OTHER LECTURE AND WORKSHOP TOPICS
Events based on my previous work are designed to help people achieve their goals while feeding their souls. Built around universal principles that bring both material and spiritual success, they can be designed to meet the specific needs of any audience. Some examples:
ROADSIGNS ON THE SPIRITUAL PATH
Whether you've been on a path for 20 days or 20 years; whether you follow a teacher or serve as your own master; whether you’re devoted to a tradition or travel independently; tending to your soul is a constant challenge. We all have to integrate spiritual growth with career, family and other “real world” issues. We all run into bumps in the road, confusing directions, and strange twists and turns—often when least expected. We all have to sort through contradictory teachings, ambiguous directions and paradoxical forks in the road. But every challenge that seems like a stumbling block can be a steppingstone to spiritual maturity—if you’re aligned with your Spiritual Positioning System.
This practical, illuminating and enjoyable workshop offers insights and “travel tips,” based on more than 35 years of experience and research. By empowering you to become your own pilot and navigator, it will help you:
• Discern the next steps of your journey
• Resolve your doubt and restore your faith
• Embrace uncertainties and ambiguities with joy
• Make sound decisions based on your personal spiritual needs
• Carve out your own path to spiritual wellness
• Continue your quest with grace and dignity
The spiritual path is as serious as a sermon and as wacky as a sitcom. It’s simpler and more direct than you think—and more arduous and more baffling than you hope. And because there are no one-size-fits-all answers on the path, we each have to clear our own way. This workshop will lead you to the best kind of guidance there is: that which springs from your own awareness and insight.
REAL LIFE SPIRITUALITY
Never mind the afterlife. This life depends on it. A thriving spirituality not only brings peace of mind, it enhance and productivity and help you get what you want while keeping your integrity. It also enhances health, leading to a longer, fuller life. But there’s a catch: your spiritual life has to be well-grounded and suited to your personal needs, not marked by tension or frustration. Regardless of your beliefs or faith--or the absence of faith--this presentation will help you achieve an integrated state of spiritual wellness, here and now.
GAIN THE INTUITIVE EDGE
In times of uncertainty and rapid change, rational thinking and quantitative methods can leave you high and dry—-not to mentioned stressed out and behind the eight ball. That’s why Einstein said, “The really valuable thing is intuition,” and why successful leaders in every field pay attention to hunches and gut feelings. Learn how to develop your intuitive skills and apply your whole brain when making decisions and solving problems.
TIMELESS TIME MANAGEMENT
Feeling overwhelmed? Not enough time in the day? The practical wisdom in this presentation will help you do less and accomplish more. Learn how to tap your deep inner reserves and face chaos and pressure with greater calmness, energy, and clarity. Let others spin their wheels and burn themselves out; instead of getting frazzled, you can work less and be worth more.
QUINTESSENTIAL STRESS BUSTING
Why just manage stress? You can defeat it with this 5-pronged strategy that integrates all aspects of life. In this hectic world, those with a strong inner anchor enjoy a vital edge. Calm under pressure, centered amidst turmoil, they can make sound decisions when others get so frazzled they make critical mistakes. In this presentation, you’ll learn how to capture the stillness within you. Then you’ll be the one who gets the ball when the heat is on.
THE FIVE FUNCTIONS OF RELIGION
Is anything missing from your spiritual life? Learn about the five T’s that comprise the ideal role of religion in our lives: Transmission – to convey from one generation to another customs, rituals, shared history and tradition; Translation – to help us interpret life events and understand our relationship to the universe; Transaction – to create community and provide guidelines for human interaction; Transformation – to help us develop into better human beings; Transcendence – to satisfy the human longing to unite with the divine ground of being.
THE CHANGING FACE OF RELIGION
Studies indicate that religious life in America is being transformed. Driven by a number of social and psychological factors, it is changing in the following directions: more experience-based, less belief-based; more personal connection to the sacred, less dependency on authority; more spiritual practice, less dogma; more universal, less tribal (“One God, many paths”). Are these changes good or bad? Explore the implications for religious institutions, for society and for you.
KARMIC RELIEF
Do we really reap what we sow? If we do, what does it imply for how we live our lives? How can we fend off the negative impact of past actions? How can we best harvest the fruits of good actions? Most of all, how can we sow the seeds now for what want we want to reap in the future? Those are the key questions addressed in this presentation. We’ll clear up the many misconceptions about karma and the way the cosmic justice system operates. More important, we’ll dig into the practical ramifications and learn how an awareness of karmic laws can help you navigate the choppy waters of modern life and avoid the dangers that have yet to come.
