Kathleen Milligan

As any dictionary will tell you, there are two parts to hope. First of all, there is the wish or the desire. Second, there is the expectation of the fulfillment of that wish—you might also call it trust.

Kathleen Milligan works with women who have been diagnosed with “unexplained infertility.” Like hope, conception has two elements. Once conception is addressed as a physiological process that also has an emotional/spiritual/psychological component to it, conception rates increase.

Women begin their journey towards creating a baby with hope, but as their continued attempts to conceive fail, the belief that their wish will be fulfilled is eroded. Their process has only half of the hope equation in place.  We go back to that original wish and we re-start the journey. Kathleen helps women build hope so that women can build a baby—perhaps one of the biggest things you can hope for—the creation of another human being.

Mike Murray, Michael Murray and Associates

When you look around the wilderness (or turn on the Discovery Channel), what can you notice about yourself in relation to the other occupants of the globe?

You’re not as strong as a gorilla nor as massive as a hippopotamus.

The cheetah or the antelope would out run you in a second.

You can’t reach the eagle’s highs nor the whale’s lows.

And your teeth aren’t even in the same league as the shark or the alligator.

So how did your ancestors manage not to starve to death?  How did you manage to get here?

The answer isn’t “Hope”.  But hope and the answer are inextricably linked…. tied together like binary stars.

Andrew Reid, Big Fish Interactive

Most people I meet who are focused on goals place their thoughts and

energy on what needs to happen leading up to their goal. They name the goal

(the finish line) and then either build a detailed step by step strategy of

how to get there, or set a less defined plan of some of the new behaviours

they will need to do for a successful outcome. Makes sense and pretty

straight forward; identify a goal and build a plan.

But what happens when the new goal is so different (and fun and audacious) that they can’t

recognize their life having achieved their new dream? Consciously, a

wonderful new goal or dream is all positive and hopeful but sub-consciously,

it may not resonate. Strategy is overrated if the new experience on the

other side of finish line has not been clearly identified.

On September 19, I’ll speak about personal and professional results using

NLP techniques to apply hope and conviction in experiencing goals such as

working at a Scottish castle, taking on the world in international sports,

influencing company-wide change, and living in possibilities on the other

side of the finish line.

Sheri Andrunyk, Women for Women and Insightful Communications

“We experience HOPE and give HOPE to one another, by the way we ‘choose’ to live our lives!”

“The ultimate measure of a man (or woman) is not where he (she) stands in moments of comfort, but where he (she) stands at times of challenge and controversy.”   Martin Luther King, Jr.

In this brief message, Sheri will impart to you her message of HOPE with a very simple, yet powerful acronym: Helping Other People Evolve (and be) Extraordinary.  Whether it’s being a Mentor, Trainer, Coach, Partner or Parent, she knows that this belief is at the core of every successful person’s life – almost regardless of circumstance…

Sheri’s invitation this weekend – be your best self and see what you attract – be open and trust that you will get exactly what you need – interact and converse, participate… and be inspired….

‘& Know that we all walk a similar road with many of the same challenges, and we’re here, not to compare, but to share our unique gifts and talents with one another – speakers and attendees alike!

“I can’t wait to meet you – please take the time to introduce yourself…”  Sheri

Bev Hagerdorn

“Hope is a place to start. It doesn’t fix everything. It doesn’t solve everything. It just gives us a place to start. That’s what hope is.”

Robin – homeless youth

“Hope is a reason to grow old, a reason to believe that everything will be okay, that my life can be better everyday. Hope gives me the ability to be better & relax.”

Patrick – wise & wonderful

“The hunger for Love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” – Mother Teresa

What if…everything that happened in your life was not someone else’s fault?

What if…everything that happened in your life was not your fault?

Then we would be left with…

what is…

what is not…

and what we’re going to do about it.

What if…the shoes at the Dock of the Bay were yours? And they were filled with all that you, personally, needed? And they fit…because they’re yours?

Most importantly, what if…………………………………….no one was coming to save you?

This is a theory of Total Self-Responsibility that works for me & that I teach to others by way of example, in my own family & in my work.  There is tremendous power in being able to STAND UP!, on our own two feet & take on the messiness of being human & the wonders of this world.

It’s a theory. A way of thinking.

Alan Crossley

Learn how to share your NLP knowledge with people by making your own high quality CDs and MP3s.  Over the past year, Alan Crossley has been making Hypnosis and NLP recordings for clients and selling online through Ebay, Clickbank and his own site HypnosisMarketplace.com.

Through much trial and error he has discovered what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to creating audio recordings that are of high enough quality to sell online.  Alan will show you how to avoid the pitfalls of making recordings with the wrong equipment and software, so you can focus on the quality of your content and accelerate the production of your own audio recordings so that you can share your knowledge and information both online and off.

Iryna Reim, Reim and Associates

We live in a world filled with opportunity, ever increasing new knowledge, diversity and problems and challenges so complex they require a new way of thinking, a new way of questioning. In this talk Iryna will explore the ‘Art of the Question’ and its inextricable role in creating deeper understanding of one self, our humanity and the world around us.

John Dafos

Through a series of (hopefully humourous or humourously hopeful!) stories, John will explore the hope that can be inspired in students who think that they’re not “smart enough,” who “aren’t good at learning,” and who think all teachers are “out to get them.” Being flexible in your approach and leaving a lot of room for audacity when necessary will be a few of the themes that he will touch upon.

John Dafos will be teaching at Bliss Carman Sr. Public School this fall.

Mike Verhey

“The liberation of your mind comes from the following principle: reality always depends on how you perceive it.  Learn to perceive it more usefully and your world will transform.”

Richard Bandler, 2005

The term Hope can be interpreted positively, neutrally or negatively.

In this brief talk Mike will be exploring how we view Hope and how through “playing with perspectives”, we can clarify our personal understanding of hope and potentially free up energy that might be spent in the shadows.