spring 2015 program guide Personal Finance Accountability Group This workshop is designed for those who have already attended the “Creating a Financially Organized Life” class at Women’s Exchange and wish to continue building skills to tackle individual financial concerns within a small group. A strict code of confidentiality will be upheld with financial counselors, Anne Wieboldt MBA, CFA, CFP and Nancy Wieboldt, MBA, CTFA. 4 Wednesdays, April 8, 15, May 6, 13, 10 to 11:30 am. $100 / $90 payment 5 days in advance. Of Special Interest.... Monthly, join the fun and help hospitalized children. All you need is the ability to stitch two squares of cloth together by hand. Sewn strips of colorful cloth are turned into finished quilts that are donated to Project Linus. Conversation around the table is reminiscent of the quilting bees of old. Mondays: April 6 and June 1, Noon to 2 pm. No charge. No registration necessary. Awaken Your Intuitive Heart Truly a special workshop! During two afternoons together, you will be invited to unleash the power of your intuition with author Therese Evans. Learn to turn within for guidance about yourself and the world around you. Strengthen personal and family relationships, improve business relationships, become a better listener and communicator, and experience spiritual growth, as you begin to see the world in a new way. Saturday & Sunday: May 30 & 31, Noon to 4 pm. $145 / $140 payment 5 days in advance. Nurturing Persistence in Learners How can you encourage your children to pursue challenges and view mistakes as opportunities for growth? What is a growth mindset, and why is it important? How can praise be used effectively? What “common sense” parenting tools actually backfire when it comes to attitudes towards learning? Erin Doyle, Executive Director of Nurturing Wisdom Tutoring will answer these questions and focus on strategies for fostering attitudes of persistence and independence in our children, using Carol Dweck’s book, “Mindset” as her guide. Thursday, April 9, 1 to 2:30 pm. $25 / $20 payment 5 days in advance. Ask The Organizer Have you always wished you could spend just one hour with a Professional Organizer to get answers to your organizing questions and problem areas? Now is your chance with Karen York! If you have a problem closet, room, or any area of your home or office, join us to have a glass of wine as one-by-one we Ask the Organizer - anything! Thursday, May 21, 7 to 8:30 pm. $25 / $20 payment 5 days in advance. Health & Wellness BeMoved® Dance Fitness Experience Each week focuses on a different musical style. Facilitated by Debbie Kristofek, Certified BeMoved® Instructor. Winnetka Community House, Rm. 204. Wednesdays, April through June, 9 to 10 am. $15 per session. Pay at class. Spring Into Fashion! Learn to achieve your optimal personal or professional attire for Spring in a 3-part series with Image and Wardrobe Consultant, Suzanne Newman. First week, learn to dress for your body type, organize your closet, following her Top Ten image inventory questions. Week two: Bring your make-up to learn new application tricks and techniques. Week three: Accessorize! Bring your fashion favorites to class to transform them with scarves, belts or jewels. Let’s have fun! Ooohs and Ahhhs await. Suzanne will also unveil the newest colors for Spring. 3 Thursdays: April 9,16 & 23, 1 to 2:30 pm. $65 series/$60 payment 5 days in advance. Single sessions $25/ $20 payment 5 days in advance. Emotional Currency Workshop Join with Dr. Kate Levinson, author of “Emotional Currency: A Women’s Guide to Building a Healthy Relationship with Money”, to discover your unique, personal, and emotional relationship with money. Through structured discussions and exercises, explore how money is woven into your thoughts and feelings about yourself and your relationship with others. While no financial advice is included, women who have participated in the workshop find themselves better able to deal with financial matters. Limit 20. Monday, April 13, 10 am to 4 pm. $125/$120 with payment 5 days in advance. Connecting Mind and Heart for Inspired Action Making decisions without checking them out with your heart leads to focusing on the wrong goal, premature timing, and/or thinking you have to figure out how to manifest your goal. Utilizing the magnetic field of the heart, which is 60 times larger than the brain, allows you to have clarity of your next step. Bring your goals to this experiential class with Empowerment Coach, Nancy Creely, and walk away with a process to access your heart wisdom. Experience what a “Yes” and “No” feels like in your body as you ask questions while in energetic alignment with your goal. Thursday, April 16, 10 to 11:30 am. $25 / $20 payment 5 days in advance. Continued on page 2 WOMEN’S EXCHANGE Mailing Address 725 PINE STREET WINNETKA IL 60093 847.441.3406 www.womens-exchange.org Programs held at Harkness Hall, 620 Lincoln Avenue, Winnetka unless otherwise noted. Health & Wellness Teaching Through Shared Inquiry Join Judith McCue, formerly from the Great Books Foundation, who will teach the Shared Inquiry system: a method of learning that enables people of all ages to explore ideas, meaning and information found in everything they read. Advance registration will provide you the story to be discussed. How to Set Goals With Word Suggestions Discover what your subconscious mind really believes about the words you think, speak and hear. Words can empower you or cause resistance. Bring two goals to this class. Empowerment Coach, Nancy Creely will have you walk away with the words that motivate you to take inspired action. Tuesday, May 12, 10 to 11:30 am. $25 / $20 payment 5 days in advance. Friday, April 17, 1 to 2:30 pm. $25/$20 payment 5 days in advance. How To Publish from Soft Cover to Kindle! Learn how to publish your book with an agent while also learning the ins and outs of self-publishing routes. During the afternoon you will learn how to pitch your story to an agent or editor. Sue Baugh and Judy Veramendi each have 35 years of publishing and writing experience to share with you. Label Fables Saturday, June 20, 9 to 3:30 pm. $90/$80 payment 5 days in advance. Did you know that a food can be labeled as 0% trans fat and yet still contain trans fat? Or that many foods that are now labeled gluten free, were always gluten free? Do you read labels to find out more about the food you’re using to fuel your body? Do you know what to look for: how big is a serving size? How much sodium is too much? What is high fructose corn syrup and why should I care? Join Mair Hill for an in-depth look at food labels: the truth, the lies, the omissions. A copy of her book: A GOOD PLAN: Ten Simple Steps to Make Healthy Choices a Habit, is included with the workshop. Monday, April 20, 10 am to 11:30 am. OR 7 to 8:30 pm. $35 / $30 payment 5 days in advance. Book Talks and Discussion Groups “Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying” by Ram Dass Join in with Harriet Porter, LCSW, to discuss the work of author Ram Dass, a world famous spiritual seeker and teacher since the 1960’s. In this book, Dass shares his wakeup call at age 65 when he experienced a debilitating stroke. He explores the awakening process as well as the cultural taboos surrounding aging and death. Always his goal has been to find meaning, contentment, and joy -- in life and even in death. After the stroke he tried to take control of his life, to let go of the ego’s fear inducing grip, and embrace an awareness and awakening of his soul instead. He believes we have the power to age in whatever way we choose, and to view it as a process of loss and gain. Walk ‘n Talk, Explore and Exercise Meet up at Women’s Exchange or surrounding locations for early morning walks. Tuesday & Thursday mornings beginning May 5, 8 to 9 am. No Rain dates. No Charge. No registration necessary. Watch for emails for meet-up location changes. 8 Tuesdays, April 7 to May 26, 1 to 2:30 pm OR 3 to 4:30 pm. $165 / $160 payment 5 days in advance. Seasons of Our Lives: Meditation Walk “Some Luck” Afternoon Tea & Book Discussion Walk the Botanic Gardens with 4 stops for meditation led by Mary Ann Spina, MA. Bring your journal to keep special reminders for health & wellness. Saturday morning, May 30, 8 to 10:30 am. $25 / $20 payment 5 days in advance. Join Holly Marihugh, from BooksLive, to discuss Wilmette Library’s: One Book, Everybody Reads 2015: “Some Luck”, by Jane Smiley. During an Afternoon Tea, (with scones, pastries, fresh fruit and finger sandwiches), Holly will get everyone engaged in discussion before this treasured, Pulitzer Prize winning American author arrives in Wilmette on April 26. “Some Luck”, is the first in a planned trilogy of American history from the perspective of a family in the Heartland. This special time will be hosted in partnership at Westmoreland Country Club, Wilmette. Advance registration required. Reading & Writing Wednesday, April 8, 1:30 to 3 pm. $35 / $30 5 days in advance. Memoir Writing Get your history down on paper. At the monthly gathering, you’ll bring a story that you have written and share it aloud with the group. Topics are suggested. Feel free to move between day and evening sessions. Spring/summer session begins in April. New Trier Township Pondering Point Discussion Group Join members of the New Trier community for informal and lively conversation that focuses on social and emotional issues that are integral to the health of our relationships. Facilitator, Linda Stremmel, NT and WE facilitator will offer a new topic each month. Mondays: April 13 and June 8, 1 to 2:30 pm OR 7:30 to 9 pm. $20 / $15 payment 5 days in advance. Short Stories Group Wednesday, April 15 and May 20, 9:30 to 11 am. Attend either or both. No charge. No registration necessary. The WE short story group reads and shares: “The Best American Short Stories of the Century”, edited by John Updike and Katrina Kenison. This book brings together “the best of the best” stories, representing each decade of the 20th century in this essential American genre. You can be sure of fun and stimulating conversation generated by short story masterpieces. Facilitated by Connie Garner with shared leadership for each short story. Expanded schedule at www.womens-exchange.org “Cake Therapist” Author Judith Fertig will visit Women’s Exchange A fiction debut by award-winning cookbook author, Judith Fertig, will leave you wanting seconds! Claire “Neely” O’Neil is a pastry chef of extraordinary talent— she can “taste” feelings! When flavor and feeling give Neely a glimpse of someone’s inner self, she can customize her creations to help that person celebrate love, overcome fear, 4 alternating Fridays: April 10 to May 22, 10 to 11:30 am. $55 series/ $50 payment 5 days in advance or $15 per session. 2 A Note from the Director even mourn a loss. She returns to her small Midwestern hometown at a time when her own life seems about to fall apart. The bakery she opens there is perfect, intimate, just what she’s always dreamed of--and yet, as she meets her new customers, Neely has a sense of secrets, some dark, some with tempting possibilities. A recurring flavor of alarming intensity signals to her perfect palate a long-ago story that must be told. Dear Friends, As signs of spring begin to appear and days lengthen with sunlight, I welcome you to join us at Women’s Exchange (WE) for continued programming: some one-timers, others in a series, and for our Friday afternoon Salons. Together in many ways, we will Learn, Grow and Share. Thursday, June 11, 6:30 to 8:30 pm. $20/ $15 payment 5 days in advance. Within our Spring 2015 Program Guide, you will find Women’s Exchange encouraging everyone to plan ahead with an incentive to register early. WE believes this honors our incredible facilitators and teachers, and allows them to prepare well for classes and workshops. CREATE The Artist’s Way Join our email list for news, reminders & programming additions. Just send an email, I am happy to add you to our growing list. Let’s unleash that creative spirit within us! This popular course, facilitated by Amy Mahoney, is based on The “Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron. The class includes weekly readings, activities, and the opportunity to discuss your thoughts and discoveries. Participants will need a copy of the book and a journal for the class. May springtime fill you with warmth and fresh awareness, Deb 6 Wednesdays: April 8 to May 13, 3:30 to 5 pm. $130 / $120 payment 5 days in advance. [email protected] salons WE gathers most Fridays for thought–provoking presentations. Please join us for wine and interesting conversation. Festive Spring Wine Tasting! Join us at The Bottle Shop on Central in Wilmette to celebrate the arrival of Spring. Discover amazing new wines as we munch, taste & mingle! Friday, April 10, 4 to 5:30 pm. $20 Who Is Julia Collins? Kenilworth native Julia Collins, who became the highest-earning woman in the 50-year history of the game show, “Jeopardy,” will be speaking about her inspiring winning streak. Collins has the second most wins of any contestant of all time, and won 20 consecutive games which aired last spring. Friday, April 17, 4 to 5:30 pm. $20 Religion & Film: Art, Equity, and Ethics Join us as Dr. Sara Anson Vaux, Religion & Film Professor from Northwestern University, marks another step toward defining “Religion and Film,” a slippery hybrid that one moment encompasses Carl-Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) and Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979), and another moment turns toward the contemporary anguish of Calvary, Of Gods and Men, and Gone Girl. To spotlight the targeted directors’ engagement with art, equity, and ethics, we will examine a sampling of films that offer fresh perspectives on the ways Religion and Film intersect: Ida (just won Best Foreign Film at Oscars), The Kid on a Bike (Le Gamin au Velo), and Two Days/ One Night (Pawel Pawlikowski). We appreciate our sponsors ! Judith D. Archambault, CPA [email protected] 847-441-8770 www.thebottleshop.net Friday, April 24, 4 to 5:30 pm. $20 www.stonebridgewealthadvisors.com www.thebookstall.com [email protected] www.thewinnetkaclub.com Discover What’s Hot for Summer Reading FLECK’S No time like summer for reading on the beach, screened porch, or patio. Join Roberta Rubin & Jon Grand as they share their list of captivating books for summer reads, both fiction and nonfiction. LANDSCAPING www.fleckslawn.com WILMETTE H I G H L A N D P A R K AUTO BODY 847-251-1535 Family Owned Friday, May 29, 4 to 5:30 pm. $20 The Art of Extraordinary Catering 3 www.ziagallery.net The Women’s Exchange provides programs in a supportive environment for all women to share ideas and information — to learn, to grow, to build relationships, and to have fun. 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