FORTHCOMING WORKSHOPS

IINTUITION AT WORK

DATES: Sat 20 Aug, or 1 Oct, 2005 10.30 – 4.00pm, £65

Sharpening your intuition can be crucial to success in making busines decisions;  for your own self-development;  in teamwork for finding out how groups really feel about the likely success of future projects. 

 We were all born intuitive, but often logic, life and stress may switch us off from our inner senses that tell us how we really feel about the things we are doing and how we are experiencing the world.  Intuition is not a substitute for analytic thinking but it can be complementary, providing leaps of imagination, gut feelings or flashes of insight to aid your strategies and timings of actions.

Spend a relaxing day getting in tune with your intuition.  Learn how to use  your intuition when faced with new situations  /  to build intuitive thinking into your forward planning strategies  /  become aware of the differences between sensations:  a gut feeling in the pit of your stomach or feeling the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end  /  Increase your powers and confidence to intuitively trust yourself to make the right decisions - in work, in life or in love.   

MANIFESTING YOUR HEART'S DESIRE

DATES: 27 July or 24 Sept, 2005 10.30 – 4.00pm, £65

If you were doing all the things you truly wanted to do - WHAT WOULD MAKE YOUR HEART SING?    If you have felt the presence of synchronicity and flow in your life before you will know that the experience is exhilarating yet often fleeting.  Come and plant some mind seeds that follow the universal principles of manifestation and abundance and recapture your feelings of 'flow'.

 Spend a day opening up to your heart's desires.  Check which principles of abundance you habitually use and which ones you may need to work on.  Explore whether you have the support of your subconscious mind for the current actions you are taking - and if you haven't then find out what needs to change.  Listen and open up to your own powers of universal intuitive guidance.  Plant mind seeds you will tend, nourish and grow.  Leave with your route-map and initial steps towards claiming your heart's desires.

GETTING TIME ON YOUR SIDE

DATES: Sat    TBA     2005 10.30 – 4.00pm £65  Frances Coombes (for details of Individual workshops for self-development, or weekday workplace trainings please telephone 0207 609 1619.)

"Time, like a snowflake slips away, whilst you are deciding what to do with it".   You don't use time – it uses you.  Whether you race to complete tasks as quickly as possible or you do nothing at all – time still passes at the same rate and you can't have any of it back.  But what if you could strike a balance between working and completing more of the things you want to do more of the time?  Come along and find a more holistic way to do 'Time' - discover when to 'push' for your goals, when to 'pull' and when to simply let time 'flow'..

NEW HORIZONS - BEGINNING YOUR CAREER CHANGE 

DATES: Sat    TBA     2005 10.30 – 4.00pm (for details of Individual workshops for self-development, or weekday workplace trainings please telephone 0207 609 1619.                     

Spend a day exploring options and planning how to make your career change.    Explore what it is you value most about work,  and factors that may be inhibiting your actions towards change.  Identify the transferable skills you already have and those you may need to improve to enter your new career arena.. Identify the steps you need to take and design an action plan for your new career path that will give you a blueprint for success.  ..   Whilst the intentions are serious the course will be fun.

CONFIDENCE BUILDING BY CHALLENGING LIMITING BELIEFS

DATES:  TBA - 2005 10.30 – 4.00pm dates on application, £65  Frances Coombes

Challenge habitual thinking and confront your negative beliefs using NLP techniques of reframing and questioning negative thoughts.   Many of us allow our brains to make negative statements about our abilities every day that go unchallenged.  When you can stand back and view where your train of thought becomes derailed, then you can begin to take actions to question negative beliefs you hold about yourself and get your thinking back on tract. 

Spend a day finding positive beliefs that support you.  Understand the way that beliefs are built and how to reframe them.  Begin to use questioning techniques that challenge limiting beliefs.  Use logical levels of change to clarify your thinking and give you focus.  Evaluate your situation, find solutions and plan some smart goals that enable you to achieve your aims in life more quickly.

WRITER'S WORKSHOPS

DON'T GET IT RIGHT - GET IT WRITTEN!  STRUCTURE YOUR NON-FICTION BOOK IN A DAY

DATES: Saturday 30 July or 8 October 10.30 – 4.00pm, £65 Central London, WC1, Nearest tube station Goodge Street                        Frances Coombes

From book idea to structure and sales pitch in a day. Spend a day getting motivated and gathering tools and techniques for writing your book. Experience the whole body sensations of standing on your book outline and listening to the extra information your intuitive self  gives you.  Explore with other writers factors such as: whole body knowing,  planning and structuring your book, dealing with blocks and limiting beliefs;  goal setting, plus speed pitching exercises designed to help you clarify your thinking before pitching your book proposal to publishers.

ARITCLE WRITING, SELLING YOUR FEATURES + FILLERS (Beginners)

DATES: Saturday 23 July or 15 Oct 10.30 – 4.00pm, £65 Central London, WC1, Nearest tube station Goodge Street                       Frances Coombes

Commit to selling just one feature and you will cover the cost of your workshop.  Marketing is a skill that writers, even successful ones, are not always good at.  If you learn how to target and sell your work from the beginning, it will become like second nature when you move on to longer articles.

HOW TO SELL AND RE-SELL YOUR WRITING, MULTIPLE SALES (ARTICLES)

DATES: Saturday 3rd Sept or 19 Nov 10.30 – 4.00pm, £65 Central London, WC1, Nearest tube station Goodge Street                       Frances Coombes

Why sell an article once, when with the right slant you can sell it again and again?  Understanding magazines as businesses and finding their focus can dramatically increase your chances for sales.  Spending 20 minutes brainstorming each of your feature ideas for 15 to 30 target makets.can increase your query letter commission rate.. Learn how to turn out your writing in volume and substantially increase your article sales.

WRITERS PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT COACHING DAY

DATES:  Sat 10 September or 26 Nov 2005 10.30 – 4.00pm

£65  Frances Coombes

Why should only atheletes, celebrities and business people have their own performance enhancement coaches? Writing my be cerebral, but the concerted leaps you can make in your writing techniques, or beliefs around your writing capabilities can equally improve your writing performance in a day.  A truly outstanding day when you will aim to achieve 'pushthrough' and take your writing to the next dimension. Using performance enhancement coaching  and neuro-linguistic programming techniques around achieving successful outcomes.      We will examine individuals sticking points,  and  model other people's successful writing strategies, to build more confidence in your own writing abilities

Frances Coombes is Performance Enhancement Coach, Feature Writer who has written articles for The London Evening Standard + Guardian newspapers and career, business and relationship magazines.   She is author of 'Be Your Own Best Motivator', publisher Hodder + Stoughton.  To find out more about workshops, reserve a place on any of the workshops, or for a copy of 'Be Your Own Best Motivator' £6,  e-mail   francescoombes@yahoo.com