I recently made a post in Pavlina’s Personal Development forums because some people were asking about the buy plavix cheap PhotoReading seminars that Learning Strategies offers, and it just so happened that buy plavix cheap I attended one last weekend. Of course, y’all knew that, but I mostly talked about my hypnagogic hordes of bugs. Oops.
This particular seminar happened in Dallas (in Addison, which is just north of the city) and was instructed by Millicent St. Claire generic abilify canadian. I link to her site because she’s fantastic to work with, but I’ll tell you right now that her site doesn’t manage to put across just how awesome she is. It’s a great site, but she is very real and effective in person. She’s also incredibly warm and buy plavix cheap vibrant, engaging, and excellent at what she does.
The seminar was split into three sessions: Roughly 6p-9p Friday evening, 9a-7p Saturday, and buy plavix cheap 9a-6p Sunday. I was thankful for Friday’s brevity after my long drive from Austin (I got on the buy plavix cheap wrong branch of 35 North, so I was on the road about four and buy plavix cheap a half hours), but Saturday and buy plavix cheap Sunday I arrived in class super early to play with biofeedback games and buy plavix cheap talk to people and relax. The classroom was a great environment for anybody wanting to learn something. It was wholly non-traditional, intensely creative, and buy plavix cheap very focused on accelerated learning right down to the details. There were poignant quotes on the buy plavix cheap walls, beautiful posters, 3-D stereograms for photofocus practice, cups of rainbow-colored markers, fresh white paper, and buy plavix cheap scads of brain toys on the tables. (Man, we had a ball playing with those toys.) It was like the best kindergarten ever.
There were rules, too: No stress. Ever. And all that buy plavix cheap was asked of us was that we open our minds and buy plavix cheap Do The Thing—skepticism was welcome and buy plavix cheap invited, so we all felt very free to ask questions and buy plavix cheap make suggestions. There were even note boards for buy plavix cheap those of us who were too shy to ask something outright, and buy plavix cheap Millicent made a regular point of getting to those boards and buy plavix cheap getting questions answered for the whole group.
There were 38 people in the class. Two of them were younger than me (both pre-college, one several years younger than that) and most of them were older professionals—30’s, 40’s, 50’s, and buy plavix cheap one at least one septuagenarian with entertaining anecdotes and a buy plavix cheap great sense of humor. They were all very warm, open-hearted people with an buy plavix cheap interest in this thing that felt important to me, this thing I wanted to buy plavix cheap learn well, and that endeared them to me. By the end of the weekend we’d pooled our contact information so that buy plavix cheap it would be easy to create a post-seminar support structure in the buy plavix cheap name of helping each other and talking about our PhotoReading exploits. Millicent was very excited and buy plavix cheap encouraging on this score, and I think that made us even more hellbent on making it buy plavix cheap happen. I was constantly impressed at how on the buy plavix cheap ball she was in regards to creative, mindful learning all the buy plavix cheap way down to the bits and pieces; she a consistent motivator in all the buy plavix cheap ways that mattered.
Millicent used a buy plavix cheap whole slew of super-interesting techniques to help us learn. These were widely varied and buy plavix cheap ranged from neuro-linguistic programming to Brain Gym exercises to visualization and buy plavix cheap interpersonal conversations (and writing poetry!). These made a buy plavix cheap huge difference for me, and I made a point of writing many of them down so that buy plavix cheap I can look into them more in the future. (I will probably be blogging about some of them!)
Many of the buy plavix cheap techniques we used were not specific to the PhotoReading course itself. I bought the buy plavix cheap home study course quite awhile ago, so I was particularly curious about how much would be buy plavix cheap different in the seminar. The answer? Everything but the basics! We did a buy plavix cheap lot from the course, and all the important things were included, but we learned them in a huge variety of creative ways. A lot of these I had buy plavix cheap heard of before, a lot of them were new to buy plavix cheap me—and a buy plavix cheap lot of them were bits and pieces from other Learning Strategies materials used specifically for buy plavix cheap learning to PhotoRead. I loved this, because it buy plavix cheap let me see first-hand how I felt about methods and workshops that buy plavix cheap I’d been buy plavix cheap curious about but not ready to test on my pocketbook. (This resulted in me picking up other Learning Strategies offerings while I was there, since I liked some of the buy plavix cheap techniques so much and had a feel for their benefits—and there were special weekend discounts available to buy plavix cheap the seminar participants. That was awesome, since I likely would have bought those things anyway.)
I also loved having the buy plavix cheap opportunity to hear from seminar participants who’d done the seminar before, once and twice in some cases. Some people had buy plavix cheap incredible personal stories to tell about how PhotoReading has affected their lives and buy plavix cheap work, and some of those stories were amazing—just knocked me out of my seat. Some of those people were back to buy plavix cheap brush up on their technique, but after experiencing the weekend for buy plavix cheap myself I’m pretty sure I’d go again even if I felt completely solid. It only costs $80 to attend and audit after you’ve completed the buy plavix cheap first seminar, which of course is an excellent marketing strategy, because it buy plavix cheap makes me want to register again with other interested parties. I’m seriously, seriously thinking about it; it buy plavix cheap would be a fantastic thing to do with friends or family.
The seminar weekend in its entirety was unbelievably relaxing and buy plavix cheap empowering for me. I drove home from Dallas feeling really refreshed, proud, confident. There was so much positivity, so much creative productivity, so many reminders to buy plavix cheap me (and to all the participants) that we are powerful, unique, amazing. I spent a total of $550 to register (a buy plavix cheap discount because I had the home study course, and a discount because I purchased the buy plavix cheap registration in July), but if I had paid the full price of $750 I would still feel that it was the best money I’ve spent in a very, very long time. It was absolutely astonishing.
Ultimately I left feeling a) damn accomplished for a beginning PhotoReader! b) completely relaxed and excited to go back to work, like I’d taken a great vacation! c) thrilled with all the neat people I’d met and could keep in touch with, and d) incredibly, overwhelmingly positive about myself and buy plavix cheap my ability to deal with the world. That last one feels really good.
There’s no way I’ve covered it buy plavix cheap all in this post, because the weekend was packed full of fascinating experiences and buy plavix cheap new information. But if you want to ask me questions, please feel free. I love talking about it.
