Time of Renewal

Raphael and I are teaming up again, and adding Cheri Torres - a local, successful Organizational Development consultant, for our next business venture.

As many of you know, Raphael has been involved in improv theater - The Asheville Playback Theatre, since 1995. My favorite theatre form, Playback theatre involves audience members telling a story from their life, which then gets played back - improv! The results are heartwarming, often inspiring and humorous, and always community-building and great entertainment.

Also in 1995, Raphael and I started publishing Spirit in the Smokies: Magazine of New Paradigm Living which, by the time we ended printing it in mid 2007, was distributed to cities in six states. In addition to book reviews, interviews of well-known authors and some articles, it too featured people's stories. Specifically, it focused on first-person accounts of personal transformation - and inspired many.

A Surprising Culmination . . .
This next endeavor again involves stories, involves transformation, and even performance. It also involves a lot more. What we are up to will be revealed more fully over the next few months.

What I can tell you now is that part of what's in the works is a wonderful and very empowering event - that will have the fun of a festival and the transformative power of a conference.

What's exciting to me is that overall, it is a culmination of everything I've done that's most meaningful to me - as a psychologist, as the managing editor of Spirit in the Smokies for 12 years, as a Conscious Living coach and as someone who highly values fun and inspiration. I am enthused!

Spring is the time of letting go of the old and nurturing the new. I tell you the above to encourage you to go for it this year! Clean your closets, prune back your garden, your relationships and your life, and clear the space for new growth.

Then gather your co-conspirators, have a totally new conversation and let emerge what totally inspires you to do. What happens likely will surprise and delight you. And certainly it will be beyond what ever could have done had you continued the familiar path.

Sometimes, instead of focusing on patching the old boat - yet again, it's time to craft a new one and get into the flow of life - your life.

So happy Spring!
Gayatri

From the desk of
Gayatri Erlandson,PhD
Asheville, NC