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Scottsdale Society of Women Writers Welcomes Sarah McLean, Author, McLean Institute, Sedona, AZ

December 24, 2017 by pbrooks

SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS

Welcomes Sarah McLean, Award-winning Author

Founder, McLean Institute, Program Director, Chopra Center

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

WHAT: Monthly Speaker/Dinner Meeting

WHEN: WED January 31st, 2018 5:30 -7:30 pm*

WHERE: Starfire Golf Club – see new PAYPAL info below*

11500 N. Hayden Rd., Scottsdale, AZ 85260

WHY: Mission: The Scottsdale Society of Women Writers gives members access to events of interest, a format for exchanging ideas, an opportunity to network with other women writers and authors, an alliance with professionals relating to writing, publishing, and marketing of books, and camaraderie and support.

SPEAKER 6:45 Sarah McLean, Founder, McLean Meditation Institute, Sedona, AZ. Award-winning Hay House author of several books, including The Power of Attention. Program Director for the Chopra Center, CA
Sarah McLean is a contemporary meditation and mindfulness teacher who has been inspiring people to meditate for over 20 years. She’s a 17-year Sedona resident who runs the McLean Meditation Institute and the Meditation Teacher Academy through which she has trained over 300 teachers worldwide. She’s also a popular retreat facilitator at world class destinations who shares meditation and mindfulness along with her Creative Soul® Writing Retreat for Women. Her best-seller, Soul-Centered: Transform Your Life in 8 Weeks with Meditation (Hay House) has inspired study groups worldwide. And just recently Hay House released her latest book, The Power of Attention: Awaken to Love and its Unlimited Potential with Meditation. She shares inspirational stories about working with Deepak Chopra, living in a Zen Buddhist Monastery, and how she spent six months in a traditional ashram in India. She has been featured in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, Fox News, and Prevention magazine.

Sarah will be sharing how to sit down and write. How to connect to your creative soul. What to do once you’ve written and published your book. How to get yourself out there and shine!
Here’s to peace, Sarah Sarah McLean, Director, McLean Teacher Academy, Founder, McLean Meditation Institute www.McLeanMeditation.com

With offices in Sedona, Arizona, (928) 204-0067, & County Cork, Ireland, 085 7214

*Please PAY IN ADVANCE with PAYPAL on this website only – see home page www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com
NOTE upper right corner for link on this website, fill out the form and pay with your credit card before 10:30 am Friday Jan 26th – Thank you!

PRICING: $30 for members and guests. SEE PAYPAL INFO ABOVE. We are no longer taking checks or cash at the door. This is a workable and good system for all of us. Thank you for moving forward with SSWW.

RSVP before 10:30am the Friday morning before the meeting. The Starfire Golf Club needs to order food, and I must give a guarantee to them at that time. That is the confirmed deadline for an RSVP! Thank you for appreciating my contract with the Starfire Golf Club.

CHECK-IN: Please check-in between 5:15 and 5:45 to begin the buffet that is available at 5:45 The meeting starts promptly at 6:00.

All those attending the meeting must pay for the dinner/room/speaker. The cost is noted above. Pick up your name badge at the front table and ENJOY a wonderful night!
Guests pick up a brochure and a membership signup sheet too.

AGENDA: The agendas will be on the dinner table with a lot of wonderful announcements for you. They also include the schedule of upcoming meeting speakers. Remember, the announcements are now done with dinner. The member introductions are 30 seconds, and follow the announcements.

DIRECTIONS: From the 101 Freeway, exit Shea Blvd and go West to Hayden Road and then North a short distance, the club is on the West side of the street. From the South, cross Shea Blvd going north on Hayden Road, again, it is on the West side of the street. 11500 North Hayden Road.

Goals of the Group

• Value all the professional women writers seeking to share their expertise
• Honor all genres and all forms of professional writing
• Attend monthly meetings to move the group and its members forward
• Learn and share in the experiences of monthly professional speakers
• Grow the group to a membership of active and contributing women
• Encourage participation by members as mentors, and volunteers
• Support and challenge each other to always be writing
• Help members to stretch as writers and reach lofty personal goals
• Have fun, meet trustworthy women writers, share dreams

Scottsdale Society of Women Writers and Sarah McLean, author/meditation teacher

July 25, 2013 by Patricia Brooks

SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS

SSWW Welcomes Sarah McLean, Author and Meditation Teacher

WHO: Scottsdale Society of Women Writers

WHAT: Monthly Speaker/Dinner Meeting – speaker and book signing*

WHERE: Chaparral Suites Resort, 5001 N, Scottsdale Rd. NE corner – Enter off Chaparral Rd – 4^th Floor Grill entrance, then left to the Cactus Room

WHEN: August 28^th, 2013 – Wed. 5:30-7:30

HOW: PLEASE – RSVP now to Patricia L. Brooks, president/founder

Cell 480-250-5556 or [email protected] See Details Below

WHY: The Scottsdale Society of Women Writers gives members access to events of interest, a format for exchanging ideas, an opportunity to network with other women writers and authors, an alliance with businesses relating to writing, publishing, camaraderie and support.

SPEAKER: Sarah McLean is the go-to teacher for contemporary meditation. She’s the best-selling author of Soul-Centered: Transform Your Life in 8 Weeks with Meditation (Hay House) and a dynamic speaker who inspires thousands to find their personal power, radiance, and inner peace. After years immersed in various wisdom and living in India and a Zen Buddhist Monastery, and her years of work with modern thought-leaders, Deepak Chopra, Byron Katie and Gary Zukav, Sarah founded and directs the McLean Meditation Institute (MMI).

Sarah has been featured in the New York Times, Prevention Magazine, Organic Spa, The Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, Unity Magazine, Daily Word and on Fox Health News. Her newest book, Love & the Power of Attention (Hay House) is being released in 2014. For more information on her work, visit www.McLeanMeditation.com. For a free excerpt of her book Soul-Centered, visit this site: www.Soul-Centered.com

Soul-Centered: Looking for happiness, fulfillment, and a little inspiration? Soul-Centered: Transform Your Life in 8 Weeks with Meditation will help you to find just that. Sarah McLean wrote this book to make meditation simple and easy for you.

Sarah traveled around the world to find the best and most authentic meditation practices. You don’t have to travel to dive into meditation, but you will enjoy her stories about her meditation journey – meditating in temples in Japan, living and chanting in an ashram in India, and being a head cook in a Zen Buddhist monastery in the wilderness – a journey that took her around the world and totally transformed her life.

See notes below for dinner fees, meeting format and location directions. Thank you.

MENU: A light dinner – salad or sandwich and soup, dessert, beverage and roll with tax and gratuity included – make your choice the night of the meeting.

COST: $22.00 for members – $25.00 for guests – PLEASE RSVP. Thank you.

CHECKS or cash: Please make check payable to Scottsdale Society of Women Writers (SSWW) prior to coming to the meeting to save time at the check-in table. Thank you for the help.

CHECK-IN: Please check-in between 5:00 and 5:45. The meeting starts promptly at 6:00. All those attending the meeting must pay for the dinner/room/speaker – cost noted above. Pick up your name badge at the front table and ENJOY a wonderful night!

AGENDA: The agendas will be on the dinner table – always a lot of good INFO for you.

DIRECTIONS: Chaparral Suites is in Scottsdale at Chaparral Rd just north of Old Town. Chaparral Rd has a light. Parking is in the rear – two large parking lots.

Note: best to enter from the middle elevator for the 4^th Floor Grille – not from the main entrance.

From the 101 freeway exit Chaparral Rd and go west. Just prior to Scottsdale Rd enter the side drive at 4^th Floor Grille – take that elevator. Note awning marked 4^th Floor Grille on the Chaparral side. This is the easiest way in – again, not through the main lobby. Welcome!

Goals of the Group

Value all the professional women writers seeking to share their expertise
Honor all genres and all forms of professional writing
Attend monthly meetings to move the group and its members forward
Learn and share in the experiences of monthly professional speakers
Grow the group to a membership of active and contributing women
Encourage participation by members as presenters, mentors, judges and volunteers
Support and challenge each other to always be writing
Help members to stretch as writers and reach lofty personal goals
Have fun, meet trustworthy women writers, share dreams

Scottsdale Society of Women Writers welcomes Eveline Horelle Dailey and Dr. Gladys Mc Garey

June 10, 2013 by Patricia Brooks

SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS

SSWW Welcomes Eveline Horelle Dailey

and Dr. Gladys McGarey

WHO: Scottsdale Society of Women Writers

WHAT: Monthly Speaker/Dinner Meeting – speakers and book signing*

WHERE: Chaparral Suites Resort, 5001 N, Scottsdale Rd. NE corner – Enter off Chaparral Rd – 4^th Floor Grill entrance, then left to the Cactus Room

WHEN: June 26^th, 2013 – Wed. 5:30-7:30

HOW: PLEASE – RSVP now to Patricia L. Brooks, president/founder

Cell 480-250-5556 or [email protected] See Details Below

Speaker #1: Gladys Taylor McGarey, M.D., M.D. (H) Born in India Dr. Gladys Taylor McGarey is known as the Mother of Holistic Medicine. Retired from active family practice of over sixty years, she is internationally known for her pioneering work in holistic medicine, natural birthing and the physician-patient partnership. She and The Foundation for Living Medicine are actively involved in healthcare reforms. Dr. Gladys, as she is fondly called has authored many books, articles and other healthcare papers.

Book: The World Needs Old Ladies co-authored with Eveline Horelle Dailey offers in alternative voices, a fearless map to inspire the reader toward a growth map. Courage, confidence, trust, grace, holistic and scientific information infuse the pages with life’s humor and regrettable moments. As a bonus, the reader also finds Dr. Gladys’s favorite remedies.

Speaker #2: Eveline Horelle Dailey Born and educated overseas by various tutors, Eveline gave up interior design and drafting boards for a pen. Published and read nationally and also internationally, Eveline writes to inspire. Not afraid to cross the literary bridge at the center of her mind, her communicable prose is written passionately and does not escape her French heritage. She is inspired by nature, people and the colors she sees give birth to the distinct complexion of her writing style.

She paints when a canvas demands it, weaves when the swaying of the loom wishes to dance. She is a public speaker, philanthropist, and recipient of multiple awards.

See notes below for dinner fees, meeting format and location directions. Thank you.

MENU: A light dinner – salad or sandwich and soup, dessert, beverage and roll with tax and gratuity included – make your choice the night of the meeting.

COST: $22.00 for members – $25.00 for guests – PLEASE RSVP. Thank you.

CHECKS or cash: Please make check payable to Scottsdale Society of Women Writers (SSWW) prior to coming to the meeting to save time at the check-in table. Thank you for the help.

AGENDA: The agendas will be on the dinner table – always a lot of good INFO for you.

DIRECTIONS: Chaparral Suites is in Scottsdale at Chaparral Rd just north of Old Town. Chaparral Rd has a light. Parking is in the rear – two large parking lots.

Note: best to enter from the middle elevator for the 4^th Floor Grille – not from the main entrance.

Goals of the Group

Value all the professional women writers seeking to share their expertise
Honor all genres and all forms of professional writing
Attend monthly meetings to move the group and its members forward
Learn and share in the experiences of monthly professional speakers
Grow the group to a membership of active and contributing women
Encourage participation by members as presenters, mentors, judges and volunteers
Support and challenge each other to always be writing
Help members to stretch as writers and reach lofty personal goals
Have fun, meet trustworthy women writers, share dreams

PR – BGP launches Gratitude a Verb – a spiritual tool/meditation reader

January 6, 2009 by Patricia Brooks

Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company, LLC

launches Gratitude a Verb for a spiritual connection

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, January 5, 2009 –A spiritual connection is the ultimate need satisfied on our quest for peace and harmony. That was accomplished this past week as Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company, LLC of Scottsdale, AZ, launched another high quality self-help production with Gratitude a Verb, by Michael L. Lyding.

“This 12-step recovery meditation reader makes a difference for our time in its practical view of spirituality.” says Brooks. The author, Michael L. Lyding, of Grateful not Smug, and now Gratitude a Verb, www.improvespiritualconnection.com shares his mission for the book as “a spiritual tool to help improve your conscious contact with God.” He is praised by his peers for “proving that meditation can be easy and exciting.”

As a published author herself, Scottsdale business woman, Patricia L. Brooks, president and founder of Brooks Goldmann Publishing, endorses this book on what she considers “the ultimate subject for all of us.” She knows the author is a sincere and spiritual soul having worked with him in the publishing process of this book. Patricia assures us the meditations are well written and thought provoking and were revised with love after being written with hope.

The Brooks Goldmann Publishing website www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com provides more information on this publication, as well as detailed information on the publishing services available to you. She, and her husband and partner, Earl Goldmann, can help you as your “book shepherds” while you travel the writing and publishing maze to launch your book. You can also visit her many posts on writing and publishing on their blog https://brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

Contact Patricia at 480-250-5556 or [email protected] to set a date for your FREE one hour consultation and coffee meeting. Begin to take the path of your writing passion on the journey to Prepare to be an Author guided by her perspective to Launch Live your work.

Patricia L. Brooks is also president/founder of the Scottsdale Society of Women Writers, a member of the AZ Authors Association and the AZ Book Publishers Association.

She is owner, with her partner/husband, of P. L. Seminars, LLC (www.plbrooks.com) and Brooks Goldmann Publishing Co., LLC, (www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com). She is associate faculty at Arizona State University, has resided in Arizona for over 30 years and been active in the business community for all of that time.

Patricia holds a Masters Degree in Organizational Management, the Advanced Toastmasters designation and has been named to “Who’s Who of America’s Teachers.

She can be reached at [email protected] or 480-250-5556.

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