Workshop Details | It's About Time™

Written by Tim Stringer
It's About Time™ Workshop Creator and Leader

Time | Our Most Precious Resource

The It's About Time™ workshop has its roots in a profound personal experience that rocked my world in 2008. To make a long story short, I was very unexpectedly diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer that summer. I put my coaching and consulting businesses and my yoga teaching on hold while I went through a challenging four rounds of chemotherapy and a major surgery. Overnight I went from having an active and busy life to spending hours in hospital beds, sometimes too nauseated and exhausted to do anything more than stare at the ceiling.

During this time my only real mission in life was to heal. Without my health any other plans or ambitions were academic. My circumstances provided me with the opportunity to really stop and look at my life. I fantasized about how my life would be different once I got my health back and committed to living a life that was aligned with my values and passions, and not settle for anything less.

I'm happy to report that 2008 ended on very positive note. Drawing on my own strength and determination with the support of many caring and talented family, friends and healers I ended the year cancer free.

I created the It's About Time workshop as a way of sharing the many insights that my experience of growing through cancer has brought. My sincere wish is that all participants leave the workshop feeling reconnected with their dreams and with a new set of tools for living a happy and fulfilling life.

Coaching and Self Discovery | Reigniting Our Passion

We all have dreams and ambitions. Some of them may be mentally filed away under "impossible" or "someday...when I have time". As I can attest, it's very easy to fall into a pattern where we spend our lives running around with no particular destination in mind focusing on things that we label as urgent, leaving the important aspects of our life to gather dust.

The It's About Time workshop creates an opportunity for you to get reacquainted with your passion for life. It's an opportunity to see what your life could look like if the constraints (many of them self-imposed) were removed. Inspired by this vision there's a new incentive to clearly see what stands in your way.

Before the workshop begins you'll be given an assignment that will involve observing your life and patterns, especially as related to the ways in which you spend your time - similar to the way you would record your eating habits if you were going to see a dietician or keep track of your spending habits before meeting with your financial advisor.

Armed with these insights you'll be well prepared to step into the exercises and conversations that are included in the workshop. The goal is to identify the patterns that are holding you back in life and discover the often subtle ways in which procrastination shows up. Once these patterns are uncovered you gain access to a new source of power and go from running on autopilot to having choice.

Yoga and Meditation | Drawing Upon Ancient Wisdom

I first discovered yoga in the mid nineties, back in the days when it was something that your eccentric aunt practised. I had such a positive experience with this ancient technology that I became a certified teacher in 1999. I have been teaching enthusiastically ever since.

Our modern lives provide us with a wealth of opportunities and information, but unless we have a strong sense of self and the ability to relax both mentally and physically it's very easy to become overwhelmed. Instead of benefiting from all this wealth we feel crushed under its weight. Yoga works on the physical level to help remove blocks in our body that keep us from moving forward in life. It also works on mental, emotional and spiritual levels to develop our ability to view life from a calm and neutral place, without the anxieties and drama that often steal much of our time and energy.

During the workshop you'll learn and experience some light physical yoga (don't worry, there won't be any "pretzel poses") and meditations designed to help you move freely and listen beyond the mental chatter. You'll leave the workshop with some specific techniques and lifestyle options that you can integrate into your daily routine. They are designed to cultivate new, positive ways of being and to help you remain calm and balanced despite the stresses of modern life.

Methodologies and Technologies | Timely Tools

I have fond memories from many of the wonderful workshops I participated in over the years. The workshops provided an opportunity to spend some time with some amazing people and often left me with some deep insights into life and my own talents. Insights are all well and good, but they don't in themselves make any difference unless they're applied in a practical way.

The It's About Time workshop has a very practical side. You'll leave the workshop with some tools and methodologies that you can immediately make use of in your day-to-day life. The methodologies presented can be applied with nothing more than a pen and paper...though you'll have the opportunity to learn about some powerful, yet simple technologies that are designed to help you keep your "ducks in a row" and manifest your dreams. We'll also look at the pitfalls of technologies such as e-mail and mobile phones and learn how to use these tools effectively.

Register Today | Take the first step in faith…

I invite you to let go of any considerations you have (including "I don't have enough time to do this right now" ;) and register in one of the upcoming workshops. You'll find specific information on dates and locations on the Workshops page of this website and can register in less than a minute by clicking the appropriate Register Now link.