Listening to Their Stories

Discover the ancient past as Margaret guides you on walks through sacred sites in the British Isles. Listen to stories of saints, goddesses, and witches and explore themes that continue to resonate with us today. Kneel before holy wells and step inside old yew trees to discover how the outer world informs our inner world. Whether you are an armchair traveler or just interested in listening to stories, this presentation will transport you to another time and place.

Margaret Jones, M.Ed., tarot reader, educator, and award-winning storyteller, facilitates seminars as a national trainer to assist individuals on their path to self-discovery. She is the author of Walking Sacred Sites: Listening to the Stories, a collection of articles about her journeys to sacred places across the world.

The holidays are just around the corner and who doesn't love a fresh baked pie? Learn to make this simple-yet incredible, pie dough and ways you can make it either sweet or savory. Chef Mary will show you how easy it is and offer expert advice on how to master making homemade pastries. This is a demonstration class, however, you are welcome to either watch or put on an apron and join in the fun. Recipes provided. Please bring 1 LB COLD unsalted butter, mixing bowl, spatula, rolling pin, and baggies for pie dough.

Mary Bailey, pastry chef and past owner/chef of Thyme and Honey Bakery in Biddeford, is passionate about baking bread and teaching people how to incorporate homemade bread into their daily lives.

Discover close-up photography!

Macro photography unlocks an amazing new universe of photographic options. Learn to make amazing macro shots with your current camera equipment and guidance from instructor Steve McGrath. The world up-close is a mystical place awash in color, pattern, and abstract images. Transform flowers into abstract artwork, rusty doors into textured canvases, stones into polished gems, and transform butterflies and other insects into fantastical creatures! Participants can use any type of camera. Zoom link provided by instructor.

Steve McGrath is a professional freelance photographer and teacher with 25 years of experience. His love of the great outdoors led him to his true passion-nature photography. Steve was an active member of the Gateway Camera Club for many years and has won many ribbons and awards at fairs and competitions through the group and on his own. Many of his images have been published in school textbooks.

Do you avoid wearing makeup because you don't like looking "made up"? Have your features changed with time and you're not sure what to do? Come learn easy makeup tips that give you an enhanced, natural appearance! Candace will help you identify your face, eye and lip shapes. Then, using the makeup and small mirror you bring, she will teach you makeup application techniques to enhance your features.

Candace Sanborn, owner of Radiant Image, has 30 years of branding and marketing experience. Her mission is to apply her wealth of knowledge to people, particularly women, to increase their self-confidence by helping them feel fantastic about themselves and connect with others in a meaningful way, which will boost their confidence.

Clearing Mental Clutter

Having trouble setting priorities and making plans? Frequently misplace valuable items amid all of the clutter? Feel hurried and pressed for time? Step outside your comfort zone and develop a fresh perspective to help you transform disorder and chaos into thoughtful organization. Uncover the habits and behaviors contributing to disorder and replace them with time-tested methods to be more prosperous, efficient, content and joyful. With the use of calendars and other planning tools, discover practical ways to complete daily tasks on time, make action plans, and achieve your long-term goals. Please bring your cell phone (if you have one) and calendar.

Roz Applebaum has worked in the conference business for 30 years. She is a highly effective life coach and assists her clients in using organizational skills to achieve short- and long-term goals while maintaining the optimum work-life balance.

Classes in aerial yoga include flips, tricks and inversions. By keeping the swing at hip height, it transforms into a hammock that supports you during backbends and inversions and offers a unique way to build core, arm, and leg strength. You'll flow and fly in your aerial swing during these 50-minute lessons, fusing the grace of yoga with the freedom of flight. Wear comfortable workout-type clothes but nothing too loose, and be prepared to go barefoot.

Ashley Jolly is certified in both barre and aerial yoga. Her main focuses are on strength, stability, and flexibility, as she finds these to be the trifecta of great fitness.

Seize the opportunity to create beautiful handcrafted paper bowls! These unique bowls make fantastic presents or home décor. Decorative papers, handmade papers and adhesive are provided. Bring a small plastic cereal bowl.

Gayle Fitzpatrick has taught in public and private schools, colleges and adult and community programs for 30+ years. She is a practicing artist, producing and showing paper, print, and painted pieces.

Are you struggling with anxiety? Feel drained and often in a state of unease; or have you noticed that the more you try to struggle against these feelings and thoughts, the tighter the grip they seem to have on you? Join us and look at anxiety in some new ways to begin developing a new relationship with it. Learn the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and a few other tools to help you calm your nervous system, manage your anxiety, and quiet your inner critic so you can start to take your life back!

Leah Wentworth of Inner Wisdom Health & Wellness is a Certified Holistic Health Coach, Reiki and EFT/Tapping Practitioner. She is dedicated to restoring harmony to the body's energy system and offering suggestions for regaining inner understanding.