PSCDA March Speaker

March 1, 2007, 6:30 PM

Topic: "Doing the Work on Career Challenges... The Work of Byron Katie Applied to Career Issues"

Speaker: Molly Gordon, MCC

Location: Community Center, Mercer Island, WA (For directions, click here)


Doing the Work on Career Challenges...
The Work of Byron Katie Applied to Career Issues

How many times have your clients expressed thoughts like these?

• No one wants to hire a 54-year old woman.
• It was a terrible environment to work in.
• People expect me to be a doormat and still make my numbers.
• They shouldn’t expect me to ________________

There are any number of pitfalls on the path to a happy career. How your clients handle these pitfalls has everything to do with whether or not they stay on the path until the miracle happens.

In this interactive presentation, Master Business Coach Molly Gordon will introduce The Work of Byron Katie and show us how we can apply it to career issues – both for our clients and ourselves.

The Work is a simple process of inquiry. Using four questions and turn-arounds, you can investigate the stressful thoughts that turn pitfalls into sinkholes. The Work ends the war with the self, and when you aren’t fighting with yourself, it’s amazing how well other people start to behave. ;-)

The Work develops what is variously referred to as EQ, emotional intelligence and emotional literacy: the ability to manage oneself and one's relationships through recognition of emotional reactions to people and situations. Using The Work, you can effectively address the professional challenges-such as stress, burnout, difficulty in communication, and physical and emotional pain-that impede the ability to relate with compassion and understanding.

The Work helps create more openness and clarity in interactions with colleagues, clients, supervisors and direct reports so that one is more available, fluid and efficient at work.

The Work is a sort of universal wrench that can un-do the most stuck patterns and belief systems. Come on down and find out for yourself how to use this deceptively simple tool.

You’ll find abundant free resources including instruction in The Work and worksheets for doing The Work at Byron Katies's website: http://www.thework.com/index.asp

By the way....Molly is a graduate of the October 2003 9-day School for The Work and is a volunteer on The Work Hotline, a free service for anyone that wants to be facilitated in the process. She does The Work on an (almost) daily basis.

ABOUT Molly Gordon, MCC...

Molly Gordon is an internationally recognized Master Certified Coach, whose company, Shaboom Inc, equips “Accidental Entrepreneurs” to succeed in life and business. Since 1993, Molly has helped thousands of professionals and artists develop prosperous businesses founded on their deepest values.

Molly is the creator of Authentic Promotion, Grow Your Business, Feed Your Soul, a mind-body-spirit approach to embody a prosperity based on service, purpose, and lifelong learning. Tens of thousands of people subscribe to Molly’s free ezine and/or visit her Web sites, where they received hope, help, and a lively dose of hilarity.

An avid student of Spiral Dynamics and Integral Theory, Molly is a passionate advocate for doing business as a path to increased personal and collective awareness and effectiveness. She is fascinated by the developmental potential in everyday business concerns such as pricing, competition, money, and marketing. Her lifelong commitment has been to bridge the gap between material attainments and nurturing the human soul.

Molly’s approach is straightforward, sassy, and smart. She’s a refreshing voice in a field that can seem full of hype and manipulation. You can sample her work and subscribe to her acclaimed ezine at http://www.authenticpromotion.com/

This meeting will be followed by an interactive discussion regarding the concepts of Byron Katie's work and how they apply in the workplace.

For more details about Molly Gordon, check out her website: http://www.shaboominc.com

Plan to attend and be inspired!

PSCDA thanks Webmaster, Mixie Kingman Eddy, for arranging the March speaker. Please contact her if you have any questions about this meeting: mkeddy@gmail.com

Meetings are open to the public--free to Members, $10 to nonmembers.

Questions about membership can be directed to our Membership Chair: <pugetsoundcareer@gmail.com>

Please Note our new venue at the Community Center on Mercer Island! (For directions, click here).

Also PLEASE NOTE there is GOURMET DINING available for PSCDA Members!

Since PSCDA will discontiue serving food at monthly meetings, beginning in December, we offer hungry members a new alternative. Sahara Pizza has agreed to deliver your orders to the Mercer View Community Center by 6:30 pm on meeting nights. Sahara Pizza offers individual size gourmet pizzas, a variety of dinner salads, pastas and more. Here's how it works:

- Call Sahara Pizza by 3:00 the day of the PSCDA Meeting and indicate you are a PSCDA member: (206) 232-9800
- Place your order and pay by phone. A $2.00 service charge will be added to cover delivery and tip.

That's it. Your order will be labled with your name and delivered promptly to the PSCDA meeting room at the Community Center by 6:30. To see a menu or place an order, go to http://www.saharapizza.com/mercerisland/index.html

Drinks will continue to be served at the meeting.

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