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All of these courses are available from the comfort of your home or office via a telephone bridgeline. It is similar to being on a conference call.  Each class meets for one hour in length. 

Forwarding Your Focus*
Four week Teleclass series – Limited to six participants

Explore and create a visual representation of your life’s 8 critical areas. Gain knowledge of tools and techniques to bring more balance for living your “desired” life by actualizing possibilities forgotten. Find out what gets in your way and develop methods to handle those “red flags” when they appear.

You will also learn:
  • What’s meaningful to you?
  • Create what YOU want in life.
  • Learn the #1 obstacle that gets
     in the way of achieving it.
  • Who are you in your future?
  • Skills and thoughts to learn and
     give away.
"Thank you so much for providing a break-out/ training session entitled, Forwarding Your Focus” for counselors, guidance resource specialists and career specialists at the Hillsborough County Schools Professional Study Day. It was extremely well received by our workshop participants."   
Rhonda H.
Supervisor for Guidance Services, Hillsborough County(FL),
School System
Riding the Waves of Transition*
One week Teleclass series –
Limited to eight participants

Transitions are part of life.  Whether an exciting or an unplanned surprise transition, acquire the information necessary to welcome this time and look for the opportunities it presents.  Prepare, learn and focus towards the ultimate outcome you aim for.

Partial topics covered:
  • The importance of transition and its’ impact.
  • Taking care of yourself thru the ups and downs.
  • Discover who you are in transition.
  • Find where you are and where you are going.
  • Learn what you need for support and where to find it.
  • Finding the “Golden Nugget” of opportunity.


Ellen's program for our women's group was well organized and insightful. Her delightful personality, expertise and her interaction with the audience made this a very successful program for us. We had many positive comments from our members regarding Ellen's presentation. Thanks Ellen!  
JN
7 Top Relationship Enhancers and 4 Sure-Fire Ways to Destroy Them*
Three week Teleclass series – Limited to six participants

Look at relationships through a new lens and see what strengths you bring.  Find out what are sure-fire relationship destroyers and how you can recognize and avoid them, the myths you take on, and the high and low dreams of what you would like. 
JN
Covered topics are:
  • Strengthening your important relationships.
  • Learning to enliven your romantic partnership.
  • Clarify who you are in your different family units and check in with how it is working for you.
  • Image Switching.
  • Answer:  Who are you with your kids?
  • Recognize the relationship destroyers and what to do when they appear.
Shifting Perspectives - Choosing a Good Fit*
Two week Teleclass series – Limited to six participants

When is a perspective simply an outlook or viewpoint and when is it a long-standing habit of time?  Take a stand in a position that strengthens your belief system and works for you, not against you.  What are you willing to cross the line for?
  Items covered and questions answered are:
  • Create Your Balance Wheel.
  • What do you say yes to; what do say no to?
  • Discover your role for taking action!
  • What’s no longer working for you?
  • Step into the powerful spot that will move you forward.
  • What will you commit to?
Registration:  Click Here
*The Verbally Abusive Relationship
Two week Teleclass based on the book of the same name by Patricia Evans.

Verbal abuse is often thought of as derogatory name-calling, but it involves much more.  It includes, but not limited to, sarcasm, criticisms, put-downs, trivializing, discounting, and also can be disguised as joke telling. It is an insidious attack on one’s sense of self, the impact on your life, and how you view yourself and others.

"Your workshop helped me put in writing thoughts about changes occurring in my life and some steps to take toward balance.  It helped me relax, plan and validate my thoughts.”
PD
It is a form of abuse unlike any other because it does not leave bruises on the outside for others to see.  However, if you were able to physically see inside your heart, the bruises are there.

This class is designed to explore the many questions, feelings, and frustrations concerning verbal abuse, whether in an adult couple or adult-child relationship. 
Registration:  Click Here
Learn to:
•recognize forms of verbal abuse
•validate your feelings and bring them into the open
•understand the general characteristics of verbal abuse
•be aware of obstacles and indicators
•trust your intuitive sense of what is occurring

*This class is intended for informational and educational purposes only and not in any way a substitute or replacement for psychological counseling/therapy.


When Baby Makes Three – Transitioning from Two to Three

Three week Teleclass about transitioning from being a couple to a family of three brings much joy along with challenges, changes, and sleeplessness! You are so excited with this much-anticipated arrival and emotions can easily sweep you away—from pure bliss to exhausted coping.

With all the new responsibilities and lifestyle changes that need adjusting, this class series provides a focal point to examine how to make transition as smoothly as possible.

This class will explore:
•the changing relationship within your marriage
•understanding the four relationship destroyers so you can avoid them
•learning to be flexible at unpredictable times
•meeting your baby’s needs along with your own
•redesigning priorities to make sense in your new world
•stepping into your roles as mommy and daddy
•managing the stress of the unfamiliar
•engaging a variety of  support to assist your adaptation

Registration:  Click Here
Finding Grace When You Can’t Even Find Clean Underwear*
Four week Teleclass series – Limited to six participants

Based on the hysterically funny book by Lisa Earle McLeod.
Erma Bombeck’s daughter, Betsy says:  Lisa is channeling my mom!”

    You'll learn the answers to big questions like:
What is the meaning of life and why are other people so *#$%@! annoying?

If you've ever wondered why you were sent to this planet and why all those other people keeping getting in your way --- this is the class for you!

We’ll cover:
•Why do I feel overwhelmed and bored at
       the same time?
•Which people were sent to earth to bother
  me and . . .  who was sent to teach me
       something?
•Is my life's purpose to save the world or
  just enjoy myself?
•How can I make the other people in my life
  straighten up and fly right?

"Ellen's interactive presentation on where we want to be in our lives and where we are headed drew in more people to our meeting than we had ever imagined! The subject matter of learning, exploring and realizing the possibilities in our personal lives was so "right on" for our group. Ellen led a very engaging discussion and had everyone listening and participating. We came away from our meeting feeling more empowered with tools to make changes in our lives."
MZ
*Subtopics are a sampling of what’s covered.  Classes have flexibility to shift topics to be most the compelling for each group of participants.

See:  Testimonials
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.               
Earl Nightengale