Life is calling.

What is your intention? 

March 30 – April 3, 2009

Sponsored by the UNC Asheville Career Center, Alumni Office, Campus Recreation,
Campus Operations, & Student Activities and Integrative Learning (SAIL)

UNC Asheville Intention Week Programs and Facilitators

These FREE programs are for UNC Asheville students, alumni, faculty, staff and the local community!

 Please consult the UNC Asheville Campus Map for event locations.

Life is Calling Keynote Address:
Discover your passion and purpose in life...
Ignite Your Intuitive Intelligence to Unleash Your PowerZone

Monday, March 30, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
Highsmith Union 222-223 

Edie Raether, MS, CSP, will challenge the way you think as you explore your creative genius to discover your passion and purpose in life. Move beyond success to significance by connecting with your intuition and gut guidance to unleash your PowerZone, for a hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. Join Edie to discover your authentic self and what you would be doing if you knew you couldn’t fail.

Edie is an international speaker, author, and consultant who has presented over 3,500 programs to professional associations and Fortune 500 companies on five continents.  She is an authority on the The Other IQ - Influence, Innovation and Intuitive Intelligence and an expert resource to such publications such as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Reuters. Her books have been published in numerous languages and she is one of 175 women worldwide with the CSP (certified speaking professional) mark of excellence designation awarded by the National Speakers Association. Others confirm that she will empower and enlighten you to make a difference with the following comments:  

 Edie Raether  w  Change Strategist, Corporate Coach, Inspirational Speaker  w  Performance Plus Kiser Island Rd.  w  Terrell, NC 28682  w  704.658.8997  w  edieraether@gmail.com  w   www.raether.com

Yoga and Intention: Aligning Your Potential

Tuesday, March 31, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
Highsmith Union 224

That which matters the least should never give way to that which matters the most.  A two hour yoga workshop open to all levels (beginners welcome)!  Together we will explore the opening and guiding power of hatha yoga.  Learn how to listen to your inner voice through meditation, breathing, and postures in this creative vinyasa flow class.  The definition of yoga is to unite, or bring together your thoughts and actions to align your life with how you envision it being.  Bring your yoga mat (we will have extras as well) and stretchy pants and get ready to move into your potential. 

Alex Moody is a career counselor and yoga instructor in the Asheville area.  After graduating with a degree in Creative Writing from Appalachian, Alex volunteered with Americorps working with after school programs in the Boston area.  After obtaining her Masters in Education from the University of Virginia, Alex began working as a career counselor for experiential learning.  During graduate school Alex began practicing Bikram yoga (the HOT kind!) regularly to help with chronic migraine headaches.  In the summer of 2007, Alex journeyed to the desert of Las Vegas, Nevada to work for a yoga clothing company called lululemon athletica.  As a floor leader, Alex developed leadership skills, wrote out her goals, and practiced many different types of yoga.  In all of her goals, yoga teacher training in the mountains of Asheville came up over and over again.  Believing that if you jump the net will appear, Alex relocated to Asheville to pursue her goal of becoming a yoga instructor.  She currently works at UNC Asheville doing career counseling as well as teaching college student success at AB Tech. 

Alex Moody  w   Hatha Yoga Instructor/Career Counselor  w   72 Buchanan Avenue  w   Asheville, NC 28801    703-728-9983  w   amoody38@gmail.com 

Horses on the A.C. Reynolds Green!
An Equine-Assisted Learning Experience

Wednesday, April 1, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
A.C. Reynolds Green (Mini Quad between Carmichael and New Hall)

Shannon Knapp is founder and president of Horse Sense of the Carolinas, Inc., an organization that applies equine-assisted learning to leadership development and team building.  Shannon has worked with and taught horses and people for over 20 years.  After 10 years teaching in college, she left academia and began working with abused and neglected horses, then began pairing "rescued" horses with people in 2001 to form the Horse Sense curriculum.  She and her husband Richard continue to develop their work with equine-assisted learning, utilizing rehabilitated horses found through horse rescue and law enforcement organizations to help both horses and people find a better way.  Shannon is one of the leading providers of EAL, and is a certified EAGALA Advanced as well as an EAGALA Mentor.  In addition, Shannon offers consulting services to those interested in starting their own Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy business and is author of the book Horse Sense Business Sense, Volume 1.

Shannon Knapp  w  Founder and President  w  Horse Sense of the Carolinas, Inc.  w  6919 Meadows Town Road Marshall, NC  28753  w  828-683-7304  w  Shannon@HorseSenseOtc.com  w  www.HorseSenseOtc.com

Stepping up in Style: The Feldenkrais Method® of Movement Education

Wednesday, April 1
Session 1: 4:30 – 5:30 pm
Session 2: 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm (Sessions will be identical – please choose one session to attend.)
Highsmith Union 222

Lavinia Plonka’s movement experience ranges over 30 years, including mime, yoga and the martial arts. She was an artist in residence for the Guggenheim Museum and movement consultant for theater and television   companies around the world, from the Irish National Folk Theater to Nickelodeon.  Lavinia Plonka is known throughout the United States as a dynamic and innovative teacher and writer who uses movement as a tool for personal development and health improvement.  Her popular workshops have been sponsored by organizations ranging from Esalen to the Feldenkrais Guild of North America to many hospitals and physical therapy clinics around the US. She is currently the director of Asheville Movement Center in Asheville, NC which offers a complete movement curriculum as well as private Feldenkrais lessons.  The Feldenkrais (rhymes with Paradise) Method is a movement technology developed over 40 years of research to help anyone stand taller, look more elegant and think more clearly.  She has published three books that use movement to improve many aspects of life – from body language to playful cooking. Her book What Are You Afraid Of? is an international best seller that has been translated into six languages.

Lavinia Plonka  w  Director  w  Asheville Movement Center  w  4 Richmond Avenue  w   Asheville, NC  28806828-258-7220  w   lavinia@laviniaplonka.com  w  www.laviniaplonka.com

Walking the Labyrinth:
A Meditative Approach to Find Focus

Friday, April 3
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
UNC Asheville Labyrinth

The Labyrinth is located on the grassy knoll above Weizenblatt Hall and below Ramsey Library.
Rain Location:  Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall
http://www.unca.edu/career/labyrinth.html

Sponsors: UNC Asheville Career Center and Campus Operations

• Focus: Pause and wait at the entrance.   Become quiet and center yourself. Silently state an intention, ask a question, or ponder “What’s next for me”?
• Experience: Follow the path and walk purposefully. Focus on your intention or question. Observe the process. When you reach the center, be still and reflect.  Listen to a response within yourself. Leave when it seems appropriate. Be attentive as you walk back on the same path.
• Exit: Turn and face the entrance. Pause and acknowledge the response you found within yourself. This is your time to integrate the insight.
• Reflect: After walking the labyrinth, reflect back on your experience. Use journaling or drawing to capture your experience and apply what’s next for you.
• Walk often.

Other Life is Calling Programs:

w  Internship and Job Search Strategies -  Monday, March 30
    Highsmith Union 104 – 11:30am -12:30 pm   

w  Interviewing Skills for Jobs & Internships - Tuesday, March 31
    Highsmith Union 104 – 12:30-1:30 pm       

w  Walk-in Resume Clinics – Wednesday, April 1
    A.C. Reynolds Green:  Near the Horses!  - 11:00 am–2:00 pm       

w  Walk-in Resume Clinics – Thursday, April 2
    Rhodes/Robinson Lobby - 11:00 am–2:00 pm