Walking into this year fine tuning areas of our lives...Relationships, areas of service, goals...Really, way beyond “New Year’s Resolutions”...Let’s re-focus!

Are you needing to reconnect with your spark? Here's to new beginnings, as we move From Burnout to Bliss! Join me on January 18th, 2020 for some soul searching, speakers, movement and renewal! The goal is to explore how connected or disconnected we feel to our sense of aliveness and purpose, and how it impacts our work and relationships. Exhaustion or burnout drain energy and blunt creativity! Well, how have cultures built community and moved goals forward for centuries? A little food, a little art, a little music...It gets us talking and moving! Be prepared for activities to engage our creativity in this important discussion. Here's a message from me to you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD7FG2ljqFo

Colleagues who also specialize in wellness will join in contributing wisdom about self-care in body, mind and Spirit! The goal is to re-calibrate ourselves in every area of our lives. Their diverse forms of expertise will help us focus, as we launch this year. Individual reflection, as well as community experiences can help us clear our path. The event will take place in Allies Worldwide, a community-building gem that's served to host a wide range of uplifting events!

The main intention is to acknowledge how in challenging times, as we're experiencing worldwide, the "key ingredient" is to come together as a community to acknowledge our strengths and take responsibility for our forward movement. Truly, these difficult transitions add to already existing concerns for safety and can disrupt our sense of hope. These chaotic times invite us to help each other expand our perspectives and realize possibilities to create something new in collaboration.

Your presence would be wonderful in identifying a wide range of ways we can collaborate and be accountable for the wellness of our communities. Hopefully, we’ll contribute to strengthening a legacy of resilience, optimism, mutual encouragement, and productive resourcefulness. This workshop will support you in tapping again into your wisdom and energy to move forward feeling enriched in every area of your life...Living Deliciously and with Purpose! The experience planned for our gathering is based on the book From Burnout to Bliss, and in gratitude for your participation in this gathering, you’ll receive a copy of it.

Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. and we begin at 9:00 a.m. sharp with a light breakfast. Please wear comfortable attire, as we will move a bit. Please know that movement will be mindful of all range of capacities. This is for ALL OF US! To learn about our speakers, please visit http://www.melissamshepherd.com/events.html

A little about the book...

​The purpose of creating "From Burnout to Bliss" was to invite us all to pause and identify the ways in which we may be unknowingly sabotaging our sense of aliveness. We can start with awesome habits of self-care and, gradually, lose sight of them and feel drowned by responsibilities. Drudgery can surely infect the quality of all relationships and the way we experience what we referred to as our life's work. This book provides a platform to examine mindsets, transforming choices, and creating the conditions to thrive in all areas of our lives. The clever ways our bodies "tell us" that something in our hearts clamors for attention is a topic to compound the insights on how burnout occurs. Reflections on shared stories about burnout and emerging triumphantly from it, mine included, are part of the journey of this book. Hopefully, this writing will serve you to go deeply into finding the root of such pain and promote the process of post-burnout growth.