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UPCOMING 2013 EVENTS
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AgiliZen 10 Mantras
Program Description
What is AgiLiZen? | The AgiliZen Manifesto
PAST EVENTS
Below are highlights (along with a few video clips, free recordings and photos) from my over 70 past classes and speaking appearances. You might notice I never teach the same class twice – even if the titles are similar. I’m always learning and my work evolves with me. Being part of my virtual community is an adventure. Hope you’ll join me!
Handling Emotional Overwhelm the AgiliZen Way
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Feb. 7, 2013, ADHD Support Talk Radio Appearance
Agile Time Management™ Strategies
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January 17, 2012. Speaker at GO Month “Organize Your Life” Webinar Series hosted by Alison Carter
Designing Stress Out of Your Holidays
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October 18, 2012, Speaker at “Finding Your Way” Community Meeting
ADHD Awareness Expo 2012
“Juggling the 8 Dances of Life( TM)”
October 15, 2012, Interviewed by Tara McGillicuddy. Shared agile approach to prioritizing and productivity challenges and designing solutions that fit you.
Designing Your Life to Fit
Speaker at Virtual Unschooling Summit, May 31, 2012, hosted by homeschooling therapist, Michelle Barone.
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Cultivating Personal Agility to Navigate Uncertainty
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April 19 2012, Keynote, Wealthy Thought Leader Conference, Vancouver, Canada
Master Classes: Inside the Agile Life Designer’s Studio
WATCH VIDEO # 1 – Tara McGillicuddy and Ariane Benefit
Video Interview Series on my You Tube Channel “ArianeBenefitsU“
I interview successful innovators who take us “behind the scenes” into how they cultivate agility and design their lives to evolve with them. Their lives are inspirational showcases of Agile Life Design. They reveal how they have followed their hearts, and designed their careers and organized their daily lives to fit their unique gifts and talents. Click here to see the Guest Teachers List)
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The Intro to Agile Life Design Sessions
“Tools for Cultivating Personal Agility and Healing Procrastination, Overwhelm, Frustration and Disorganization” Agile Life Design Audio Webinar Series, 10 sessions, March 1 – 20, 2012
- Could You Be Addicted to Potential? How to tell, How to Detox
- The Role of Life Purpose in Designing your Life
- Introduction to the Agile Mindset
- Introduction to the ADEPT Design™Process
- Orchestrating the 8 Dances of Life™
- Orchestrating Your Home & Things
- Designing Respect-Based Relationships
- Designing the Dance with Money, Work and Career
with Special Guest Teacher, Manisha Thakor, Personal Finance Expert, author of MoneyZen, Get Financially Naked, and more - Designing the Dance with Information and Paper
- Choreographing Your Time
- Designing Your Day - The Agile Way
AUDIO CLIPS:Coming Soon
REVIEW HIGHLIGHTS
“I listen to a lot of webinars and I have never seen anyone given so much of themselves, be so authentic, and offer so much truly valuable information. Thanks again for sharing, you are a blessing!”
”I decided to try your ADEPT Design Process and create my version of a flow chart for incoming mail. It did help me “see” the problem visually…. You are teaching me how to look at my behavior more compassionately and design new ways for me to support my own nature instead of trying to conform to someone else’s system. Thanks for helping me trust myself more.”
“Thanks so much for your insights into how relationships and abuse are intertwined in how we design our homes. I was especially moved by your explanation of what can be considered abuse, it was a real eye opener. Your ideas on creating a home based on how it functions to fill needs rather than how others think it should be really resonated with me. I really am worth it! Great work, Ariane!”
“I’m thrilled to have found a coach/expert … addressing neurodiversity and the challenges of living in our culture! I am a sociologist by training … and feel your Agile Life Design framework would be so valuable in that arena.”
“Following your program these last weeks has been exciting, a light of hope. I truly believe you have compiled a deep and thorough approach to help people in many ways. I look forward to applying what I’ve learned to working with my future husband to co-design our new life together!
Thank you Ariane.”
“Thank you SO much for all that you have given us in this program. I want to be sure you know that you’ve made a huge difference in my life, and the way I approach life’s challenges and triumphs.”
WATCH VIDEO INTRO: What is Personal Agility and Agile Thinking?
Highlights
- Cultivating Agility provides highly effective alternatives to self-improvement and self-control
- How we develop and unlearn habits, importance of understanding triggered actions and triggered avoidance
- Implications of being a natural born “tweaker” seeing potential for improvement everywhere
- Becoming conscious of how you learn so that you can “shape” vs. control what you learn
- A new way of thinking about core needs and values
- Designing FUN, FIT, FLOW, FLAIR and FUNCTION into your life
Making Time for What Matters When You have ADD / ADHD
ADHD Support Talk Radio Appearance, February 21, 2012
Tara McGillcuddy welcomes back one of ADHD Support Talk Radio’s most popular guests Tara and Ariane discuss how to make time for what matters when you have ADD / ADHD.
LISTEN TO FULL AUDIO
ADHD Awareness Expo 2011
“3 Keys to Designing your Life to Fit so you can Flourish with ADHD”
I was interviewed by Tara McGillicuddy sharing tips for managing ADHD.
Here’s some feedback I got…
Agile Work Design – How to Earn a Living Doing what You Love – Lessons Learned from Happy Hooker
Video Webinar 2.5 hours, October 7, 2011
WATCH COMPILATION OF VIDEO CLIPS
Agile Life Design – Enhancing Relationships and Productivity
Interviewed by Akilah Richards for the Excellence in Relationships TeleSummit™ about Agile Life Design and what it takes to design your life and your work to FIT you so that you can have healthier relationships and become more productive.
Spiraling into Success: What it Takes to Change Your Health & Self-Care Habits
Solaris Whole Health, April, 2011
VIDEO WEBINARS
“Neat & Simple Guide to Money Organizing”
Designing Agile Financial Decision-making, Tasks and Financial Information Systems
Full Day Video Webinar, April 2011
“Peace at Last: Neat and Simple Guide to Paper Organizing”
Blueprint Approach to Designing Agile Paper Organizing Systems
Full Day Video Webinar, March, 2011
“Designed to Change”
Designing Fun, Flexibility, and Function into Your Organizing and Storage Solutions
Full Day Video Webinar, March, 2011
PHOTO CLIP
“Spiraling into Organizing Success”
The real story of how we learn to succeed at organizing
2 hour Video Webinar, March, 2011
”Making Room to Function with Ease”
Organizing around Meaning and Purpose, the Agile approach to designing function and flow into your life.
4 hour Video Webinar, February, 2011
PHOTO CLIPS
ADHD SUPPORT TALK Radio Appearances
“Motivating Yourself to get Organized” June, 2010
“Organizing Your Space. Organizing to Energize Yourself.” May 2010
Classes I gave that appear on ADDCLASSES.com
Get access to all of the classes below at ADDclasses.com
“Quantum Productivity Strategies for ADHD”
Getting Big Results by Making Small Changes from the Inside Out, November 2010
“Neat and Simple Organizing Strategies” May 2010
“Simplifying Your Life: Strategies that Work for Adult ADHD” February, 2009
“Overcoming Overspending: Why Adults with AD/HD Overshop and How to Stop”
Virtual ADHD Conference Speaker Oct. 2009
“Spring Cleaning and Organizing” NPR RADIO APPEARANCE, April 2008
Click here to Listen
Overcoming Perfectionism” Public Teleclass, June 2010
“Getting Unstuck: 8 Keys to Overcoming Chronic Disorganizing and Harnessing the Strengths of ADHD and Creative Personalities” Speaker, Organizing Telesummit 2010 hosted by Allison Carter, January 2010
“The Link between Creativity and Disorganization” Speaker at “Prosperity in Practice” Speaker, March 2008
QUANTUM PRODUCTIVITY for ADHD Program October – December 2010
“Quantum Productivity Strategies, Small Changes for BIG Results” 2 hours, December, 2010
WATCH A VIDEO INTRODUCTION CLIP
I made this prior to teaching the 3 part program.
“Designing Follow-Through into Your Commitments” November, 2010
“Mindful Organizing Principles” October, 2010
GETTING UNSTUCK PROGRAM
Series of classes I delivered 3 times a month Jan 2009 – December 2010
MAY AND JUNE 2010 (6 part series, 12 Hours)
- “Embracing the Power of Good Enough!”
- “Dealing with Perfectionism, Criticism, Sensitivity, and Rejection”
MARCH & APRIL 2010 (6 part series, 12 Hours)
- “Clearing Resistance”
- “Motivating Yourself and Finding Your Inspiration”
- “How to Conquer Procrastination and Magnetize Yourself into Action on Dreaded Tasks and Routines”
JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2010 (6 part series, 12 Hours)
- “Getting Back on Track – Strengthening Your Resiliency and Using Setbacks as “Windows into your Soul”
- “Building Self-Acceptance and Dealing with Frustration”
DECEMBER 2009
- “Reducing Stress and Staying Centered” 3 part series, 6 total hours
NOVEMBER 2009
- “Prioritizing What Really Matters” 3 part series, 6 total hours
OCTOBER 2009
- “Building Better Boundaries” 3 part series, 6 total hours
- “Reducing Stress and Clutter by Building Better Boundaries”
SEPTEMBER 2009
- “Overcoming Overspending” 3 part series, 6 total hours
AUGUST 2009
- ”Mastering Your Emotions: The Secret to Effective Clutter Clearing!”
- “Harness the Power of Your Emotions”
- “Self-Care Strategies for Mastering Your Emotions”
- “LIGHTEN UP!! Strategies for Laughing Your Way to Clearing Clutter!”
- “Sharing Spaces: Guide to living with people whose organizing styles are different from yours”
JULY 2009
- “Organizing the Habit of Movement into your Life”
- “Movement is Life, Clearing Our Resistance”
- “Get Moving, Small Steps Lead to Big Results”
JUNE 2009
- ”Organizing 101 “How to Organize Your Home and Your Life! - Organizing around Purpose, Meaning, and Needs Assessment”
- “Shifting Gears: Handling Transitions, Interruptions and Distractions in Every Day Life”
MAY 2009
- ”Simplifying Your Life” 3 part series, 6 total hours
APRIL 2009
- “Dealing with Disappointment”
- “Simplifiying and Attracting Yourself to Cleaning and Clutter-Clearing – Overcoming your resistance to cleaning and clutter-cleaning”
MARCH, 2009
- “Overcoming Healthy Eating Challenges”
- “Overcoming Meal Planning Challenges”
- “Time and Project Management Strategies”
FEBRUARY 2009
- “Take Charge Of Your Finances”, 3 part series, 6 total hours
JANUARY 2009
- “Making Decisions: What gets us stuck? What gets us unstuck?” Decision making Process, ADD characteristics, Personality Types and how they affect our decision making
- “Making Decisions with Ease”
In Person Speaking Engagements Highlights Prior to 2008
- “Conquer Your Paper Clutter Clutter,” SOMA, May 2007
- “Get a Neat Start to a New Year,” Mahwah Library, Jan. 2007
- “Clean Your Home: the Fast and Easy way,” SOMA, Oct. 2006
- “Let’s Clear Your Clutter,” YM-YWHA, Sept. 2006
Career, Life and Financial Literacy Skills for Teens
United Way, Paramus, NJ, 2003 – 2004
Developed and taught 10 week program for teens living in foster / group homes. Topics include financial literacy, entrepreneurship, filling out job applications, creating a resume, interviewing, and how to keep a job.
“Volunteer Recruiting, & Retention Strategies,”
Dumont Mental Health Centers, 1995
“Fundamentals of Not-for-Profit Boards,”
Hispanic Leadership Opportunity Forum, 1993
“Building Credibility as a Performance Technologist,”
Toronto, NSPI Conference, 1990
“Addressing the Seven Aspects of Intelligence in Training,”
Denver, NSPI Conference, 1989
“Computer-Based Learning – Screen Design Principles,”
Washington, DC, NSPI Conference, 1988
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