“Live with Intention, Passion and Purpose”

Monday, March 31, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
Highsmith Union 221

Adair Cates began her career as a motivational speaker and LifeSuccess Consultant after teaching Spanish in middle school and community college for five years.  Adair graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a double major in Journalism and Mass Communications and Spanish. She has a Master’s Degree in Spanish Education from Appalachian State University. She trained with philosopher and success guru Bob Proctor in October 2007 to become a LifeSuccess Consultant and also attended T. Harv Eker’s (author of #1 New York Times bestselling book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind) Peak Potential program “Train the Trainer,” to improve her natural ability to move and influence her audiences.  In her speeches, seminars and coaching sessions, Adair focuses on your ability to go within to manifest your desires. She believes that success is a choice that is available to all who accept it. Getting from where you are to where you want to be isn’t about pushing and working hard to achieve, but about going with the flow and intending and allowing the right people and events to come into your life.  She is the author of the book Live with Intention: Ten Steps to Creating the Life of Your Dreams, which guides readers to write big picture intentions for their lives.  Adair resides in Asheville, NC with her musician husband Chris and their two cats, Lionel and Wario.

“Horses on the New Hall Green! An Equine-Assisted Learning Experience”

Tuesday, April 1, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
New Hall Green (Mini Quad between Carmichael and New Hall)

Shannon Knapp is founder and president of Horse Sense of the Carolinas, Inc., an organization that applies equine assisted learning to leadership development and team building.  Shannon has worked with and taught horses and people for over 20 years.  After 10 years teaching in college, she left academia and began working with abused and neglected horses, then began pairing "rescued" horses with people in 2001 to form the Horse Sense curriculum.  She and her husband Richard continue to develop their work with equine assisted learning, utilizing rehabilitated horses found through horse rescue and law enforcement organizations to help both horses and people find a better way.  Shannon is one of the leading providers of EAL, and is a certified EAGALA Advanced as well as an EAGALA Mentor.  In addition, Shannon offers consulting services to those interested in starting their own Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy business and is author of the book Horse Sense Business Sense, Volume 1.

 “Putting Your Best Foot Forward: The Feldenkrais Method® of Movement Technology”

Thursday, April 3

Session 1: 4:00 – 5:00 pm

Session 2: 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm (*Sessions will be identical – please choose one session to attend.)
Highsmith Union 221

Lavinia Plonka’s movement experience ranges over 30 years, including mime, yoga and the martial arts. She was an artist in residence for the Guggenheim Museum and movement consultant for theater and television companies around the world, from the Irish National Folk Theater to Nickelodeon.  Lavinia Plonka is known throughout the United States as a dynamic and innovative teacher and writer who uses movement as a tool for personal development and health improvement.  Her popular workshops have been sponsored by organizations ranging from Esalen to the Feldenkrais Guild of North America to many hospitals and physical therapy clinics around the US. She is currently the director of Asheville Movement Center in Asheville, NC which offers a complete movement curriculum as well as private Feldenkrais lessons.  The Feldenkrais (rhymes with Paradise) Method is a movement technology developed over 40 years of research to help anyone stand taller, look more elegant and think more clearly.  She has published two books on body language and the Feldenkrais Method.  Lavinia's latest book, Walking Your Talk: Changing Your Life Through the Magic of Body Language (Tarcher/Penguin) is now available in bookstores nationwide. It has also been selected for publication by One Spirit Book Club.

 

Directory of Guest Speakers

 

 

Adair Cates

Motivational Speaker and LifeSuccess Consultant  

828-413-4019

adair@adaircates.com

www.adaircates.com

 

Shannon Knapp

Founder and President

Horse Sense of the Carolinas, Inc.

6919 Meadows Town Road

Marshall, NC  28753

828-683-7304

Shannon@HorseSenseOtc.com

www.HorseSenseOtc.com

 

Lavinia Plonka

Director

Asheville Movement Center

4 Richmond Avenue

Asheville, NC 28806

828-258-7220