Patrice Dickey, 56: Taught ‘Get the Life You Love’ at Emory
Posted: October 1, 2012 at 5:14 am
By Michelle E. Shaw
In her popular Emory University continuing education class, Get the Life You Love, Patrice Dickey taught what she knew.
Her honesty and transparency is likely what endeared students to her and kept them flocking to her class.
Many people can teach a concept but Patrice actually lived what she taught and you come from a very different perspective when you do that, said Peggy Crowe, program manager for Emory Continuing Education. We ran her class three or four times a year and looking back, her message was timeless. We never had a problem filling her class.
Patrice Jane Dickey, of Avondale Estates, died Sept. 7 at Hospice Atlanta, from complications of metastatic breast cancer. She was 56. A memorial service is planned for 1 p.m. on Oct. 13 at Oakhurst Presbyterian Church, Decatur. A.S. Turner & Sons was in charge of arrangements.
Ms. Dickey began teaching at Emory in 1999 and continued to teach through the six-week July session this year, even after learning of her advanced medical condition, Mrs. Crowe said.
She was so invested in her students, she said. There were people already registered and she said she wanted to provide them the instruction and experience they were expecting.
In 2006, Ms. Dickey self-published her first book, Back to the Garden: Getting from Shadow to Joy, and her sister, Susan B. Dickey, hopes to posthumously release her second book, which chronicles her cancer journey.
Susan Dickey said her sister didnt necessarily set out to be a writer, but her life experiences gave her great material for the task. Patrice Dickey earned a journalism degree from the University of North Carolina in 1977. Not long after graduation, she made her way to Atlanta, her city of choice, her sister said.
It was the vibe of the city, Susan Dickey said of her sisters decision to move to Atlanta. It is a very cool city.
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Holistic Learning Centers Releases A Comprehensive All Inclusive Special Offer Package Set For Independent Life Coaches
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Holistic Learning Centers has packaged three decades of research and clinical field testing in the profession of independent life coaching into a seven set suite of products and is giving a great discount for the month of October.
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The professional life coaching training manual included in the package contains all of the exercises contained in HLCs life coaching success system, the HuMethod. It is a professional resource manual designed for experienced practitioners who have several years of field experience in disciples such as life coaching, counseling, social work and psychology.
The life coaching manual contains training systems, forms and subjective measuring techniques that will allow independent life coaches to measure and quantify how to successfully facilitate clinically proven life coaching exercises.
To go along with the manual is a set of twenty eight two-hour life coaching classes on MP3 allowing you to receive the education of the live interactive life coaching students while adhering to your time and/or budgetary restraints.
As all solopreneurs know, in addition to skill in facilitation, skill in marketing is equally essential to have a thriving independent life coaching private practice.
HLC has included in this package a five hundred page digital life coaching marketing mastery manual based on the research of some of the most successful entrepreneurs of our time. Consult this manual regularly as a how to guide for building your holistic practice. When questions arise, your first action should be to look it up and follow the guidelines that you find on the particular challenge you are attempting to solve.
Also included in the Independent Life Coaching package are HLCs two foundational life coaching and self-help textbooks, Self-Mastery A Journey Home to Yourself and the Human Handbook.
These materials come in book form and on cd (the Self Mastery book) and audio book (the HuMan Handbook). You also will receive a Cd containing HLCs core meditational exercise, the Spiritual Distinction Meditation along with 100 benefits of doing the Self Mastery work.
As an added bonus, HLC is extending a 90 day tuition upgrade guarantee towards Interactive or Independent Life Coaching Certification Courses.
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Creating Positive Change series at the Boroughs JCC
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The Boroughs JCC, in partnership with Firebird Life Coaching, announces the launch of the Creating Positive Change Series.
The series provides adults with the support, tools, and resources to respond to to lifes challenges and achieve positive outcomes and results.
The first program, Confronting Job Loss, begins on Wednesday, Oct. 3.
For many individuals and families, transitions and events happen that create new challenges. While we may not always control lifes events, we can control how we respond if we know how. Through a series of interactive, supportive and educational coaching groups and workshops, led by a certified life coach with over 20 years of experience in the helping professions, participants will acquire new skills and strategies for effectively managing life transitions and creating positive changes in their own lives.
We are excited to bring this series to our community, said Lisa Borchetta, founder of Firebird Life Coaching and lead facilitator of the series. Our generation faces new and unique set of challenges -- at work and within the family. The Creating Positive Change Series intends to help families cope and succeed.
Additional programs in the series scheduled for this fall include Living the Good Life: Exploring the New Science of Happiness and Well Being, starting Oct. 29, and Mid-Life Crisis to Mid-Life Opportunity - Making the Most of the "Sandwich Generation", starting Oct. 30. Program fees are nominal. JCC members receive a discount and limited financial aid is available based on need.
The Creating Positive Change Series is a great opportunity, said Allen Edinberg, President of the Boroughs JCC. Helping families is part of our mission to build our communities and our future.
More information about the programs and registration information is available at http://www.boroughsjcc.org, by calling the Boroughs JCC at 508-366-6121 x24, or by sending an email to programss@boroughsjcc.org.
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Statin Drugs Are Only One Problem – Morley Evans Brings Fitness-Health-Happiness into Focus with a Clear Mission …
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Morley Evans told a small audience this morning that Fitness-Health-Happiness warns people to avoid Statin Drugs and helps people who have taken them to recover. F-H-H helps everyone to choose a life that is long and happy. Modern living, itself, leads to disease, unhappiness and premature death because it removes exercise, nutrition and spirituality.
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"Our mission is to help people choose a life that is long and happy," Evans told a small gathering this morning in Regina.
Evans said there are many messages competing for attention today. Some are useful, he said, and some are not. Evans believes he has learned things in his own sixty-five-year journey to find good health that others will find helpful.
The Fitness-Health-Happiness website features things Evans, himself, uses and that scientific research has indicated will benefit others.
Evans said that modern living has removed things that are essential to life itself. Labour-saving devices, from electric can openers to jet planes, have eliminated exercise, Evans said. Food has become plentiful (for some) but it is increasingly deficient in essential nutrients, Evans added. Finally, Evans said, secularism has turned the world into a spiritual desert war, mass slaughter and environmental destruction have become "a way of life."
Pharmaceutical medicine, Evans concluded, has not created all the problems, but it has no answers either. "Pharmaceutical medicine is part of the problem," Evans said, "Pharmaceutical companies exist to sell drugs and make money. They are not interested in and they know nothing about health. Doctors are trained by the pharmaceutical companies. Doctors are the primary salesmen of pharmaceutical drugs."
Evans thinks that the pathway to health and wellness adds those things that have been removed. He told the audience that people must exercise, improve their nutrition and feed their souls by serving others.
Evans Consulting Services established Fitness-Health-Happiness in 2012 to bring together ideas that lead to long and happy lives.
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Up Close & Personal: Art, Music and Performance – Chch
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Up Close and Personal: Art, Music and Performance, Restarting the Heart of Christchurch
30 September 2012
Local music, performance, exhibitions, murals, graffiti art and art installations are set to bring further excitement and energy to Re:START the City Mall shopping precinct that brought thousands of Christchurch residents back to the inner city last year.
The arts and music programme called Art Beat is an initiative of Arts Voice Christchurch and Re:START which will take place from November 2012 to February 2013, integrating art and entertainment into the citys re-build.
Art Beat will build relationships between the arts community and businesses in the central city, as well as provide performance opportunities, exposure and work experience for established and developing artists.
Art Beat has received funding from Creative New Zealand for administration, project management, marketing and programme communication.
Art Beat is a fantastic arts-led initiative that over spring and summer will give the people of Christchurch the chance to have a ball in the Mall. Clever site specific projects like this will bring fun, vitality and people into the city, said Creative New Zealand Chief Executive Stephen Wainwright.
Art Beat is a collaborative business/arts venture between Re:START and Arts Voice Christchurch, advocating for the art community in Christchurch and ensuring that it remains fundamental and essential to the life of the city.
Arts Voice Christchurch Chair, Warren Feeney says, The funding Art Beat has received from Creative New Zealand is an opportunity for artists to operate outside traditional venues and institutions and get up close and personal in ways that will give Christchurch residents and visitors even greater reasons to visit the central city and Re:START.
Bob Parker opened Re:START a year ago and commented that it marked the beginning of our city making the most extraordinary comeback. Art Beat takes up the challenge of Parkers remarks with considerable enthusiasm. It represents the response of a vital arts community engaged in the citys rebuild, keen to create a vibrant central city that will connect - in the best of all possible ways - the arts , the city, businesses and people.
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IU grad finds success with start-up pita business
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Gyros, pita chips and feta cheese are just a few staples of Mediterranean cuisine IU graduate Shadi Khoury serves throughout Indiana.
Khoury graduated from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs in 2011 and now owns In a Pita, a Mediterranean food truck business.
He runs the business out of Indianapolis.
Students who went to GLOWfest this month may have seen him peddling pitas out of his electric blue 1987 Chevrolet box truck.
My personal favorite is the falafel, Khoury said. But the honey and feta pita chips are pretty darn good, too. Sweet, salty, crunchy, soft, its a party in your mouth.
Khoury, whose parents own a Mediterranean restaurant in Indianapolis, said deciding on a business plan was easy.
It seemed like a dream to own my business and sell food because I love to cook, he said. And I was born into the cuisine.
But running the business, Khoury said, isnt as easy as dreaming up an idea. He said operating a food truck is risky. Its always a gamble picking what special events to go to, because he said he never knows how many people will show up or what the weather will be like.
A lot of people assume that having a food truck is so easy, that you just park, sell food and then you are a millionaire, Khoury said. Thats definitely not the case.
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Success sparkles after testing start
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Kat Gee admits to being "very green" when she kick-started her jewellery business Kagi.
The year was 2006, she was 24, full of great ideas for design, and leapt in to a world dominated by old men, old thinking and gold and diamonds.
Over the years Gee has had to pull on her large stores of inner strength to develop the business, especially when she began to face unsustainable losses when her business loan ran out.
It was at that point she sat down and crunched the numbers, while looking at the company's core competencies and what people loved about the product.
She developed an innovative and cost-effective approach to jewellery, such as asking "why pay silver's high prices when stainless steel looks like silver, is more resistant and durable and under half the price".
With help from her successful entrepreneurial father Bill Gee (who founded garaging company Spanbild), fashion consultant Dianne Ludwig, her fiance Geoff Neil, and others, she formed several key philosophies.
These have included being truly customer focused, pre-testing designs and strategies before release, sticking to a small range of 150 bestsellers, and pricing the jewellery affordably.
Jewellers were resistant to Kagi's affordable price points and feared it would cannibalise their stock. However, Gee and her team won over the retailers and became many stores top performing brand.
The business, based in Newmarket, Auckland, has grown phenomenally quickly. Kagi was placed in the 2011 Deloittes Fast 50, and recently ran a show at NZ Fashion week. Gee was a finalist in the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2012.
Kagi is distributed in 220 stores across Australasia, and intends to be in 250 stores by March next year.
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