For more than 10 years, Lisa Morgan has run workshops
to help individuals change their lives and shape their future.
Lisa’s work is based upon two principles:
- Imagination is just like a muscle – the more you use it, the stronger it becomes and the more effective it is at helping you create your life
- Life does not just happen to us. It is stored in our thoughts and beliefs. Whether we recognise it or not, we are all instruments of our own destiny.
When: Friday, August 29th, 4.00 pm - Sunday, August 31st, 5.00 pm
Give your imagination a work out. Flex your intuition.
Talent for Life offers a series of experiences to open you up to your abilities, reveal to you how you can make more of your talents and how you can create a life that is more fun to live.
Over the 3 days you will:
Harness the power your imagination to work on your behalf
Express your creativity (by making something - however you choose to do it)
Learn self-hypnosis
Invent a ceremony
Expand your energy
Get up early for sunrise at the stone circle at Birkrigg Common
Feel the sands of Morecambe Bay between your toes
Do any or all of the following:
swim, paint, draw, write, laugh, hammer nails, light a fire, paddle, see the stars, divine the future, sing, tell a story, concoct a lie, celebrate, snigger, giggle, stretch, take risks, have visions, and breathe deep.
Price: £150.00
This includes creative materials (paints, paper, personal notebook etc.) tea, coffee, soft drinks, but, please note, not food. There will be breaks for meals and time to go out to nearby eateries. Alternatively, food can be ordered for delivery.
Talent for Life is led byLisa Morgan.
Lisa became aware of the power of people’s imagination and the potential of their intuition while working as a consumer strategist. She studied creative thinking and visioning techniques, including Creative Problem Solving, Hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming in the UK, USA, Hong Kong and Tokyo. These studies helped shaped the approach that inspires this weekend. Lisa is an author and business consultant. Her work has featured on CNN, BBC and Japan’s NHK.
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Kathy Oldridge first worked with Lisa when they facilitated a workshop together in Vietnam in 1996. Since then Kathy has run creative workshops for business people in many countries across the world. A business strategist with Fine Arts degree, Kathy is a member of collective artist practice, MitchellBould, investigating drawing and collaborative processes (www.mitchellbould.com). She combines practical aptitude with an experimental approach to creativity. Kathy completes her MA just before Talent for Life begins.
What people have said about Talent for Life:
"Life-changing experience" is not a phrase to use lightly. But the workshop I attended with Lisa on the subject of 'Talent for Life' was, indeed, just that. Oh, there was no moment on the road to Damascus; the clouds didn't part to reveal new pronouncements. Rather, Lisa's put me back in touch with truths I knew deep down. Her unique and subtle skill is to bring out the things you already know about yourself, and to unleash the power of your imagination for change.” Martin K., New York,
“When did a workshop with Lisa, I had just begun my first real (and challenging) job and was already pretty desperate about my prospects and my situation. I expected to spend a lot of time dissecting my fraught relationships with assignments and bosses. Rather, Lisa gave us techniques to work out what we want out of life and work. I think Lisa has loads and loads of insight and wisdom, and the ability to locate that same deep wisdom inside the people she guides as well.” Deborah H., Tokyo
Location:Green Lane Farm, near Ulverston in Cumbria, and in the South Lakes countryside.
Talent for Life is non-residential. There are plenty of B&Bs and hotels nearby. You can also choose to camp at Green Lane Farm for no charge (camping places are limited and will be available on a first come basis.)
To find out more and book, contact Lisa Morgan.
The innovative drink management course
Gain more appetite for life and less for alcohol
About the day
As one recent participant wrote:
"Lisa Morgan takes us on a journey of discovery into our unconscious, to explore our relationship with our appetites - drink, food, whatever - to redefine what we want to be true in our lives for the future.
Her creative, non-judgmental, energising approach makes tackling a serious subject a very pleasant & rewarding experience."
Miranda Kennett
Chief Executive, First Class Coach
Do you spend too much of your life thinking about drink. Do you start thinking about your next glass of wine when the one you have in front of you is half full?
Do you beat yourself up about that?
Whether you are a steady sipper, a gulper or a binger this day will help you find ways to increase your enjoyment of life and manage your relationship with drink.
In the workshop:
• You explore how you connect with drink and its role in your life.
- You
discover the image of alcohol that lies in your subconscious
- You explore the patterns that repeat throughout your life
• You work out ways to feel more comfortable with your behaviour and develop strategies to change how you are
• You develop your own vision of the person you want to be in the future.
The approach is based upon using your own imagination - it's what gave you your attitudes so it's the most powerful asset you have for changing how you think and feel.
What this workshop is NOT:
A confessional or somewhere others tell you what to do or think
What this workshop IS:
An exploration, fun, creative - somewhere you make up your own mind.
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About Lisa
This workshop is led by Lisa Morgan - a creative thinking specialist, trained hypnotherapist, author and consultant to businesses.
Lisa’s working relationship with alcohol goes back a long way. In the late eighties, as a consumer planner in an ad agency, she developed the original strategy for the successful ‘Drinking and Driving Wrecks Lives’ campaign. In doing that, she learnt that the images in our minds are by far the most powerful trigger for changing behaviour. More recently, as a Research and Planning Director of one of the largest spirits companies in the world, Lisa became expert in understanding the hows and whys of drinking. She has also been to more bars than she can remember.
In 2004, she returned to Britain after 10 years based in Japan from where she ran workshops across Asia. Lisa’s unique approach focuses on your imagination, not your words - a technique she refined working with non-English speakers.
Lisa Morgan is not affiliated to any government or private drinks-related organisation.
She says: "I've learnt that our motivations for drinking are complex. Counting units is a rational solution to an emotional issue. The way forward that I'm suggesting is fairly new in terms of alcohol management, but the approach has become very popular for sports training and personal development of all sorts. People tell me that this day helps them lighten up about themselves. My aim is to give them techniques to find their own creative solutions".
A participant in Manchester wrote:
"I would just like to say thanks for the seminar last Sunday that reached all my expectations. As you have witnessed the methods that you employed touched me deeply and let me understand the roots of my relationship with alcohol, the potential future and how to make that future be different to what it is today.
It has given me a platform to build on and I have started to build, already revisiting my notes and the exercises you introduced and putting the philosophy into practice".
Bill W. October 2005
And from the recent workshop in London:
"I would recommend the workshop - as an individual you are under no obligation to "spill your guts" / confess although there is open forum to share experiences if you choose to. The exercises are subtle and actually quite fun. But although they are subtle they seem to be working at a deeper subconscious level which means that behaviour changes without you having to make much / any conscious effort - a kind of no pain and lots of gain!"
Q. L., participant in February, 2006
Click here for other comments on Lisa's work.
Over the past couple of years, Lisa has run a series of these workshops around Britain. They have been held in London, Brighton, Ilkley, Edinburgh, Norwich, Bath, Cardiff, Manchester and Cumbria.
Also do please get in touch if you wish to arrange a workshop for your area or to set up a workshop for a local group or organisation
Over one day, you will learn techniques
- to relax and manage anxiety
- to work better under pressure
- to grow in confidence and self-esteem
- to solve problems
- and how to communicate successfully with other people.
Lisa demonstrates and teaches simple ‘thinking’ techniques, drawn from neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), self-hypnosis and Transactional Analysis (TA). The agenda focuses on using these tools to achieve the aims of each participant.
Who this workshop is for
People who seek practical thinking tools to improve themselves. It is especially useful for those wishing to improve their responses in difficult situations - perhaps in the workplace or in personal relationships.
A comment from Christophe Bosquillon about the benefits he gained doing such a workshop with Lisa:
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What have I got from it ? It structured what I had been doing randomly for years when wandering mentally for a solution
to a problem. It confirmed the need to change my
approaches in certain situations and how to tackle these new angles. I
discovered interesting and unused assets within my own brain (ha!), similar
to when you re-arrange a pile of dusty old books on new shelves, or make a
discovery in your wine cellar. Most important, it changed
my ways of tackling situations and relationships involving conflict and
discord."
An adapted version of this course is also available, by arrangement, for teams working in companies and organisations.
For young people who are looking for future direction.
This course is based upon the workshop in The 17s Project in which Lisa helped teenagers develop a vision of their ideal future. A book written by Lisa called: 'VOICE - in their own words Teenagers Predict the Future', describes this work with over 130 16-18 year olds from around the world. It was published in Japan and Taiwan where it has helped many other young people to decide how they want to live their lives.
The sessions (which can be run as two half days or one day) are designed to be helpful for young people still at school or at college, seeking guidance on what to do in their lives.
Please contact us for further details and to arrange dates for you or your group. Lisa is happy to work with individuals one-to-one or small groups of friends as well as for groups in educational establishments
Lisa also works with people on an individual basis.
She works with clients on a range of persona, career and health issues including asthma, allergies, smoking and other habits, through to stress management, building self-esteem and career planning. Please contact her for further details.
