Lori Kirstein, Speaker/"Emotional Linguist", Author, Actor
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Lori Kirstein is the founder of Possibilities! Seminars. A veteran actor of 18+ years, and a 30-year veteran of Corporate America - Sales, Marketing, Human Resources and more - Lori broke through shyness, an unthinking belief in personal limitations, and even through mental illness in her early 30's, beginning more than 15 years of successful exploration into the realms of psychology, acting, interpersonal communication, and personal development.
Lori gives keynote speeches, leads workshops and coaches individuals and groups in Effective Communication and Public Speaking in order to enhance personal and professional growth, and to introduce advanced communication/self-expression techniques and attitudes to those who suspect that there are freer, more self-directed and expansive ways to live, to work, to serve and to love.
Some to whom Emotional Freedom and Interpersonal Communication work is particularly helpful are:
Business Owners
Presenters
Salespeople
Performers
Actors...
...and anyone who wants to experience more empowerment, more self-expression and more self-direction in his or her life.
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The Perfect Interview – (from “Out of the Actor’s Playbook”)
How do they do it? Those people who look so self-confident, so “put together” … are they really what they seem? They might even be having a bad day, but still they look fabulous, and they interview perfectly. So how do they do it? Here are a few tips – a few leaves from the Actor’s Playbook: • Physical Awareness – How are you standing? Are you even paying attention to it? If you throw your shoulders back and down – relaxing, but standing up straight – this gives you an immediate air of authority. • Emotional Control – It’s not a matter of rigidity, it’s a matter of focus!
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Changing My Mind
In January, on the heels of the death of one of my dearest, closest friends, I quit my office job. Well, the job was godawful to begin with, anyway, but the false money-guru in my head kept saying, “But I need the money, but I need the money!” And I stayed. Until Randy died. Then I said to myself, “You know, if dying at 50 is a life, it’s not worth it. I’ve got to get out of this way of living.” What is another way of saying “this way of living”? Paradigm. My new favorite word. Only I didn’t know I was embracing a new paradigm at the time.
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Goodbye, MLM! Hello, Financial Freedom!
Something BIG is happening in the business/marketing world, and it's bringing about new business paradigms (efusjon (e'fusion) Energy Club is the current ground-breaking example). It's old paradigm versus new. Old way of thinking versus new way of thinking. Old OUTLOOK versus new UNDERSTANDING. In actuality, it is a shift we're going through. A *major* shift, to be sure, but a shift nonetheless. And when the human race is shifting, watch out! Rough road ahead. Why is that? Not because change is by its very nature difficult, but because we resist those changes.
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The Land of In-Between - or - the End of Marketing and the Beginning of Sharing
The days of selling are over. We can no longer afford it, neither financially nor personally. It is time to take a trip to the Land of In-Between. The old times of spiritual escapism - leaving the family, leaving the "world" - no longer serve. The newer times of immersing oneself so completely in worldly pursuits and feeling torn apart by one's twin natures, must be come to terms with, and left behind also.
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Communication Beyond the End
My dear, beloved friend of 18 years, Randy Milberg, left his body last week. It was December 20th that I received the news that he had had a massive heart attack and was lying in a hospital bed in a drug-induced coma. For two weeks, his family and friends waited, prayed, extended hands to one ...
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How Many Workshops Does It Take To Learn To Screw In A Lightbulb?
A friend called me yesterday with a very good question. "If I am trying to make my life better - watching whether what I say is positive or negative, behaving in such a way that the universe knows I'm serious about wanting change - how do I know when I'm being simply impractical?" Forget "good" ...
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Excuses, Excuses!
We looooove excuses, but they hold us back. "No, I DON'T love excuses," you say? Think about the last time you said, "I can't". It's not fair to yourself to say those words until you've actually committed to making something happen. Once you have committed to moving forward, the rules of play can feel intense, but they can also feel like flying, if you let yourself try. Here are the rules: (1) Find something you are absolutely committed to seeing through, even (especially!) if you don't know if you will be successful! (2) Try something - anything - to make this goal come through.r
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Women, Empowerment, and the New World of Balance
A man I spoke to today told me that he thinks men are making way for women in the business world. Maybe - but mostly in a masculine way, which means simply that there is less active resistance. But women need more than a mute standing by the doorway - we need an invitation to come in, and speak out! We need to know that men are making as much an effort to learn our emotional "language" as we have theirs, for so many, many years.
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An Introduction to The "Workshop Survival" Workshop
I love workshops! I love personal development/personal growth workshops, practical application workshops, you name it! I am a perpetual student, fascinated by our mental kinks and emotional stumbling blocks and by the routes to strengthening and empowering ourselves. I believe in group learning as a powerful and community-building experience. I know that when we are in a rut in our lives, it sometimes takes jet fuel under our fannies to get us up and moving again with some hope and enthusiasm; and workshops provide that. The most exciting workshops I have attended are those that get the audience involved, up-and-moving, connecting to the other attendees, talking, laughing, dancing! These workshops excite feelings and actions that have faded from our society: hope, interconnection, emotional openness and freedom, dreaming, open mindedness, and the freedom of being childlike (not childish) again.
So what’s wrong with that?
Nothing! In fact, far from it! But as a decades-long veteran of workshops I have seen both the best and the worst of workshops – and more importantly the best and worst of the aftereffects of workshops. The After-the-Party’s-Over realities are not always the best, and there are tangible, measurable reasons for that. While some people leave the workshops with a plan for using their new knowledge in their day-to-day lives, other people leave the workshops with holes in their bank accounts and no plans for seeding their day-to-day lives with their new information or behaviors. All of us are sent out the door with lots of hugs (in the personal development workshops, anyway!), optimism alive in our hearts, and a surge of ecstatic energy. But the question of what we do with it is up to us!
I am not bashing workshops. I lead them myself. Workshops teach, incite, instruct, further or begin careers, heal emotions, raise energy for life, heal bodies, you name it!
But I also know that where there is high energy – which the most successful and visible workshops contain as a facet of their informatio “transmission” – there is an equally high probability of common sense taking a back seat to enthusiasm.
As with anything related to change, there are problems and pitfalls to watch out for. But few people talk about them. And in not talking about them, a huge gulf develops and grows larger as the country’s financial woes expand, and our desperate search for answers grows simultaneously…and exponentially.
Some of us become chronic workshoppers, going from workshop to workshop, hoping with each investment of time and money that this one will be the one that shows us how to reach our relationship goals, our career dreams, our financial freedom.
Some of us make a large financial investment into a workshop series during the high of the workshop, only to go home and regret the investment.
And others have the experience of feeling disillusioned by that gulf between the workshop education experience and real life, and give up on workshops altogether.
There are many ways to learn, once you have gone beyond the age of – or interest in –traditional schooling. But workshops are among the most dynamic. So The "Workshop Survival" Workshop takes a look at what a workshop is and who the people are who want, or need, to attend one. And it offers a series of safeguards called The Rescue Wheel - those safeguards that you can apply to your workshop experience to keep your feet on the ground while you are expanding mentally and emotionally, and while you are being challenged to make additional financial investments.
Contacting Lori Kirstein, Speaker/"Emotional Linguist", Author, Actor
website: www.PossibilitiesSeminars.com
email: Lori@PossibilitiesSeminars.com
How to get started
Getting Started with Empowered, Effective Communication and Powerful Public Speaking through Possibilities!:
1) Go to www.PossibilitiesSeminars.com
2) Click on the "Click here to listen" button for an introductory audio
3) On the bottom right-hand side of the Home Page, put in your first name and email address to get a Free Membership which includes audios, videos and a monthly newsletter covering Professional Speaking topics and Effective Communication topics.
You will also find scheduling information for Workshops and Keynote Speeches.
I will be honored to have you as a part of Possibilities!