 
Hello
There!
While waiting for the sunset by Donna Lopez
“When
we love, it is not necessary to understand what is happening outside,
because everything happens inside us instead.” –
Paulo Coelho
“Love
is looking at the same mountains from different angles.”
– Paulo Coelho
“The
moment we set off in search of love, it sets off in search of us.
And saves us.”
– Paulo Coelho

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May
Schedule
Women's
Empowerment Group
Dates:
May 1st, May 15th, and May 29th
Time:
6:00pm-7:30pm
Fee: $30/session
Space
is very limited, so contact me as soon as possible if you are interested.
Call 408-947-1508 or
e-mail donna@foryourjourney.com
for more information.
This is a new
inspiration group especially for those women who want to learn how
to live an empowered life. This will be an informal setting, yet
one filled with inspiring subjects, encouraging self-esteem,
creating self-discovery, understanding what we attract to our lives,
while learning how to live a life of joy.
This group will
meet every other Thursday evening for an hour and a half. A commitment
of four sessions is required, and to paid in full by the first session.
However, as the group may continue after the four initial sessions,
participants will only be required to pay for a single session at
a time thereafter.
Invest this
time to learn how to create a better life for yourself! Be inspired,
while enjoying the company of other women who are also seeking peace
and happiness for their own lives. This is a great opportunity,
so I hope you can join us.
For
more information, see my events
page.
Your
personal introduction to inspiration and empowerment
Date:
you choose a date!
Time: you choose a time!
Fee: FREE!
Call 408-947-1508 or
e-mail donna@foryourjourney.com
for more information.
If you’ve
been sensing an inner feeling that there must be more in this life
for you, but haven’t been able to identify what to do about
it, I would like to offer you this special personal introduction
for free…
In a one-on-one
introduction to my empowerment essentials based coaching, I will
share why inspiration is so important on your journey to living
an empowered life. I will explain what inspiration is (for you),
why it is so valuable to continually seek it, as well as how to
identify the feeling of being inspired so that you always know your
way back when you feel off track. Additionally, I will share what
being empowered means to discovering and creating the life you want—why
empowerment is victimless and how being empowered promotes the attitude
that anything is possible!
For
more information, see my classes page.
Empowerment
Essentials
Personal
one-on-one Empowerment Life Coaching
Empowerment
Essentials: basics for your journey Take the entire 12-week
series with personal one-on-one coaching customized to reach your
own personal goals. This series is dedicated to helping you develop
the basic foundation necessary to continue on your journey in the
most self-empowered way. We will work with your personal doubts,
fears and unknowns to get you to the place where you feel confident
to live the life you want. Topics include: Seeking inspiration,
Self-esteem, Facing changes, Self-discovering, Possibilities unlimited,
Setting intention, Attracting the right people, Creating for fun,
Taking action, Managing obstacles, Living a journey of joy, and
Becoming empowered.
See my classes
page for more information.
Empowerment
for our girls
EMPOWERMENT
ESSENTIALS FOR GIRLS: basics for her journey
This is a six workshop series for girls ages 14-17.
All of my
teen workshops, one-on-one or in a group, are still available. I
just don't happen to have any formally scheduled right now. However,
don't hesitate to let me know at any time if you are interested
in having your teenager take them. I will work with you to set up
a format that works best for all.
Workshop
Topics
1) Facing change: a discussion on how to embrace
change by focusing on opportunities rather than on the fear. We
discuss the power of thoughts, point of view and outlook.
2) Discovery: explanation of why self-worth is
so important, encouraging her to discover her own individuality,
and guiding her to own her unique personality and personal gifts.
3) Possibilities: guiding her understanding that
anything is possible and that she holds the power to create what
she wants for herself now and in her future, including how to embrace
obstacles as guidance for life.
4) People: explanation of how people are attracted
by behavior, thoughts or actions, including teaching her how to
be responsible for attracting the best people for her own journey.
5) Creativity: furthering the topic that she has
the power to create the life she wants and explaining the importance
of self-expression through creativity. This workshop also includes
how to set intention and take action on those areas in which she
desires to express her creativity.
6) Joy: growing up can be frustrating, but finding
ways to work towards feeling good and having a purposeful attitude
can go a long way in enjoying her young years as well as her life
ahead.
Call 408.947.1508
to register your girl or to find out more about how you can sponsor
a girl who is unable to pay.
Investing in
our girls
It
has always been my intention that FYJ is a place for both women
and men, although it is mostly women who show interest in my offerings.
So while I have come to expect mostly women, I was a bit surprised
when it was suggested that I expand my empowerment workshop offerings
to teen girls. It sounded like a good idea, but I initially underestimated
just how important it could be.
As guidance
does, it wasn't long before I noticed I was being led into something
new. Suddenly from a couple of different sources, I received requests
to help at-risk kids. One of those requests came with an invitation
to attend a meeting for a new girls court at the Juvenile Probation
Department. To be in that room with so many representatives from
the different departments and agencies was definitely a new experience,
yet everything people said deeply resonated within me.
This is how
inspiration works--it seems as though I already knew these things,
but had forgotten I knew. As everyone discussed the issues of these
girls, I remembered being a teen myself. Girls need more self-esteem
and guidance I thought. As I listened to these wonderful people
who already devote their lives to helping our troubled kids, I wondered
how I could help.
Creating the
girls workshop outlines has really taken me back to a time I rarely
think about. While I was not an outwardly troubled teen, the emotions
I had, the way I used to think, and the decisions I made, now seem
unimaginable. I was completely different with a whole different
way of looking at life. What was missing that could have helped
me make better decisions?
Where is the guidance to help the girls of today make better decisions?
Do they know how special they are? Or know all they can be? Are
we doing enough to invest in our young women? The consensus in that
girls court meeting was that these girls are not criminals, they
are simply starving for affection and validation. Unfortunately,
this is why they are most vulnerable to the worst influences. We
must do something! Seeking empowerment in our 30's and 40's is wonderful,
but just think how much different our lives could have been if we
knew how powerful we were when we were younger.
What
are we willing to invest?
I plan on dedicating
several hours of my week to helping teen girls learn to become self-empowered.
However, I am unable to do it alone. I really need your help. I
have put a series together called Empowerment Essentials for Girls:
basics for her journey. While I will also be rolling this out to
all teen girls in January, I am specifically asking for your help
to meet my December goal of raising enough money to sponsor 24 girls
who are unable to pay.
I have kept
pricing to a minimum: six classes, two hours each, amounts to only
$7.50 per hour! Total series is $90 per girl.
Sponsor one,
two or more girls. Divide a sponsor payment into two months ($45
x 2), or team up with your friends or co-workers to help contribute
more. Just think how far self-empowerment could go in making a difference,
not only in their lives, but in the future of our communities and
our world. You've heard it before, these kids are our future!
In
honor of your daughter, your sister, your mother, or yourself as
a teen, sponsor a girl today for her own special Empowerment Essentials
series.
*
Call me at 408.947.1508 where I will gladly accept payment by phone
-or-
* Send a check payable to For Your Journey c/o 1346 The Alameda
# 7126, San Jose, CA 95126
I
promise to keep you updated on what your dollars are doing through
the progress of the program.
With much love and gratitude, Donna
Series price per girl: $90 (or two monthly payments of $45)
All girls receive a free journal as well. See
Events page for further information.
Previous
Stories Archived For Your Journey
Most
months I get a chance to write about a lesson I learned or an inspiration
that came through me as a result of my life experiences. I've decided
to archive them for you because as I have realized in my own life,
when I need to hear something, synchronicity seems to bring just
the right thing to me. Hopefully there is something here for you
today, because as I always mention, my intention behind sharing
so much of my journey is to inspire you to become empowered on your
own journey.
Enjoy! Donna, founder of FYJ

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