Presentations
Put Hidden Expertise to Work / Full Day Workshop
The concept of transferable skills is familiar to anyone starting or re-tooling for a new position, adjusting to different responsibilities or considering options after a layoff. Deeper and more powerful insights emerge when the human mind’s capacity for analogy comes into play. Working with current understandings from brain science, and using her own unusually diverse skill set, presenter Karen Mathieson leads participants to identify vital links between their passions and their work purpose. Through a day of discovery, practice and planning, “Hidden Expertise” has people laughing while they learn. This program supports work-life balance while supporting intentional engagement with career challenge.
Re:Write for Email Effectiveness / Full Day Workshop
As pre-digital communications technologies recede, email has emerged as a formal communications medium. However, its inherent liabilities such as uninflected tone, high frequency and potential for igniting negative emotion remain. Participants in “Re:Write” assess their own skill level as email authors and readers, consider areas for growth, and develop greater proficiency through a lively sequence of solo, duo, small group and full class exercises. This workshop will be helpful for career-entry workers adroit with instant communications forms such as Twitter or texting who need to establish professional competence in a key workplace skill area. It also serves any individual wishing to enhance effectiveness and reduce stress in email communication.
The Artful Voice / Seminar
Do you want more color in your voice, and more shades of meaning in your communication style? Would you like people to go away from hearing you speak with ears and hearts opened to new possibilities? Then bring Karen Mathieson and The Artful Voice to your professional organization, local library, community center or conference. Using poetry, drama and the visual arts as sources of inspiration, Karen returns public speaking to its rightful place as a creative expression, engaging in single combat with the dreaded PowerPoint drawl.
Wild Words NW / Full Day Retreat
Heading out on a wildflower walk, watching waves at the beach or hearing bird calls in a local park – simple pleasures like these can enrich our lives, our relationships and our creativity in surprising ways. Grounded in the cycles of nature, and providing engaging activities as well as time for private reflection, Wild Words NW is a day retreat to deepen personal awareness and communication across the generations, through speaking, writing and connecting with the earth.
PLEASE NOTE: Presentations offered by Karen Mathieson through Serendipity Communications are generally available within a reasonable day trip distance from Portland, Oregon. However, Karen always enjoys hearing about intriguing opportunities. Contact her!
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