“For years, I have offered a philosophy of creativity, vision and celebration to thousands who have graciously and generously listened to my stories and left feeling inspired.

It was at one of my presentations that I met Tania Carriere a life coach and leadership consultant, who challenged me to respond to what many of her clients and my audience were thinking ‘I resonate with what you are saying, but how do I make this real in my own life’?

So once a year, I invite 12 people to join Tania and me in exploring the philosophies I have lived and worked by. The goal? A deep understanding of techniques which enable you to find your ‘next right answer’.

Are you ready for the journey? I hope you will join us”

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Those seeking possibility and creativity. (Note: this is not a photography workshop).

DATES

September 9—12 , 2010;  Lake Tahoe, California.

LOCATION

The Stanford Alpine Chalet, North Lake Tahoe, California;
a mountain retreat offering individual accommodations and exclusive use for our group.

FEE

$2,150.00 - $500 not refundable deposit due on registration.
SPECIAL:  Early Bird Registration of $1,995 prior to July 2, 2010.

INCLUDES

3 day retreat program, 3 nights accommodation, 9 gourmet meals, on-site surprises and free access to Dewitt’s videos online post the retreat.

REGISTRATION  *NOTE: The group is restricted to TWELVE (12)

To register or for additional information please email: info@dewittjones.com or call Dewitt's office: [707] 838.4379 (PST).

 

About…

Tania Carriere: Tania Carriere is a leadership consultant and life coach with clients across North America and Europe. As a consultant and coach, Tania has been using Dewitt's work to inspire her clients to create new "right answers" in both their personal and business lives. As a leader in experiential learning, Tania is gifted at creating unique, impactful learning experiences.

Dewitt Jones: Dewitt Jones is one of America's top professional photographers with a career stretching over twenty years. As a motion picture director, he had two films nominated for Academy Awards before he was thirty. Twenty years as a freelance photographer for National Geographic earned him a reputation as a world class photojournalist. Dewitt now speaks to associations and corporations all over the world.

 

Accomodations…

This retreat is held at the Stanford Alpine Chalet in Lake Tahoe. The seclusion of this accommodation provides an ideal setting to shift from the normal busy patterns into a space of reflection, contemplation and gratitude. In nature we find metaphors that encourage us think about our own lives through a different lens. As nature has always been a focus of Dewitt’s photography, it serves as a third teacher and guide in the retreat.

 

Agenda…

This workshop is a chance to develop your creativity, shift your perspective, reconnect with your intuition, and rekindle your sense of passion. Each day you will experience and learn different techniques. You will explore their application in your own life and receive real-time life coaching, and dialogue with Dewitt and Tania.

Further, each participant will have the chance to enlist Tania as their personal coach after the seminar ends. Tania is a master at helping people find the focus, vision and discipline to master
the techniques and achieve their goals.

This experiential discovery program is a truly unique opportunity for you to invest in finding your own "Next Right Answer". Leave inspired not only by Dewitt's messages but by the possibilities that they offer in your own life.

The agenda provided is to give you a sense of a possible range and flow of activities during your time in retreat. Please note however, that Dewitt and Tania take special care and pride to facilitate a flow that will most fully respond to the individual needs of the participants and the discoveries made by the group. We will intentionally give you the opportunity to push against your own edges and step outside of your expectations and your norms.

Thursday September 9, 2010

4 p.m. Arrival and check in

8 p.m. Introductions, Intentions and Principles of discovery

10 p.m. evening journaling

6 p.m. welcome dinner

 

Friday September 10, 2010

6:30 a.m. morning creative process

7:30 a.m. breakfast and free time

9:00 a.m. Vision and Perspective – are you seeing all that is there?

12:00 lunch and free time

2:30 Observing filters and changing energy

6 p.m. dinner

8 p.m. evening creative process

10 p.m. evening journaling

 

Saturday September 11, 2010

6:30 a.m. second morning creative process

7:30 breakfast and free time

9:00 Creativity and Breaking the Pattern?

12:00 lunch and free time

2:30 What story are you living? Personal Mastery

6 p.m. dinner 8 p.m. evening creative process

10 p.m. evening journaling

 

Sunday September 12, 2010

6:30 a.m. third morning creative process

7:30 breakfast and free time

9:00 Gratitude and Abundance

12:00 departure

 

Something To Think About…

An Accelerating Possibility Curve

The times of greatest change hold the most potential.

It was 8 a.m. in the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge.

I’d been photographing snow geese since before dawn. Thousands stop here on their yearly migration and, until an hour ago, the morning sky had been crowded with them. Now however, the sky was empty.

“They’ll bed down right after dawn and won’t get up for anything after that,” the ranger had told me. “About the only thing that frightens them once they’re down is a low-flying plane, and we don’t get many of those around here.”

Well, they were sure “down” now. I could hear them squawking somewhere over the corn rows in front of me. After a good bit of hiking, I found them, thousands of them, in a tiny lake in the middle of the reserve.

I set up my long lens and waited. An hour. Not one flew. Another hour. Nothing. They certainly were “down.”

Shift your attitude

In the heat of the morning, my mind began to wander. Strangely, looking at that empty sky and the immovable snow geese, I found myself thinking about the nature of change. In so many areas of our lives, we simply don’t want it. None of us want to get older, face a new onslaught of IRS regulations, or have our favorite TV series dumped unceremoniously from the airways.

But in photography? There I worship change! Right now, if I thought it would help, I’d get down on my knees and beg for these snow geese to take flight. It’s not the status-quo that makes great photography, it’s change.

How many times have I begged for the weather to shift, for an eyebrow to raise, for the light to become a little more golden? More times than I can count. If I see the value of change so clearly in my photography, why does it frighten me so much in the rest of my life?

Reflect on the potential

As my musing continued, I began to see that this awesome change curve we hear so much about, this phenomenal rate of change in today’s society — was really my ally. In fact, if I viewed it from just a slightly different perspective, it wasn’t a change curve at all, it was a possibility curve.

A possibility curve? Could I see it like that? I knew from my photography that it was true. Change is possibility — and the times of greatest change always hold the most potential.

So why do I dig my heels in so much when things around me start to change? If I did that in my photography, I’d take only one picture, the same picture…over and over and over again.

I believe we do live in a possibility curve, and it’s accelerating. The earth today is like a landscape of turbulent weather or a sky with 10,000 snow geese. Viewed as change, it threatens to overwhelm us. Viewed as possibility…now that’s a much nicer frame, a far more exciting vision.

Embrace change confidently

Perhaps we can’t control the wave of change, but we can learn to ride it…like a surfer off the North Shore of Oahu. To take advantage of the flow and use it to take us where we want to go.

To live in uncertainty, yet act with confidence.

One hundred years ago Charles Darwin wrote, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.” Today he might have penned, “…but the ones who’ve learned to embrace and utilize the possibility curve.”

Far in the distance, I heard the sound of a motor.

Ride the possibility curve

I was still musing. Photography is a great teacher. What a collection of metaphors and lessons. A possibility curve. I was definitely going to think some more about that. The sound of the motor grew louder finally penetrating my reverie. A plane! Holy cornfields, a plane!

I barely had time to get my eye to the lens before the snow geese heard it, too. A ripple of excitement spread out across the pond. Change …possibility was in the air.

Whoosh! Ten thousand wings beat the air at the same moment. The landscape was changing faster than my motor drive could comprehend. And I was right in the middle of it, clicking like mad, riding that ever accelerating possibility curve!