Author Antonia Martinez, Ph.D. is available to motivate or coach your group or audience. Short-term and long-term programs can also be developed for your business or non-profit organization. For booking information or for a public events schedule, contact us at :

wisdom@healingspirit.com
tel: 646-522-5070

Book Signings, Readings & Discussions
Self Development & Empowerment

Share a day or evening of Essential Wisdom with the author. Antonia Martinez, Ph.D. reads passages from the book and shares insightful , extended commentary on the underlying messages and concepts about self, life and existence. Audience participation in group discussions and exercises provide for a stimulating and inspirational event. Ongoing self-development and empowerment groups based on the book can also be arranged.

Introduction to Journal Writing
Transformational Journaling
Journal Therapy
Journaling as a Meditation/Spiritual Practice

Preserving your thoughts, feelings and life events on paper is not the same as mindful, empowered journaling. The average journal keeper will find, upon reviewing his/her entries, that she has been writing about the same things over and over again for years. These programs, for new and experienced journallers, teach you how to engage in conscious journaling techniques that bring deliberate and measurable healing, growth and transformation into your life. Learn effective techniques that will help you elevate your journaling experience to a new level of self-discovery, empowerment, and fulfillment.

Purpose, Destiny & Empowerment
Living the Life You are Meant
Creating Your Destiny
Starting Your Personal Renaissance

Come with your questions about purpose and destiny. Leave with a clear intention and mission statement for your life. Living the Life You are Meant is a unique, interactive program based on the book Essential Wisdom, Volume 1: Guidance for Living the Life You are Meant. If you have been unsure about your path in life, or uncertain how to purposefully weave the different aspects of your life together, this workshop will guide you to discover your Way and equip you to move consciously toward your destiny from this moment forward.

Stress Management & Prevention

Stress is rampant in today’s society. It’s a leading cause of workplace absenteeism, migraines, insomnia, heart disease, chronic illness, weight gain, suicide and host of other problems. Stress has become such a devastating way of life that learning to merely manage it is no longer enough. Stress Management & Prevention introduces participants to effective concepts and techniques that enable them to de-stress, reverse the effects of stress, and maintain their mental, physical and emotional well-being even in midst of stressful situations.

Emotional Management

Creative Problem-Solving & Conflict Resolution
These “hands-on” workshop teach participants how to manage their emotional reactions, resolve conflicts and solve problems creatively. Using participants’ real-life situations and emotional stressors, the workshop focuses on explaining and demonstrating effective techniques that participants can put to immediate use and gain creative control of themselves and their lives.

Mindful Communication
Living, Loving & Relating

It is no secret that communication is a two-way street. But in order to be truly effective, empowering or healing, communication must be mindful. A mindful communicator is aware of what to say, when to say it and how best to communicate a message with minimum conflict, maximum result. Using participant's own real-life situations as well as mock scenarios, these workshops equip participates with techniques that will help take their personal and professional communication skills to a new level.

Who You Really Are
The Metaphysics of Personal Identity & the True Self

What makes us who we are? How do we arrive at the identity we refer to as self? Without even realizing it, many of us go through life mistaking the person we're used to being with the person we really are. These programs explore fundamental concepts in personal identity from a metaphysical perspective. Participants learn basic techniques for detaching from self-defeating myths and illusory self-images in order to finally come face to face with the True Self.

Simple Self-Healing

The ability to heal is innate in everyone. Simple Self-Healing introduces participants to simple techniques for physical, mental and emotional healing, as well as useful strategies for emotional management. These techniques, which also include practices found in energy medicine, can also be used as part of preventative health care regimen. In-depth healing programs are also available.

Meditation
Meditation in the Workplace

Introductory, advanced and ongoing meditation instruction takes participants through the initial stages of the meditative process as well as into the deeper levels of meditative awareness that lead to inner peace, self-mastery, healing, and conscious connection with creative, Infinite Source of life. Meditation in the Workplace is a special program to help businesses and organizations develop and introduce effective meditative techniques to employees, managers, and/or clients.

Did you know…?

• Meditation produces numerous health benefits, including reduction of stress, high blood pressure, cholesterol levels, and free radicals—unstable oxygen molecules that can cause tissue damage and speed up the aging process.
  
• The Journal of the American Dietetic Association reported that meditation is an effective method for managing the kind of stress that causes weight gain.
  
• According to 30 years of research at Harvard Medical School, skilled meditators reach a state of restfulness that is much deeper than deep sleep. Deep meditation can be reached in minutes. Deep sleep takes several hours.
  
• Neuroscientists have found that meditation causes a shift in brain activity that decreases the negative effects of mild depression, anxiety and fear.

The Metaphysics of...
Metaphysical Sermons
Introduction to Metaphysical Thought & Mystical Practice

Metaphysics is the study of the subtle, nonphysical Ultimate Reality that causes and affects the observable universe and the experience we call life and death. It investigates the relationship between energy, consciousness, existence and the human condition. Mystical practice includes various techniques that allow the student to gain mastery over the self and live in conscious synchronicity with the Ultimate Reality. The practical value of metaphysical study is to gain mastery over one’s energy and consciousness. These program introduces participants to fundamental concepts and practices in metaphysics and mysticism.