Next Retreat: July 2006, Monmouth County, NJ

The Realtor's  Retreat

Relaxation, Rejuvenation And Restoration Techniques
to Help You & Your Employees Work More Effectively and Efficiently.

The Realtor's Retreat is an experience designed to make your staff more resilient to stress, giving them specific tools to help them relax the body, quiet the mind, and calm anxious nerves. Along with feeling great, this retreat will also directly impact your business. You'll not only gain the appreciation of your staff, you'll be giving them tangible methods for managing the daily demands of being a real estate agent.

It's known that unhappy, dissatisfied and stressed real estate agents can translate into high turnover, administrative conflicts, unhappy customers, and diminished productivity.

Consider these statistics:

• 45% of all adults suffer adverse health effects due to stress.
• 75-90% of all visits to doctors are for stress-related complaints or disorders.
• In 2000, over $150 million was lost by U.S. companies due to stress-related absenteeism.

But you don't need statistics to confirm how stress impacts the quality work in your office. What happens when your staff is unable to effectively manage the number of tasks in the day? How do they treat others when they are frazzled? Do they pick up the phone to get referrals during these times?

Stress management programs are essential in minimizing the cumulative and negative affects of stress. These long-term effects disrupt lives by creating an ongoing state of imbalance. Symptoms of an overload of stress can result in:

• Chronic fatigue
• Anger at those in authority
• Self-criticism for putting up with real and perceived demands
• Inability to juggle multiple priorities
• Cynicism, negativity, irritability
• Errors in judgment and critical mistakes
• Addictions or other attempts to self-medicate
• Illness & Absenteeism
• Major illness, accidents and disease

It's vitally important to begin with a retreat from stress. Retreats provide participants with an opportunity to become aware of their accumulative stress, to reduce it, and to feel valued and appreciated. Organizations that provide retreat experiences for their employees on a regular basis tend to see an increase in employee satisfaction and productivity. And, over time, retreat experiences help employees build and maintain stress immunity. This means your staff becomes more resilient to the demands of real estate, handling everyday stress with more grace and ease. Successful retreats are those that are carefully structured to weave together the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual dimensions of work and life.

THE PROGRAM
Using gentle hatha yoga, music, movement, art, guided imagery, meditation, self-reflection and various individual, small & large group exercises the participants will have many opportunities to let go and have a deep, personal experience of relaxation and inspiration. Boundaries, clearly stated at the beginning will help establish trust and provide safety. The mind/body connection will be stimulated by the combination of lecture and experiences.  And,  there will be ample time allowed for individual processing as well as group processing.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

A twenty-year veteran of the real estate industry,  Ida Cullen knows first-hand the demands of being a realtor. Her real estate experience includes successful sales shown by receiving MCAR Million-Dollar Club status. She has worked as an office manager doubling the size of her office in one year. For more than 10 years she also worked as trainer of new & experienced agents. Along with her extensive real estate knowledge & experience, Ida is certified in a number of holistic modalities, including Yoga, Yoga therapy, Feng Shui and Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP). Since 1999 she has worked exclusively as a consultant delivering wellness programs to different audiences nation-wide.

LOGISTICS
The minimum program length is 4 hours and can be expanded to a full day if desired. Onsite chair massage for all day programs is available for an additional fee. Minimum participation is 12-15 people and the maximum is 40.

The retreat can be held either at your location or at an outside location. In either case, the space should be large enough to allow the participants to lie and stretch on the floor as well as to move around the room. Lighting needs to be flexible to allow for high and low light. Chairs should be available but tables are unnecessary. A sound system is necessary. You can arrange the location or Time and Space Consulting will secure the facility. Room rental fees will be included in your quote.

Each program is customized to the audience. As such, the fee varies. A quote reflective of your program will be created after we have thoroughly discussed your needs. A 20% deposit is required to hold a calendar date. Deposit is refundable up to 2-weeks prior to event. Within 2 weeks of event, the deposit is forfeited.

TO REGISTER FOR NEXT RETREAT OR TO SCHEDULE ONE FOR YOUR COMPANY CONTACT:

Ida Cullen, Time & Space Consulting, LLC
560 Main St. Suite 2C
PO Box 45
Allenhurst, NJ , 07711
Telephone: (732) 531.9013
or by email.