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.
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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
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“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.
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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.
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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).
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Friday, April 24, 4 to 5:30 pm. $20
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Discover What’s Hot for Summer Reading
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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.
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