Saturday, September 20, 2008 9:00 am – 2:30 pm; Wainwright House, Rye, NY

Presenters: Trisha Meili, known worldwide as The Central Park Jogger, and Barbara Heffernan

This day will motivate you to transform the trauma and adversity in your life into life-affirming energy. Using a combination of visualization, inspirational talks, meditation and mindfulness, Trisha and Barbara will guide you through a workshop designed to jump-start or re-energize your recovery process by integrating the hope and inspiration you receive with healing techniques in order to develop a personal healing practice. It will be a day to learn, or to deepen your knowledge of, healing techniques, to develop a vision for the changes you would like to achieve in your life, and to learn tools for achieving that vision. As a result of taking this workshop, you will be able to

a. Clarify your vision of the positive changes you would like to achieve in your life.

b. Feel a strong sense of hope and possibility about achieving the positive changes.

c. Learn techniques for mind-body-spirit integration and healing.

d. Develop a healing practice you can carry home.

Trisha Meili is known world-wide as The Central Park Jogger. Her story is not of an attack, but one of healing. Trisha speaks nationally, sharing her journey of recovery and healing. Audiences are motivated by Trisha's energy, wit, and poignant stories about the power of the human spirit as she offers lessons that allowed her to move from victim to survivor, reclaim her life and become whole. Trisha wrote the best-selling memoir I Am The Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility.

Barbara Heffernan, LCSW, LADC, has a private psychotherapy practice in Norwalk, CT, which focuses on co-dependency, behavioral addictions, trauma and life transitions. Barbara is a dynamic public speaker and workshop leader. She actively utilizes meditation, visualization and spirituality in her psychotherapy practice and her workshops. Barbara has studied meditation in Buddhist, Hindi and Shamanic traditions, and has practiced meditation for fifteen years.