The Positive Newscast

#17 Positive Organizations: The Flawless Foundation's Garden of Miracles program for children facing mental health and neurodevelopmental challenges

MauriceBassett@gmail.com (Maurice Bassett) — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:34:00 +0000

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The Flawless Foundation is a nonprofit organization which takes a stand for more humane, compassionate care for children facing mental health and neurodevelopmental challenges and uses creative, holistic healing modalities to enrich the lives of children and their caregivers. Their programs include gardening, yoga, Nia, the arts, girls empowerment groups and Collaborative Problem Solving.

The Flawless Foundation's Garden of Miracles program:

http://www.youtube.com/v/ECaxNgyqXEc?version=3

For more information please visit The Flawless Foundation at http://flawlessfoundation.org.

#16 Positive Organizations: Thru-My-Eyes, a non-profit whose mission is to provide no-cost in-home videotaping of individuals who have a chronic life-threatening medical illness

MauriceBassett@gmail.com (Maurice Bassett) — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:05:00 +0000

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In today's interview, Dr. Pamela Garcy, Clinical Psychologist and Coach in Dallas, Texas, interviews Dr. Michelle Maidenberg, co-founder of Thru-My-Eyes. Thru-My-Eyes is a non-profit foundation whose mission is to provide no-cost in-home videotaping of individuals who have a chronic life-threatening medical illness, and who want to leave video legacies for their children and loved ones. Thru-My-Eyes enables these individuals to do this regardless of their financial means to do so. In addition, Thru-My-Eyes does so in a clinically guided manner, so that the individual is supported before, during, and after the process. To learn more about Thru-My-Eyes, go to www.thrumyeyes.org

Club Fearless member Dr. Pamela Garcy is the author of The Power of Inner Guidance and may be contacted through her website at www.myinnerguide.com.

#15 Positive Events: Raw Spirit Festival International 2010, a three-day musical and healthy living event, September 24th - 26th in Arizona

MauriceBassett@gmail.com (Maurice Bassett) — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:48:00 +0000

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Coming up September 24th - 26th in Prescott, Arizona, Raw Spirit Festival International 2010 is a full three-day musical and healthy living event featuring two stages (Lake and Meadow Stages) with mixed musical performers and dynamic health-eco-peace research presenters amidst stunningly-beautiful natural backdrops. Additionally, the Sacred Exercise Area (featuring an eclectic array of yoga, chi kung, tai chi, pranayama, poetry, prayers, meditation and beyond) is perched atop the lakeside cliff with spectacular vistas of the surreal jagged lake, it's sheer-rock shores and many islands.

The raw vegan demos and tastings are once again in the Hilltop Pagoda with sweeping vistas of panoramic mountains. Enjoy acoustic jam areas, spontaneous sharing circles, campfires, healing and massage areas, kids' programs, quiet temple space, an organic farmers' market, and an exciting display of innovative vendors with a focus on healthy living-eco-art-science-music-spirit-peace including the world's largest organic raw vegan restaurant court served to you by the most loved raw vegan chefs on the planet.

Why emphasize raw vegan organic? One of the missions-visions of the Raw Spirit Festival, a 501c3 educational non profit, is to encourage people to incorporate a greater percentage of fresh organic vegetables and fruits into their every day diets.

More information can be found at www.RawSpiritFest.com

#14 Positive Events: Sacred Commerce Workshop on August 14th in San Francisco, California

MauriceBassett@gmail.com (Maurice Bassett) — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:46:00 +0000

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Coming up Saturday, August 14th, in San Francisco, California, the Sacred Commerce Workshop will seek to answer some of the following questions:

What if awakening was the context at your workplace? What if management meant being accountable for the spiritual emergence of one's staff as well as the well being of one's company? What if conflicts in your work community were acknowledged as a chance to heal collective wounds? What if the mission of your business was to usher in a sustainable, spiritually fulfilling society?

This one-day introductory course will train you in three distinctions: BEING, CLEARING and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. This course is intended for anyone who is creating or participating in a commercial environment of any kind and is a prerequisite to taking the Sacred Commerce three-day seminar. This one-day introduction to Sacred Commerce will be led by Jon Marro, and Matthew and Terces of Cafe Gratitude will share tools and insights that have transformed their business endeavors into a sacred exchange.

Location: 160 14th Street, San Francisco, CA (The Central Kitchen of Cafe Gratitude)
Date: Saturday, August 14th
Time: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
For more info call: 415.229.7768 or e-mail workshops@cafegratitude.com

#13 Positive Events: Transformation writing contest sponsored by Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency

MauriceBassett@gmail.com (Maurice Bassett) — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:40:00 +0000

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Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (or BOSS) is a community-based organization that provides housing and services in the San Francisco Bay Area to help families and individuals overcome homelessness. On October 7th they are having a celebration in the spirit of Sesa Woruban -- a Ghanaian symbol meaning TRANSFORMATION -- to honor positive change during challenging times.

BOSS is having a writing contest on the theme of transformation. They will award prizes in 4 categories: Kids age 11 and under, Youth 12-17, Young adult 18-25, and Adult. Winners may be asked to read their writing at the event, which will be held at the First Unitarian Church of Oakland.

You may submit any type (poetry, prose and essays, songs, spoken word), of any length, and on any kind of Transformation you have witnessed, experienced, or believe is meaningful.

DEADLINE: September 17, 2010
SUBMIT TO: BOSS Transformation Writing Contest, 2065 Kittredge St., Ste. E, Berkeley, CA 94704
MORE INFO: Sonja Fitz, (510) 649-1930 x 222, sonja@self-sufficiency.org

#12 Positive Events: Swim A Mile for Women with Cancer at Mills College in Oakland, California

MauriceBassett@gmail.com (Maurice Bassett) — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:16:00 +0000

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Coming up on October 2nd & 3rd, an estimated 600 men, women and children will swim at the WCRC's Swim A Mile for Women with Cancer at Mills College in Oakland, California.

The WCRC - or Women’s Cancer Resource Center - has served as an advocate for women with cancer and their friends and families since 1986. In the last 24 years, thousands of women have benefited from the services offered through the Center. WCRC has a breadth and depth of personalized services, resources and information that support the local community, including information on comprehensive complementary and alternative treatments for cancer. WCRC supports a women’s right to make her own informed decisions. The Center provides information, resources, support services, and advocacy for all women with cancer, focusing on women of color, as well as women from low-income communities and/or those who lack access to quality health care. All programs and services at WCRC are free and culturally appropriate.

The Women's Cancer Resource Center appreciates any donation you are able to make. If you would like to become a corporate or foundation partner, please contact Pat Bregant at at 510/601-4040 x 105 for more information.

Further details can be found on the Internet at: http://www.wcrc.org/

#11 Positive Events: The Diary of 9/11 - a one-woman artistic interpretation of the sacrifice and strength displayed by both individuals and our nation on 9/11

MauriceBassett@gmail.com (Maurice Bassett) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:16:00 +0000

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Coming up on Saturday, September 11th, the curtains will rise for The Diary of 9/11, featuring performer Lady Lights. This off-Broadway, one-woman 9/11 remembrance event takes audience members through an artistic interpretation of the sacrifice and strength displayed by both individuals and our nation on 9/11. A dedication to the police, firefighters, victims and their families, this highly anticipated performance offers a way for the public to honor the heroes and victims of 9/11 in powerful tribute.

Summer Powell, aka Lady Lights, portrays eight unique characters during the two-hour theater event. Through these eight characters, Powell depicts the events of September 11th through a myriad of perspectives and perceptions.

"My goal for The Diary of 9/11 is to tell the story of that fateful day, while weaving in a significance and a perspective that was not available in the moment of tragedy, but that has become unveiled through the passage of time," says Summer Powell.

The performance will be held at the majestic Millennium Hudson Theater located at 145 W. 44th St, New York, NY 10036. The performance of The Diary of 9/11 is a one-day-only event to be held on Saturday, September 11th. For more information and to purchase tickets visit http://thediaryof911.eventbrite.com/.

Producer, actress, and Club Fearless member, Summer Powell, aka Lady Lights, was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA and trained by legendary actor Rubin Santiago. Powell is the founder and CEO of the American Embassy of The Arts.

Summer Powell may be contacted by email at NYworldpremiermedia@msn.com or by phone at 866-419-4446.

#10 Positive Organizations: MakeGirlfriends.com a new place for women to Meet, Share, and Inspire

MauriceBassett@gmail.com (Maurice Bassett) — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:09:00 +0000

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A new social networking site called MakeGirlfriends.com helps women find and develop true friendships with each other. The site launches on August 1st, which is National Girlfriends Day.

Nancy Shields, founder of MakeGirlfriends.com, is a pro at finding and making new girlfriends. She travels the country for work and pleasure, staying in different areas for several months at a time. Her ability to make girlfriends, not just acquaintances, has helped her build an amazing network of “girlfriends” from coast to coast. This ability allows her to forge lasting friendships, and become quickly acclimated to new towns.

Nancy recognized that a major demographic was being ignored, and thought: “Why not create a website where women can meet other women, and find inspirational content that is focused specifically for them?” MakeGirlfriends.com is ideally positioned to serve this niche demographic that has almost limitless potential.

Nancy says, “The goals of my site are simple; to provide a place for women to Meet, Share, and Inspire. Women can create a free profile and be matched up with other women of similar interests in their geographic area. There will be inspirational content specifically for women, and a Your Voice section where women can share their individual and unique inspirational stories.”

#9 Positive News: The University of Santa Monica: Bringing more loving into the world

MauriceBassett@gmail.com (Maurice Bassett) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:55:00 +0000

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This past Wednesday, July 21st, over four hundred people gathered at the University of Santa Monica in Santa Monica, California for “What if God was one of us?” - an informational evening on Spiritual Psychology and relationships.

Drs. Ron and Mary Hulnick the president and chief academic officer of the University of Santa Monica facilitated the evening, taking questions from the audience. They shared that the goal of Spiritual Psychology is to gain release from conditioned patterns, and in the context of relationships the goal is to focus on how each relationship can be used to support spiritual growth. For them, that means experiencing and sharing more loving, our true nature. They recognize that relationships have value not simply because they give you the opportunity to share loving, but they also allow you to support each other through mirroring and triggering your unresolved issues, which helps us to increase our awareness of ourselves as loving beings.

Two powerful principles wove their way through the Drs’ responses: 1) There is no such thing as right or wrong, only choices and consequences, and 2) Take personal responsibility for your own internal disturbance regardless of what you think caused it.

These principles eliminate any opportunity to judge another person and pretend to be better than any one else. They also eliminate the possibility of being a victim in any situation. Our upsets and pain become fully our responsibility to take care of independent of any external circumstance. There is freedom and power in living by these principles. They are both humbling and empowering at the same time, and it is these qualities that allow us to love more freely and give more fully.

Drs. Ron and Mary Hulnick closed the evening with eight keys to successful relationships:

1.      Be willing to give up personal space
2.      Pay attention to the little things (small kindnesses)
3.      Keep your agreements
4.      Take responsibility for your own upset
5.      Share gratitude and appreciation regularly
6.      Be a really good listener
7.      Don’t complain about your partner with your friends
8.      Your job is not to change your partner. Your job is to love your partner.

The University of Santa Monica is the Worldwide Center for the Study and Practice of Spiritual Psychology. They are helping to bring more loving and wisdom into the world one soul at a time. USM can be found on the Internet at: www.universityofsantamonica.edu

Thank you to fearless reporter and fellow Club Fearless member Rohini Ross for reporting today's positive news!

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#8 Positive News: New iPhone app supports your positive goals and positive thinking

MauriceBassett@gmail.com (Maurice Bassett) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:26:00 +0000

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The Mendelssohn Group in Destin, Florida has created an iPhone/iTouch application called iCanAttitude. It is a simple, powerful, real time, trackable program that allows the user to create positive goals, record them in writing, organize them into five categories: Family, Faith, Fitness, Career, and General/Other and give each goal a targeted completion date that can be revised based on progress. This application supports the power of positive thinking and positive affirmation.

Thanks to "fearless reporter" and fellow Club Fearless member Kelly Meerbott with Meerbott Marketing for reporting today's positive news. Kelly can be contacted through her website at www.MeerbottMarketing.com.

#7 Positive Events: Experience Laughter Yoga with Alicia Dattner in San Francisco!

MauriceBassett@gmail.com (Maurice Bassett) — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:29:00 +0000

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Coming up Tuesday, August 3rd at 6 p.m., experience Laughter Yoga with Alicia Dattner!

The location is Authentic SF at 115 10th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103.

How does it work? Laughter Yoga is simply a practice of laughing for no reason. We do silly, playful exercises that encourage laughter and mirth, with no jokes, to return to a simple state of joy! The class begins and ends with yogic breathing and positive intention.

Laughter raises the endorphins, and pumps oxygen to the brain and heart!

The Laughing Club was started in India in 1995 by Dr. Madan Kataria, and has spread across the world. Alicia is a certified Laughter Yoga Leader.

http://www.aliciadattner.com

Join us for Laughter Yoga for Free... then stay for Authentic Games Night at Authentic SF at 7:30 p.m.

http://authenticsf.com/gamesnight.html

#6 Positive News: Music soothes pain at Denmark hospital

MauriceBassett@gmail.com (Maurice Bassett) — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:07:00 +0000

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Here's some fresh positive news from Club Fearless member Morten Spindler Gaedt in Denmark.

Patients in the recovery section at Aarhus University Hospital need much less medication when they wake up to music. The use of analgesic and sedative drugs can be reduced by up to 50 percent if a patient is allowed to wake up after an operation with gentle music in the ears.

The hospital staff has experimented with music for awakening purposes for several years and has worked with Maysound to develop a "music bar" which can be placed around the patient's head, writes magazine Southern, published by Region Midtjylland.

The music is nature-based and gives most patients a sense of peace and security. Two thirds of patients make use of the hospital's special composed music, while the other third wants mostly New Age, classical or music by artist Kaare Norge.

A study has shown that 98 percent of patients in the recovery room are satisfied with the soothing music.

Thanks to fearless newscaster Morten Spindler Gaedt for reporting this story. Morten can be reached at:

www.spindler.dk

#5 Positive Organizations: The International Bird Rescue Research Center

MauriceBassett@gmail.com (Maurice Bassett) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:13:00 +0000

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Our focus today is on the International Bird Rescue Research Center, an organization which is currently in action working to save oiled wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico.

A team of bird rescue specialists from the International Bird Rescue Research Center (IBRRC) has been deployed along the Gulf Coast to help with an all-hands-on-deck effort to rescue seabirds caught in the BP Deepwater Horizon well blow out.

The IBRRC is working with Tri-State Bird Rescue, the lead oiled wildlife organization on the ground, to set up and staff rehabilitation centers in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida, where the growing oil slick is severely impacting birds. They now have more than 40 members of their Oil Spill Response Team working on the Gulf Oil Spill.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT IBRRC'S WORK WITH OILED BIRDS

For further details or to support the efforts of the IBRRC, please visit:

http://www.ibrrc.org/

And their Northern California location can be found here:

http://www.ibrrc.org/no_cal_center.html

#4 Positive Events: The San Francisco Symphony’s annual free concert and a Workshop in Playfulness as a Life Skill

MauriceBassett@gmail.com (Maurice Bassett) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:30:00 +0000

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I have a couple of event announcements for you today: Coming up Sunday, July 25th at 2 p.m., the San Francisco Symphony’s annual free concert includes a special tribute to Mexico with an afternoon of musical favorites conducted by rising star Alondra de la Parra, a native of Mexico City. Join in celebrating the Bicentennial of the Independence of Mexico. Pack a picnic basket and bring your friends and family for the San Francisco Symphony’s free concert in Dolores Park in San Francisco.

More details can be found at:

http://www.sfsymphony.org/season/Event.aspx?eventid=41870

And coming up August 30th and 31st in Albuquerque, New Mexico, GAMES THAT MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH: A WORKSHOP IN PLAYFULNESS AS A LIFE SKILL with FUNSMITH BERNIE DeKOVEN.

Laughter Games can be played with large groups, small groups, couples, adults, and children. They are games that involve fantasy and creativity, games that require little or moderate physical activity. Through your participation in this workshop you will learn how to motivate people who are otherwise apathetic and reluctant to exercise to engage in safe and gentle physical exercise under cover of games. Exercise is work but playing is fun. People who play and enjoy their play become animated and are inspired to engage physically more than they would otherwise. Laughter Games are practical tools you can use to help clients and patients diffuse stress and you can adapt these games to the specific abilities and mood of a given group to maximize their benefits.

This workshop is sponsored by the Association for Humanistic Psychology.

Further details can be found on:

http://www.deepfun.com/events/

Or contact Bernie DeKoven at:

bernie@dekoven.com

#3 Positive Organizations: GoodListDaily.com and Gratitude as a Life Practice

MauriceBassett@gmail.com (Maurice Bassett) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:22:00 +0000

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Yesterday I talked about a great new website called ThankingOfYou.com - today I want to tell you about a fantastic new way to articulate and share your gratitude! GoodListDaily.com asks the question, "What are you grateful for today?" and offers hundreds of lists of "good things" sent in by life-affirming individuals. You can access these lists on GoodListDaily.com or otherwise subscribe to the daily lists by email or in a feed reader. I myself am both a subscriber and a contributor to GLD.

http://goodlistdaily.com/

I especially like Theresa's contributions - she is an artist, writer and "collector of shiny things" from Tucson, Arizona.

Theresa's Good Lists can be found at:

http://goodlistdaily.com/?author=29

To become a contributor to GLD just send an email to the founder, Crystal Pirri at:

contribute@goodlistdaily.com

#2 Positive Organizations: ThankingOfYou.com and the Gratitude Movement

MauriceBassett@gmail.com (Maurice Bassett) — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:58:00 +0000

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“Who’s made a difference in your life? A teacher, old friend, a rescue worker, charity, soldier or stranger?

People come and go in a lifetime, often never knowing the lasting positive influence they've had on another. No matter where on this bustling earth they roam, the people who've helped us and shaped us deserve to know how; they deserve a heartfelt 'Thank you.'"

Those are the words of Nora Firestone, a Virginia Beach-based journalist and founder of ThankingOfYou.com, the Web-based “monumental movement” for posting stories of gratitude that recognize, affirm and honor the people who’ve made a difference in our lives.

Firestone says gratitude facilitates shifts in perspective that motivate us to take care of and honor our good health and that it naturally fuels the machine of perpetual positivity.

"Expression of gratitude carries with it potentially profound benefits for both giver and recipient, pertaining to physical, emotional, mental and overall well-being," says Firestone.

So take a look at ThankingOfYou.com, where you can read and post stories of gratitude - it's definitely worth a pilgrimage!

#1 Inspiring People: Overcoming adversity: Dr. Pam Garcy interviews Mimi Ramirez

MauriceBassett@gmail.com (Maurice Bassett) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:52:00 +0000

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In today's program, Dr. Pam Garcy conducts a personal interview with Mimi Ramirez, who suffered a traumatic brain injury and came back stronger. Ramirez had set up a home for the homeless when she was in her 20s, had the injury and then had to take a detour from her larger goals. She's now a year shy of her doctorate and hopes to set up a wellness center of her own someday.

In the interview, Ramirez talks a little about this journey and shares her tips for those who may be overcoming adversity.

Club Fearless member Dr. Pam Garcy is the author of The Power of Inner Guidance and may be contacted through her website at www.myinnerguide.com.