Calling All Caring Professionals in the Medicine Hat Area!

Are you interested in moving deeper into your relationships,
at home and at work, beyond self involvement and emotional reactivity?

Do you desire deeper connections, improved communications,
and more intimacy, passion and love?

Would you like to learn how to open your heart,
even in difficult situations, and even when the world won't thank you for it?

It isn't easy being human these days.

Although we live in a time of quick fixes, instant gratification, and the comforts and conveniences our ancestors could only dream of, we are stressed out, unhappy, disconnected and unfulfilled...

Oftentimes our lives seem to unfold mechanically with little meaning, depth or real care and concern.

We've lost heart.

This would be understandable if we lived on deserted islands, isolated and alone. But all around us are other living beings who are longing to be seen, heard, touched...

All around us is a magical display, an amusement park, a living laboratory, a world of mystery and wonder... but only for those with the eyes to see.

As Rumi suggests: If you can't dance, don't blame the floor.

This simply means we can learn the skills necessary to see our lives and the world we live in, with eyes that are unclouded by the harmful judgements, outdated beliefs, useless opinions, and shallow interpretations that make our lives dull, drab and dreary.

We can begin to use each moment of our lives, at work, in our relationships and the very situations that cause us difficulties, to open our hearts and share the care and compassion we are with holding from the world.

We can begin to use the very stuff of our lives to Wake Up, open and share our hearts, and in the process learn how to bless those we care for, in the workplace, in our homes, and beyond...

(Heck, if someone like me can do it then anyone can, but only if they know how...)

After meeting Aaron and attending a few of his seminars I feel like my life has become simpler, easier and so much more enjoyable. The practice of Awakened Attention seems like such concentration and work at first but it quickly becomes addicting, you want more because you want more out of life. ~ Amy Larson - Student RDC

Some of the take-away benefits of attending this seminar include:

Dramatically improve your ability to deal with the stress, frustration, impulsiveness and emotional reactivity that comes between you and those you care about.

Discover the skills and practices of the compassionate arts that allow you to live your life from deep within your heart, connected to others and full of joy (strangely, we are NEVER taught how to care about others)

Learn to silence the life eroding 'self-talk' of your chatty mind, just by looking at it (like my Dad used to do to me when I was out of line...)

Enhance the pleasure of doing simple, everyday tasks that don't seem to demand your attention, but are actually BEGGING you for it...

Find out how you can get paid to improve your personality, your life, your job, and your relationships, all while touching the lives of those around you (I laugh my head off every payday, because I know this secret)

Learn how to manage workplace gossip, backbiters, abrasive personalities, energy vampires, and other potentially harmful characters...

Experience a variety of practices that will open your Heart, leaving you unburdened, relaxed, alive, and in touch with what really matters.

 

 

"Aaron is a very approachable, straight talking person who "walks his talk". I can feel his goodness and caring shining out to the world. He is a great demonstration of the subject he teaches." ~ Joyce Lattery - RBC

 

Words Aaron's audience has used to describe him: "Speaks with a presence and passion...", "You will be ransformed...", Profound...", "Captivating...", "Powerful and freeing...", "Constant wonder..." "Clarity and depth...", "Enlightening and empowering...", "Inspiring..." "The real deal..." "Straight from the heart...",

Call 403.346.4882 for more information.

"I have been waiting many years for an epiphany on how to live my life to the fullest. I have read many books and attended many courses, to always feel a little better equipped, but never feeling the 'that's it' feeling. I can truly say I experienced that euphoric moment this evening in a very short time. My 'what is the first step' question has been answered. Finally. Living in this way, I would say, is truly living the human experience." ~ Krista Carter - Alberta

 

Blending transformative experiential practices, Life enriching perspectives, and stories of his own journey from a place of darkness and despair, Aaron’s presentations are an amazing combination of inspiration, information, instruction and entertainment.

Filled with immensely practical techniques that are immediately workable and approaches that will uncover your own deep wisdom, a meeting with Aaron will leave you with a vastly different view of yourself, those around you and the world you live in.

Based on his brand new book: Waking Up to Life! The Art & Skill of Awakened Attention, Aaron’s speaking services provide an incredible menu of themes and topics that can be tailored to any event. Isn’t it time to see what all the fuss is about? Isn’t it time?

 

Media Materials For Event Planners

Here is a brief article called:
9 Reasons Why Meeting Planners Choose Aaron The Wake Up Guy.

Magalog (PDF)
Speaker Sheet (PDF)
Speaker Preferences (PDF)
Keynote, Seminar or Workshop, What's the Difference? (PDF)

 

Lunch Box Seminars

Lunch Box Seminar (More information is here)
The Attention Trained Mind Advantage, Lunch Box Seminar:
An Ancient Understanding For The Contemporary Business Person

Awakened Attention, which is the prize of Attention Training, is the optimal mental state necessary for executing the high level performance and maximum efficiency and effectiveness demanded of today's entrepreneur.

Alert, attentive, grounded and focused, the Attention Training practitioner lives and operates in a world far beyond the average, untrained person. (It's no wonder Attention Training is the foundation of ALL the world's wisdom traditions!)

In this short seminar, Aaron will outline and demonstrate the countless benefits of Attention Training, and show why Attention Training is not a dry or abstract idea, but a living breathing lifestyle, suitable for the sharp, progressive, aware and awake, 21st Century successful business person.

Keynotes

Keynote Presentation #1
Waking Up to Life!
This dynamic one-hour presentation is based on the book of the same title, created with Aaron's deepest understanding and gifts. Using a variety of stories, explorations, analogies, quotes and hard won wisdom, he will point you to a way of living LIFE free of self-imposed burdens and conflict. The qualities of openness, mystery, acceptance and Awakened Attention are explained and demonstrated to enliven you. You will never be the same.

Keynote Presentation #2
Waking Up to The Heart of Care
How can we stay connected to our hearts, even in the midst of frustration, hopelessness, and fear? This heart opening talk will leave you equiped to face the challenge of offering a caring attention that is unshakable.

Seminar and Workshops

Seminar or Workshop
Waking Up to Life!
The Art & Skill of Awakened Attention

Unconscious, unaware, oblivious, lost ... asleep.

Much of humanity spends its waking hours with eyes open, yet in a state of greatly diminished awareness as the natural beauty and magic of Life goes by unnoticed and unlived.

When attention is weak, distracted and captivated by mental activity, the suffering is insidious, relentless and Life depriving. This is the asleep state and is responsible for humanity at its worst, its most destructive, its most deadly, its most tragic.

When you become aware of how much of your Life you spend asleep, a glorious new possibility opens. You can begin to awaken to a completely new way of seeing and being. Your Life will take on the depths and colors of a Life you have been missing, but have secretly longed for.

Filled with insight, practicality, humor and grit, Waking Up to Life gives voice to your deeper heart, sometimes calling you gently, sometimes calling you harshly, but always calling you to awaken to your birthright and embrace Life in its totality. You are alive AS Life!

Full of provocative points of view as well as loads of experiential practices designed to awaken you to who you are and what you might become.
(Based on the book, Waking Up to Life!)

 

Seminar or Workshop
Waking Up to the Heart of Care:
How To Maintain Your Kindness and Compassion,
Even In Challenging Situations

Are there moments in your life that cause you to close your heart?

In this dynamic exploration Aaron suggests we can begin to use the workplace and the very situations that cause us difficulties to open our hearts and share a kind of care that is non-negotiable. We can use the workplace to Wake Up to the Heart of Care, and in the process learn how to bless those we care for, in the workplace, in our homes, and beyond...

Waking Up to the Heart of Care examines our difficulty with staying connected to our most basic of experiences, much less our difficult experiences, when we feel vulnerable, reactive, and overwhelmed.

Stress, pressure, distractions, weariness, frustration.

These difficult experiences can lead to emotional reactivity, regression, drama, loss of perspective, and eventually and regretablly, immaturity.

But...

Big suprise! There is a much more basic and workable problem than any of those things, and the solution to this problem not only renders all of those problems obsolete, it also opens us to our greatest joys and our deepest gifts.
(Based on the book, Waking Up to the Heart of Care)