Power of Living and Giving 

An interactive workshop with Cami Walker, NYT-bestselling author of

29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life

• Enjoy visualizations that will connect with your sense of purpose and abundance
• Writing exercises (bring a journal) to set intentions for your personal 29 Days of Giving
• Get helpful giving tips and advice from Cami Walker, 29 Gifts Founder and author
  

At the Whitefish Bay United Methodist Church (near Milwaukee, WI).
YOU WILL RECEIVE YOUR FREE STARTER KIT OR JOURNAL WHEN YOU CHECK IN AT THE EVENT.

Cami Walker, a young woman in her mid-30’s, was diagnosed with MS in 2006. After struggling with the chronic pain and subsequent addiction to pain medications, Cami’s health and spirits were plummeting. She decided to take the advice of a South African holistic healer: give a gift a day for 29 days. While the process did not cure her MS, it did have a startling effect on her health and happiness. Cami documented her experience in her New York Times bestselling book 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life.

An excerpt from the book, 29 Gifts: “My first reaction was that I thought Giving 29 Gifts was an insane "prescription," but it has given me a more positive outlook on life. It’s about stepping outside of your own story long enough to make a connection with someone else. Perhaps the biggest change is that today I feel spiritually in touch with a higher sense of power.  I have begun to see that everything belongs to the divine.  When we give or receive, we are connecting to God.  I now see I am a small part of a much greater whole, rather than a self-contained, deserted island I felt like 29 days ago.  Today I see my interdependence with other people and God as a source of power in my life … in the wise words of Mahatma Gandhi, ‘The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.’  The past 29 days have proven this to be true for me.”

Come hear Cami's remarkable story of healing, and then she will lead us through a series of visualizations and journaling exercises so we can start our own 29 Days of Giving as a community.

Bring a journal and a pen!

AGENDA:

5 pm Gather and enjoy appetizers and chocolate

5:30 Workshop begins PROMPTLY with remarks from Pastor Susan Patterson-Sumwalt and an MS Society Representative

5:40 Cami leads visualizations and writing exercises

7:00 Workshop ends

Cost: See Ticket prices above. Nobody turned away for lack of funds. Paid pre-registration is encouraged, but you can also RSVP here online and pay at the door.

Buy tickets in advance online and arrive EARLY for good seats.

20% of proceeds from this event will be donated to the National MS Society, Wisconsin Chapter to provide services and research to help the 2 million people worldwide living with Multiple Sclerosis.

MORE ABOUT CAMI WALKER and 29GIFTS.ORG

Cami Walker and 29 Gifts have been featured on the Today Show, NPR, Oprah.com, O The Oprah Magazine; Women’s World Magazine, Body+Soul Magazine, Ode Magazine and more. 29 Gifts was honored as a 2009 Books for a Better Life MS Awareness Award Winner and it was selected by the Pittsburgh Area Library Association as their One Book, One Community Award Winner in 2010. 29 Gifts is translated into the following languages:  Dutch, German, Japanese, Chinese (Complex and Simplified), Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Indonesian, and Korean, with more countries to follow. Thanks to the success of 29 Gifts, Cami Walker is in demand all over the U.S. as a motivational speaker.  She also makes appearances at large churches, non-profits, hospitals, libraries and community organizations, spreading the 29 Gifts collective mission: to create a worldwide revival of the giving spirit. Cami’s first 29 days of giving are chronicled in her New York Times bestselling memoir, 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life (Da Capo Press, Oct 2009). 29Gifts.org membership is nearly 14,000 givers in 42 countries, and growing quickly. Nearly 55,000 copies of Cami’s first book were sold within 16 months of publication. She is now working on the 29 Gifts film and her second book.

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