Posts from — August 2008
Cape Town – Dream Mapping and Goal Setting
Want to live your dream life and do what you love?
Do you know what that looks like or how to make it happen for yourself?
Just think: When you are driving, you know where you want to go and you plot out your route. When you plan and prepare a meal, you follow a recipe and monitor the food as it cooks. How much attention do you give to planning the direction of your life?
Set up your life powerfully by spending a full day on a Dream Mapping and Goal Setting Workshop to get clear on your dreams, ‘map-out’ your goals and focus on the direction for your life. Take the time for YOU – to review your life, re-evaluate what you are doing and where you want to go. To ensure you are on track for what you most want.
Outcomes
By the end of the workshop you will
• Have clarity, focus, direction and tangible tools to use to create a life you love
• Be clear on a future direction for your life
• Have given yourself time to relax and play
• Have made a Dream Collage to take home to remind you of what you want
• Have given yourself time for you
• You will have a Big Goal to inspire you
• Find a renewed zest and energy for life
• Have practical tools to use in your day-to-day life to turn your dreams into reality
“My relationships at work have changed already; I am so much more positive and compassionate, and meetings that used to be dreadful to me have actually been quite inspiring and energising. Also, in my morning visioning exercise I am on a TV show – and guess what, a producer from Free Spirit is seeing me on Tuesday!”
Shakti Malan, Cape Town, South Africa
Workshop Dates
Cape Town
Date: Sunday 22 February 2009
Time: 10h00 – 18h00
Venue: Town
Price: R 690 (including materials)
To Book
Email workshops@fairygodmotherinc.com or call on 084-207-0202
More Info about the Dream Mapping and Goal Setting Workshops
“Powerful, touching, clear, playful, truthful.”
Ercan Altub – Hamburg, Germany
“Exceptional! I had fears to come along because I did not want to have an afternoon of esoteric talk which I couldn’t draw real possibilities from. The positivity emanating from Donna and the group was amazing. I genuinely know this course will help me to accept ‘the flow of life’ and stop feeling inadequate and unfulfilled.”
Mandy La Grange – London, United Kingdom
What is Dream Mapping and Goal Setting?
Dream Mapping is a process to help you get clear on what you want in your life, or in a specific aspect of your life and then to set BIG goals to help you achieve those dreams.
During this experiential workshop we will go through a series of exercises to assist you in realizing and crystallising your dreams for yourself and your life. The workshop will include relaxation, mind and dream theory, creating your own dream collage, and then basic tools to use on a day-to-day basis for manifesting your dreams.
You will relax, cut & paste, have fun & get in touch with the dreams that linger in your soul!
“An amazing workshop. You have really touched lives and truly are a fairy godmother. I have been on a number of self development courses and yours is among the best.”
Deelesh Ravjee – Johannesburg, South Africa
“For the first time in my life I have a dream I can see and feel and touch and have the tools to achieve it.”
Bev Doyle – Johannesburg, South Africa
Workshop Facilitator
Donna McCallum is a Fantastically Fabulous and Magical Fairy Godmother.
She is an inspirational communicator with a passion for people, turning vision into reality, business, making things happen, connection and making a difference.
She is the MD of Fairy Godmother Inc. a business committed to spreading the message that it is possible to live your dreams.
Prior to being a Fairy Godmother Donna was a serial entrepreneur who has started, run and sold a number of successful businesses in both Marketing and IT.
“Dream mapping is a most amazing tool, and has changed my life. I am suddenly in touch with my goals and dreams and am taking action into achieving and making something worthwhile of my life. God bless you as you go about spreading your fairy dust!”
Meryl-Lynne Colborne, Durban, South Africa
Future Workshops
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August 28, 2008 No Comments
Dolphins and Dreams
Dolphins and Dreams
Would you love to swim and play with dolphins?
Do you long to connect to the magic and beauty of nature?
Do you want to get clear on your Dreams, Goals and Vision for your life?
Then Join us on our next Fairy Godmother Adventure
26 FEBRUARY – 2 MARCH 2009
Come and feel the rythym of the sea, the connection to nature, and the fun and playful nature of dolphins and using these incredible animals and experiences as a catalyst to get connected to your dreams and goals for 2008 and beyond as we take you on a 4 night journey in Mozambique.
During this dolphin swim experiential weekend workshop we will go through a Dream Mapping and Goal Setting process and a series of exercises to assist you in realizing and crystallising your dreams and goals for yourself and your life and then how to turn those dreams and goals into reality.
Over the 4 days you will spend time in relaxation, creating your own dream collage, journaling, reflection, visualisation and other exercises, together with learning the basic tools to use on a day-to-day basis for turning your dreams into reality… plus of course, swimming with wild dolphins!
You will relax, cut & paste, swim with dolphins, connect, have fun & get in touch with the dreams that linger in your soul!
By the end of the weekend away in Mozambique you will
• Have clarity, focus, direction and tangible tools to use to create a life you love
• Have had time to relax
• Have an amazing and soulful experience of swimming with dolphins
• Be clear on a future direction for your life
• Have given yourself time to relax and play
• Have made a Dream Collage to take home to remind you of what you want
• Have given yourself time for you
• You will have a Big Goal to inspire you
• Find a renewed zest and energy for life
• Have tools to turn your dreams and goals into reality
How much is this fabulous Adventure?
Rate per person sharing: R 3 850.00
Included:
- 4×4 Transfers from the border to camp
- Four night’s accommodation in tents on wooden decking, with mattresses and linen
- Snorkelling course & Code-of-conduct-with-dolphins de-briefing
- Three launches to swim with the dolphins
- Full program presented by Donna McCallum & Courtney Ward
Excluded:
- Transport to the Mozambique border
- All meals. There is a restaurant to enjoy meals out or a self-catering facility available
- Drinks (except tea/coffee served in the dive camp)
- Snorkelling equipment
- Visa (ONLY for non-South African passport holders)
For Bookings and Enquiries
Kate from Halo Gaia Holistic Tourism
Email: info@halogaia.com or call 011 646 3050
or
Fairy Godmother Inc.
Email workshops@fairygodmotherinc.com or call on 084-207-0202
More about the Facilitators:
Donna McCallum
Donna McCallum is a Fantastically Fabulous and Magical Fairy Godmother. She is an inspirational communicator with a passion for people, turning vision into reality, business, making things happen, connection and making a difference.
She is the MD of Fairy Godmother Inc. a business committed to spreading the message that it is possible to live your dreams. Prior to being a Fairy Godmother Donna was a serial entrepreneur who has started, run and sold a number of successful businesses in both Marketing and IT.
In 2007 Donna has been conducting workshops around South Africa, the UK and Germany.
Courtney Ward
Courtney Ward is a talented musician, sound therapist, dolphin swim facilitator, and essentially a performer in ‘the great arts of the divine’, who will be assisting and creating along side Donna.
Courtney has been exploring the powerful use of sound vibration healing for the past 12 years. It has taken her on a journey of shamanic sound discovery that lies within the seed core of us all. Courtney will be utilizing her gifted musical skills to gently guide you on a journey of ancient self-discovery and dolphin jubilance. Courtney will present a meditative Sound Journey for our participants among other musical experiences
The Dolphins
Wild Inshore Bottlenose dolphins – Our communion with the dolphins of Southern Mozambique has produced some extraordinary wonders. The encounters are often up close and very personal, with eye to eye communication and intimate twirling dances… Just you and a wild dolphin in the Big Blue! If you have always imagined this for yourself, now is the perfect time to explore the world of the dolphin with us.
August 27, 2008 No Comments
Tip 4 – Massage your MIND!
Your mind is the most powerful piece of technology that you own and when did you last take it in for a service? Spring is a great time for massaging the mind which can be done in a number of different ways.
My first recommendation is to learn how to meditate. Mediation is an incredible tool for going beyond the conditioned, “thinking” mind into a deeper state of relaxation or awareness. Getting into a regular mediation practice of as little as ten minutes per day will generate incredible benefits such as to greater focus, creativity or self-awareness, or just simply a more relaxed and peaceful frame of mind.
As the days get longer and you feel more energy returning, why not sign up for a course in something new and perhaps creative – like sculpting, playing a musical instrument or learning a new language. Learning new things, particularly a language or skill, increases the brain’s plasticity and there is growing evidence in Neuroscience that the brain is structurally altered when learning occurs.
This is something I concentrate on and explain in further detail during some of my workshops and talks – why not massage your mind with a Dream Mapping and Goal Setting Workshop or by coming to the talk that I am doing at Women 4 Women in October in Cape Town.
August 26, 2008 No Comments
Tip 3 – Climb into your Body
After the “warm-me-up eating urges” of winter, Spring is the best time to “climb back into your body”. This is like reminding yourself of what and who you are, detoxing your body and mind, becoming aware of your body and its everyday workings. However, be gentle with getting back into your body. Just as blossoms gently bloom on the trees now is not the time to work off all that winter excess in one week!
In the 00’s we are so caught up in the rat-race, technology, information-overload era that most of the time we are completely disconnected from our bodies. We stop listening to our bodies and stop hearing the cries for help that manifest as stress, illness or little aches and pains. We live in a time that is becoming so cerebral that most people are walking around with disembodied minds - where the mind is so in control that the needs of the body are completely disregarded.
Why not treat yourself to a “Spring Ceremony” for your body that will help you reconnect with your body and its needs?
Run a warm bath and throw in some Epsom Salts (which help to detox and also cleanse the energy fields around the body), light some candles, put on some soothing music and relax in the bath, close your eyes and just become aware of your body. Check your body for any feelings of stress or tension and see that tension dissolve like bath salts into the water. While quieting your mind, move each part of your body and imagine yourself fitting back into your own skin. Become a part of your body again.
Give honour to your body for the incredible vehicle it is that houses your mind and spirit and allows you to exist in this world. Most of the time, we concentrate on the media-created flaws of our bodies, instead of rejoicing in the beauty and splendour of the miracle that our bodies represent.
During your bath, as you enjoy relaxing, tell each area of your body why you are grateful for it. And remind yourself of the amazing organs and powerhouses we have within our compact system we know as the body.
Thank your ears for the richness of sound that they bring to the world, thank your legs for their support as you move around the world, thank your heart for it’s consistent beat that keeps you alive, thank your toes for their ability to curl in delight – whatever you are grateful for with each body part, say it out loud – it creates an incredible energy within.
August 25, 2008 No Comments
Tip 2 – Cut out the “Deadwood”
A few years ago I bought a pretty Bonsai and an instruction manual on how to create this tree into a magnificent natural art – the trick with Bonsai is time and care taken to continually prune the little tree and shape it into a beautiful Bonsai.
Taking the time to nurture my Bonsai has taught me many things about patience, care and art it has also given me something to share with you about Spring cleaning your life!
When you prune a Bonsai you remove any non-productive and unwanted portions of the plant in order to maintain the health of the miniature tree and increase the yield of its flowers and fruit.
We can relate on some level to how pruning is required in our own lives sometimes, instead of branches and leaves, we sometimes need to cut away negative influences that affect us in our lives. As tough as it is to be brutally honest, these negative influences often come in the form of people who are around us all the time. Some friends or neighbours or the grocery store clerk who are negative can make others around them feel low and unhappy.
By “pruning” and clearing out some of these people in our lives, we are merely looking after ourselves and reducing feelings of anxiety, stress and negativity. To some, it may sound a little callous to just “remove” people from your life, however, the reality is that life is too short to engage with people who don’t add value to your life and you will be greatly surprised at how fewer, healthy relationships with friends, acquaintances will improve the quality of your life.
Which people in your life have become the “deadwood”?
What negative influences can you shear away?
Which relationships are diseased, non-productive or unwanted?
One of the quickest and best ways to “Prune” the people in your life is to go through your cellphone contacts list and simply delete those people who don’t add value to your life or who have a negative impact in your life. Just like the Bonsai when you reduce the foliage that the little tree has, you are also reducing the strain on its roots. In other words, the less leaves there are, the less work the roots have to do to keep them alive.
It is the same in life… to reduce the strain, GET PRUNING!
August 21, 2008 1 Comment
5 Tips for Spring Cleaning your Life
I am so excited that I have just witnessed the first blossoms appearing on the trees outside my bedroom window. Seeing those first blossoms are always a joyous occassion for me, because it means that Spring is creeping and ready to pounce – bringing warmer days and a sense of blissful renewal. So while Mother Nature begins to paint her canvas with delicate blossoms, warmer days and a tinge of crisp freshness and new beginnings, inspired by the magic of Spring over the next two weeks I will be doing 5 blog posts in homage to the new energy that is blooming for all of us.
Our energy is naturally in rhythm with the waxing and waning of the seasons and now after the cozy-up, hibernating feeling of winter, the beginning of Spring brings with it excitement and energy, a time for reflection and a sense of new life, a FRESH START.
So how can you use the natural energy of the Spring season to get your body, mind and spirit back into shape?
Here is the first of 5 tips and tricks from the Fairy Godmother to use this Spring-time energy to its full advantage.
1. Clean Up Your Space
By this I mean all space that you are in and that you take up – clean up space within yourself spiritually, mentally, emotionally and clean up space that you use on a physical day to day basis, at home, work, in the car and in the traffic.
It may seem fairly obvious to “Spring Clean” by cleaning and tidying up space – but apart from getting out your feather duster and clearing out your wardrobe – there are a few less obvious parts of your life that may need a spring clean too.
The concept of Spring cleaning is to get rid of the things in your life that are “weighing you down”, the dead-clutter from winter (or the past) that needs to be swept away to make space for the new feeling that Spring brings.
You will be amazed at how much of your energy is invested in the stuff that is “lying” around in your life and when you get to clean out all those things, there’s a sense of release, relief and a notable shift in your energy.
So make a commitment to yourself to clean out the places in your life that are clogged up with things – it may be your wardrobe, your office desk, your car, a shelf in your garage, your e mail inbox.
The key rule for a Spring Clean is: “When in Doubt, Throw it away”
The things that you think you should keep for a “I might need this at sometime” moment are things that actually need to be thrown away. Be ruthless, clutter just complicates life. If you haven’t used it in the last 4 months, throw it away.
Don’t be fearful of throwing office work and papers etc away, because in reality, we can source, research and find anything again with the Internet, the Google era is upon us and is very useful indeed.
August 17, 2008 2 Comments
