Celebrate Goddesses – Facilitators/Speakers

A Weekend of Light
March 28 & 29, 2008

Auburn Downtown Theatre
Auburn, New York

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Sheila Applegate

Experience
Sheila has a Bachelor’s Degree of Social Work (BSW) from Syracuse University and a Master’s Degree in Clinical Social Work (MSW) from the University of Maryland. Sheila also received her certification in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). She has worked for Aurora of Central New York as a play therapist for blind children and their families and at a school for children with emotional and behavioral problems. Sheila’s extensive experience also includes having worked as a psychotherapist for individuals, groups, and families at SUNY Health Science Center, Oneida Indian Nation Family Services and the Onondaga Nation School. At Vera House, a shelter and advocacy program for people affected by domestic violence, she worked as a therapist and community advocate, supporting and empowering women and children in crisis situations and in courtroom settings. Sheila’s education and experience as a therapist have provided a solid foundation for and natural segue into her work as a spiritual reader and healer.

Spiritual Background
Sheila has always been intuitive but was not consciously aware of any particular spiritual gifts she had while growing up. In college, she learned to meditate and took courses in comparative religion, which set her on a lifelong journey of spiritual practice and exploration. In 1992, through her work with Reverend Joan Lee at the First Congregation of Infinite Light in Syracuse, New York, she became aware of her ability to work with spirit guides and developed a deeper connection with them. She took classes in healing and prophecy, used her gifts by giving spiritual readings to members of the congregation, and eventually gained a certificate in prophecy. In 1998, she branched out on her own to do spiritual readings and healing work full time, and received certification as an Ordained Minister through the Light of Divine Truth Foundation.

Work with Clients
Sheila Applegate is a gifted spiritual reader and healer, and a very high level intuitive and clairvoyant who can describe guides, people, and situations with astonishing detail and accuracy. She is able to clearly see the guides, angels, and Ascended Masters of her clients, and facilitates communication between these guides and her clients in order to provide information about their spiritual progress, relationships, and other practical, everyday issues from a higher perspective. This is an ability that Sheila has developed through years of diligent practice, and one of her main goals as a teacher and spiritual reader is to help others understand that they too, possess this innate ability. She encourages them to learn to connect directly with their own guides and spiritual teachers in the same way. Through readings and classes with Sheila, her clients learn to develop and trust their own intuition, and to use their spiritual readings with Sheila as a means of empowerment. Sheila’s belief is that she is not the source of healing, but rather the vehicle through which the Creator’s energy flows.

Mary Schechter

Experience
Principal, Next Step Consultants & LifeWorkNow Empowerment Practice
• Motivational Speaker
• Intuitive Channel
• Trainer & Consultant to Business
• Employee Training
• Facilitation & Consulting
• Motivational Speaking
• Intuitive Counsel

Whether as motivational speaker, intuitive channel or consultant to business, Mary is known for her ability to connect with her clients immediately, inspiring them to their potential as she leads them through personal and organizational change.

As the principal of LifeWorkNow Empowerment Practice, she is the creator of the LifeKeys seminar and Visions of Heaven-Lessons In Light series, designed to help people find their true LIFEWORK purpose and passion. Based on the six keys to Life-Balance, she facilitates personal change using universal principals and intuitive practice as part of “everyday” life.

Spiritual Background
Given the ability of intuitive vision since a child, Mary has cultivated this gift to assist others in their life-journeys.

Expressing clairvoyance and clairaudience as a child, Mary will receive information which can include, but is not limited to higher self guidance from your IAM presence, your guidance entourage, or Guardian Angels, or those who have crossed over. As a channel, she works with every client by aligning herself first with the IAM presence and then including the information presented by vibrating in alignment with the clients divine plan pattern. Evoking the greatest joy alongside the learning opportunities presented by spirit, information is always serving your best self and highest potential.

Developing inner awareness and the courage to use it in everyday situations is both her gift and desire as she works with individuals and groups. When each of us recognizes that our presence on this planet is not a random chance, but a deliberate choice, we begin to move into our fullest potential as creators and human beings.

Work with Clients
Mary Schechter, is both motivational speaker and Principal of Next Step Consultants, a consulting and training practice dedicated to maximizing organizational effectiveness, employee skill potential and personal accountability.

Offering on-site facilitation/training, consulting and individual coaching in the areas of employee retention, productivity, performance coaching and assessment, her specific expertise is applied NLP (NeuroLinguisticProgramming) in the areas of leadership and peak performance. As a certified PHR, with the national organization, SHRM, she holds expertise in Human Resources Training.

Her professional experience draws upon time spent in manufacturing, engineering, hi-tech, services such as health care, insurance, education and banking, human services and government. Selected organizations with which she has worked include AT&T, Sithe Industries, Saint Lawrence Explosives, Blasland, Bouck and Lee, Inc. Niagara Mohawk/National Grid, Syracuse University, Carrier UTC, Philips Broadband Networks and Lockheed Martin, Medical Management Resources Inc., US ARMY and New York State.