§  Grief’s Meaning

 

§ It hurts uniquely during the Holidays

§ Seek supportive/understanding people 

 

REFLECTION: The Snowflake theory for me is important because……

§  Grief’s Mysteries

 

§ Everyone does not go through all the Stages

§ Take a break to compose yourself

 

 

REFLECTION:  The Grief Journey’s physical and emotional areas that surprised me were……

§  Grief’s Impact

 

§ Most areas of my life were affected

§ Stay busy but allow your feelings

 

REFLECTION:  I will begin to Do something I have always wanted to Do for me and that is……

 

QUOTE:            “Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much.”            

A. J. Cronin

 

§  Your Perception

 

§ Death is a natural part of life

§ Grief stages are an integral part of living

 

REFLECTION:  I will feel Death by allowing myself to acknowledge the loss/process the pain by…………..

 

§  Your Response

 

§ Stop expecting others to understand

§ Don’t let Grief be your unfinished business

 

REFLECTION: I will build my Grief Space and allow myself time for silence by……..

 

§  STAGE ONE - Loneliness/Depression

 

§ Feeling all alone and depressed

§ Shock/Denial – emotional release

 

REFLECTION:  I will Reflect in my writing or Meditation positive thoughts that can help me find an emotional release by….

 

§   STAGE TWO - Your Possible Side Effects

–    Lack of concentration and Memory loss

–    Anxiety and Isolation from others

–    Fatigue and Reduced productivity

–    Increased accidents and errors - Disorganization

§  STAGE THREE - Your Anger/Hostility

 

§ Acknowledge your anger and hostilities

§ Panic attacks/anxiety – Guilt/Shame

 

REFLECTION:  I welcome a Grief Partner where my confidentiality will be honored by….

 

QUOTE:  “How happy a person is depends on the depth of his Gratitude.”          

John Miller

 

§  STAGE FOUR - Letting Go to Heal

 

§ Address the physical symptoms and get active

§ Forgive yourself and seek acceptance

 

REFLECTION:  I will learn to Journalize, identify my Triggers and address them by .….

 

§  How to Cope – Progress

 

§ Move along, let the tears flow

§ Allow for times of silence, honor yourself

 

REFLECTION: I will acknowledge the loss and that I am not 100% by ……..

 

§  How to Move Forward - Liberation

 

§ Accept the blessings of the relationship change

§ Know your experience is unique

 

REFLECTION:  I will not rush my Bereavement and be patient with myself and my timeline by……..

 

QUOTE:            “He who forgets the language of Gratitude can never be on speaking terms with

Happiness.”                                              

C. Neil Strait

 

• How to Search - Answers/Stages

 

§ Keep the faith, allow time to Heal

§ Believe in you – Gender differences

 

REFLECTION:  I will commit to my Faith and reject Fear as I work at the cost of grief by……..

§  How to Reach Within - Choice

 

§ Be willing to stop asking “why” - acceptance

§ Don’t isolate – significant dates matter

 

REFLECTION:  I will remember them always as the true impact comes later and it starts with……..

 

§   How to Move On – Pay it Forward

 

§ Search for meaning in your loss – give back

§ Be a comfort to others - awareness

 

REFLECTION:  I am willing to Learn to live again by attaching some meaning to the loss through……….

 

§   How to Grow Beyond – Celebrate a Life

 

§ Live each day for both of you - senses

§ Open doors when you are ready

 

 

REFLECTION:  I will show kindness, count my blessings; accept the opportunity of this special time by….

 

QUOTE:            “So much has been given to me; I have not time to ponder over that

which has been denied.”                       

Helen Keller

 

     

Surviving the Death of a Sibling – Wray, T. J. – 2003

The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion - 2005

Connections – Clarke, Jean Illsley - 1999

When Bad Things Happen to Good People – Kushner, Harold – 1997

 

Hospice of the Valley www.hov.org

Living through Loss www.templechai.com

New Song Center www.newsongcenter.org

Hope for Bereaved www.hopeforbereaved.com

Crisis, Grief and Healing www.webhealing.com

 

 

§   P. L. Brooks Seminars, LLC

§   Brooks Goldmann Publishing, LLC

§   www.blog.brooks.goldmannpublishing.com 

§   www.plbrooks.com  480-250-5556  patricia@plbrooks.com 

§   Faculty Lecturer:  Arizona State University - Business

§   President/Founder:  Scottsdale Society of Women Writers

         Member:  AZ Authors Association – 2006 Award Winner

         Member:  AZ Book Publishers Association

           

         Award Winning Author: Gifts of Sisterhood www.plbrooks.com

        

         Do you need a SPEAKER for your group?

 

§  Gifts of Sisterhood - a journey on to your own

 

2006 AZ Authors Association

Literary Contest

Winner– non-fiction category  

 

§  Door prizes for you!!

§  Event price – Gifts of Sisterhood - $10                    

§  www.plbrooks.com to review FREE chapters of Gifts of Sisterhood

§  FREE one hour consultation on writing or publishing - 2010

 

THANK YOU for coming – Happy Holidays!

 

 

 

 

            In today’s political firestorm over health care alternative forms of medicine are overlooked.  Brooks Goldmann Publishing, LLC announces a new book and CD by Rev. Cay Randall-May, Ph.D., Healing and the Creative Response: Four Key Steps Shared by Healers and Artists which explains how to use prayer, laying-on-of-hands, Therapeutic Touch, Reiki and Energy Medicine to promote well-being.  In addition to reducing the emotional and physical distress of illness and injury, Randall-May asserts that applying the steps in her book can enhance self-expression through a process she calls the Creative Response.

 

            Randall-May, who represents prayer healing and medical intuition on the national Council for Healing and serves on the American Board of Scientific Medical Intuition, is a faculty member of the Energy Medicine University where she teaches natural approaches to healing.  She shares examples of natural healing from her more than 30- year career as well as from the experiences of many other healers and artists.  Readers who sample this richly illustrated book and CD online by visiting www.HealingCreativeResponse.com will be opened to the possibility of achieving greater well-being while engaging more than the usual senses. 

 

BROOKS GOLDMANN PUBLISHING, LLC – features their authors:

·       Kebba Buckley Button – book signing: Sat. 10-12 noon

o   Discover the Secret Energized You

·       Cay Randall May – book signing:  Sat. 1-3 p.m.

o   Healing and the Creative Response

·       Michael J. Lyding – book signing: Sun. 10-12 noon

o   Gratitude a Verb

·       Mia Pratt – book signing: Sun 1-3 p.m.

o   The 100 Golden Keys

SATURDAY and SUNDAY

NOV. 21^ST and 22^ND

For more information on the event:       www.bookstreetaz.com  

FREE – ONE HOUR CONSULTATION w/attendance at this event – just pick up a card from Patricia L. Brooks.

For more information about publishing consultation and book shepherds see:             www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

 

§  M            IS FOR MISSION STATEMENT

 

§  Make it your own – Memorable – position yourself/your product

 

§  A                        IS FOR ACTION PLANS

 

§  Action Plans are the Strategies – Goals/Objectives w/Vision

 

§  R                        IS FOR RESEARCH

 

§  Rule #1 – Know the competition - Rule #2 – Know who you are

 

§  K                        K IS FOR KEEPING TOUCH

 

§  Kindness in building relationships – use of “viral marketing”

 

§  E                        E IS FOR E COMMERCE

 

§  Explode the marketplace - Electrify you/your product

 

§  T             T IS FOR THE (30) THIRTY SECOND COMMERCIAL

 

§  Teach and Tell - Take time to prepare to win

 

 

§  I              I IS FOR THE INTERNET

 

§  Success is not an accident, take advantage: social media

§  N                        N IS FOR NEGOTIATE

 

§  Negotiate – Make a commitment to be an industry partner

 

§  G            G IS FOR GIVING THANKS

 

§  Give thanks - Grace the marketplace, Build a better brand

 

 

ü  What makes you a Success with your personal Brand?

 

ü  How will you target to Compete when 85% of business is done Online?

 

ü  How Committed are you to Selling what they want and need?

 

ü  Are you Prepared and Willing to attract what you need in 2010?

 

ü  Are you able to act like an Entrepreneur and think like a Customer?

 

SUGGESTED READING:

 

v  Seven Habits of Highly Successful People – Stephen R. Covey

v  Hot Leads…Cold Shoulders – Robin Craig and Norma Ory

v  Who Moved my Cheese? – Spencer Johnson, MD

v  Good to Great – Jim Collins

v  The Tipping Point - Malcom Gladwell

v  Blink – Malcom Gladwell

v  Don’t Worry, Make Money – Richard Carlson, PhD

 

 

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY features

Patricia L. Brooks, MAOM – speaker, author, publishing consultant and

ASU associate faculty 

patricia@plbrooks.com and www.plbrooks.com

www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com and cell 480-250-5556 cell

 

 

The Journey from Grief to Gratitude

making the most of the holidays

November 16^th, - Monday – 9:30-11:00 a.m.

 

ASU Polytech Campus - Williamsfield and Power Roads, Mesa, AZ

 

 

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION

 

The Journey from Grief to Gratitude

making the most of the holidays

Speaker:     Patricia L. Brooks, MAOM

 

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In an encouraging presentation, Patricia shares her Journey from Grief to Gratitude to allow you to make the most of the holidays.  With her story, ideas and suggestions, she will honor the unique stages of grief and their impact on us.

 

Powerful truths for the holidays:

·        Trust yourself

·        Listen to your heart

·        Keep their memory alive

·        Know they are here

 

Patricia will send you to the New Year with insights inspired by a philosophy of gratitude!

 

Patricia is the author of Gifts of Sisterhood, the beautiful story of her relationship with her sister Roberta who passed away from lung cancer. She is also the grateful sibling who healed through this writing. 

 

Book Report By: Sofia Goldmann

(age 10, 5th grade, Carlsbad, CA)

The Leader of Oz: Revealing the 101 Secrets

of Marvelous Leadership

for the 21^st Century

Dr. Kevin D. Gazzara and Dr. Murtuza Ali Lakhani

This book is published by MLS Publishing;

it has 154 pages and is a fiction, self-help book

 

Setting

When: The story takes place in present day life.

Where: In Kansas at Marvelous Snacks and mainly in Ruby City, CA at OzBorne.

Main Characters Dora, Professor Marv, Glenda, Cher, Tim, and Howard

Professor Marv is the owner of Marvelous Snacks, is Dora’s boss, and is good friends with Glenda. Professor Marv is old, weak, and kind. Dora is Professor Marv’s employee, Glenda’s a short temporary employee, and friends with Cher, Tim, and Howard. Dora’s role in the story is to help Professor Marv and OZ to help build up their success. Dora is responsible, intelligent, and supportive. Glenda is Professor Marv’s good friend, Dora’s temporary boss, and Cher, Tim, and Howard’s actual boss. Glenda is kind, caring, and respectful. Cher is Glenda’s employee and friends with Dora, Tim, and Howard. Cher is smart, caring, and responsible. Tim is Glenda’s employee and friends with Dora, Cher, and Howard. Tim is respectful, trustworthy, and intelligent. Howard is Glenda’s employee and friends with Dora, Cher, and Tim. Howard is sensitive, generous, and responsible.

Plot This story is about a woman named Dora who is going to Ruby city to help OZ be better and greater than before for Professor Marv and when she comes back to Kansas she finds out that they could work together and Dora gets promoted to be the manager of Marvelous Snacks.

Professor Marv gets sent to the hospital and asks Dora to cover for him at OZ. Dora gets off the plane and meets Glenda, they eat lunch and Glenda gives Dora Eve’s laptop. Dora goes to OZ and meets everyone and then she meets Mitchell who she has to work with and he’s terrible. Dora goes to meet Cher, Tim, and Howard and they are wonderful. All four of them are working together on their job.

Dora was forced to work for money after she finished high school. Cher was forced to work during college and she has a lack of education. Dora got promoted and is now the manager. Cher, Tim, and Howard put on a presentation for Dora but mostly Mitchell to show what they have done and accomplished but it didn’t work because Mitchell sent an email to the wizard. The wizard called in for a conference over the phone and Dora told the wizard everything and he said he would call back.

Dora goes home to find that everyone is there to promote her. The professor took Dora when she was looking for a job and offered her one and she took it. When she went to OZ everyone greeted her and she felt like that was home. Dora found out that the wizard was actually professor Marv and he was checking in on her. Professor Marv taught Dora all the techniques and Dora taught Glenda, Cher, Tim, and Howard all the techniques.

Recommendation My dad would love this book because it’s about leadership and he does a lot of leadership in his job.

New Vocab. Words Immensely pg. 4 vast huge, I learned immensely from my teacher, Tumultuous pg.4 turbulent, People go through tumultuous times, Counterparts pg. 5 a person or thing closely resembling another, Each class has a lot of counterparts

 Main Character Paragraph Dora is responsible, intelligent and supportive.

Dora was responsible for making a difference at OZ. Dora’s intelligence made OZ bigger and better. Dora’s support made everyone overcome their fear.

Singing Sentences Dora was awakened from her flashback by the soothing voice of Dr. Hartley. Dora’s plane landed with a thud rousing her from her deep thoughts. Dora noted the enthusiasm, energy and drive in Cher’s voice.

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Patricia L. Brooks, president, founder

SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS

RSVP - 480-250-5556 – patricia@plbrooks.com or  info@brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

 

WHAT:           Scottsdale Society of Women Writers Monthly Meeting

 

WHERE:        Meeting Location: The Marriott Old Town, 7325 E. Third Ave.

 at Scottsdale Rd., So of Camelback, turn E at the light

 

WHEN:           5:30 to 7:30, Wed. November 18^h    Please RSVP*

 

WHY:             The Scottsdale Society of Women Writers gives members access to events of interest, a format for exchanging ideas, an opportunity to network with other women authors, an alliance with businesses relating to writing and publishing and camaraderie and support.  

 

HOW:             *RSVP now to Patricia at 480-250-5556 or patricia@plbrooks.com  

 

 

 

HOLIDAY DONATION:  Please bring a new adult book to the meeting on the 18^th to be donated to the Crossroads for Women half-way house for their new library.   The Scottsdale Society of Women Writers holiday charitable donation for 2009 offers the books in time for the Holidays.  Thank you in advance for your contribution to the women.

 

 

VandeVrede has been in high-tech public relations for more than 25 years, working for startups such as KnowledgeNet, iMemories and Sequencia, mid-size companies such as Viasoft, and large multinational corporations such as Honeywell and Data General. Many of the strategies and concepts she uses to help increase brand awareness and reputation are described in her book, Press Releases Are Not a PR Strategy, which won the Arizona Book Publishing Association Glyph award in 2008.

 

Public relations and press releases have evolved significantly over the last few years because of social media.   The days of creating and mailing one press release to the masses are over.   Instead, these are the days of creating “social media releases” and reaching diversified and segmented communities in the manner in which they choose to be reached.   This presentation provides an introduction to what constitutes “press releases” and tips on what to write, when to write, and various ways to distribute in order to get the maximum benefit of book publicity.      

ENTREPRENEURIAL MOTHERS ASSOCIATION

 

 

November 10, 2009 11:30 pm to 1:00 pm

EMA-Northeast Valley features:

Patricia L. Brooks, MAOM

publishing consultant, speaker, author

Stone Creek Golf Club – 4435 E. Paradise Village Parkway, Phoenix, AZ

Please RSVP for lunch - 602-432-2537 with Bebe Heng.

 

 

 

Marketing for Less         Patricia L. Brooks          MAOM           Publishing Consultant author, speaker

 

 

 

Patricia takes you on your first step to Marketing for Less with Passion because she believes you must know you can do this yourself.  The journey is fresh and uplifting in its account of how she prepared to go from being a small home-based business owner and part-time university professor in 1996 to a published author and sought after consultant.  She is president and founder of the Scottsdale Society of Women Writers and owner of her second business, Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company, LLC.  www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com   Her perspective is generous and worth noting as she shares with you how to get Focused on your goals, objectives and strategies in the “new wave” of social networking and technology that is available to all of us.  This entrepreneur shows Wit, Courage and Faith during times of challenge by sharing ideas to help you become more competitive from your own vantage point.    Along with insight into a philosophy of business worth emulating; she will Motivate you.  Regardless of your competition, you will be shown how to launch your Vision for Marketing Success in the New Year.  You will learn how to take advantage of the promotional opportunities that are available to your business.  Patricia asks you to think about your Vision for new business, and seek the advantages beyond your current efforts.  She wants you to be Honest about how much Commitment you have made, and how Prepared and Willing you are to be critical at all check points in your marketing plan.  She expects you to ask yourself what makes you a candidate for success.