Are you retired and looking for another way to utilize your skills? Are you in between careers and searching for a different direction to take? Regardless of what stage you're at in life, if you want an opportunity to retool skills, obtain training, or explore new options, join us for "Passion," the second class in the Next Chapter series. Take a step back and learn more about yourself and envision your ideal next chapter.

The class focuses on how to:

 - Understand a framework for discovering your passions.

 - Break out of the bounds of reality and really dream big.

 - Receive feedback from others about your greatest strengths and share the clues you discover about     them.

Each individual session is $35. Payment may be processed online by clicking here or by calling the Volunteer Center at 360.455.0220. Register for the workshop by clicking here. For more information contact linda@volunteer.ws. Scholarships are also available.

Next Chapter is a program of the Volunteer Center of Lewis, Mason, and Thurston Counties in collaboration with Centerpoint Institute and NonProfit Solutions NW.

Are you retired and looking for another way to utilize your skills? Are you in between careers and searching for a different direction to take? Regardless of what stage you're at in life, if you want an opportunity to retool skills, obtain training, or explore new options, join us for the first class in the Next Chapter workshop series February, 20th from 9 a.m. to noon at the Olympia Center on 222 Columbia St. NW. Next Chapter, a new program of the Volunteer Center of Lewis, Mason and Thurston Counties in collaboration with Centerpoint Institute and NonProfit Solutions NW, supports experienced adults in seeking meaningful work, service, learning and self-discovery and in sharing their positive energy and wisdom to create a more vibrant community. The workshops are geared towards community members who want to explore options for the next stage of life, refine skills, obtain new training, use their skills in service opportunities, and make meaningful connections with their peers. Each is an interactive, hands-on experience with homework in between to deepen your experience. Come ready to work and be prepared to change your life. The first workshop in the series “Change,” will help participants learn a map to help navigate the transitions they’re facing and gain a fresh, new perspective on their next chapter of life. This workshop series can help guide you through the process of understanding where you’re at in life and give you the tools to discover where you want to be next. The class focuses on: • Developing more patience while moving through the transition process and looking at change in a more positive way. • Putting tired, stuck, burned out, or overwhelmed feelings into perspective • Defining effective next steps for working with the process, instead of against it. Each individual session is $35 or save, by signing up for all four sessions at $125.

Are you retired and looking for another way to utilize your skills? Are you in between careers and searching for a different direction to take? Regardless of what stage you're at in life, if you want an opportunity to retool skills, obtain training, or explore new options, join us for the first class in the Next Chapter workshop series February, 20th from 9 a.m. to noon at the Olympia Center on 222 Columbia St. NW.

Next Chapter, a new program of the Volunteer Center of Lewis, Mason and Thurston Counties in collaboration with Centerpoint Institute and NonProfit Solutions NW, supports experienced adults in seeking meaningful work, service, learning and self-discovery and in sharing their positive energy and wisdom to create a more vibrant community.

The workshops are geared towards community members who want to explore options for the next stage of life, refine skills, obtain new training, use their skills in service opportunities, and make meaningful connections with their peers. Each is an interactive, hands-on experience with homework in between to deepen your experience. Come ready to work and be prepared to change your life.

The first workshop in the series “Change,” will help participants learn a map to help navigate the transitions they’re facing and gain a fresh, new perspective on their next chapter of life. This workshop series can help guide you through the process of understanding where you’re at in life and give you the tools to discover where you want to be next.

The class focuses on:
• Developing more patience while moving through the transition process and looking at change in a more positive way.
• Putting tired, stuck, burned out, or overwhelmed feelings into perspective
• Defining effective next steps for working with the process, instead of against it.

The Washington State Animal Response Team (WASART), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, extends an invitation to attend a volunteer training session on potential Green River flooding and the Howard Hanson Dam.

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This Saturday (1/19): a very engaging workshop... okay to just "show up"

The Philosophy of Nonviolence - a Strategy for Complete Freedom from Oppression

A special MLK workshop. Explore the philosophy of nonviolence as Mahatma Gandhi worked it out. Dare to live by the fundamental principles that he put into practice and learn to be truly free. To live by them is to throw off all oppression, internal and external, regardless of the situation.Work through these principles in depth in the morning, and explore how we can apply them in our lives in the afternoon. It is a challenge worthy of our potential. With Rod Davis, Ph.D.

Saturday, Jan. 19, 9:30 AM to 4 PM, at The United Churches (downstairs in the Purple Room), corner of Capitol Blvd. and 11th Ave. in Olympia, Sliding Scale Fee: $25 - $100/person

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"The language we use affects how we think which in turn affects how we feel and act. Dr. Marshall Rosenberg has developed a simple yet radical communication process, Nonviolent Communication(sm), aka NVC(sm), with the potential for changing how others hear and respond to us (without defensiveness or blame) and how we view others and ourselves (without blame, shame or criticism). This workshop offers instruction, discussion, experiential learning, and the opportunity for you to decide if this process fits for you."