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Building Bridges across the
World: drcherie.com, a New Global Directory with Access to All of MMS Websites and Material
On the 1st of September, global sister companies, MMS Institute and The MMS Worldwide Institute, BV, joined forces to launch the new website directory on
www.drcherie.com. This global directory welcomes visitors to a world of personal and professional opportunities and possibilities. You will meet sisters Dr. Chérie Carter-Scott and Lynn U. Stewart as they take you on a guided tour of the family of MMS websites.
On your journey, you will have the opportunity to tune into the 16-minute Documentary, If Life is a Game, these are the rules… the untold story, the story of our family challenges and lessons. In it, you will meet MMS coaches from around the globe who are living the process and using the MMS Coaching Method with clients and in their personal and professional lives.
At the newly crafted Directory Site, www.drcherie.com, you will discover the diverse facets of MMS all in one location. Learn more at each site about the individual and collective offerings of MMS everywhere. Each site presents another glimpse of the 35 year-old human development organization created in San Francisco in 1974 and now worldwide. By clicking on each colorful digital-business card, you will be transported to portals where you will find: our Coaching community drcheriecoaching.com, MMS Coaches, distinct and personal stories, trainings and programs, signed books for sale, blogs, video clips, CD’s, and DVD courses to be learned and licensed, 138 modules in Virtual Training/e-learning and more.
We are excited to share all of this with you and want to hear your comments, questions and inspirations. Take a look and let us know your reaction… your opinion matters!
Lynn U. Stewart
Director The MMS Worldwide Institute BV
New! The online Dr. Cherie Coaching Community
Out of my connection with and inspiration from the work of MMS and Dr. Chérie, a new branch has grown on the MMS tree that offers possibilities for MMS coaches and their clients to connect all over the globe:
drcheriecoaching.com. The
Dr.CherieCoaching.com website is an online Coaching Community that showcases MMS trained Coaches and matches potential coaching clients with a MMS Coach through a thorough matching processes.
Embedded in the recently launched drcherie.com website, this is a coaching industry first. It is an online community built to blend powerful MMS Coaching with the full functionality of social networking. Unlike Facebook, YouTube or Twitter, the Dr. Cherie Coaching social network or better yet, “Coaching Community” gives MMS Coaches an opportunity to help individuals all over the world 24 hours a day. As a member of the Dr. Cherie Coaching Community, an MMS Coach can conduct online coaching sessions via the largely popular Video Chat feature and give instant support and communication to their clients, much like a face-to-face coaching session. MMS Coaches will have access to online video learning and resources to help hone their coaching skills. Bringing lessons and learners together in one place creates a self-sustaining learning ecosystem that thrives on improving people's self-esteem as well as their professional competency. Just like YouTube or Facebook, individual community members and Coaches are able to upload their own profiles, videos and pictures and share their experiences with people all over the world.
Other benefits of the Coaching Community include:
• Online Journaling
• Blogs/Discussion
• Life Changing Podcast by Dr. Cherie and friends
• A place to share life experiences by uploading videos and pictures
• A place to meet new friends with similar interests.
• Online video learning
• Access to a worldwide network of MMS trained Coaches
• Events section
• Articles/Resources.
To access the Coaching Community go to www.drcheriecoaching.com and click on the button “Join the Community”!
George Dorsey, U.S.
Dutch version Newsletter, Nederlandse versie Nieuwsbrief
You have this time received the english version of the MMS Newsletter. If you want to receive the Dutch one instead, please send a mail to
tessa@themms.com.
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What we
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Inner Negotiation Workshop: a One Year Later Testimonial
In June, the 3rd INW of this year took place. The participants made giant steps in breaking patterns and getting behind the steering wheel in their life. Below is the testimony of a participant of an INW a year ago. On October Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd the next group of participants will embark on this life changing journey. If you want to be part of this or know someone who may be interested, you can contact our INW coordinator Wendy van Leusen:
inw-nl@themms.com or +31 (0)6 215 77 297.
Testimonial Jo-Ann Hassell:
‘I would like to say thanks to you for organizing the INW workshops. Since taking one a year ago I fulfilled almost all my goals (at least made big steps towards them) and it’s because of your workshop. It’s powerful. However, I had a hard time saying thanks because I didn’t believe at first that I would be able to ‘hold on to’ my attained goals. It took me a while to believe I could. So now, thank you! It meant a lot to me.’
INW Review: a Unique Chance to Boost your INW and CT Experience and Bring Your Life to the Next Level
On Wednesday October 28th, from 10 am to 9 pm the first INW Review will take place. The INW Review is a one day experience open to all of you that have participated in an MMS INW or CT. The workshop follows the format of the INW and CT process weekend with an emphasis on processes and changing-by-doing. If you want to make next steps in your life, breakthrough newly met challenges and build on the changes you have incorporated in the INW or CT, then the INW Review is your opportunity to do so. The INW Review is led by MMS coaches who graduated from the MMS Master Class, our leadership program. A team of experienced INW leaders and facilitators supports them. The workshop fee is € 500, which includes lunch and a light supper. The location will be confirmed after registration. If you want to participate or have questions, you can contact Marc Padberg:
inw-nl@themms.com or +31 (0)6 4831 8375.
Coach Training Fall 2010 Starts September 17th
This year’s Fall CT takes off with the first process weekend from 17 – 19 September. This CT, 16 participants will follow this intensive three month program. On the team we welcome: Marieke van Paassen, Cornelie Cleton, Klaas Pauw, Marcel van der Velden and of course Lynn Stewart. For the first part of the program, Chérie Carter-Scott will come over from the US.
For the Spring CT 2010 already a good number of people registered. If you are interested, please contact Tineke van der Vorst at
mms-ct@kpnplanet.nl or +31 (0)6 224 18 578.
New! Working in Harmony: New Workshop on Diversity
Developed in the U.S. the workshop that addresses one of the most important challenges of our time is now brought to The Netherlands. The workshop is based around the principles of the Eight Spokes of Diversity created by Chérie Carter-Scott and is being offered to create a more harmonious workplace for you and your colleagues. It focuses on diversity in workplaces: how companies can unleash the power and potential hidden in their organizations by transforming diversity in harmony.
Ask us about designing Working in Harmony for your business.
The workshop will take place in March, on Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th. For more information please contact Tineke van der Vorst at
mms-ct@kpnplanet.nl or +31 (0)6 224 18 578.
MMS Master Class: New Edition January 18th to 22nd 2010
The second MMS Master Class was held in June this year. Babs Bak - Huibrechtse, Allette Cassee, Cornelie Cleton, Eline Jeurissen, Marieke van Paassen, Caspar Rosenbaum, Annemarie Snoeck and Marcel van der Velden followed an intensive program that prepared them to facilitate and lead MMS programs. In the upcoming INWs and CTs they will be facilitating and co-leading. This marks yet an important moment in passing the torch of the MMS leadership to the next generation! In January, from Monday 18th to Friday 22nd, the next Master Class will take place, at Drakenburg in Baarn. For more information please contact Tineke van der Vorst at
mms-ct@kpnplanet.nl or +31 (0)6 224 18 578.
New! Partnership Coaching and Mediation Program from January 12th to 15th 2010
The Advanced Coach Training is brought to the next level in 2010 and being transformed into two new programs of which the Partnership Coaching and Mediation Program is the first. The program will take place in January, from Tuesday 12th to Friday 15th, at Drakenburg in Baarn. For more information about the content of this new program, please contact Tineke van der Vorst at
mms-ct@kpnplanet.nl or +31 (0)6 224 18 578.
Corporate Courses on themms.eu
From October 1st onwards, all the courses that MMS is offering to the corporate market outside the U.S. will be listed on
themms.eu. These courses have been developed by MMS in the U.S. and have been brought to a large number of companies, many of them internationally renowned. We now want to bring this body of knowledge and experience to corporations outside the U.S. In the next Newsletter we will tell you more about it. In the meantime, you can check our website and find out more.
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Network
MMS Alumni Network Association Looks Back at a Successful First Year
The MMS Alumni Network Association is the official network of MMS coaches of which the membership is open to all certified MMS coaches in The Netherlands. With more than 30 people present at the marketing-your-own-coaching-business evening on September 15th and an inspiring and fruitful exchange of lessons and ideas, we look back at three very successful events in the first year of our existence. We are happy to see that this is reflected in the number of members of our Association: it has gradually grown to over 70 now.
On February 2nd, our first official event took place around ‘Polishing my coaching skills’. It was a very lively evening, in which over 35 certified MMS coaches participated in coaching and giving feedback to each other.
On Wednesday June 17th, the evening was around an informal ‘meet and greet’. 40 of our members gathered and met fellow MMS coaches. The presence of the MMS spirit made it easy to connect
If you are interested in membership of our association, you will receive a subscription form by mail upon sending a mail to
pieter.schendstok@yourman.nl.
Pieter Schendstok, Secretary
Brilliant Book on Taming the Mind plus Complementary MMS Gift
Sometimes I encounter a new book that just blows me away and I am really excited about sharing this one with you. In Eldon Taylor’s “Mind Programming”, you will gain amazing insights into yourself. The revelations in this book about the efforts to control your thinking will shock you. But even more important are the “Aha moments” that come when you finally see why you may have stumbled in your quest for success. Eldon Taylor, former criminalist and author of the New York Times bestseller, Choices and Illusions, is one of the foremost researchers into the power of the mind and the mind/body connection. His approach is both scientific and down-to-earth, and his techniques are easy to implement into your own life. Hundreds of thousands of individuals around the world have benefited from his teaching and his latest release, “Mind Programming: From Persuasion and Brainwashing to Self Help and Practical Metaphysics”, condenses his 30 years of research into one amazing read!
Chérie Carter-Scott
If you want to order this book, you can follow this link:
http://www.progressiveawarenesspromotions.com/innertalk/Sept09/IndexC/CherieCarter.htm.
Following this link will bring you to a landing page, where you can get a free copy of the 16-minute Documentary, If Life is a Game, these are the rules… the untold story. This complementary gift is accessible for everyone.
The Magical Things Happen Every Day Collection: Lucky #7 Tram, Amsterdam, by Lynn U. Stewart
I work whenever an opportunity presents itself. This is not new news but somehow, clients come my way, and this has been the case for the last thirty-five years. They find me. I am not usually looking for them, they just appear -- everywhere. There has always been just enough never too much, but just enough work, clients, corporations to keep things interesting, challenging and exciting.
I was invited by my banker to a special event at the Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, for an evening out. It was a professional business event for clients and at that event; I met a bright energetic woman called Brenta. Blonde, perky and rather sparkling, she and I struck up a conversation. She had a delighted-with-life sparkle in her eyes that was
compelling.
We sat together for the performance, had drinks like new friends afterwards, talked about the play and exchanged cards-information. We discovered our fields to be the same… human development. She is a workshop leader-presenter and I am a Master Coach, teacher, trainer and now my latest venture, author.
We never made contact, life became too busy.
Three months later at another event, given by a friend, there she was again and we were this time, dinner partners. We connected again and renewed our promise to make contact.
We didn’t make contact. I saw her card, put it in a safe place but never called; too much going on and no time.
Three weeks later, I had an appointment in the Oosterpark area of town. Upon leaving, I stepped into the #7 Tram sat down, pulled out my iPhone and retrieved my emails. Absorbed with news and updates, I never noticed, the person who had seated herself next to me… When I heard my name, my concentration was broken. Startled, I looked over and there was Brenta staring at me nose to nose, centimeters away.
“It’s you, wow what a coincidence,” she said
“Help me with your name,” I responded.
“Brenta, remember me?” she said with a twinkle.
“Never called, too busy eh?”
“No, sorry…me neither!”
We visited for a fifteen minutes and we covered the mundane, tram travel, broken bicycles, not enough time, Amsterdam without bikes, iPhones, computers creativity, work, schedules and life…we got off at the Leidseplein, exchanged cards again and promised to make contact.
We didn’t.
Two weeks later, the same appointment rescheduled from the former week at the OLVG Ziekenhuis and again the #7 tram. I wondered if Brenta would be on the lucky 7 tram today. I pushed that thought away knowing how preposterous that was to even conjure and made my way into the accordion doors of the tram. I cautiously side-stepped though the half empty tram and took a single seat on the left and accessed my iPhone. When I heard my name this time, I was really startled. There she was across the aisle in a window-seat with an empty seat next to her. I slid across to the other side,
“Ok that’s it, now we really have to meet; this is the second time in a week that we have found each other on the now-named Lucky #7 tram in the same row. We really must meet to see what all of this means. We are clearly meant to do something together.”
“What could that be?” she asked.
“Not sure but let’s connect the dots and see what life has in store for us…this must be really big… a burning bush, a sign, a message that we are to do who knows what?”
Before we left the tram on the Leidseplein stop, we made a coffee date for the following Saturday morning 11:00 sharp, my home, on the Herengracht. Our visit was to be an interpersonal archeological dig to figure out what the serendipitous connections meant… we had all the clues.
When she arrived, I had just returned from researching make, models and prices for weekly bicycle rentals. Having been through knee surgery and shoulder surgery over a two-year span, I was feeling fit, feisty and healthy enough to do the research. My conversation on the tram with Brenta had inspired that curiosity in me. It had been five years since I cycled in Amsterdam. I was motivated.
After a small house tour, a little conversation over my best dark roast, I stated the obvious, our purpose for meeting,
“We have 30 minutes left to discuss/discover what we are to do together.. Shall I start with some questions and maybe some things I have been considering?”
“Sure,” was the response.
“Did you get your broken bike back? Did you make a choice to buy your Mac? Well before you answer here’s what I’m looking for: I want someone to go to the MacBike shop with me to rent-a-bike. Alternatively, I want someone to help me organize my computer… Does either of those activities appeal to you?
In no time Brenta and I were on our way to Central Station to rent a bike. On the way we stopped to look at computers for her at the Mac House. She said her creativity was connected to buying a Mac and she had been thinking about investing in an iMac for months.
I rented a bike, she made a computer appointment. As we walked the bike back to my house, the final piece fell into place. There was a reflective moment as we said our goodbyes and had a moment again about her creativity. She had closed the door on her acting career many years ago and wanted to re-find that energy again. She asked for an intake about coaching with me.
Today we have a connection over bike riding in Amsterdam, Mac computers and I have a new client.
Whether in a hot tub, on a ski lift, at the iPhone store, clients with questions are everywhere. If you’re awake, living the process and put out your intention to serve them, loving, grateful and appreciative clients will find you!
Was it all because of the lucky tram #7 or…the universe weaving its magic for two souls to connect…?
Lynn U. Stewart
The Realm of Inspiration
This section is a returning chapter in the MMS Newsletter, to which all of us can contribute. If you have seen a movie, read a book, a quote or a poem that inspired you and you want to share this with the people in the MMS network through the Newsletter, you can send it to: sanna@themms.com. Share what touched and inspired you and we will include your contribution. We may have to make a choice, depending on the
numbers.
Inspirational read: The Way of The Peaceful Warrior, Dan Millman
The young college student, Dan Millman, has a successful life. But there is dissatisfaction in him he can’t get a grip on. One night at a gas station, he meets the strange, mysterious Socrates. His life changes completely. Socrates guides Dan on the way of the peaceful warrior: a spiritual journey to self-discovery and growth and a renewed level of consciousness.
The Way of The Peaceful Warrior is a book that keeps inspiring, every time you read it.
After the experience of the INW, for me the process of transformation Dan goes through is really recognizable. His struggle with the challenges in his process and the way he handles the reaction of his environment at his change is interesting to read. The way of the peaceful warrior is a way of discipline and perseverance, but also a way full of humor and wonder. Read and re-read it. Here and now.
Richard van Wingerden
Any Feedback on the Newsletter?
We want the Newsletter to be a fun and informative read for you. We want to invite you to send us your feedback. It will help us to tailor it further to what you are interested in. You can send your feedback to tessa@themms.com. Thank you for taking the time and sharing your feelings and ideas!
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If you are interested in special programs, please contact Lynn Stewart at
lynn@themms.com or call her at +31 6 50944740.
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