WOW! WOW! WOW! I am in the deepest gratitude for the incredible opportunity and experience of having attended the Celebrate Your Life 2015 conference in Phoenix, AZ this past weekend with my dear friend, Patti! We have embarked on this adventure together previously when we attended the Celebrate Your Life conference in Sedona, AZ, Nov. 2013 (this is where I experienced my first full day workshop with Panache Desai...so grateful).
This weekend's event marked the 20th Anniversary of the Celebrate Your Life conferences, which are hosted and produced by Mishka Productions, with Liz Dawn at the helm. In honour of this, there was a dinner and gala on Saturday evening that held many wonderful moments, including a collaborative performance by all of the presenters/speakers of a very special song composed specifically for this event by Barry Goldstein, Grammy winning artist.
Also, Wayne Dyer was to be a keynote speaker on Saturday morning. There was a beautiful tribute to Wayne Dyer and his teachings given by his close friends and colleagues in the family of Celebrate Your Life presenters. Very touching and poignant.
This conference held some full circle moments for me as I attended lectures/presentations by James Redfield (author of the Celestine Prophecy) whose book I had read many years ago and which had impacted me so significantly at that time; and Dan Millman (author of the Way of the Spiritual Warrior series of books) whose writings I had also devoured earlier on my path of discovery. To have the opportunity to spend time with these authors who had influenced my spiritual growth early on, allowed me to fully appreciate their influence.
I chose to attend sessions with powerful teachers whose messages have inspired and enlightened me at past events, such as: Neale Donald Walsch, Gregg Braden, Colette Baron-Reid and John Holland.
I also made the choice to attend sessions with teachers I had not previously experienced: Dr. Joe Dispenza and Joan Borysenko---fascinating!
As always, there were those moments and unscripted incredible experiences within the event that occur as expressions and 'teachings' from the Divine, also...
~ Patti & I chose to take in the full day pre-conference workshop offered by Colette Baron Reid and John Holland on Friday. While we were in session with Colette in the morning, Liz Dawn, the CEO of Mishka Productions popped into the back of our conference room to pass on something to one of the volunteers---she was trying to go unnoticed, but Colette saw her from the stage and called out 'Hi, Liz Dawn!', drawing all of our attention to the back of the room. Liz Dawn said...'No...I am not here...I don't have any make-up on...I was just trying to pop in and out' and Colette mischievously then introduced her to the group as the creator and head of Mishka Productions, for those who didn't already know! Having failed at being unobtrusive,Liz Dawn then just HAD to share with us the story of what had just happened because she was literally vibrating with the excitement of it. There is a Mishka registration desk that all conference participants must go to prior to the beginning of the conference to pick up their event badge, which has your particular 'break out session' selections listed on it. You must have this badge with you in order to gain entry to the various sessions that you are attending. A man had approached the Mishka desk that morning and given his last name and the when the volunteer pulled the badge with his last name on it, it had a woman's name on it. She said, there must be some mistake, because the badge with your last name (an unusual last name) has a woman's name '_____' on it. The man looked shocked and stepped back and asked "How do you know my daughter's name? I haven't seen or spoken to her in 5 years!!!" And then he said "Wait...is this the Diabetic Conference? I am attending the Diabetic Conference!" And the volunteer informed him that no, the registration desk for that conference was on another floor of this center...this was the Celebrate Your Life conference, and he left to find that conference. 15 minutes later, his daughter showed up to pick up her badge for the event and the volunteer contemplated whether or not to share with her what had happened. Of course, she did! So, as Liz Dawn was telling that part of the story, a young girl in our conference room jumped up and said, "That's me!" Liz Dawn had withheld names at this point, so as not to impinge on the person's privacy in case she wanted to remain anonymous...but she just HAD to share this story! Liz Dawn ran to the young woman, whose name was Valeska, and they hugged! We were all in awe! Valeska confirmed that her Dad had left her life 5 years ago with no contact between them since. She had spent time in Sedona the previous Monday attending a healing session where she had set the intention to heal the relationship with her father! Liz Dawn asked Valeska if it would be ok if Liz Dawn tried to find her Dad at the Diabetes conference and then arrange a meeting between them. Valeska replied that the synchronicities of all of this were just too blatant not to pursue that, so she agreed. And...Liz Dawn DID track down her Dad and he agreed to meet with his daughter! Talk about Divine intervention and Divine timing! Unreal!
As Liz Dawn shared...she had not 'popped in' to any other conference room on that morning but ours, and she just felt compelled to share the story with our group despite not wanting all eyes on her, when she had no make-up on, etc.---and in that room was Valeska! As Valeska shared with all at the conference this next day when Liz Dawn called her up on stage to share this incredible story, the meeting with her father was brief and gave her what she had prayed for...the opportunity to hug him and tell him she loved him and so, if it goes no where else from here, she is grateful for that. Such beautiful synchronicity!!!
~Also...as Patti and I were sitting in my truck waiting in line to enter the parkade to the hotel early Saturday morning, two women on the sidewalk walking toward the conference center beside us, began waving their arms excitedly at us and looking SO HAPPY to see us! We waved back, although we didn't have a clue who they were, but Patti rolled down her window as they approached to speak with us. They had seen the dealership logo on the back of my truck which was from a dealership in Olds, Alberta, and they said "We are here from Sundre, Alberta!!!" They were excited to see people from their area! They also advised us that the conference center parking lot was full, which was why we were waiting in line out on the street and they directed us how to get to the other parkade one block over. So we thanked them, continued on our way to that parkade and laughed at this 'coincidence' (I do not believe in 'coincidence'---only synchronicity') but I said to Patti that I know quite a few people in the Sundre area who are into spirituality, so I wish I could have talked to them more and asked their names. Once we had our seats for the large group session which was a tribute to Wayne Dyer, wherein all 1500 conference participants were attending, who do you think I 'ran into' when I went to the restroom? One of the 'Sundre ladies'!! I said to her that I know quite a few people in Sundre, including my friend, Cheryl Davies, and she then said that Cheryl's oldest daughter, Robin is her best friend, and that they grew up together!
I told her how Robin had lived with us in our home at Crossfield while she was doing her student teaching practicum at Crossfield School a few years ago...she said that she had been there during that time to meet Robin for lunch! What are the 'odds' that within a crowd of 1500+ people, our paths would cross again so that we could share in that synchronistic moment? And what session was I attending following the Wayne Dyer tribute? My session with James Redfield, author of the Celestine Prophecy, which speaks to sychronicity as a means of Divine communication and guidance!
THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES!!! LOVE IT!!
I just had to share these stories with you to illustrate that when we strive to be aware, the Divine finds the most creative ways in which to communicate with us. Our role in this is to TRUST, ALLOW AND BELIEVE!
Blessed be...
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