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Are you positive that you can reach your Writing Goals?

Kendra Davis

 

Kendra Davies of Stellar Life Coaching is positive she can show you how!  Come to the Winter Park Library on Saturday, March 21st from 10 a.m. to noon for a workshop on setting and achieving your writing goals.

Kendra writes:

I have been fascinated with how people learn, communicate, and succeed since 2002. With 11 years of experience in training and development consultation, instructional design, and employee relations, at organizations including AAA, Westgate Resorts, and Lockheed Martin, I have challenged and honed my professional and coaching skills in preparation for my current role as Owner, Coach and Keynote Speaker at Stellar Life Coaching.

A Positive Psychology Coach
Working with individuals and couples to identify, define and cultivate their most authentic lives. From career coaching, strengths building, emotional intelligence, communication, to goal smashing, and authenticity. Additionally, I collaborate with organizations to develop, implement and manage positive employee engagement initiatives, and executive coaching.

A Speaker
Utilizing the science of Positive Psychology I deliver engaging, effective, and fun presentations on topics such as Authentic Leadership and Communication, Changing the Happiness Equation, and The Science of Happiness. In addition to workshops on Cultivating Positive Emotions, Effective Communication, and Choosing Optimism.

Clients include: Siemens, Jewish Community Center of Orlando, College Park Neighborhood Association, XOS Digital, Valencia College, Casselberry Library, Winter Park Towers,and GAI Consultants.

I am an Achieve Global Certified Leadership Trainer, a Professional Certified Coach, and additionally certified in Positive Psychology. My professional contributions have been published by Monster.com, and Central Florida Life Style magazine.

Professional Affiliations Include:
• Founding Fellow of the Institute of Coaching Professionals Association at McLean Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School
• Shawn Achor’s The Happiness Advantage at Work and Life

Catherine Gildiner Coming Ashore at Writers Block

Catherine Gildiner

 

SUNDAY MARCH 8TH, from 1:00-3:00 PM, CATHERINE GILDINER, author of COMING ASHORE, will sign books at Writers Block Bookstore in Winter Park.

Catherine Gildiner wrote the New York Times best selling childhood memoir titled Too Close to the Falls. A decade later, she published a sequel, a teenage memoir of life in the 60’s called After the Falls. Her newly released third and final memoir called Coming Ashore, which covers her life as a student at Oxford in England, teaching in the burning ghetto in Cleveland, and finally her graduate school years in Toronto.

Nathan Holic Kicks Off Wine and Sign Fridays at Bookmark It

ThingsIDontSee

Bookmark It is pleased to announce a new event series, Wine & Sign Fridays!   From 6-8pm each Friday evening in the month of March, they will spill out of their store and onto the balcony, featuring a different local author for this free wine sampling and book signing event.

Kicking it off on Friday, March 6th, author Nathan Holic will be signing copies of his newly published novella, Things I Don’t See. Things I Don’t See is the story of a fractured family on the fringes of America’s happiest vacation destination–of what takes place outside the comic panels and cartoon frames and family photos, and what it means when we finally encounter the truth behind our lies. For more info about the book, visit http://mainstreetrag.com/bookstore/product/things-i-dont-see/, or come by the shop and chat with Nathan this Friday!

Wine & Sign Calendar:

March 6th: Nathan Holic author Things I Don’t See and Fraternity Man

March 13th: Nicole Speropolous author of new cookbook The Little Chocolate Paleo

March 20th: Bob Brigham author of Math is Murder and Murder by the Numbers

March 27th: David Bornstein author of Me and E:A Baseball Odyssey and The Good Word: A Decade of Jewish Thought and Chutzpah

 

Event information: 

Date: Every Friday in March (3/6, 3/13, 3/20, 3/27)

Location: East End Market – Upstairs in Bookmark It

2301 Corrine Drive, Orlando, FL 32803

Time: 6pm -8pm

Cost: FREE, author titles available for purchase

 

For additional information on event or for author information, please contact Kim@bookmarkitorlando.com

http://bookmarkitorlando.com/events/

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