Thanks to all of the amazing women that joined us this October 14- 16 at the majestic Chateau Lake Louise for a glorious weekend getaway that was inspiring, refreshing and entertaining!
HEALING | SEX | SPIRITUALITY | NUTRITION | FITNESS | INVESTING
The Weekend’s Topics
Quotes
By request from our lovely guests at Woman’s Quest 2011, here are a few of the quotes that were used throughout the weekend:
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Einstein
Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all of my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment…this day…is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day…each moment of this day…a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.
- Dan Custer
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
Do the things you used to talk about doing but never did. know when to let go and when to hold on tight. stop rushing. don’t be intimidated to say it like it is. stop apologizing all the time. learn to say no, so your yes has some oomph. spend time with the friends who lift you up, and cut loose the ones who bring you down. stop giving your power away. be more concerned with being interested than being interesting. be old enough to appreciate your freedom, and young enough to enjoy it. finally know who you are.
- Kristin Armstrong
Here are some of the topics we will be focused on over the weekend:
“What are the Magic Ingredients for Achieving a Fabulous Life?”
Keynote, Maureen Kitchur
- What Do You Need to Have in Place to Realize Your Dreams?
- What Gets in the Way?
- How will You know you have prepared the Foundation for the Life You are Envisioning?
- What Supports and Tools will help You Manifest your Dreams?
Hormone Awareness/Empowerment: “Finding and Solving Hidden Hormone Issues on Your Way to your Dreams”
- What do smart women need to know about their hormones at every stage of life?
- How to detect if you have a hidden hormone problem
- How to tame runaway hormones, and how to ramp up disappearing hormones
- The Power Hormones – what are they, what do they do, and how do I make them work for me?
Powering Up Your Self-Talk: “How to Make your Inner Voice Move You Towards your Dreams”
- Self-Talk Strategies to make you a Winner
- How to fix your self-sabotaging Self-Talk
- Keeping your brain in the Winner Zone
What Kind of Sex Are You Having?
Dr. Trina Read – Sexologist, Relationship Coach, Best-selling Author
It’s easy to understand why a married woman would lose interest in sex. Her life has fundamentally changed in every way and yet she keeps having the same old, same-old, single-woman-sex. After years of helplessly trying to fit a square peg in a round hole she gives up. In Dr. Trina’s lectures you will find out why and what you can do to get your sex life back on track.
Workshop will cover:
- What is Single-Woman-Sex and how has it affected your sex life
- What is the difference between sexual arousal and sexual desire and why it matters to your libido
- Look at how you can create and initiate married-woman-sex successfully into your relationship
Your Sexy-Mojo
Are you as sexy as you would like to be? Every woman has a sexy-mojo inside of her. Some women ooze sexy, while others have put it away on a dark shelf in the back closet. If your sexy-mojo has been put into semi-retirement, it is time to bring it out, dust it off and start dazzling yourself and others. In this interactive, entertaining and enlightening session, Dr. Read will take you through a “what-makes-sexy” checklist. Find out how you score with your sexy-mojo.
Warning: you will walk away from this session confidently wanting to shake what your mama gave you…if you like that sort of thing.
“Ignite Your 6th Sense – The Intuitive Woman”
Hannelore – International speaker, Author, Teacher and Spiritual Life Coach
Are you ready to Ignite Your 6th Sense? To expand your ability to “see” the greater picture of all that is around you?
- Learn methods to activate your “third eye, your 6th chakra and pineal gland.
- Gain skills to master the ability to make empowering decisions.
- Enhance your intuitive abilities.
- Embrace and discover your Authentic Self.
- Tap into your courage to speak your truth without attachment to the outcome.
- Bring back and reclaim your power.
- Love yourself and have more self-esteem.
- Be centered, grounded and recognize the power of the Moment.
- Exercises to help you find your own answers, make decisions and to know the difference between a truth and a lie.
- Understand the Power of your thoughts. “All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
- Discard patterns that no longer serve you.
“For the love of your breasts; nourish your body, mind and soul!”
Amy Bondar - Holistic Nutritionist, Author and Speaker
Join Amy Bondar for an inspiring, motivational and educational 90 minute lecture on the latest cutting edge information and practical tools you need to know and about preventing or fighting breast cancer. In this lecture you will:
- be inspired to reconnect to the power of foods
- learn how to build a breast and hormone friendly nutritional lifestyle
- understand the insulin, thyroid, adrenal and hormone connection to breast cancer and other estrogen dominant conditions such as, PMS, endometriosis, ovarian cysts, PCOS, infertility, heavy periods, fibroids, hormonal acne and uterine cancer
- find out how to incorporate the most important breast healthy foods
- learn which foods and environmental toxins are most important to avoid and why
- be awakened to the possible emotional causes that can contribute to breast cancer
- have practical tools you can use for a lifetime
“Invest in Yourself”
Cara Poppitt – Entrepreneur, Speaker
- Journey of Self
- Investing 101
- Psychology of Investing
- Understanding how thoughts are created
- Strategies for removing negative thoughts
- Setting your life up for success
- Importance of Investing in Yourself
About our Amazing Speakers:
We have a special group of speakers that will help guide you on a journey through personal discovery, empowering education and mind opening insight.
Headline Speaker, Maureen Kitchur
Maureen Kitchur has more than 20 years of experience as a psychotherapist and healer. She has consulted and taught all over North America for many years. Her clinical work is internationally published. She currently provides therapy, consults, teaches, and writes from her home base in Calgary, Canada.
Maureen has extensive background in a variety of healing methods, including cognitive-behavioral therapy, clinical hypnosis, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing,) as well as in alternative energy healing practices. She has taught and consulted in the field of trauma and complex trauma using EMDR, and she developed a comprehensive treatment model called the Strategic Developmental Model for EMDR. Her model was published in EMDR Solutions: Pathways to Healing in 2005, (edited by Robin Shapiro and published by W.W. Norton & Co., New York.)
For many years, Maureen has also incorporated spiritual principles into her practice. Recently she has begun to integrate current quantum physics into her approach, teaching how the Law of Attraction may be linked with psychological healing to produce a dynamic and expansive life.
Her new book incorporates many of these areas of wellness, healing and spirituality. She now teaches the empowering material from her book to clinicians and the layperson. Maureen’s book has been endorsed by Dr. Christiane Northrup and Dr. Bernie Siegel. It is available at local bookstores and through Amazon. The 6 Quantum Secrets to an Amazing Life: Transforming Mind, Body and Spirit©reveals the most common hidden blocks that can be removed to create a great life.
Guest Speaker, Relationship Coach Dr Trina Read
www. HaveSexAfterKids.com
www. BestSexTipsEver.com
Media expert, best selling author, syndicated blogger, relationship coach, international speaker, spokeswoman, and magazine columnist, Dr. Trina Read really is the go-to Sex & Relationship Expert.
Dr. Trina devotes her writing time to her numerous websites, many women’s magazines, and syndicated blog read by over two million viewers. She has four books including the best selling Till Sex Do Us Part: Make Your Married Sex Irresistible. She is now working on her next which will be published in 2012.
Acclaimed international speaker, Dr. Trina has had the privilege of connecting with hundreds of thousands of people across North America, Britain, Scotland, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
Dr Trina is a member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS), the American Association of Sex Educators Counselors and Therapists (AASECT), the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada (SIECCAN) as well as the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS). She received a Doctorate of Human Sexuality from the world’s premier sex school in San Francisco, CA.
Speaker, Hannelore M.S.C., M.S.H.
Experienced international success in her career as a model, actress and president of her own company within the television industry. She moved on, created “Windows to the Soul” and began her journey as an international speaker, author, teacher/facilitator, Reiki Master and Certified minister of Spiritual Counseling and Healing. Hannelore is an Ordained Interfaith Minister and graduate of ‘The New Seminary’ in New York, focusing on dimensions of psychology, comparative religions, healing and counseling. Additional studies include the Medicine and Mystery Schools, Shamanism, advanced Clairvoyant training, Alchemical Hypnotherapy, Psychosomatic therapy and Qi Gong. She is a vessel for many disciplines and a varied ever-expanding knowledge base.
She has taught and lectured all over the United States, in Australia, Germany, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, India and throughout Canada. She is internationally known for her warmth, gentleness, love, compassion and humor. Her transformational retreats are soul nourishing and have placed many on the path of Self-realization and Divine Love. Her purpose is to share the mystery and magic that exists within each one of you.
In addition to her many seminars, Hannelore also created and facilitates an extensive training program called ‘Ignite Your 6th Sense, The Power of Your Intuition’ and facilitates the ‘Communing with Dolphins’ retreats in Hawaii and the Vision Crafting Wilderness retreats in B.C.
Hannelore also offers Private counseling, group sessions, Past Life Regressions, Emotional Release Therapy & Readings.
Speaker, Amy Bondar
Amy Bondar, Holistic Nutritionist, Author and Speaker, has dedicated her life to inspiring, educating and motivating people to realize the significant impact nourishing the body, mind and soul has on achieving optimum wellness.
Amy earned a Masters of Applied Science in Nutrition, building on her degree in clinical Social Work. She is a Nutritional Therapist registered with the Canadian Association of Natural Nutritional Practitioners and is a Certified Demartini Method® Facilitator.
Amy is the author of Journey to Optimum Wellness through Sound Nutrition and has created and developed 7 Steps to Sound Nutrition™ – possibly North America’s most all-encompassing approach to nutrition. It is a synthesis of scientific, holistic, Eastern and Western insights designed to empower you to master your understanding of the best foods and lifestyle choices your unique body needs to help you reach your greatest level of health.
Amy has worked alongside some of North America’s leading integrative healers, in her private practice and has created hundreds of customized nutritional programs for prevalent health conditions as well as for those who are interested in creating a healthier relationship with food by shifting away from diet mentality into true nutritional consciousness. Amy has witnessed hundreds of clients experience the vast healing potential of foods and the high quality of life that results from making nourishing the body, mind and soul the foundation for daily living.
Speaker, Cara Poppitt
Passion and energy led Cara Poppitt, the founder of Soul Connexion, and Beat It Dance to her success in the world of dancing. She has been titled CIBC Entrepreneur of the year, Global Television’s Woman of Vision and Calgary Inc. Rookie of the Year. Cara has been featured in the Calgary Herald, Calgary Sun, U Campus, Calgary Inc and other publications for her unique approach to combining her love for dance with business and psychology.
This passionate entrepreneur completed a combined degree from the University of Calgary in Business and Psychology with a focus in health psychology. She is a guest speaker in schools speaking on the importance of having a vision and has delivered her signature workshop “Invest In Yourself” to students at the University of Calgary and other various Women’s events. She is dedicated to helping others and inspiring growth.
Cara has traveled all over the world as a student, dancer, choreographer and performer and has had many opportunities from performing overseas, to television roles, to commercials, movies and concerts such as Disney movie Snow 2: Santa Who, Vibe 98.5 television commercials, a Mountain Crest commercial, Swollen Members in concert, choreographing for the Outriders Cheerleaders and the Running of the Bulls in Strathmore. She is also an ambassador for lululemon and started a scholarship program called Chance to Dance sponsoring underprivileged children in Calgary. She believes that perspective is everything, and that everyone can create their own reality.
Her personal mission is to inspire growth.
Host, Candice Graf
After eighteen years of running her own successful business, Candice turned her attention to the real estate market in Calgary. Her enormous success resulted in other Real Estate investors actively seeking her expertise. The demand for her time and expertise led her to launch what would become one of the most unique real estate Mentoring Programs in North America; Homerun Investments Inc. Openly and candidly sharing her techniques, she mentored hundreds of teachable, willing, and enthusiastic real estate investors who were struggling to survive in an industry which generally hides its’ greatest secrets.
In just over a decade, Candice has acquired hundreds of properties in Alberta and internationally and has personally negotiated over $200 million in real estate transactions. Candice’s out-of-the-box thinking, creativity and a never quit attitude makes her one of Canada’s most aggressive and successful real estate investors. Candice Graf has earned the reputation both locally and internationally for being a world class teacher and investor.
Candice Graf eventually founded Homerun Securities as a way to fulfill the demand from the general public for alternatives to traditional investing. The mission of Homerun Securities is to share investment opportunities with our clients while building relationships built on trust and integrity. As president of Homerun Securities and with the safety and prosperity of her investors in mind, Candice provides real estate investments to suit any level of investor.
Candice was honored as a Woman of Vision, which celebrates the accomplishments of outstanding Calgary women who have implemented their passion and whose personal dedication and actions inspire us all. Her personal and professional story serves as an inspiration to other women. In addition, Candice has reached out to pursue a vision to help women by providing a supportive environment that enables women to celebrate who they are, to participate and grow, to dream and to create a vision to pursue their passion in life, to connect with other women to exchange wisdom and build networks, and to discover and to gain insight about themselves, their potential and their future.
Emcee, Jennifer Barroll
Over the years, Jennifer has had the great privilege of living and traveling all over the world to see and experience many cultures and different ways of life. Her work with various people and businesses has reached across cultures and stretched around the globe over the past decade.
As an entrepreneur, Jennifer works as a marketing/ communications consultant to various businesses and organizations and has had the privilege of working with major international brands such as CocaCola, Red Bull and MacDonald’s. As an entertainer, radio host, voice over talent and public speaker, “JennyB” strives to bring her own special spark to every moment possible! As a motivator and coach, Jennifer teaches and coordinates strengths based leadership programs for high school students and corporate managers and works with first time offenders through the Calgary Police Service, Cops for Kids program.
10% of the net proceeds go to the YWCA of Calgary.
