes. Just had my two week check-up
and all is progressing as planned, and here I sit at my computer. I’ve had a series of now points in the past six weeks, which have been
very fulfilling both in my personal and professional life. I worked with
an all female staff group on transitions and we had a most outstanding
time together. This was a particularly solid team and our time together
was really transformational and a delight for me to facilitate and
witness. I also spent two days with another team and a team within that
team. We spent a day talking about communication; the good, the bad and
the ugly of it all. While learning and brainstorming and practicing new
ways to communicate we were able to laugh a lot about our humanness. We
also talked about how we hold assumptions and the impact those
assumptions have on our patterns of communication and behaviour. Always
a fascinating subject for me and a challenge for most of us,
particularly when we look at work groups. An upcoming “now point” if that is possible, is another retreat that I
am doing with a woman from California in two weeks. I can’t wait till
she arrives and we get to spend our three days together. Actually she’s
coming a bit early so we’ll be able to have oodles of time to talk,
think, and plan, and for her to enjoy the beautiful surroundings in our
wonderful Village of Cumberland. Now that my husband and I have The
Village Hideaway Vacation Suite, I have more flexibility in my
retreat formats. This suite allows me to host day long workshops for four or six
people, as well as extended one on one retreats.
Give me a call or
send me an email and you too could have a fabulous
retreat just for you or with a friend. Isn’t it time to focus on you?
Little Black Book of Connections Read it for yourself. I absolutely guarantee that you will come away
having learned something new or shifted your thinking about
networking and what it really means and the benefits that far
outweigh the event or meeting you are attending.
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including
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Group Workshops The Village Hideaway is available for full day workshops. For more information on group workshops, please visit http://www.ascentcoaching.com/corporatecoaching.html. Group Retreats Three days and two nights at the beautiful Burping Dog Guest House in the historical Village of Cumberland, BC. Here's what's included with a Group Retreat:
As I mentioned in 'A Note from Linda', I have
had lasik eye surgery since writing our last newsletter. I love the results.
I love walking in the rain without glasses that get wet. I love
being able to fall asleep without having to take my contacts out. I
love that my eyes don’t dry up or have a piece of dust in my eye
when I wear my contacts. I do have to put teardrops in my eyes
although it is less and less as time goes on. My mom also told me
that taking two capsules of Flaxseed helps with eye hydration so I
am doing that as well. I do have to wear readers when doing computer
work or reading a book. I have some funky readers so I don’t mind
that. I have had to train myself to have them in many places, as
you’ll never know when you may have to read something. It has been a
good thing and I am very pleased with outcome. We have set up our vacation rental, the Village Hideaway, now and it is ready for guests. Here are a few pictures from the suite so you can see how beautiful and inviting it looks. We will be having our first guest this month from California and I am looking forward to her feedback on the experience. We’ve had a few tours through the suite so people can have a look and the comments back have been overwhelmingly supportive. It is a beautiful sunny day today and I took the opportunity to just sit in the suite and experience how comfortable, bright and inviting it is. It is a place that I know I’d be very happy spending time so I am sure guests would as well. The professional photographs have been taken, the wireless capabilities all set and the website is being completed as I write. It is a perfect home away from home, great for a businessperson or a traveler.
You can email me at
Oprica@ascentcoaching.com
if you’d like to inquire about availability or call my toll-free
number at 1-888-391-2233 until the website is up and running.
Looking forward to doing more daylong workshops for small groups and
1:1 retreats in that space. David and I are very excited about this
additional venture in our lives. I will be taking on the role of President of our Chamber of Commerce
at the end of this month and I am so looking forward to the
opportunity and the challenge. I have only one key objective this
year as the President and that is to have more of our membership
participate in the many activities and functions we host. As you
know, I am big on connections and I feel if there are more people
connecting in a meaningful way with others we will have a dynamite
organization. We have an excellent Board as well as staff, and it
will be an exciting year for me to work with all these folks and to
contribute the skills and leadership I have, in addition to what
they bring, to the success of the organization. I will keep you
posted on how that goes as the year progresses. Very exciting! I have had more wonderful clients come my way through referral and
they of course are a delight for me to work with. I have met some
business people new to the Comox Valley through Chamber activities
and events and that has also been very rewarding. We’ve had some
excellent conversations together about the keys to business success
and what it takes to come to a new community and be able to find a
place for yourself.
We had a few things happening around the Village this past month. As
Valentine’s Day fell on a Wednesday this year, David and I went for burger
night at the local pub to celebrate. As we walked to the Waverley we
noticed several pink hearts made of paper posted around the Village. On
each pink heart was a quote related to love, friendship or giving to
others. It was such a lovely touch and made such an interesting walk.
The Valentine’s had been put around the Village by a group of young
people early in the morning to brighten everyone’s day. Certainly
brightened ours! We also hosted a Taiwanese Lantern Festival here. This included a very
large indoor display of large handmade lanterns made in Taiwan and
brought here to share in our festival. The festival ran for almost two
weeks. Other highlights, aside from the lanterns themselves, were a
foot parade in the Village with fireworks, Taiko drumming and the
release of several lanterns in the sky. The Festival was a huge success
and we look forward to next year’s. Every year is different so there
will always be new surprises. This weekend we have another unusual event in the Village. My Rotary club has raised thousands of dollars this past year and purchased four defibrillators, three of which will be placed at different spots around the Village. The distribution and presentation will be this Saturday along with a demonstration of their use. These are the same kind found in very large airports around the world and what is significant is that we will be the first community in British Columbia to have these defibrillators and that a Rotary club of 25 people were able to raise many thousands of dollars to purchase them. Quite an accomplishment. I am proud to be part of this Rotary Club. Remember the tree from the 100-year-old apple tree that I purchased last fall? Well the $1000.00 I paid went to the fund for these machines. Very cool indeed. We’ll also be having a special day where there will be plaques erected in the orchard to commemorate their donations. I will take a picture of our tree for next newsletter. The frogs are starting to croak into the nights now, the daffodils
springing up, the tulip stems shooting out of the dirt so spring is just
around the corner. Can’t wait. You know, we’ve been here now for 1.5
years and in so many ways feels like forever that we’ve been part of
this community. We are grateful daily to be here. - Linda For
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