Stress Management in a Working Woman´s World

Speaker: Melissa Raczak

Speaker: Pauline van der Lee

Speaker: Mary Jane Roy

Organizer: Pamela Koo

To achieve what you want, you must be healthy. To be healthy, you are able to achieve.  Stress affects us all during our daily lives.  It just depends on how well we are able to manage it in order to lead happy, healthy, proactive lives.   Three inspiring women will address stress management in a working woman’s world from their professional point of view.

Pauline van der Lee began her company Attitude Creations in 2007. Meditation and spiritual study have been part of her life since her youth and have become her inner compasses of wisdom, giving her peace and clariy in her head and heart. Her passion? To give universal values meaning in the practical, everyday world. To bring people in touch with their essential personal values and to work through any challenges using awareness and movement as the central focus. Pauline recognizes that universal feminine values such as patience, compassion sustenance and tolerance matter in business when balanced with the more masculine values. These values are inherent for personal growth and developing relationships in a caring society. Often stress is created when we aren’t aware of our own personal values or when we feel these values aren’t being respected.
To help us (re)connect Pauline is going to introduce us to Nia Fusion Fitness and her program “Move your values”. It is all about physical and mental vitality with a fascinating combintation of dance movements, martial arts, healing arts and where the participant is free from any performance anxiety. Movement and reflection are used to get in touch  with our masculine and femine values, to connect with ourselve and with others. With surprising and fun elements you’ll find that to move as a team creates teamwork and network, though it’s the personal experience which counts. From beginner to top-athlete, anyone can partake. Whether for yourself or in your work as an independant contractor or professional or your company team, this is an ideal energizer.

Melissa Raczak is an American  living in the Netherlands for over 12 years, a mother of two daughters and is working full time as a director in one of the top professional service organizations. Her agenda and ambition over the years have increased the level of stress and the pressures from family, friends, work and from herself lead her to a stress related illness that physically took a toll on her body and mind. This illness was her wake up call to change. Melissa is back and ready to share her expierence and create awareness about the physical and mental impact that stress can casue. Her story will inspire you to work with the daily stress and leave you with practical tips that can change your life increasing your energy and vitality forever.

Mary Jane Roy will share with us relevant information about the effects of stress and introduce us to HeartMath’s® self-regulation techniques and tools for coping better with  stress. These have become her constant companion and there in she found something to be passionate about. In 2009 she became a HeartMath® provider for their Stress Reduction Program. Mary Jane learns others to manage their stress and emotions more effectively and to stay healthy. The consequences of poorly managed stress and emotions can be devastating.

Mary Jane is a Canadian living in the Netherlands since 1993. After graduation in 1974 (RN diploma) she nursed for 7 years including 4 years as a military nursing officer. From 1982 she worked in sales & marketing functions primarily within the fitness branch. Between 1997 to 2007 together with her husband they helped establish one of the largest fitness chains in the Netherlands.
In 2006 Mary Jane came to the conclusion that stress was taking its toll and she had developed some rather serious heart health isuues. From 2005-2007 she followed the NLP Master Practioners training, principally to gain personal insights. In 2007 while on a sabbatical to regain her health and to find her passion in life, she successfully completed the Stress Management Coaching training at Sonnevelt Training. However, she was too late to prevent a bout with breast cancer which has changed her life forever.

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