WORKSHOPS WITH WILMA 2021
Alexandra Writers Centre Society
ONLINE Writing The Seasons
Tuesdays10am-12pm June 8, 2021 (4 weeks)
Our life patterns journey around in cycles and spirals. The season’s rhythms summer, fall, winter, and spring provide inspiration for self-reflection, to celebrate personal insights, enhance our creativity, claim our unique wisdom and unlock our muse. This will enrich our lives, nourish and develop our courage as writers.
https://www.alexandrawriters.org/courses/online-writing-the-seasons/
This is an interactive online class using the Zoom web platform.
Manage Your Workplace Emotions
You can't change conflict and opposing points of view in the workplace. You can, however, change the way you react. Become more emotionally aware, harness your emotions and express them positively with control, confidence and composure.
Friday 7th May 1.00pm -4.00pm

Conflict Resolution for the Workplace
Successful conflict resolvers are not born; they are trained. Build your skills as an effective conflict resolver and mediator. Learn to recognize conflict patterns and what triggers and escalates conflict in others, master strategies that reduce conflict escalation, assert yourself confidently and give constructive feedback. These skills will help you work more productively and harmoniously with clients, colleagues and superiors. See Course Outline.
Instructor: Wilma Rubens - see Instructor Profile

Fridays 4th 11th June 2021 9.00 - 4.00pm

Entangled Enchantments

Entangled Enchantments
My very first collection of poetry. These poems celebrate my journey on the uncharted waters of the feminine. For your very own copy purchase at Cafe Books, Canmore, or Pages in Kensington, Calgary or contact www.wilmarubens.com

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Self-Love

It has been a pattern of mine when life gets tough to slink into a bookstore and find something inspirational to read.

I remember such a time in Sydney Australia about 22 years ago. I had left my two little kids at the brand new Occasional Child-care Centre for my weekly 3 hours of me time. The rosy cheeked director Maggie Currie hugged me and said, "You're precious!" No one had ever called me that in my entire life. Me precious? Me as a mother was precious? It was difficult for me to get my head around that. This was Scottish Maggie's great gift to all us young mothers.

I had been conflicted about my worth. Should I go back to work or stay home with my children? After 20 years of feminism it felt somehow wrong to even want to be a stay-at-home mother. Women had fought long and hard, I had worked hard in my profession as a Science teacher and what was where I expected my status to come from as a woman not from being a stay at home mother. And what about the financial aspect. Didn't we need two incomes to live in our sophisticated world?

I found myself in the Crowsnest bookstore opposite the metal sculpture of a Crowsnest in the little square of the municipal buildings. My eyes roamed the crowded shelves. It was the book "You can heal your life" by Louise Hay that jumped off the shelve demanding to be purchased. I loved the rainbow heart on the white cover. I wasn't quite sure why my life needed healed. It was her words at the beginning of each chapter that caught my attention, "Deep at the centre you my being is an infinite supply of love....."

Thankfully that book revolutionised my life.

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