Group Workshops Through in-person workshops and teleclasses, Opening Eyes, LLC offers to businesses and organizations the opportunity to address in very practical ways, today's most pressing topics including: living a passion-fueled personal and professional life; career/life integration; creating and communicating values-centered requests, offers and boundaries; integrating your body, language and emotions in order to live fully. As author of Transforming Lives $40 at a Time, Women + Microfinance: Upending the Status Quo, Dana also presents on the power of microfinance to alleviate poverty, and what microentrepreneurs teach us about what it takes to affect meaningful change in our lives. While the topics are proposed for groups, you may find that the themes are a key area of focus that you would like to work on in one-on-one coaching. Workshops and teleclasses may be comprised of readings, reflection, discussion, interactive practices, and always, concrete action steps to carry you beyond each session. Topics, dates and times are initiated both by Opening Eyes, LLC and by request. Please email dewhitaker@openingeyes.net to make a workshop (or one-to-one coaching) request from the list below. Workshops range from one, one and one-half hour session, to a full day. Teleclasses typically run four weeks, one hour per session.   Current Teleclass/Workshop Courses August 26, 12pm 7 Keys to Living a Passion-Fueled Life El Cerrito Rotary Club (open event) Mira Vista Golf and Country Club 900 Cutting Boulevard El Cerrito, CA Wednesdays, September 8, 15, 22, 29; 12-1pm What I Want To/Will Do Before I Die! WHAT: What do you really care about? What impact do you want to make on the world? In this four-session workshop you will: identify key life goals, develop ways of being and strategies to reach them, unearth and transform barriers, begin implementing your plan, receive support from other participants, and receive one personal coaching session with Dana. WHERE: Lunchtime Conference Call INVESTMENT: $200 for the series—$175 for those who sign up by Wednesday, September 1st SIGN UP: Email Dana at dewhitaker@openingeyes.net *you will receive workshop details once you have enrolled Group Workshop Topics: 7 Key Elements to Living a Passion-Fueled Life Passion is something that may come like a lightening bolt; sometimes it arrives as a result of self-exploration and a combination of experiences; passion is also something that can be created and nurtured everyday, regardless of what we're doing. In this workshop you will learn the 7 elements of being and doing that together will activate daily, a passion-fueled life for things significant and seemingly mundane. Career/Life Integration is about Time Commitment, Not Time Management Where do your days go? Do you ever end a day, a week or even a month in a blur, wondering what you accomplished and what took your time and energy? In this workshop you will learn how to redirect your daily time and energy towards that which is truly important and impactful for your life. Essential Communication Strategies to Connect with Clarity, Conviction and (Self-) Compassion Effective communication begins with knowing what communication really is. It's not just about techniques and skills. Real communication is a reflection of YOU, and it begins with self-awareness - of both what and how you speak and how you listen. How you communicate either helps or inhibits you from being the person you want to be even in the midst of life's inevitable chaos. What and how you communicate also determine the degree to which you can truly connect with others, set boundaries, say 'No' without guilt and achieve the results you desire. This series of three (3) workshops: Making Effective Requests and Offers; Setting Boundaries and saying 'No'; and, Body Language, may be taken separately or in any combination. Mind, Emotions and Body—Activating All of You; It's Essential to Living a Full Versus a Fractured Life What emotions come up when your body aches? What do you say to and about yourself when you make a mistake that others see? Whether you realize it or not, your body affects your emotions, which affects the language you use with and about yourself, others and about life's possibilities. We are often unconscious of the constant interplay between these three components of ourselves. In this three-part workshop you will explore the way you hold your body, the stories you tell yourself and the emotions that hold you captive or set you free to be the person you want to be and create the life you want to live. Experience the Power of Microfinance from the Microentrepreneurs' Perspective Using her book, Transforming Lives $40 at a Time as a backdrop, Dana offers a unique presentation/workshop about microfinance based on the perspective of those most affected by it—the microentrpreneurs themselves. Like her book, Dana vividly highlights one of the most promising alternatives available today to help individuals pull themselves out of poverty's dehumanizing grip with dignity and hope. She will also guide you in exploring for yourself, how your life aligns with the seven practices that microentrepreneurs have found essential in order to realize significant improvements in their lives. Each talk is tailored to your audience and venue. It provides an ideal opportunity to deepen your relationships with clients, colleagues, club members or friends through learning, thought-provoking conversation and calls to action, both personal and global.