Learning from the Slow Movement: Coaching Ourselves in Taking Control Back Over Our Time

“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.” - Soren Kierkegaard

Too busy for workshops? This one is definitely for you!

Is slower better? What can we learn from the Slow Movement? How can we take control back over our time?

Answers to crucial personal and professional challenges and questions often emerge when we take the time to slow down the pace of our daily lives, whether we are students, professionals, parents, or executives. Small adjustments such as walking or cycling to our destinations, breathing more, multi-tasking less, working from home, turning off our electronic devices and social media connections, allowing for solitary down time and connecting with ‘real’ people, speeding less, observing and listening often, cooking, spending time outdoors and with people who inspire us, can lead us to be more creative, calm, productive and present to our own lives and to others.

What are we waiting for? This interactive workshop is a time for busy participants to learn about the Slow Movement and to reflect and plan ways to integrate slow principals into their personal and professional lives. Together we will brainstorm and explore ways to step out of the rat race and into slower yet productive and meaningful personal and work lives.
Date: Saturday, June 30, 2012
Time: 9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Location: 688 Sherbrooke Street W., Room 1025
Price: $124.00
Current McGill students and McGill alumni will receive a 20% discount off the session fee. Current McGill staff will receive a 50% discount off the session fee.

Facilitator
Annick Corbeil, M.A. (University of Toronto), Certified Personal and Professional Coach. She completed her coach training at Concordia University in Montreal, and completed a Certificate in intercultural communication at the University of British Columbia. Over the past fifteen years, she has acquired extensive experience in coaching adults through various professional roles at Canadian universities and in her private coaching practice. She has developed expertise in diversity training and intercultural communication, and has lived and worked in Kyoto, Singapore, Berlin, Milan, Washington D.C., Toronto, Vancouver and now Montreal. Annick believes in living a meaninful, deliberate life. Her love of gardening and cooking led her to discover the Slow Food Movement and continue adopting slow principles into her every day life. While on the move, she makes her calls from public phone booths and walks/bikes an average of 12 km per day. She offers her coaching clients the option of invigorating walking coaching sessions instead of sitting in an office.
Geneviève Tremblay holds undergraduate and master degrees in engineering. Motivated by a deep passion for people, she quickly reoriented her career in the field of services, aid relationship and training. The eldest of her two children being autistic, she moved towards entrepreneurship to meet better her family’s needs and get a balanced and happy life. Geneviève co-owns Bonheur en vracmc, a company that gathers ideas and tools for long lasting happiness and she works as a professional coach to support people creating a fully satisfying life. Among those activities and the time spent with her family, she manages to volunteer in her community and to practice meditation, dance and yoga.