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• How Much is Enough? Understanding and Treating Compulsive $hopping and $pending - CEU-eligible

  • When
    Tuesday, November 10, 2020
  •  
    6:15 PM - 9:00 PM (PST)
  • Location
    VIRTUAL MEETING VIA ZOOM
  • Spaces left
    49

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  How Much Is Enough?

  Understanding and Treating Compulsive $hopping and $pending - CEU-eligible

  
  

  Terrence Shulman,
  

  The Shulman Center for Compulsive Theft, Spending and Hoarding

  
  

  Terrence Shulman was born, raised, and lives in Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.. Mr. Shulman completed his undergraduate degree in English Literature at the University of Michigan in 1987. He graduated from The Detroit College of Law in 1991 and has been an attorney-at-law since 1992 specializing in mental health law and criminal defense work. He returned to and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1997 and has since then been a full-time certified social worker and addictions therapist. He worked as a counselor at a chemical dependency clinic from 1997 - 2004 and was the clinic director from 1998 - 2000. Since 2004, Mr. Shulman has been the Founder/Director of The Shulman Center for Compulsive Theft, Spending and Hoarding in metro-Detroit. He counsels clients in person, by phone, and via video from across the U.S. and beyond. He has authored four recovery books: Something for Nothing: Shoplifting Addiction and Recovery (2003), Biting The Hand That Feeds: The Employee Theft Epidemic (2005), Bought Out and $pent! Recovery from Compulsive $hopping and $pending (2008), and Cluttered Lives, Empty Souls: Compulsive Stealing, Spending and Hoarding (2011). His book Something for Nothing was translated into Japanese and published in 2019. Mr. Shulman has organized and presented at many conferences across the U.S. He has also been featured in numerous media interviews including The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2004. Mr. Shulman has been in recovery himself since March 1990 from addictive-compulsive shoplifting and stealing. He is the founder of C.A.S.A. (Cleptomaniacs And Shoplifters Anonymous) in 1992 which has support groups in the metro-Detroit area and across the U.S.
  

  
  

  and

  Carrie Rattle,   Behavioral Cents
  

  Throughout Carrie's career in financial services, from working in branches while putting herself through college, all the way to Wall Street executive level, she encountered events that broke her heart.

  A woman in her 30’s couldn’t afford her health care and started moving money between credit cards just to pay expenses. A woman in her 60’s walked into the bank exhausted and distraught because her husband had just died unexpectedly – and she didn’t know how to pay the household bills. And, a wealthy woman in her 40’s had let her million-dollar husband control all the money. He threw her out one day and moved the girlfriend into the family home. This woman didn’t know she had rights, and didn’t know where to start. None of these women had ever been taught some of the basics on managing their everyday money.

  Divorce, bad credit score, debt, no time to save…one or the other will happen to most women. Carrie's mission is to help you avoid nasty surprises, or be prepared to tackle them when they come. No Judgment. No Deprivation.

  Carrie's parents were loving, humble people who provided the best life possible for their 4 kids. They often struggled, and her learning from them was to manage cash very carefully. She walks the talk – she built her own money behaviors along the way, and achieved wealth the hard way – working hard and saving diligently.

  Her coach practice brings this learning, in addition to 30 years of banking, credit cards and brokerage in multiple countries.  Her career spans both major corporations and small businesses. This breadth of experience has distilled years of knowledge about individuals, entrepreneurs and money behaviors. It’s now available to you when she works together with clients.

  Diligent money behaviors now allow her to fulfill her dream of helping other women, and enjoy money-life balance. Brian and she live life fully with good health, good food, good friends and their two silly little bunnies. They could buy a bigger home, but they don’t need it. Caring for the earth, respecting others, and a drive for excellence are key values. If she had to save one item from her closet of clothes, it would be her scruffy hiking boots!

  
  

  Breakout Room Topics:

  1. Have you ever worked with a client (or clients) who you suspect had a serious shopping/spending problem and, if so what was that like for you and were your professional organizing strategies effective or not?

  2. What have you learned from your experiences, research, and/or talking to other people how best to work with clients who currently struggle or have struggled in the past with a shopping/spending problem (shared specific, concrete strategies).
  

  Greetings Fellow Organizers, Productivity Pros and all Potential Guests, The NAPO Seattle Area Chapter Board members are, as I'm sure you are, finding this to be a challenging time in our world. Covid 19 is upending virtually every aspect of our daily lives. As such, it's with an abundance of concern for our health and safety that we are announcing that we are rescheduling May's meeting at Hotel 116  to be a virtual meeting on the same date. We are using Zoom as our platform as we've had much success with it in the past and found it to be super easy to use. You can find more information on how to use Zoom here. ALL NON-CHAPTER GUESTS MUST REGISTER IN ADVANCE of this meeting in order for us to be able to provide you with a Zoom link.

  Business Partner: ShelfGenie of Seattle
  

  Tuesday November 10, 2020
  

  6:15PM - 6:30PM open networking
  

  6:30PM-6:40PM Welcome to the meeting & Introductions
  6:40-6:50pm Business Partner Presentation
  6:50PM - 8:20PM Guest Speaker
  8:20PM - 9:00PM Announcements/ Wrap-up

  
  

  Guest Fee
  
  We welcome anyone to visit our meetings. The guest fee is $25 ($26 via credit card, pre-registration available with the link above, up to 12:00PM (noon) of the day of the meeting) for each meeting you attend as a guest. We only accept cash or checks at the door. Membership in the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (NAPO) is required before membership on the chapter level can be processed.
  
  Conduct/Attire/Punctuality
  
  We pride ourselves on being a cohesive, positive, enthusiastic group and welcome everyone who would like to attend. Brainstorming and idea sharing are encouraged. It is important to represent NAPO and the organizing industry in a professional manner. We ask that you wear business casual attire to the meetings. All meetings will begin on time with the intention of ending on time. Please make every effort to arrive at the meeting on time.

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• Holiday Party - Members Only

  • When
    Tuesday, December 01, 2020
  •  
    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (PST)
  • Location
    VIRTUAL MEETING VIA ZOOM

  Holiday Party and Favorite Things - Members - Only
  

  
  

  Our members share their favorite tools, apps, teaching moments and perspectives on their profession. Many of our members consider this their favorite party of the year!
  

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• Creating Comfort: House Whispering for Ourselves & Our Clients - CEU-eligible

  • When
    Tuesday, January 05, 2021
  •  
    6:15 PM - 8:30 PM (PST)
  • Location
    VIRTUAL MEETING VIA ZOOM
  • Spaces left
    50

  Register

  Creating Comfort:

  House Whispering for Ourselves & Our Clients

  - CEU-eligible
  

  Erin Cochran, Revealing Redesign
  

  
  

  We will discuss setting up our spaces (both work and home--for ourselves & our clients) so that they nurture and support the way we really want to live:  
   1. identifying "white noise" or underlying discomforts of the rooms we spend time in.
   2. creating comfort & embracing simplicity with key elements that make us feel good, increase our sense of what is possible, and make us truly feel at home.
   3. think about what we really want to create in our lives, and set our spaces up so they support that vision.

  Break-Out Room Discussion:

  1. What are some of the complications of living in your house that are keeping you from enjoying life there day-to-day? List at least five--from the most petty to the most significant.
  
  2. Where was the last space you spent time in where you really felt comforted & nurtured? What were the elements present that made you feel that way? 
  

  
  

  
  

  Erin Cochran is the owner & Head House Whisperer of Revealing Redesign, a company she founded in 2006. Because many smart, passionate people (despite their zest for life and mad skills) find themselves living and working in drab, outdated, uncomfortable, and/or cluttered surroundings, Erin conquers ugly, disappointing rooms one at a time...enabling her clients to finally live in nurturing, beautiful spaces that help them put their best foot forward in the world.

  
  

  
  

  Greetings Fellow Organizers, Productivity Pros and all Potential Guests, The NAPO Seattle Area Chapter Board members are, as I'm sure you are, finding this to be a challenging time in our world. Covid 19 is upending virtually every aspect of our daily lives. As such, it's with an abundance of concern for our health and safety that we are announcing that we are rescheduling May's meeting at Hotel 116  to be a virtual meeting on the same date. We are using Zoom as our platform as we've had much success with it in the past and found it to be super easy to use. You can find more information on how to use Zoom here. ALL NON-CHAPTER GUESTS MUST REGISTER IN ADVANCE of this meeting in order for us to be able to provide you with a Zoom link.

  Business Partner:
  

  Tuesday January 5, 2021
  

  6:15PM - 6:30PM Open networking
  

  6:30PM-6:40PM Welcome to the meeting & Introductions
  6:40-6:50pm Business Partner Presentation
  6:50PM - 7:50PM Guest Speaker
  7:50PM - 830PM Announcements/ Wrap-up

  
  

  Guest Fee
  
  We welcome anyone to visit our meetings. The guest fee is $25 ($26 via credit card, pre-registration available with the link above, up to 12:00PM (noon) of the day of the meeting) for each meeting you attend as a guest. We only accept cash or checks at the door. Membership in the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (NAPO) is required before membership on the chapter level can be processed.
  
  Conduct/Attire/Punctuality
  
  We pride ourselves on being a cohesive, positive, enthusiastic group and welcome everyone who would like to attend. Brainstorming and idea sharing are encouraged. It is important to represent NAPO and the organizing industry in a professional manner. We ask that you wear business casual attire to the meetings. All meetings will begin on time with the intention of ending on time. Please make every effort to arrive at the meeting on time.

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• How to Move Accurately Within Real Time - CEU-eligible

  • When
    Tuesday, February 02, 2021
  •  
    6:15 PM - 8:30 PM (PST)
  • Location
    VIRTUAL MEETING VIA ZOOM
  • Spaces left
    50

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  How to Move Accurately Within Real Time - CEU-eligible
  

  Marie Manuchehri, Energy Intuitive
  

  
  

  Time is a man made phenomenon that actually only exists on earth. Scientists know that everything in the multi-universe is made from energy particles. Your body, the building you are living in, all of your thoughts are made from subatomic particles. Energy can not be destroyed, it is in constant motion, making it impossible to be measured. Your personal awareness can shift significantly when you allow yourself to listen to and feel your space in the world instead of measuring your existence through a linear perception; such as time. Real time, as Marie likes to call it, has a mindfulness quality that when observed reduces stress, increases productivity, and allows for an empowered flow within your everyday life. Creating an increase in happiness. Author of “Intuitive Self Healing,” and, “How to Communicate with Your Spirit Guides,” Marie Manuchehri is an energy medicine healer who is the perfect bridge between conventional and holistic medicine. She was raised in a family that appreciated preventive medicine, including the importance of eating nutritional organic foods and taking healthy supplements. Yet, it was during her work as an oncology nurse that she discovered and developed her skills as an energy medicine practitioner. Marie also the  host of a weekly, live radio show, “Where Energy and Medicine Meet.”     Breakout Room Questions: 1. How can one become authentically happy? 2. Can one stop thinking and have a fulfilling life? 3. Is there a practical way to attract more wealth?     Greetings Fellow Organizers, Productivity Pros and all Potential Guests, The NAPO Seattle Area Chapter Board members are, as I'm sure you are, finding this to be a challenging time in our world. Covid 19 is upending virtually every aspect of our daily lives. As such, it's with an abundance of concern for our health and safety that we are announcing that we are rescheduling May's meeting at Hotel 116  to be a virtual meeting on the same date. We are using Zoom as our platform as we've had much success with it in the past and found it to be super easy to use. You can find more information on how to use Zoom here. ALL NON-CHAPTER GUESTS MUST REGISTER IN ADVANCE of this meeting in order for us to be able to provide you with a Zoom link.

  Business Partner:
  

  Tuesday February 2, 2021
  

  6:15PM - 6:30PM Open networking
  

  6:30PM-6:40PM Welcome to the meeting & Introductions
  6:40-6:50pm Business Partner Presentation
  6:50PM - 7:50PM Guest Speaker
  7:50PM - 8:00PM Announcements/ Wrap-up

  
  

  Guest Fee
  
  We welcome anyone to visit our meetings. The guest fee is $25 ($26 via credit card, pre-registration available with the link above, up to 12:00PM (noon) of the day of the meeting) for each meeting you attend as a guest. We only accept cash or checks at the door. Membership in the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (NAPO) is required before membership on the chapter level can be processed.
  
  Conduct/Attire/Punctuality
  
  We pride ourselves on being a cohesive, positive, enthusiastic group and welcome everyone who would like to attend. Brainstorming and idea sharing are encouraged. It is important to represent NAPO and the organizing industry in a professional manner. We ask that you wear business casual attire to the meetings. All meetings will begin on time with the intention of ending on time. Please make every effort to arrive at the meeting on time.

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• Rightsizing: How to do it right - CEU-eligible

  • When
    Tuesday, March 02, 2021
  •  
    6:15 PM - 8:30 PM (PST)
  • Location
    VIRTUAL MEETING VIA ZOOM
  • Spaces left
    50

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  Rightsizing: How to do it right - CEU-eligible
  

  
  

  Silvina Petersen, Money & Life Coach
  silvinapetersencoaching.com
  

  
  

  Silvina is a Money & Life Coach who graduated summa cum laude from the University of Utah with a degree in Finance and is also a Certified Life Coach. She's been the CFO of her household for over two decades and helps other Stay-at-Home Moms and Mompreneurs become Chief Financial Officers of their home and manage the family spending with confidence. She practices cognitive-science-based coaching to help Moms uplevel their financial life by helping them align their money with their goals and dreams.

  
  

  Greetings Fellow Organizers, Productivity Pros and all Potential Guests,

  The NAPO Seattle Area Chapter Board members are, as I'm sure you are, finding this to be a challenging time in our world. Covid 19 is upending virtually every aspect of our daily lives.

  As such, it's with an abundance of concern for our health and safety that we are announcing that we are rescheduling May's meeting at Hotel 116  to be a virtual meeting on the same date.

  We are using Zoom as our platform as we've had much success with it in the past and found it to be super easy to use. You can find more information on how to use Zoom here. ALL NON-CHAPTER GUESTS MUST REGISTER IN ADVANCE of this meeting in order for us to be able to provide you with a Zoom link.

  Business Partner:
  

  Tuesday March 2, 2021
  

  6:15PM - 6:30PM open networking
  

  6:30PM-6:40PM Welcome to the meeting & Introductions
  6:40-6:50pm Business Partner Presentation
  6:50PM - 7:50PM Guest Speaker
  7:50PM - 8:00PM Announcements/ Wrap-up

  
  

  Guest Fee
  
  We welcome anyone to visit our meetings. The guest fee is $25 ($26 via credit card, pre-registration available with the link above, up to 12:00PM (noon) of the day of the meeting) for each meeting you attend as a guest. We only accept cash or checks at the door. Membership in the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (NAPO) is required before membership on the chapter level can be processed.
  
  Conduct/Attire/Punctuality
  
  We pride ourselves on being a cohesive, positive, enthusiastic group and welcome everyone who would like to attend. Brainstorming and idea sharing are encouraged. It is important to represent NAPO and the organizing industry in a professional manner. We ask that you wear business casual attire to the meetings. All meetings will begin on time with the intention of ending on time. Please make every effort to arrive at the meeting on time.

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• End of Life Planning - Erin Mullins - CEU-eligible

  • When
    Tuesday, April 06, 2021
  •  
    6:15 PM - 8:30 PM (PDT)
  • Location
    Online Meeting via Zoom
  • Spaces left
    50

  Register

  End of Life Planning - CEU-eligible
  

  
  

  Erin C. Mullins, LMT, CSP, CH, www.erincmullins.com

  
  

  Processes and practices to support end of life planning.

  
  

  
  

  Erin supports people throughout their life, from childhood to their elder years, during transitions of all kinds and as they approach death. She supports people employing a variety of modalities of bodywork, transpersonal hypnotherapy, guided journeying, energy work. Further, she offers counsel and guidance rooted in both birth and death doula work and life-long study of cross- cultural healing and natural medicine. She has found the pairing of her offerings to be profoundly supportive and helpful for people of all life stages and all situations.

  
  

  Breakout Rooms (Table Topics):

  What do you want to be your legacy?

  What moment and/or decision has truly shaped your life?

  
  

  Greetings Fellow Organizers, Productivity Pros and all Potential Guests,

  The NAPO Seattle Area Chapter Board members are, as I'm sure you are, finding this to be a challenging time in our world. Covid 19 is upending virtually every aspect of our daily lives.

  As such, it's with an abundance of concern for our health and safety that we are announcing that we are rescheduling May's meeting at Hotel 116  to be a virtual meeting on the same date.

  We are using Zoom as our platform as we've had much success with it in the past and found it to be super easy to use. You can find more information on how to use Zoom here. ALL NON-CHAPTER GUESTS MUST REGISTER IN ADVANCE of this meeting in order for us to be able to provide you with a Zoom link.
  

  
  

  Business Partner:
  

  Tuesday April 6, 2021
  

  6:15PM - 6:30PM
  

  6:30PM-6:40PM Welcome to the meeting & Introductions
  6:40-6:50pm Business Partner Presentation
  6:50PM - 7:50PM Guest Speaker
  7:50PM - 8:00PM Announcements/ Wrap-up

  
  

  Guest Fee
  
  We welcome anyone to visit our meetings. The guest fee is $25 ($26 via credit card, pre-registration available with the link above, up to 12:00PM (noon) of the day of the meeting) for each meeting you attend as a guest. We only accept cash or checks at the door. Membership in the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (NAPO) is required before membership on the chapter level can be processed.
  
  Conduct/Attire/Punctuality
  
  We pride ourselves on being a cohesive, positive, enthusiastic group and welcome everyone who would like to attend. Brainstorming and idea sharing are encouraged. It is important to represent NAPO and the organizing industry in a professional manner. We ask that you wear business casual attire to the meetings. All meetings will begin on time with the intention of ending on time. Please make every effort to arrive at the meeting on time.

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• Etiquette

  • When
    Tuesday, May 04, 2021
  •  
    6:15 PM - 8:30 PM (PDT)
  • Location
    VIRTUAL MEETING VIA ZOOM
  • Spaces left
    50

  Register

  
  

  Arden Clise, Clise Etiquette
  

  
  

  Arden Clise, President of Clise Etiquette, is an expert in the field of business etiquette and customer service. As an author, speaker, trainer and coach, Arden helps companies have the competitive advantage through confident, polished and courteous employees. Author of Spinach in Your Boss's Teeth: Essential Etiquette for Professional Success, Arden also wrote a regular business etiquette advice column for 425 Business magazine and Puget Sound Business Journal. She has been quoted in several national and international publications including Real Simple magazine, the Wall Street Journal and China Daily USA. Greetings Fellow Organizers, Productivity Pros and all Potential Guests, The NAPO Seattle Area Chapter Board members are, as I'm sure you are, finding this to be a challenging time in our world. Covid 19 is upending virtually every aspect of our daily lives. As such, it's with an abundance of concern for our health and safety that we are announcing that we are rescheduling May's meeting at Hotel 116  to be a virtual meeting on the same date. We are using Zoom as our platform as we've had much success with it in the past and found it to be super easy to use. You can find more information on how to use Zoom here. ALL NON-CHAPTER GUESTS MUST REGISTER IN ADVANCE of this meeting in order for us to be able to provide you with a Zoom link.

  Business Partner:
  

  Tuesday May 4, 2021
  

  6:15PM - 6:30PM Open networking
  

  6:30PM-6:40PM Welcome to the meeting & Introductions
  6:40-6:50pm Business Partner Presentation
  6:50PM - 7:50PM Guest Speaker
  7:50PM - 8:00PM Announcements/ Wrap-up

  
  

  Guest Fee
  
  We welcome anyone to visit our meetings. The guest fee is $25 ($26 via credit card, pre-registration available with the link above, up to 12:00PM (noon) of the day of the meeting) for each meeting you attend as a guest. We only accept cash or checks at the door. Membership in the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (NAPO) is required before membership on the chapter level can be processed.
  
  Conduct/Attire/Punctuality
  
  We pride ourselves on being a cohesive, positive, enthusiastic group and welcome everyone who would like to attend. Brainstorming and idea sharing are encouraged. It is important to represent NAPO and the organizing industry in a professional manner. We ask that you wear business casual attire to the meetings. All meetings will begin on time with the intention of ending on time. Please make every effort to arrive at the meeting on time.

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