Workshop: Coping Well With Financial Stress Here and Now

Being Present is 90% of Adaptively Handling Stress to Achieve Success

Asbury United Methodist Church is hosting this workshop offered by Dr. Will Joel Friedman on Saturday, May 16 from 9:30 to Noon.

Question: Given the difficult economic times, how do I quiet my worried, agitated mind?

Question: How do I reconcile my circumstances with a vision of thriving and abundance?

This workshop can be a game-changer in how you perceive and cope with challenging financial times. Anxiety tends to increase with uncertainty and less information, while greater information and clarity tends to lower anxiety, including with financial stress.

In this 2 1/2 hour interactive experiential workshop, participants will receive:

•          Active support by empowering participants to share concerns and be fully heard, as well as be present and witness their minds with serenity

•          A wealth of useful information, adaptive coping skills and workable strategies to enhance stress-coping, resilience and effective joyous living

Mind or ego cannot see itself, and requires witnessing in presence, that is, looking from outside the thinking mind at what the mind is up to now, to see it in the moment. Participants are given an opportunity to see what has not been seen—the under-the-radar ego and the present—and to use this direct awareness to access the reality of this moment. The possibility of a shift from insane, fearful existing to sane, joyous living is an intriguing prospect. Sparse and plentiful times come and go; who you are remains.

The suggested donation for the workshop is $10 per person or $15 per couple. We ask that you purchase tickets in advance so we will have enough materials. Tickets are available in the office and after worship.

Will Joel Friedman, Ph.D. is an experienced psychologist, with 32 years in the field. He specializes in Presence-Centered Therapy. His private practice in Pleasanton focuses on inhabiting this present moment, witnessing and "buying out" of the ego-mind's unworkable patterns, desensitizing root emotional charges, and gaining effective tools to thrive in the world. He works with couples, adults and adolescents to address relationships, stress, anxiety, depression and traumas using cognitive, behavioral, systems, and inquiry/mind-body approaches like EMDR and belief deconstruction.