Ah! Valentine’s Day!
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A day of joyful surprises or painful disappointments…depending upon our expectations for love.
There is one way Valentine’s Day can’t go wrong…if we do some loving things for ourselves.
Here are three things you can do for yourself today – for FREE!
Try a little Tai Chi with your Chai Tea
Adam Potts is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and a Tai Chi instructor at Begin With Breath Tai Chi in Asheville, North Carolina. Follow this link to a page on his website where you an sign up for Begin: 30 Days of Tai Chi. This is a free 30-day experience.
Reports on it have been glowing from a member of our team who signed up last week and is now ready for Day 9 of the experience. The team member does the course to close out each day as a gentle way to relax and de-stress.
Connect with CONNECT
CONNECT is a course on rapid relationship building from Sharna Fabiano, author of Lead & Follow: The Dance of Inspired Teamwork.
Recently our Founding Partner, Tom Klaus, had the chance to review her course and loved it!
On Friday, February 24 Sharna is offering a free information session at 12 noon Eastern time. Sign up today here!
In the meantime, you can learn more about Sharna and her work on the Tenacious Change YouTube channel. Tom had a Change Maker Conversation with Sharna in which she talked about her love of tango and her book Lead & Follow.
Do the Work of Love
While you are on the Tenacious Change YouTube channel, also take a look at A Conversation on the Work of Love with Durryle Brooks.
Durryle Brooks, Ph.D., M.A. is a social justice educator from Baltimore, MD. He is the Founder and CEO of Love and Justice Consulting LLC, an organization that provides leaders with diversity and social justice learning opportunities to engage differences effectively and authentically. The Work of Love emerged from his doctoral research. Inspired by the life, work, and words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Durryle Brooks argues that social justice is the Work of Love. You can learn more about Durryle Brooks this Change Maker Conversation and through his website at www.loveandjusticeconsulting.com.
There you have it! Three ideas to make your Valentine’s Day full of joyful surprises!
OPA Funding Opportunity: Are We Still Waiting?
At the time this blog posting was being written, we were still waiting for the highly anticipated OPA funding opportunity announcement to be released. Once it has, we will host a Free Webinar for Grant writers – OPA Application Writing 101. Learn more details here. If you’d like to receive early notice of when it is happening, tell us how to contact you.
Once the OPA funding announcement has been released, remember Tenacious Change is here to support you through the grant writing process. And then, when you win the award, we can help you with community engagement, movement making, program sustainability, organizational and program resilience (capacity building), social media planning, and evaluation research. To learn more, click on the button below to schedule a complimentary call to get to know us and everything we can do to help and support your grant writing now and your funded project.
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