Elias Group Session
Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 11:00am
Brattleboro, Vermont

Hi Everyone!

Please join us this fall for an Elias group session in Vermont. Once again, the group session will be held in the lounge of the Steak Out Restaurant on Putney Road in Brattleboro on Saturday, October 23, 2010 from 11:00 am to about 3:30 pm.

ACCOMMODATIONS
We have not blocked any rooms this year, so please book the place of your choice as soon as possible to insure the best rate. As most of you know, the fall season is the busiest here in Vermont! There are many places to stay in town, but book soon because all of the hotels and motels in town start booking now for the fall season.

The Colonial Motel & Spa
889 Putney Road
Brattleboro, VT 05301
Phone: 1-802-257-7733
Fax: 1-802-257-7733
www.colonialmotelspa.com
Email: themotel@sover.net
The Colonial features an Olympic size lap pool, sauna and continental breakfast.
Ask for room amenity details when you call and make your reservation.

Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Brattleboro
100 Chickering Road
Brattleboro, VT 05301
Phone: 1-802-257-2400
Fax: 1-802-257-8616
Email: vthiexpress@earthlink.net

Latches Hotel/Theatre
50 Main Street
Brattleboro, VT 05301
Phone: 1-802-254-6300
Fax: 1-802-254-6304
Web Site: http://www.brattleboro.com/latchis

Forty Putney Road Bed & Breakfast
192 Putney Road
Brattleboro, VT 05301
Phone: 1-802-254-6268
Email: frtyptny@sover.net
Website: http://www.fortyputneyroad.com/
Forty Putney Road Bed & Breakfast is a stately French provincial-style home just a half-mile from downtown Brattleboro. The inn sits on an acre of lawn, trees, and gardens overlooking the West River - the perfect setting for a wedding or civil union, a game of croquet or bird watching.

Artist’s Loft Bed & Breakfast and Gallery
103 Main Street
Brattleboro, VT 05301
Phone: 1-802-257-5181
Email: artguys@theartistsloft.com
Website: www.theartistsloft.com
Overlooking the Connecticut River in downtown Brattleboro, The Artist’s Loft offers a roomy, 2-room suite with private entrance and bath. Inspirational amenities include a luminous picture window view of the river and mountains.

The Super 8 Motel
1043 Putney Road
Brattleboro, VT 05301
Phone: 1-802-254-8889
Email: mailto:3827@cendant.com
Website: www.brattleborosuper8.com
Located on the north side of Brattleboro, we offer clean rooms and friendly service. Continental breakfast served compliments of the house. In addition, cable service is offered in each of our 63 newly remodeled rooms.

EconoLodge
515 Canal Street
Brattleboro, VT 05301
Phone: 1-802-254-2360 Website: www.econolodgebrattleboro.com
EconoLodge is conveniently located at exit 1 off I-91 in Brattleboro. It offers a seasonal outdoors pool and 40 newly renovated, spacious rooms, which offer king-sized beds, continental breakfast, in-room coffee maker, cable television, and more.

TRAVEL TO BRATTLEBORO
Bradley Airport in Hartford, Connecticut is the closest airport. It’s a little less than an hour and a half away from Brattleboro. Most people use Thomas Transportation to get from Bradley to Brattleboro. Just be sure that when you make a reservation with them that you confirm it 24 hours before you take off. The phone number for Thomas Transportation is 1-800-526-8143. For driving directions from your town to ours, check out Mapquest.com

GROUP SESSION FEE
The cost for the group session is $100 per person. Make checks payable to Lynda Symans. I´d like to have everyone´s group session fee by October 1, 2010. Send your checks to Lynda Symans, 39 Williston Street #3, Brattleboro, VT 05301

PRIVATE SESSIONS WITH ELIAS
The cost for private sessions is $250.00.
Email Mary directly at Helfroz1@aol.com or call her at 1-802-258-6574 to schedule a private in-person session with Elias. You can use PayPal or send a check or money order to Mary at Mary Ennis, P.O. Box 1525, Brattleboro, VT 05302. Contact Mary as soon as possible if you want a private session with Elias – they go fast!

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at LRSymans@aol.com or Mary at Helfroz1@aol.com. Can’t wait to see you all in Vermont this October!

Love,
Lynda

Info about scheduling sessions

Hi Everybody

It's me again. :) I think what I have to say this time will be a happy thing for all of us. I was encouraged to write this by several people and I think it was good advice. After this long, long, long time, I finally had a break through. I finally put the puzzle pieces together to actually get the picture.
WHEW! It's about time!

Well, here goes. It's funny how I can find an answer in such obtuse ways. The strangest littlest things can sometimes be so profound. The funny thing is that I had all the pieces of this puzzle all the time. They were right there in front of my face and I just wasn't putting them together.

As some of you might know, a really big piece of this puzzle for me has been about scheduling people for sessions. Not doing sessions, not connecting with people, that part has stayed the same. I love connecting and I still very much enjoy doing sessions. The scheduling part had me stumped and I was having a really hard time doing it.

*Piece One - (I already knew but wasn't connecting the dots with.) I can't have someone else schedule sessions for me because I’m the only person that knows every one of my clients. When I say that I mean, I know every one of your personalities and energy. I may not remember anybody's essence name or their stats, and sometimes I might even get your real names mixed up, but I know and remember energy. Because of that, I know what person I can put on the same day with another person. I know what people I can put in the same week with each other. I also know what people I can't put together because I can't switch gears fast enough with them to be able to focus with each one.

*Piece Two - I already knew that my own energy doesn't always fit with other people's energy in a certain week. As an example, I may be kind of distracted and scattered in a particular week. In that case, it would be really hard and unrealistic for me to schedule people that are having a really hard time in their lives and really need me to focus with them. Or I may be really focused and serious in one week. It may be a good time for me to really connect and empathize with people. In that case, I wouldn't have much patience with people that just want to joke around or are having fun focus hunting. Don't misunderstand, when the energies match, I think it's all great and there is something to be gained with every person in every direction.

*Piece Three - Switching gears. It's really hard for me to connect and focus with very different types of situations, (therefore also different energies and personalities) in short amounts of time. It’s really hard to switch my energy from one person that is grieving the loss of a family member to someone who is preaching at me. It's also very hard to change my energy from someone who is being argumentative or having a tantrum, to someone who is light and playful.

People are just expressing themselves in the moment with whatever happens to be happening in their own situation at the time and I know that. And it's all really OK. But switching gears fast with people isn’t so easy. As an example.

If you're at a family get together and one person starts spouting off and discounting you and other people or creating an argument, you might start to get agitated. If that situation continues for, let's say 15 minutes or more, and then a child comes up to you and wants you to play a game with them. It might be hard to switch gears in a moment and be totally light and playful to engage the child. (Mind you, I understand that many people would welcome the child's interruption but it still may take many people a little bit to stop being agitated.) I'm sure all of you have experienced this in some way yourselves. Maybe not like the example I just gave but in some example of your own. The only difference is that I have to think about this every day.

*Point four - I HAVEN'T BEEN THINKING ABOUT IT EVERY DAY. There in lies the biggest part of the problem. The missing link.

Remember I said that I seem to find answers in the most obtuse ways? Well, that's exactly what happened. All the pieces were there, but I couldn't find that missing link to put them together. Then, I was watching a new animated movie with my granddaughter. Don't laugh... OK go ahead and laugh. We were watching the movie "UP.” It's an animated movie about adventure. At one point early on in the movie, there is a scene with a little old man that goes down his walkway from his house to get the mail. The scene opens up to show his little all different colored house sitting in the middle of huge construction going on all around it. Big new buildings, lots of work, lots of workers, and there sits his little house, the same as it’s been for years. It occurred to me that that's ME! Everything around me is changing and I keep staying the same and wondering why I can't make it work. I realized that although I'm a pretty flexible person with change when it comes to other people, when it comes to ME and change, not so much. I don't like it, I don't do it very well, (actually I think I suck at it sometimes) and I wish things would just stay the same. I'm sure none of you ever feel that way. Psych!!

That's when all the pieces started to come together. I kept saying I couldn't have a secretary and I was BEING the secretary myself. I like to do things in order. In fact, I pretty much do everything in order. Step one, step two, step three... I don't do step one, skip to step 5 and go back to step 3. My brain doesn't want to work that way. So, I've been scheduling people in order for the past 15 years. The problem is that that doesn't work anymore. It hasn't been working for quite a while but I kept trying to make it work anyway.

It all boiled down to change. Something needed to be changed and even though the change might be a good thing that doesn't mean it's not hard.

The other piece is that even though this change might be a better system in the long run, I don't think most people are going to be too happy with it in the short run. And in fact, people aren't very happy with me right now. But that's OK. I have started scheduling in this way of matching people’s energy to mine and to each other and it is working much better. I'm not saying that nobody will get rescheduled from now on. That's gonna happen because life happens. Interruptions happen, and not just by things on my end. Lots of times interruptions happen because of things that go on with clients that I can't foresee. But, they’re all just part of life. Sometimes things go smoothly and sometimes they don’t.

I know some people have been waiting a long time for their sessions. I am getting to everybody; it's just taking a bit of time. Unlike what people think, the people that interact on these Elias lists are only about 20% of all of my clients. Actually, most of my clients don't even come to group sessions.

I know that there are a lot of you that connect and share with each other on these lists and that's great and a great support system. But that's really the minority of my clients that I have to schedule and there's a lot of those other people that don't interact that have been waiting too. I want to acknowledge all of you and let you know that things are moving forward. I may not be scheduling people in order but I am scheduling and doing sessions. And I seem to be wading through the masses one by one and getting it done. Being one person and doing what I do isn't always easy but I have to say that I do love connecting with all of you. I feel very privileged to know you all and to be able to share in this amazing thing with all of you. Through troubles and success, through fears and doubts and excitements and triumphs. It's a fascinating road.

Well, just thought I'd share with all of you. Hope you can see your way through to be patient with me for a little longer. If we could pull out of last year, we should be able to conquer anything. ;)

Lots of love to everybody! :)
Mary

February 2010

Private Sessions

approx. one hour phone or in person = $250.
Approx. half-hour phone or in person = $125.
Extra people = $25/person.
(All privates include an audio tape).

Note: can now use your credit card through PayPal. (There is a $10 fee for a one hour session, $5 for a half-hour session.)
One hour session = $260.
Half-hour session = $130.

To schedule contact Mary Ennis:

Email: helfroz1@aol.com
Phone: 802-258-6574

Please get your private session fee to Mary on or before your session date. A charge of $50 will be applied to private session payments that are one week late.

If you are going to pay for an Elias session through PayPal, please identify yourself with your first AND last name in the comment box provided. This will eliminate any possible confusion about your payment for a session.