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Training, Workshop & Retreat Offerings
Standard & Custom Designed Training,
Meeting Facilitation & Retreat Programs
THE "IN HOME" CLASS:
Organize This! provides a service unique to the industry -- small group in-home training. At a very reasonable cost per person with a minimum of 3 persons, I will present a custom designed or standard workshop to you and your friends or family in my home classroom or your home. This format allows you an affordable and semi-private way to learn organizing strategies, have individual organizing dilemmas analyzed and come up with creative solutions in the small group setting.
Hosts meeting other agreed to minimum attendance criteria are eligible for Organize This! custom designed organizing products or especially priced organizing consultations as an incentive.
Call Organize This! to schedule an In Home Class, to schedule a custom designed class at your workplace or to get details.
How do I sign up for scheduled classes? Click on Knowledge Network or Boscov's at our Links button.
Album, Photo & Preservation Workshops
All workshops are taught by Diane L. Campion, home & family organizer and owner of Organize This!, a trained expert in photo preservation, album design and journaling.
Organize & Preserve Your Photos & Documents
If you have old albums, boxes and bags filled with photos, this is the class for you. Photos stored in most boxes and magnetic & pocket albums are probably being ruined right now by acids & chemicals, humidity, changes in temperature – save them before its too late. Learn a variety of ways to store and easily organize your photos and family documents safely so they will be around for years to come. Learn about ways to preserve and present your photos attractively, learn about restoration processes, sort & organize your photos, create gift projects, discuss basic computer skills useful with photos.
Basic Photo Album & Scrapbook Design
Everybody has old albums and boxes filled with vacation, holiday and family photos. Learn a variety of ways to sort, organize and store your photos and memorabilia safely. Preserve the most valuable in ways that will protect their quality. Learn different ways to present your photos attractively and safely without spending a small fortune. Become familiar with a wide variety of ways to preserve your memories or even your stamp, coin or other collections. Learn how to lay out specialty albums such as: family vacations, family celebrations, your garden, your hobby, the family pets and others.
This hands-on workshop will allow you to work with materials and supplies that will help you tackle those stacks of old photos.
Family Recipe to Family Heirloom
Combining Family Recipes & Family Photos
If you enjoy eating, cooking & family celebrations – this is the class for you!
Do you have piles of favorite family recipes that everybody loves? Do you have old recipes that remind you of your favorite aunt or grandmother? Everybody has boxes and bags of old photos collecting dust and most families associate cooking and eating with celebration. If that sounds familiar, make sure your family legacy lives on.
Mix one part family recipes, an equal part old photos and a sprinkling of your memories to produce beautiful albums for holiday gift giving, bridal & shower gifts, housewarming gifts or just to memorialize your favorite people and foods. We will complete one album page in class and I will teach you how to finish an entire album easily.
Bring several photos and recipes to work with.
Chronicle A Life –
Your life, a loved-ones' life, a co-workers life
Create a legacy from photos and memories to chronicle your own life for generations to come; create a tribute a friend or co-worker will love or create a keepsake memorializing a loved-ones' life and achievements. Whether your album covers a single event (wedding, birthday), a career (retirement), a major life experience (WWII duty) or represents a whole life, this is a special tribute that recognizes achievements.
You'll learn how to sort and select photos and memorabilia, gather quotes and memories, plan and layout your album, select the right materials (archival quality) and albums, assemble your album and enhance its beauty and meaning.
This hands-on workshop will get you ready to work with your accumulated years of photos and make gifts and tributes that people will love.
Making the Most of Your Travel Through
Photos & Journaling
Create incredible photo albums that allow you to relive your travels for years to come. Preserve your unique travel experiences by learning to journal while you travel and then combine your comments with your photos and other memorabilia to show friends and family, give as gifts to your travel companions or simply enjoy on your own.
Whether you're planning a "once in a life time trip," a cruise with friends, an out of town reunion, a weekend getaway, family vacation or a solo journey; learn how to get the most out of your experiences and preserve the unique feelings and occurrences of travel.
Learn how to sort and organize photos, layout albums, add your journaling and other enhancements, select safe archival quality materials and complete your albums quickly and simply.
Create incredible photo albums that allow you to relive your
This hands-on workshop allows you to create an album page with your own photos so bring them along.
ORGANIZE YOUR HOME
If the things you have accumulated overwhelm you, and you don't know where to begin, if you're drowning in paper and your life feels out of control – now is the time to get organized. Get motivated by an expert who leads a clutter free existence and has worked with many clients who want to free up time to finish projects, focus to get jobs done, find time for themselves and be able to find things in their homes. This class will help you get started, overcome obstacles and excuses and move you toward a clutter-free existence.
Topics will include:
- The cost of being disorganized
- The benefits in time, money & well-being in being organized
- Overcoming chronic disorganization & procrastination
- Strategies for focusing & completing jobs
- Room by room approaches
- Setting up systems to handle paper, bills & obligations
- Organizing so you can find what you need when you need it
- Tried and true methods that work for everyone
ORGANIZE YOUR WORKPLACE
You arrive at work each morning with enthusiasm and good intentions of getting lots of jobs done, but by mid-afternoon you've accomplished nothing and have more of the same ahead of you. You are determined to focus on a job that is long overdue but 5 minutes into it, the interruptions overwhelm you and you are completely distracted from the job at hand. You need a piece of paper you remember seeing just last week, but after an hour long search, you're still faced with piles of paper yet to be searched with no idea where to find it.
Topics will include:
- Strategies to break jobs down into pieces and create plans that insure their completion
- How to hone your focusing skills to get more done & avoid interruptions.
- Create filing systems that insure retrieval & eliminate piles
Train employees to handle more responsibility, giving you time to get more done
- Create a work area that provided a natural "flow" of tasks to increase productivity
THE ORGANIZED BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL
This overview program is designed for the professional (i.e., lawyer, doctor, accountant, executive, manager, etc.) or the business owner who wants to improve the organizational, administrative and management skills he/she brings to his/her work.
Topics include:
- Purging and organizing paper, files and information
- Making better use of time and getting more work done
- Creating a professional and productive work environment or business
- Managing your staff for better productivity
- Designing processes & routines to make your job easier
- Meeting obligations & deadlines
- Creating "team" to get the job done
- Creating goals, objectives and timelines
SIMPLIFY YOUR LIFE
Break out of the rat race and get the life you want and deserve. Focus on the things that really matter and make changes to achieve your personal goals. Your instructor, a professional organizer who has the job and life she envisioned for herself for years, will show you how to plan, focus and overcome obstacles to simplify and get the life you want. Don't put it off until next year or the next vacation or retirement – start with this class!
Topics will include:
- Determining your priorities
- Defining & visualizing the life you want
- Setting goals & objectives
- Creating action steps
- Holding yourself accountable
- Using your strengths to overcome your weaknesses
- Creating opportunities from obstacles
- Learning from past failures
- Building on success to create momentum
- Getting back on course for the long term
CREATING MEANINGFUL TRAVEL MEMORIES
You're planning a "once in a lifetime trip," a cheap weekend getaway, an adventure sojourn, a family vacation, a business trip, an out of town reunion or just chaperoning your first grader's class trip – how do you get the most out of the experience as well as preserve the unique feelings and experiences that occur? Journal, photograph and memorialize your trips so you can re-live those simple joys.
Topics include:
- Planning for travel to get the maximum from the experience
- Getting the "feel" of a new environment
- Observation strategies
- Learning from each experience (good & bad) in travel
- Recording your experiences with journals, photos & memora-bilia
- Packing, impromptu travel, handling the unforeseen, tips & hints, checklists to make it easier
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
(You Can Accomplish Anything)
Is your mind spinning with projects to be done? Do you have lots of energy but never seem to accomplish anything? Do you have trouble setting goals or getting started on a home, office or personal project? Are you reluctant to start new things because you are afraid you will fail or aren't sure you're prepared? Is there some particular thing about which you've been saying "when I get a chance", "one of these days", "I've always wanted to"?. Well, you CAN accomplish anything as long as you have a plan, a budget, a timeline and a vision of the outcome.
Topics will include:
- Identify the 3 elements of successful project management – time, money and desired outcome
- Prepare a plan, make sound decisions early
- Gather what you need to start (info & materials)
- Establish a realistic timeline
- Anticipate obstacles & diversions
- Hold yourself & others accountable to the plan
- Focus through to completion
Bring your unfinished or pending project ideas and we will work with your needs to demonstrate these techniques – anything from painting a room to cleaning out the garage to running a campaign to starting a business to improving your wellness.
WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS?
This program is designed for the person who has completed at least 3 other organizing classes offered and has some continuing need for organizing skill building.
We will explore:
- Mental clutter, obstacles, bottlenecks
- Procrastination and its cures
- Chronic disorganization
- Special collections & keepsakes
- Getting started & "off the dime"
- Yo-yo clutter
- Prevention
- Excuses, excuses, excuses...put an end to it
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