The Power of Connection course debuts in UK, US soon to follow

After the eager anticipation of MTL mentors around the world, The Power of Connection course debuted last month in London taught by Louise Smith.

The Power of Connection explores how to connect with what is going on inside of you and how to move past protective barriers that get in the way of connecting with the best in yourself and bringing out the best in others.

The course will help you create the relationships you truly want --

Being ...

• a more fulfilled individual
• a more caring friend
• a more loving partner
• a more successful parent
• a more productive colleague
• a more effective leader

The techniques you will learn in the course help will enhance all the relationships and partnerships in your life, for the rest of your life.

The Power of Connection is the latest in a series of short courses offered by licensed MTL mentors who have completed a program of practical and experiential training. Along with the Power of Self Esteem and the Power of Purpose, the Power of Connection can be taught anywhere in the world in a private or corporate setting by a licensed MTL mentor.

Louise Smith is a MTL coach, mentor and trainer candidate. Her first Power of Connection course was such a success that she decided to offer a second course in London beginning August 9. Clare Prendergast & Wendy Thomas will be the first mentors in Manchester UK to offer Power of Connection beginning August 23.

Next week Louise makes another debut as she joins MTL Senior Trainer and Training Director Sue Oldham to train the US based mentors to teach the Power of Connection course.

The Power of Connection A Phase Mentor training will be held July 17-19 in Houston. I am told there are two spaces left. You can register here if you would like to learn how to teach this extraordinary course.

I know Will Kidd will be in Houston taking Phase A. Will is a US-based MTL coach and mentor. He has scheduled the first Power of Connection in the US to be offered in Knoxville beginning on August 2.

On a personal note speaking as a MTL mentor and one who works in community organizing and social media, I think the Power of Connection is a course for our time. For all the ease and speed of communication in the age of computer-mediated communities, the power to genuinely connect or, as EM Forster’s imperative “only connect” suggests, has never been a more important or sacred intention.

Register for Power of Connection A Phase here

Learn more about the Power of Connection course here or www.moretolife.org/connect

Carolyn Baehr

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MTL Healing Intensive Pilot, June 26 - July 1

The MTL Healing Intensive is an exciting new pilot being offered in Minneapolis. It is a unique combination of a More To Life Weekend (2 1/2 days) followed by 3 days of working with 10 practitioners of the healing arts. In addition, the course is limited to 10 participants which provides for an abundance of one on one time.

This pilot is based on the adage, 'Know the Truth and the Truth will set you free'. You can count on an experience and integration of healing with the support and expertise of many professionals, including Ann McMaster, More To Life senior trainer.

If you're interested in this next step for your life in support of your well being on every level, please contact us right away!

Here are the details:
Dates of the Healing Intensive course: June 26-July 1, 2009
Location: 205 Salem Church Road Sunfish Lake, MN 55118
Cost: $3,000.00
Where to go for more information: www.livingwellbeingwell.net
For information, contact: Diana Makens at Diana@ramsys.net, or call 612-965-8939
You may register by going to the website and clicking on Register. Then fill in the online forms and email them to Diana Makens.

2nd More to Life Weekend in New York City

The 2nd More To Life weekend in New York City ended on Sunday night at 11:30 EST.

In the wee hours of Monday morning, Andrew Wertheimer sent this email to several More To Life students who helped make it possible for him to attend the June course.

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to say thank you one more time for helping me experience such an intense and life changing weekend.

Without you guys caring, contributing your time and money and staying on my butt since last fall I would not have attended. I don't know if I am missing anyone here. If so I apologize. I learned of people asking about me when I got to the hotel that I had no idea remembered me!!

I am told there were anonymous donations made on my behalf so if anyone speaks to those people, as I mentioned to Ralph, please give them a heartfelt thank you from me. I feel blessed.

I am still processing it all. So much happened it is quite surreal.

One thing I know is by the end I felt much lighter and to share that experience with all those amazing people was incredible and moving.

Faces etched in my mind more vividly than people I have known for years. Different yet all so similar - just wanting a connection - to be happy, free, alive, awakened, non-judgmental, giving, loving - not much else matters.

Finding tears rolling down my eyes specifically after the mirror process was liberating. I suppose that was what I was going for.

A feeling of liberation from the prison I built around myself. Because it automatically made me happier and soooooo much more able to give myself and genuinely smile :)!

To connect to people without fear. Knowing how human we all are - knowing/remembering that I am too simply human...

Conjuring up that feeling constantly is the goal and to maintain it and move higher. But I know, all in good time - and I will certainly do my best to be here in the now as I am.

The weekend was amazing and will unfold more as the days pass but just the moments of serenity I felt when the weekend ended are soooooo sacred.

Thank you again and all my love.

Andrew

Follow Up about Using the MTL Community Forum

If you’ve attempted to sign into the Community Forum or if you were able to sign on once but then were locked out, we’re glad to say the bug has been found and fixed. Give it another go and if you get a ‘login failed’, you WILL be sent a new password which you can use. If you choose, you can then reset your password by editing your profile.

If you haven’t yet signed onto the Community Forum, please do so! Here’s how:

On the home page, enter your email address in the box in the upper left-hand corner where it says ‘email’. You’ll need to use the email address that you provided previously through your participation in the MTL program.

After entering your email address, press the ‘login’ button. This will take you to a page called Student Area / Account Verification.

Enter your name and choose a password that you will use on the website. Please note, your email address will serve as your username.

Once this is done, a new page will come up advising you that your account is now active and you can login. Your account is now active. In order to start interacting on the Community Forum, you will need to login using your username (email address) and password. There are four different discussion threads in which you can participate: Relationships, Parenting, Money and Career, Courses and Learning from Life. The fifth, Getting Started, is a reiteration of how to set up your account, etc.

Hope this helps!

~ Peggy

The MTL Community Forum is now live!

Hello, it’s Mike Beukes here from Warp & Woof again.

I have some great news! The MTL Community Forum and Network is now up, running and waiting for your input.

We have a few FORUM TOPICS to start with, but stay posted, there will be more on the way. The starting line up we have so far includes:

Money and career
Parenting
Relationships
Courses – your experiences or questions
Learning from life
Getting started

The MTL Coaches will be providing occasional facilitation of the Forum, so you’ll get to know these advanced students as well.

The guide below gives you everything you need to know to get up and running on the site. This ‘Getting Started’ info also exists as a post in the forum, so you can easily access it any time in the future.

I hope you’ll all enjoy using it, and we look forward to seeing you there very soon.

Mike and the W&W team

Getting started
Activating your account
If you are a student of More To Life, you will be able to activate your account and get started using the Community Forum. Please note that only MTL students will be able to use or view the forum.

To do so, please enter your email address in the box in the upper left-hand corner of the home page (‘email’). You’ll need to use the email address that you provided previously through your participation in the MTL program.
After entering your email address, press the ‘login’ button. This will take you to a page called Student Area / Account Verification.
Enter your name and choose a password that you will use on the website. Please note, your email address will serve as your username.
Once this is done, a new page will come up advising you that your account is now active and you can login.
Your account is now active. In order to start interacting on the Community Forum, you will need to login using your username (email address) and password.

Editing your profile
Once you are logged in to the site, you can edit your profile by clicking on the ‘My profile button’ that appears on the left of the screen on every page of the site. This will take you to your profile, where you will be able to update personal information, view friends, messages and posts that you have made.

Posting to an existing thread (subtopic) or starting a new one
Once you are logged in, posting a new thread is really straightforward. Just head to the Community Forum and select the topic that you want to review by clicking on it. You can choose from the following topics:

Money and career
Parenting
Relationships
Courses – your experiences or questions
Learning from Life
Getting started

You will then have the choice of reviewing existing threads (subtopics) within each topic and posting a response against an individual thread, or starting a new thread (subtopic) in the white box.


Thread four: New to More To Life?
If you are exploring the More To Life website but haven’t yet taken a course, you won’t be able to view the Community Forum as this is only available to existing students. If you choose to take the More To Life weekend, you will be able to activate an account once you have completed the course using the steps outlined above.

Sharon Hoover newest Board Member

In the coming months we will spotlight members of the More to Life board members. Today we meet Sharon Hoover of Knoxville TN, one of the newer members and recently elected Vice President.

The beginnings of Sharon’s involvement with the MTL program is somewhat legend. She attended the More to Life weekend somewhat reluctantly, “my husband (psychologist John Hoover) attended the weekend in 1983 and I wanted to keep up with him and what he was learning.”

A year later the Hoovers were among the founding members of the Knoxville Community Center and hosted meetings in the early years around their dining room table in our family room. They have been Mastery Teachers since 1986.

Sharon is a Profession Certified Coach in private practice in executive leadership coaching for small business owners. She uses the core skills learned in the MTLW with her clients guiding them through corporate and personal belief structures that inhibit creativity and productivity.


Q: After all these years, why did you join the Board now?

“Well,…because they asked me,” Sharon said with a smile in her voice. And, I see places I can make a meaningful contribution to the program. It is also a way to give back although it seems inadequate to what I’ve received.”


Q: What legacy would you like to leave?

“In life, in work, and with the program I want to ask the hard questions. Are we willing to look at our scared cows and underlying assumptions that inform our decisions? Are we willing to change what no longer serves us as a person, a business, our world? As an organization, are we willing to change in order to be more sustainable? How will we respond to internal and external factors so we are lighter on our feet and well positioned in the current environment as well as the future?”


Q: What would you like everyone to know about the Board?

“The program is in the strong and capable hands of the Board, the trainers, and the staff. We will do all it takes to keep growing the program, growing enrollment and growing the program in the world. You can count on that. Communication is the name of the game: talking, sharing, exploring together. There is room for creativity and opportunity, and it is ours (the stakeholders) for the taking.”

The Kairos More To Life Foundation Board of Directors are:

Jack Palma, President
Sharon Hoover, Vice President
Chris Kendall, Treasurer
Diana Makens, Secretary
Pascale Ascher
Briggy Kiddle
Peter Kiss
Anu Pillay
Rhonda Schlatter
W. Roy Whitten - Emeritus
Anne Brown - Emeritus


Which Board member would you like to know more about next?


Carolyn Baehr

Just a click away...

I have gotten several emails saying the video in the last post was not visible in email subscription delivery.

In the email, please click on the title of the post "Describing the More to Life Weekend" and it will take you to the published post. The video is there.

Carolyn Baehr