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General Audience Workshops

De-Clutter, De-Stress® Your Life
This class will examine what keeps you stuck in clutter, motivate you to act, and lead you through a process that will enable you to let go of clutter. Where time permits, you will also learn preventive maintenance techniques, and clutter prevention strategies to keep clutter out of your life for good!

Organize Your Photographs
Before you can do anything creative with photos, you must organize them. Learn techniques to organize your photos so you can preserve and display them.


Beyond Clothes Doors

Create your Clothes Central. Learn strategies to de-clutter your clothes and organize your wardrobe, so you find what you want to wear when you want to wear it.

Filing 101
Afraid to put papers away because you won't find them again? Don't know where your important papers are? Late on paying bills because you lost them? Can't file because the filing cabinet is already full? Stop piling papers! Conquer your fear of filing! Learn how to create a filing system that works for you and the family. Understand the different methods of filing and types of action files, so you can find papers when you need them.


Organize and De-Stress the Christmas Season

Do the zillion tasks of the Christmas season create dread and anxiety? Consider new strategies to prevent holiday stress. Learn shopping strategies, gift options and time management strategies so you can celebrate, rather than dread the holidays this and every year.


The Organized Garage Sale

A garage sale is a great way to make money and have fun in your own yard. Topics covered include: the process for getting ready, publicity, pricing and marking items, timing of the sale, and dos and don’ts the day of the sale.

Emergency Preparedness:

Be Organized - In Case of Emergency
There are all kinds of emergencies - terrorist attacks, fire, tornadoes, flooding, electrical outages, chemical spills, etc. Being prepared requires we organize family, supplies and information. Learn key components of a family plan and what supplies and information to include in emergency kits - just in case.

Organize Your Home for Safety
Tripping and falling, food poisoning, environmental illness - these are a few of the hazards clutter can cause. In an emergency, would you be able to spend hours in your basement? This class will discuss de-clutter projects and strategies to make your home a sanctum sanctorum, rather than an accident waiting to happen.

Workshop Formats

All programs are interactive

Length: two to three hours

Sessions: one

Many programs include a workbook

Additional Options for De-Clutter, De-Stress® Your Life

4 to 10 weekly sessions of 2 hours each, or 2 half day sessions

1 full day program

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Seniors

De-Clutter, De-Stress® Your Life for Seniors
This class will examine what keeps you stuck in clutter, motivate you to act and lead you through a process that will enable you to let go of clutter. Where to start, how to donate unwanted items and deal with a life of sentimental items will be discussed. Formats: one 3-hour session; two to four 1.5 hour sessions

Helen at ElderHostelDownsizing and Moving for Seniors - The Workshop
This multi-session workshop will give you tools and motivate you to unclutter your possessions to downsize, help you prepare your house for sale and bring order to the chaos of moving so you can be ready to start a new life in a retirement community or elsewhere. Program formats: 4 to 6 sessions, 1 to 2 hours in length

Pack Rats Can Change! Conquer Your Clutter - A 7.5 hour Elderhostel Program
Trash or treasures? If your house is more like a museum than a home, learn how to let clutter go. Explore the mental, emotional, spiritual and philosophical aspects of clutter. Leave inspired to de-clutter your life.

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Corporate Training

Overview


Before De-Cluttering

Train your executives, managers and employees to work in a clutter-free, organized space. Benefits include:

• Improve efficiency and productivity:
   - Find things when you want them
   - Increase available time for priorities
   - Complete projects on or ahead of time

• Reduce stress by gaining control of your work day

• Improve office appearance as "professional"

• Improve office safety conditions:
   - Reduce hazards, such as fire and tripping

Topics/Short Descriptions

Beyond Office Clutter
Surrounded by stuff in your office or cubicle? Waste time looking for papers? Is your work space covered with papers because if you file the, you won't find them again? Does your workspace look unprofessional? Do you know your style of organizing? Then you need to become skilled at working in a clutter-free, organized space.

  • Learn a process that will enable you to let go of clutter, clean up the mess, and become better organized.
  • Learn preventive maintenance techniques, and clutter prevention strategies to keep clutter out of your work space for good!
  • Learn to create a filing system that will work for you, so you can put papers away, without fear.
  • Learn to organize your office space and desk top for efficiency using an activity center strategy.
  • Determine your style preference.

You'll create order out of chaos, better manage paper, and work more efficiently!


After De-Cluttering

Workshop Formats

All programs are interactive
Flexible scheduling for small work groups and teams
4 to 10 weekly sessions of 2 hours each, or 2 half day sessions
1 full day program
Individual consultation or site visit components scheduled

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Home-Based Business Programs

Organize Your Home-Based Business
Home-based business is the fastest growing segment of the business industry. There are benefits to working from home, but also challenges. While technology has made working from home possible, it also presents complications in the home. Topics include pros and cons of a business from home, legal structure, legal permissions, choosing a business address, telephone options and etiquette.

De-Clutter and Organize Your Home Office
Does uncontrolled paper keep you from working at home effectively? Can't find things? Is your office appearance embarrassing? Learn to create an efficient home office using an activity center strategy and a filing system that works for you so you can work at home beyond clutter.


When Does the Office Close?

Address the challenges that working from home can bring. Topics include the pros and cons of operating a business from home, how to separate work from home, and strategies to stay motivated while working alone in your home environment.

Workshop Formats

Programs are interactive

Length: one to two hours

Sessions: one, two or three

Workshops can be combined: one 3 or 4 hour program

Individual consultation or site visit components can be added

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Spiritual Workshops

Live Beyond Clutter
This workshop focuses on the home. We find serenity in our lives by de-cluttering our homes. Examine what keeps you stuck in clutter and explore the spiritual side of life to help you let go of possessions that rob you of joy. Learn to let go of the unessential, allow emptiness that invites fulfillment, so you can create your home as your sanctum sanctorum. May include quiet time.

Formats: Half-day, full-day or 4 two-hour weekly sessions

De-Clutter, De-Stress® Your Life
Clutter causes stress every day of our lives: daily frustration, time wasted looking for things, embarrassment or job inefficiency. But, it is a stressor we can control.

At this retreat day, explore the emotional and mental stuff that keeps you stuck in clutter and get practical tips to de-clutter your life. Examine your spiritual beliefs to help transition to clutter-free living. Participants leave knowing the first steps to de-clutter their lives, and motivated to implement them.

Includes quiet time.

Formats: All day program or 6 two-hour sessions

The Spirituality of Clutter-Free Living
A weekend, residential program that explores living a de-cluttered life based on spiritual principles. Using individual exercises, small and large group discussions, and lecture, participants explore their spirituality to enable them to let go of the thoughts and feelings that keep them stuck in clutter. They leave with a plan to de-clutter their lives, and with the inspiration to implement it.

Formats: Weekend program - Friday evening through Sunday noon, or
             2.5 day retreat program

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Continuing Legal Education Seminar for Lawyers

The Organized Attorney 1 two-hour session

Is your office awash in a sea of papers? Are you constantly searching for items that are “in here somewhere? Do you need to move papers off the chair so clients can sit down? “ This practical course will:

  • provide techniques for becoming more organized;

  • show you how to organize your office space; and

  • demonstrate paper management practices and principles.

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