March '10 Events

Here's what we've scheduled for March. Click to see April, May and June.
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		Grief workshop for Financial & Emotional losses: Emotional Stimulus Package – Your Guide to Re-Creating the American Dream. Friday, March 5, 7 pm: Danny Fitzpatrick, of The Lemonade Network, and one of the authors of EMOTIONAL STIMULUS PACKAGE: YOUR GUIDE TO RE-CREATING THE AMERICAN DREAM, will discuss the seven stages of grief as they relate to the emotional impact brought on by significant life changes. THE EMOTIONAL STIMULUS PACKAGE is a result of a MasterMind group of six coaches who were searching for the best way to serve their clients in these tough economic times and is for the people whose lives have been shattered or strained by the economic crisis. Danny will share excerpts and exercises from the book during her talk and will show how we can recapture hope and rebuild our own American Dreams. The Lemonade Network was founded in 2009 by six women who had the desire to make a difference by helping other people work through their challenges and live the life of their dreams. When defining their mission and brainstorming a company name, the well known Dale Carnegie phrase "When life hands you lemons, make lemonade" kept surfacing. It seemed natural to take it as their name. It is from this perspective that Danny and the other authors offer their experience and guidance. In addition to their own experiences, they share their professional expertise as health and life coaches. During the year-long journey the authors endured a bitter divorce, a daunting IRS audit, fought a foreclosure as well as battled health concerns and other financial woes. Supporting each other along the way and practicing their own lessons, they stayed focused and wrote the book in 152 days. Author and professional wellness coach, Danny Fitzpatrick brings a lifetime of experience to her practice of helping herself and others heal from the pain of loss. Danny is a bereaved sibling and daughter; a survivor of three lay-offs; and a person who tends to see the glass as half-full. She is co-author of EMOTIONAL STIMULUS PACKAGE: YOUR GUIDE TO RE-CREATING THE AMERICAN DREAM, a self-help book, which guides the reader through the healing process of any major life loss.

Writing Workshop with handout and writing exercises: The Rhythm of Writing Saturday, March 6, 2 pm: Whether fiction or non-fiction, writing needs rhythm. Rhythm doesn’t mean writing has to follow a tightly-defined cadence, but rather reveals a pulse that eases the reader into the writer’s style. Let Minnesota author, Beth Solheim, author of AT WITT'S END, show you how to tap into your writing's best rhythm, and avoid the pitfalls that make readers turn away from the page. Readers welcome comfort. They’re also impressed by the unexpected. Those stunning moments might surface in fictional plots, a How-to Refinish Antiques book, a Cookbook, a Guide to Understanding Nuclear Fission, or they can simply grab the reader’s imagination by the rhythm created. There are many areas that can jeopardize rhythm’s momentum and cause the reader to lose interest, including: • Cadence • Word Repetition • Sentence structure • Dialogue tags • Clichés • Adverbs – adjectives • Back story • Description versus dialogue • Beth will discuss each of these issues, use examples, present handouts and conduct interactive writing exercises. The reviews for AT WITT'S END have been glowing: "Witty, warm, and wise, At Witt's End will warm your heart and tickle your funny bone.? Lois Greiman, award winning author of Unzipped. Krista Davis, author of The Diva Takes The Cake, writes, ""Beth has come up with a fresh new twist on the paranormal mystery and a senior sleuth with moxie!" "A feisty older heroine turns the tables on a murderer with the help of a boy who sees dead people and a quirky crew of sidekicks, some of them deceased but not quite gone.? E lizabeth Zelvin, Agatha and David nominated author of Death Will Help You Leave Him. Raised in Northern Minnesota, the setting for her stories, Beth resides in lake country with her husband and a menagerie of wildlife critters that frequent their patio. By day, she works in Human Resources at a hospital. By night Beth morphs into a writer who frequents lake resorts and mortuaries and hosts a ghost or two in her humorous paranormal mysteries.

			Native American and Southwest Geology Talk: The Naming of a Southwestern Geography and Geology: Native Cultural Landscape, Sacred Space, and Historical Cartography Friday, March 12, 7 pm: Origin stories and Native American ceremonials are frequently sited in the local landscape of geology and geography. An interesting counter-parallel developed in the naming of the Grand Canyon geology of the Colorado River corridor. Jennifer Kitchell, author of GIRL WITH SKIRT OF STARS, will present a lively and informative talk on the use of myth to layer the geography and geology we live in. Jennifer Kitchell has a Ph.D. in geology, and has participated in the First Group Procession on the Ahshislepah Road in Chaco Canyon since A.D. 1128. She has won the Schuchert Prize in Paleontology and the Russel Award from the University of Michigan. Her first novel, GIRL WITH SKIRT OF STARS, is set on the Navajo reservation and in Grand Canyon country. Publishers Weekly had this to say: “Like the river that drives much of its plot, this debut novel runs smooth and fast. . . the whole of the novel is tied together well by the Navajo perspective, presented with a matter-of-factness and lightness of touch that make it hard to believe that Kitchell, a geologist, isn’t a Navajo herself; for that alone, she proves herself a new talent worth watching.” Bestselling Southwestern author, Margaret Coel, writes: "A stunning mystery debut by a gifted story-teller! Girl With Skirt of Stars is a head-long plunge into a mystery intertwined with the mysteries of Navajo culture and rendered in language as gorgeous as the Southwestern landscape."

				Native American Talk: Lessons of the Sacred Circle Friday, March 19, 7 pm: Back by popular demand! In this presentation "Lessons of the Sacred Circle" Jim Tree-Gilmore, author of THE WAY OF THE SACRED PIPE, describes how to be restored to your own Sacred Circle, to find your place of harmony within the circle of nature, the circle of Spirit and the circle of your supportive relationships. Being in harmony with these are basic to living a fulfilled life. He discusses discovering who you are, what your purpose in life is and how to receive what you need to fulfill that purpose. James Tree-Gilmore, teacher of Natural Spirituality, is a Spiritual Advisor for a federally recognized Native American church based in Pipestone, MN. He has also served on the board of advisors for the E.T.Seton Institute, Santa Fe, and has served on the advisory board for Montana Youth Homes. Jim gives presentations around the world and conducts ceremonies to help restore the sacred circle of life with powerful effectiveness. In December of 2009, Jim lectured on "Native prophecies and current world events" at the United Nations Headquarters in Vienna, Austria. and he has shared his unique insight into Natural Spirituality to the NARBA symposium for Northern Arizona Tribal Educators. More recently Jim has lectured at Western Montana University on "Understanding the Natural Mind". Jim is also the Project coordinator for Montana Integrative Therapies, which provides alternative therapy support to those who are in Hospice care, extended care facilities and those who are chronically ill.. MIT has successfully merged these therapies with standard allopathic clinics in Montana and Jim is currently working with a group of therapists in Northern Arizona to establish a sister program there. Jim also has healing CDs, LESSONS OF THE SACRED CIRCLE - PART ONE, LESSONS OF THE SACRED CIRCLE - PART TWO and THE WAY OF THE SACRED RELATIONSHIP. When Jim appears here, it's always SRO. Come early for a seat.

Zen Talk: How to Start Letting Go and Start Improving Your Relationships Saturday, March 20, 2 pm: Betsy McKee Henry, author of HOW TO BE A ZEN MAMA: 13 WAYS TO STOP WORRYING, LET GO AND BE CLOSER TO YOUR KIDS, will will show us how to bring her Zen principles to all relationships. Do you worry a lot? Do you need to let go of that worry? Stopping worry and letting go, kindness and unconditional love are the focus of Betsy's talk. Betsy McKee Henry is the daughter of locals Barbie and Ted McKee, former owners of Windrush Gallery. The McKees have lived in Sedona for 18 years. Betsy comes and visits with her family often from her hometown of Littleton, Colorado. The book is a wonderful collection of stories, quotes and examples of how, we as modern day parents, can get along better with our children in a peaceful and calm way. And while it is primarily a book for parents, many people have benefitted from the advice she gives. Zen Buddhists learn in life by studying lessons with a master. However, the master will always tell his/her students that they are not really a Zen master, but a student just like them. The Zen Master has just traveled down the road a little way longer than the students. As another Zen student, Betsy will share how she came to discover these principles and apply them to her relationships with her kids, and how you can do the same. Betsy and her husband, John, have three teenage boys and learned that you can still parent and let go. “I wrote the book during a challenging time with my teenagers. However, I apply all these principals to my every day life. I use it in my teaching with my students and their parents, with my co workers and friends.” Some of the ideas include: how to let go of worry, anger and replace it with acceptance; being positive with the word “yes”; using humor to connect and simple actions like sending those you love away for the day (to school or work) with positive thoughts. A reader recently wrote of HOW TO BE A ZEN MAMA: "I was fighting back tears while I read HOW TO BE A ZEN MAMA. It's really a gem and I love it… Your delivery is calming and filled with nothing but love and compassion, the traits we desperately need more of in this world." Betsy will show us all how to be, not only a Zen Mama, but a Zen Wife, Zen Daughter, Zen Sister Zen Friend, Zen Co-worker…you get the picture! Study with the Zen Mama Master and learn to let go!

			Writing Workshop: Integrating Arcs and Acts in Fiction and Film NOTE: THIS IS A RARE FRIDAY NIGHT WRITING WORKSHOP Friday, March 26, 7 pm: Many writing students learn about character and story arcs independently of three-act structure, and therefore never learn how properly to integrate them. And yet without this understanding of how the two fit inextricably together it's all but impossible to ensure that a story achieves its narrative purpose and delivers a convincing and powerful dramatic effect. In his presentation at Well Red Coyote, David Corbett, author of DO THEY KNOW I'M RUNNING?, will demonstrate through examples from both fiction and film how these two structural concepts support each other, with scene-by-scene breakdowns of how the drama is built and the arc fulfilled act by act. David Corbett is the author of three critically acclaimed novels: THE DEVIL'S REDHEAD, DONE FOR A DIME, (a New York Times Notable Book), and BLOOD OF PARADISE, which was nominated for numerous awards, including the Edgar, and named both one of the Top Ten Mysteries and Thrillers of 2007 by the Washington Post and a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book; it was also selected for the US Southern Command Reading List by Admiral James Stavridis. John Lescroar writes of his latest book, DO THEY KNOW I'M RUNNING?: "This is not just a thriller, but an elegant novel, full of heart, soul, music, food, cruelty, betrayal, poverty and love. The line runs through Ernest Hemingway and Graham Greene, straight on to David Corbett. I’m not kidding. He’s that good." David’s short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies, including San Francisco Noir and Phoenix Noir, and his story “Pretty Little Parasite” (from Las Vegas Noir) was selected for inclusion in Best American Mystery Stories 2009. David has taught at UCLA Extension, Book Passage, Wordstock, and the East of Eden Writers Conference.

Personal Growth Talk: A Fork In The Road –What Path Are You Going To Take? An Inter-Active Presentation Saturday, March 27, 2pm: One day you wake up and ask yourself, "What do I want to do with the rest of my life?” Each person travels many different paths in ones lifetime, some are smooth, and others filled with potholes. Join Colleen Baldrica, author of TREE SPIRITED WOMAN, a three-time National Award winner, and explore who/where you are today, and where you hope to be in the future. Take a look at your personal values and how they affect the choices you make in your personal, and/or professional lives. Colleen will present an exploration workshop using the “circle” format. She will encourage attendees to participate with-in their own comfort level. Colleen Baldrica began her spiritual journey as a child. Inspired by the teachings of her Native American grandmother, she carried that wisdom forth into her career as an adult. She has a Masters degree in Counseling and a PhD in the Philosophy of Education and worked in public education for 28 years. TREE SPIRITED WOMAN is a story of spiritual awakening and life enrichment. Midwest Book Review writes: TREE SPIRITED WOMAN is the intensely beautiful story of...a guiding friendship with a wise and mystical woman, who [shares her] universal message about the value of letting go, trusting in love, valuing personal relationships, and accepting the inevitable phenomena of death within the living world around us.... This [book] is a warmly recommended compendium of spiritual insights, experiences, and observations [and] is inspired and inspiring reading."