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Celeste Schroeder, Interfaith Minister, Master Reiki Teacher
Louisville, TNrocking chair by lake
“Steps 3 & 11: Connect with Divine Will Through Prayer and Meditation”
Align with Higher Will by exploring prayer, invocations, and meditation. Contemplative exercise with mandalas engage our hands, eyes, and thoughts to attune with Higher Power, listening for insight, inspiration.

Kay Blackwelder, M.S.
Louisville, TN
“A Ten-Week Course in Stress Management in 1-1/2 Hours”
Learn about a neurophysiologic model of the chronic stress cycle and how to alter this cycle and cue your relaxation response. An introduction to relaxation techniques, meditation/mindfulness, pleasant imagery, and autogenic training.

Nanne Johnson, LCSW
Knoxville, TN
“The Benefit of People Who Bug You”
A workshop based on the book by J'aime Ona Pangaia. What can we learn about ourselves when people bug us?

Margaret Leslie, MS, CHTP/1, LMT
Dandridge/Knoxville, TN
“Expanding Self-Awareness Through Energy Work”
Learn at least two techniques to use to: a) help protect yourself from others' energy, b) expand awareness of your own energy, c) broaden your ability to center yourself, and d) have an avenue for letting go of old feelings.

Harriet “Happy” Wall
Roswell, GA
“Honesty and Knowing Yourself”
Knowing: What we know—that we don't want to know—that we know! Explore how, at times, we avoid our true inner knowing. With guided visualization and lecture, we will explore how to access and trust our own intuitive knowing. Honesty and trust of ourselves is key to recovery.

Sue Ellen Alfred, Ed.D.leaves

“Writing from the Inside Out”
Writing can be a way of meditating and helping us get in touch with our inner power. 

Diane LeMieux, Ph.D.
Knoxville, TN
“Shattered but Whole—Owning Our Own Gold”
The shadow or disowned part of ourselves has both positive and negative aspects. Sometimes in our work with the negative aspect (our woundedness and character defects), we neglect to recover our own aliveness, gifts, and talents—the positive side or gold of the shadow! Come join me as we mine for our own gold and “re-member” our inherent wholeness.

Prudie Orr, Ph.D.
Knoxville, TN
“Addiction: Cunning, Baffling, Powerful”
A room full of experts: after the presentation—what's new, what's hot, and what's not in the treatment of substance use disorder. Group discussion on applying the findings to live well with this disease.



 

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