The 3 x 5 Game - Play the game America has been calling fun, easy and can fit into an already busy lifestyle. Practical steps for any group to let go of what is no longer working. Based on the upcoming book.

Embracing Change - Learning how to take the next right step and allow events to unfold. Based on the popular book, A Place to Call Home.

Primer on Surrender - How to start from where you are and learn to trust yourself and the community around you.

Fostering Community Growth - Learning how to collaborate in every moment of the day from the individual to the family to a large group in order to grow the world you desire.

Celebrating Your Child - Learn how to be happy as a family instead of perpetually striving toward a goal.

Race, Politics & DNA - Growing up in the Tho. Jefferson Family today and the current state of politics.

Embracing Change - In those moments have you asked yourself, how do I embrace change without a really good plan? Noted author and journalist, Martha Randolph Carr can help answer a basic question that helps people embrace change and start to define their lives more clearly. Carr uses the tools she has developed to help audiences learn the basics of successful reinvention right from where you are today. Her methods have been adapted by anyone who is facing great changes such as divorce, an empty nest, a new marriage, retirement or career shifts. Solid tips are offered to every group on how to become happier, more confident, and independent.

In an interactive talk, Carr will explain how America is doing something right – saving some of our most vulnerable population, our children and how the lessons she learned can help you change too. What are the secrets behind their success that your group can adapt and use. Participants can bring their doubts, their fears and their reluctance to change and learn how to begin. Even if you don’t know what it is you want and can only see the problems, Carr will lead you to the path of finding the joy in your life no matter what's going on around you. The methods are simple, won't take a lot of time out of your day and can be adopted even if you don't believe in anything, including your own chances. Even if you are up to your ears in debt, your health is on shaky ground, you worry instead of daydream and think it's too late to establish a relationship with your own teenagers or other family members, there is a way to an easier, more fulfilling life.

"Martha Randolph Carr invites the reader to a journey through the 'change stories' in those facilities once known as orphanages. You will see the parallels in your own life's victories."
Bob Danzig, former CEO of Hearst Newspapers
Author and Speaker

The 3 x 5 Game. Your group will learn practical steps to let go of what is no longer working and embrace change. Recapture the fun and optimism you had as a child on Saturday mornings when there was no school, no homework and a world of possibilities awaited you. Opportunities to drop old messages and make a different choice come up in every moment, of every day and yet most people turn away while lamenting the areas of their life that aren't working out as they had hoped.

Participants will be led, step-by-step through an easy, fun 10-step process that will help them let go of what blocks their abundance of health, love, prosperity and a feeling of being spiritually connected.

No matter how dire circumstances may seem, everyone lives with an idea of how things could be better. It's a private list of hopes that in the worst of circumstances we keep to ourselves out of a fear that we may have to relinquish even that. It may be our last protection against giving up completely. There are simple tools that can take our list and show us a better way to manifest each item into our lives. Hope becomes reality and your life can be transformed.

We begin with a simple game you can do by yourself or with friends that can change your life and the way you see yourself in it. Martha started this with a group of friends who complained once too often about some nagging to-do and the idea has spread like a wonderful magic with a surprise ending. It's designed to be easy and remove all guilt but still fit into a hectic schedule. The goal of the session and the game is to learn to enjoy change, live in the present moment and be ourselves in every setting. Participants will take away instructions so they can continue to apply the game, along with new perspectives, positive affirmations and simple meditations.

"We love the 3 x 5 Game! In fact we plan to play the game again at our February 2008 staff meeting. A great way to start the New Year! We used the 3 X 5 Game with the Meherrin Regional Library Staff at a Staff Development Day retreat a year ago. Staff members are still greeting each other with, "Game on!" It has built a sense of individual pride which is shared with everyone as we embrace change. The game empowers the individual and it lead to our staff developing as a team while preserving each member's individuality and uniqueness." Sarah A. P. Raible, Director, Meherrin Regional Library System

Primer on Surrender - People are reconnecting with the faith that lives within each of us and is the best part we carry around. It is the portion that is capable of forgiveness, even a gesture of love in the face of tragedy when anger would seem the more logical response. Faith is the state of grace found in the words, everything will be alright, when we can’t know the ending and take off on the journey anyway.
When an individual takes that first step into surrender they leave the tales from the past by the wayside and stop dipping into the future to manipulate what hasn’t yet happened. They reclaim hours of time and energy and gain mastery over their lives.

When a group comes together to master surrender as one to something bigger than themselves, entire structures can change in a moment.

Have you heard about surrender and wondered what it was and how do I get there? What are your words really saying about what you desire? How is it possible to let go when there are practical things that need to be done?

The intention of the primer is to plant the seeds of how to co-create purposefully. Learn the art of surrender and what part mindful prayer, meditation and forgiveness play.