Creative Transitions Workshop Feedback

Comments from past workshop participants:

"I'm having a difficult time believing that I have been alive for xx years and it's only now occurring to me that I should live as myself and not as what others think I should be. My validation as a person should come from within myself. All my life I have been seeking happiness and fulfillment through the approval of other people when I should have been looking for it within myself. I am grateful to realize it now, rather than not at all."

"I thank you very much for all the richness and wisdom everyone shared."

"The variety of highly intellectual people...did not intimidate me."

"The workshop exercises were a start to help me look back more deeply and find the blessings I received."

"It's been fun! Through hard work, look at the ME I am today."

"I am once again grounded internally because of the opportunity to take isolated time to reflect on my past, present and future."

"Taking the time and effort to look into the mirror is difficult and evokes many emotions, but I am determined to do so. I believe that by doing so, my own future will be more rewarding and that I will have a positive impact on those around me."

"The exercises were varied, interactive and community building as they were tools to help us reveal ourselves to ourselves and to others."

"As you can appreciate my rigid self is being stretched to be creative."

"We reveal so much from our maps and the events we choose to express."

"The power of the process comes to a great degree from people's willingness to share and to be vulnerable."

"Let go of the words "I can't" for you have no idea how much you can do and be."

"Retirement should be a time for me to focus on the parts of me that have been pushed aside for years in my efforts to please others. God is giving me this time for me- to explore, to be joyful, to love those I want to love, to be happy and to give back from my own unique gifts."

"I will remember to listen to myself- there is much wisdom there that I ignore. I will trust me and nurture me more."