Our Guest

Laura Donnelly

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Shelley Fishel

Shelley Fishel

Jo Brianti

Jo Brianti

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Today we chat with Laura Donnelly of Body Brain Balance – we talk about using the exact amount of energy for the task at hand. Find out how ease can help in any area of your life including how to make decisions. How you can do everything with ease.

And – Shelley admits to eating cake – again!

 

Our Guest - Laura Donnelly

Laura Donnelly is a teacher, mentor, choreographer, dancer, and writer. She teaches Body-Brain Balance, evolved from the Alexander Technique, Somatics, and Movement Fundamentals™ online and in person. People who work with Laura reduce stress, eliminate overwhelm, and discover their “right effort” to achieve dynamic balance in all activities. Laura has an MFA in Theatre Arts/Dance from the University of Arizona. She toured throughout the U.S. and Europe as a professional dancer performing ballet, modern and historical dance. Her choreography has been performed in the U.S. and Europe. She has appeared on the following videocasts: Surfing Your Edge and Discovering Love and Gratitude. Laura is the founder and producer of The Healing Path Conversations.

You will learn

Here are some of the resources available from Laura

In these unpredictable times, self-care is even more important, especially for caregivers. To support your self-care we will be running different versions of the Easy Peasy Itsy Bitsy Bite-Sized Self Care Adventure several times this year.

Adventure 2 begins April 1, 2021!  That’s not a joke, we really are starting on April Fool’s Day to encourage us all to remember to look at the lighter side of things.

You can sign up here now!
If you’ve joined us for an earlier challenge/adventure, the format is the same (only 7 days, one short daily video in a private Facebook group, supportive commenting and engaging, daily email reminders) and each time we add some new tips or organize them in a different flow. So, it’s familiar but different – we’d love to see you in the private group in April!

NEW in 2021!

We have created the first of what will be a series of mini self-study courses. The Arc | Ark of Caregiving – Create a Safe Space for Yourself on Your Caregiving Journey

This 30-minute mini-course will give you an outline of the 5 main stages of the caregiving journey. This basic understanding of what to expect will help you identify where you are currently in your caring adventure so that you can manage the ups and downs more easily.

The Arc | Ark of Caregiving will take you from swimming in uncertainty and overwhelm to creating a simple and effective self-care routine that will give you a safe space to return to throughout your caregiving journey.

We are creating a series of short informative courses that you will be able to access on your own time. Each course will focus on one aspect/topic of the caregiving journey and provide a tool for calming and recentering in the midst of the often unpredictable adventures of caring for another. The series is designed so that each course is a complete unit and caregivers will be able to select topics relevant to their particular situation.

In addition, when we launch each course (we anticipate a new mini-course will be ready every 2-3 months), we will share it with a live question and answer session. This will give you a chance to:

  • meet in a group via zoom,
  • share problems and solutions,
  • be supported by and support other caregivers.

That’s not all we’ve been up to in the last few months.

We have also created a free tip sheet 7 Super Simple Self-Care Solutions for you. It’s a free gift to all who sign-up for our email list but since you’re already signed up we wanted to make sure you got a copy!

We continue our commitment to supporting caregivers in all the different caring situations they find themselves in whether remote caring, in-person caring, coordinating care, or something else unique to your situation. Our experiences have taught us that the caring journey can be one of growth and transformation for the person being cared for and the carer. We are honored to share this journey with you.

If you’d like more information on any of these projects, just email info@caregiverscentral.net 

If you have friends or relatives who are caring for others, please share https://caregiverscentral.net with them. Our goal continues to be to provide gentle support for people who are on caring journeys.

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I would definitely recommend that all the other EAs do this course – if it is an option for them to do so and they want to!  

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Really clear and inclusive training at a good pace

Microsoft 365 with Copilot – The Human Advantage

Shelley’s teaching style is relaxed but engaging, she’s happy to take questions & go over things more than once and in different ways to help you understand.

If you need to get to grip with CoPilot – whether it’s because you want to or (worse) have to, then I can’t recommend Shelley’s course highly enough. She’s got a new cohort running in January – my advice: Be there or be a right -angled, equal-sided parallelogram!

Colin Foster

Microsoft 365 with Copilot – The Human Advantage

This course has benefitted me enormously in becoming the go to person for all things AI with colleagues, I have a learnt an awful lot in these four sessions with Shelley across Microsoft 365 and can better visualise how to use it on a daily basis.  Shelley uses clear examples on how to incorporate it in your daily work, and not only that but the access to the recordings and the additional documents is invaluable, thank you so much again Shelley!

 Elizabeth Bate  

Microsoft 365 with Copilot – The Human Advantage

Attending the Copilot AI course was a game-changer for my productivity. I learned how to leverage AI to streamline tasks, draft content faster, and make smarter decisions with real-time insights. The course was practical, easy to follow, and immediately applicable to my daily work. Highly recommended for anyone looking to stay ahead in a tech-driven world in the EA world.

Joann Bergstrom

Microsoft 365 with Copilot- The Human Advantage

Shelley provides invaluable insight into leveraging Microsoft products most efficiently and effectively.

Top Time Busting Tips for Microsoft Office – Ginger Aslous

Crammed a lot in today’s session and we all came away having learnt a lot of things! Considering how much time we had, I feel a lot was taken away

Manage your data in Excel – Olivia Nelson Potter Space

Microsoft 365 is the perfect session to get a basic (and more) understanding of Microsoft 365 incl. all apps! Shelley is a great trainer and expert with lots of experience and so much knowledge. I could have listened to all her tips many more hours. With all features out there, Microsoft 365 seems like a wild jungle sometimes but the session helped me getting a few things sorted. I look forward to the next session!

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Collaboration with Microsoft 365

I always come away from a presentation by Shelley with useful tips to incorporate into my day job – she has a clear & patient presenting style & her content always has some invaluable tips for streamlining and making processes more efficient.

Collaboration with Microsoft 365 – Kate Watson

Shelley is very patient and made me feel comfortable with asking for further clarification. She was very receptive to intermittent questions as well.

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Collaboration with Microsoft 365

Shelley was very thorough in her explanations and made OneDrive and SharePoint easy to understand – would recommend.

Collaboration with Microsoft 365 – Olivia Tubman

I find Shelley’s training easy to follow and the very best thing is that you can do it all at your own pace and revisit modules if it doesn’t quite sink in the first time round! I have learned so much from her training and continue to do so! She is responsive to my questions and I learn something new with each module. I find Iam hardly ever having to Google or YouTube information now, so it really is saving me time in my work day. Time that can be better used by learning more about the business I operate in!
Thanks Shelley!

Tracey Whitehouse – Executive Assistant

I have been following Shelley on Linkedin for several years, and always loved her hints and tips. In May of this year, I had the opportunity to recommend Shelley as one of our workshop speakers at the annual HMC Heads’ PA Conference in Sheffield.

On receiving the brief Shelley quickly produced content for two IT Microsoft Skills Workshops covering nuggets from Outlook, Word and Excel. Shelley then delivered (virtually) these two fantastic workshops to over 60 PAs at our conference.

From initial enquiry to delivery Shelley is the consummate professional and it was my pleasure to have had the opportunity to engage with her.

I would have no hesitation in recommending Shelley to any individual or group.

Michaela Fletcher – Heads PA

Shelley is THE guru on all things Microsoft.

I love Outlook, use it every day, and think I have a pretty good understanding of it. But every time I attend one of her sessions I learn a lot more. Her knowledge is remarkable. And she delivers her knowledge in a really clear, engaging way.

Thanks Shelley

Kathy Soulsby

I have just spent less than an hour at one of Shelley’s presentations and my mind is truly blown! I thought I was fairly proficient in Outlook, but I had no idea it could do so much more! So many time saving tips and shortcuts to help me – I can’t wait to get stuck in and implement them all! Thank you Shelley – I would highly recommend!

Hayley Rose – Executive Assistant -Dalcour Maclaren

Shelley joined us for the annual HMC Heads’ PAs conference in May 2023, where she delivered two hands-on practical IT skills workshops for over 60 PAs in attendance. Both sessions were warmly received by all participants, and from a personal perspective it was an absolute pleasure for me to work with Shelley both offline in the extensive prep phase ahead of the sessions, and online during the day itself – sharp in subject knowledge, flexible in content delivery and everything executed with a really affable manner and “can-do” approach throughout. I would recommend her services wholeheartedly.

Gareth Johnson – Leader GRE Education

Heads PA Conference