What's New with Opening Eyes, LLC  View the latest Newsletter, and Archives  Access Dana's articles on effective strategies for personal and professional growth and change: ezine.com Articles. What's New in Coaching  Courses InChargeInChange What's InChargeInChange? It's not just the name of the ChangeCast™ workshops—it's exactly how you'll feel after you take this workshop. Who It's For? Are you facing a major life change that's causing you to lose perspective, lose confidence, lose clarity, or lose sleep? Take charge—take the lead in your Change Story. Whether it's a job layoff, a relationship break-up, a health issue, a financial challenge, or entering a new career or stage of your life, we can help. InChargeInChange Workshops are designed to make any major personal or professional change positive and productive by giving you the insights to see your situation clearly and the tools to take action and make the change happen. How It Works In this workshop, a team of ChangeCast™ professionals, Dana and Susan Wayne, co-owner of ChangeCast™, will guide you through the unique ChangeCast™ process. Take the self-assessment to reveal your personal ChangeCast™. Get to know The Protagonists in your ChangeCast™and the Antagonists trying to sabotage them. Learn how each one affects your personal Change Story. Take charge of your ChangeCast™, your Change Story and your life. Workshop Format InChargeInChange is a multi-step series with a structured format to keep you moving forward and making progress at every step. Yes, 4-3 hour sessions is a time commitment. But all of our participants tell us it's absolutely worth it. Our workshops are intimate, with no more than 12 people, and designed so that everyone shares—our Change Stories, why we get stuck, and why we thrive. Our workshops are highly engaging, informative, personalized and effective—no matter who you are or what change you're facing. If you want to realize a significant change; InChargeInChange is for you. Includes personal coaching. When: Wednesdays, Jan. 27, Feb. 3, 10, 24 5:30-8:00 Where: Berkeley, CA Investment: $295 for the series ($270 - Early Registration—by January15—OR Refer-a-Friend Discount) Sign Up: http://www.changecast.com/events Upon registration, you will receive workshop materials and location  Personal/Professional Events: National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) Check out a chapter near you for monthly networking, professional development meetings, dynamic speakers, new colleagues and friends. For information: www.nawbo.org/  Resources: Suzanne Scurlock-Durana's book, Full Body Presence, shows us via clear, compelling descriptions and exercises how, by activating five principles, we may live fully in the present. These include: Trust in the existence of Life's nurturing energy; Feel our natural connection to Life's energy, thus enabling us to claim our internal wisdom; Integrate this energy in order to develop healthy, flexible, strong boundaries; Expand our perceptual lens to see possibilities rather than be stuck in limiting expectations, and; Choose, moment by moment, to connect to life-giving resources. (Healing from the Core Media 2008). According to A Whole New Mind, Why Right-Brainers will Rule the Future author Daniel H. Pink, the glory days of Western Civilization's left-brain linear, logical, knowledge-based biz whizzes are over. That's because for every new ingeneous product introduced by these whizzes, within months, a deluge of copycat products are developed and brought to market by other 'I can do it better and cheaper' biz whizzes, many of whom live and work (more cheaply) overseas. (Bye-bye USA jobs, and the market edge) As, if not more important, it's no longer the 'whats' one can devise and sell that defines success for a business or an individual. In fact, says Pink, our material abundance (of originals and copycats) is breeding nonmaterial desires that no product alone can satisfy. Indeed, the once revered giants of the Information Age are only going to thrive, not to mention survive, if they move into the quickly emerging Conceptual Age. Once seen as frivolous, and touchy-feely, zeroing in on the right-brain of the Conceptual Age is the answer to professional success and personal satisfaction. Within the pages of A Whole New Mind (Riverhead Books, March 2006), Pink compellingly outlines—for children to adults—the essential 'six senses' or aptitudes required to satisfy both one's personal longings and professional competitiveness. These include: design, story, symphony, empathy, play and meaning. Beginning a career search can be daunting, scary and complicated. Twenty years ago I devoted myself to following the steps in Richard Bolles', What Color is Your Parachute, and it's as inspiring and clear today as it was then. I am using Bolles' revised 2009 version to help my coaching clients better understand their preferred transferable skills and key values so that their next career is not just a paycheck at the end of each month (though that is certainly important!), but one that provides deep satisfaction. Is it possible to do less and live a richer, fuller life? Explore the whys and hows of living from passion and intention, rather than being dictated by the clock. Opening Eyes, LLC recommends: Marc Lessor. Less. New World Library, 2009. HOW we do what we do has the most significant impact on our well-being, our ability to connect with others, and to produce desired shifts in the personal and professional arenas of our lives. What are the winning HOWs in today's transparent, ever-changing, competitive business climate? Opening Eyes, LLC recommends: Dov Siedman. HOW. Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything... in Business (and in Life). John Wiley & Sons, 2007. We do have control of our happiness quotient despite life's inevitable bumpy roads. Opening Eyes, LLC recommends: Marci Shimoff. Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out. Free Press, 2008.   What's New in Microfinance  Attend a current Transforming Lives $40 at a Time Book Event: Check back soon for new listings!  Resources: CGAP.org CGAP.org, the website for the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, is an essential site to visit if you want to expand your knowledge of microfinance, read current findings from the field, hear from experts, learn about technology and social impacts, and gain access to publications on a range of topics. Women Advancing Microfinance (WAM) Would you like to meet and learn with and from women involved in microfinance, both domestic and international? Check out www.waminternational.org for a chapter near you. WORLD PULSE Experience the world exclusively through the eyes of women. Visit online to hear the latest from every corner of the world. Voice your opinion, share your stories at: www.worldpulse.com.