Central Minnesota Women Shine and You Celebrating Community

At Central Minnesota Women Shine we celebrate the talents, solutions and creative gifts each of you offers to the world. We invite you to join us in feeling, expressing, believing and  taking actions to create the community we want to be. This is especially beneficial during the cold, winter months in Central Minnesota with its shorter days and blanket of snow quieting the riot of colors we are blessed with during the other seasons. Winter festivals, holidays and projects color our world and keep our creative  energies flowing. Our communities are bustling with celebrations, service projects and events to expand wealth and wellness for self, family and community. 


Saturday, Dec. 10th a festival, a service project and an initiative celebrate area talents, treasures and solutions:

Central Minnesota Women Shine and You: Finding Gratitude and Joy

Thursday is the official day for Central Minnesota Women Shine Netweavers. The purpose is to take time from our busy lives to share stories, events, accomplishments and celebrate that which nurtures our vitality. This Thursday is Thanksgiving a national holiday which has many different meanings for the women living in Central Minnesota today. For the CMWS netweavers, it is a day to be with family so we will not be at the Ace. We would however be delighted to hear your stories of gratitude and dreams come true.

Remembering, Living in & Creating Moments of Gratitude

Thanksgiving Song - Mary Chapin Carpenter

What special holiday tradition infuses your inner vitality with gratitude. What special tradition do you most like to replay. What new traditions are you creating for your family and community. You can leave a comment here, on facebook or on twitter. You can share your story at our next netweaving or call me Mary Margaret 320-266-5614 if you would share your favorite holiday traditions with roots from other cultures and parts of the world at the December AAUW meeting.

 Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. That's why they call it the present. ~Alice Morse Earle. This is an inviting, validating and inspiring call to action. This is what Central Minnesota Women Shine is all about, expanding out of our past with all of our talents to build on our present gifts  and create the tomorrow of our dreams. So just for the moment, let's celebrate all that for which we are grateful. Remember the holiday traditions our Mothers, Mothers passed on to us and share the feelings, words, sights and foods that we grew up with, that we are creating today and that we dream of for tomorrow.

Happy Thanksgiving,

Mary Margaret and Dara

Do you like this post? We welcome your comments, thank you for sharing and invite you to read about the Mother Polarity and Mommy Polarity at I Game Attitude blog. Ask us how you can be part of  Central Minnesota Women Shine providing resources and solutions for Central Minnesota women's ventures, projects and Initiatives.

Central Minnesota Women Shine and you. The 4 Facets of Wealth

Thanks to all of you who participated in Central Minnesota Women Shine Harvest Festival and Country Store. It was a smashing success and put us well on the path to covering the cost of organizing CMWS 501c3. CMWS netweavers group is growing and In the building: A local and web-base meeting place, store and resource center to support you in building your wealth and wellness story. 


With Central Minnesota Netweavers, business is personal, because we know that your wealth is about more than doing business. We speak of business here in its broadest term defined by Webster as "dealings or transactions especially of an economic nature".) We believe that given the opportunity to  access, develop and express all 4 facets of your wealth, you will walk your royal path and it will benefit all of us. What are these 4 facets and how can we help? I Game Attitude provides the 4 facet, 4 step process and CMWS Netweavers are here to support you on your journey to realize your goals for self, family and communty.

I Game Attitude Concept

Christiane Lavanoux describes 4 fundamental aptitudes to generate wealth in a recent blog post,  The 4 Dimensions of Wealth. They are based on the 4 facets human facets defined by I Game Attitude Concept outlined above.  Access, assess and develop these 4 dimentions in self and you expand your wealth. In doing so, you simultaneously share these 4 dimensions/facets  with Others. This is what Central Minnesota Women Shine Netweavers are doing each Thursday from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. 

Christiane Lavanoux, Co-creator of I Game Attitude

Central Minnesota Women Shine Netweavers

Shine a light on your gems and ours

•         Identify our unique talents and resources
•      Explore our 4 human facets
•         Clarify our goals for self, family and community
•          Develop a next best action to create the world we want to see

When: Every Thursday from 4:30 to 6:30 pm

Where: Our temporary netweaving home is The Ace Café in St. Cloud. 

Contact us to confirm the meeting place: 

    Mary Margaret at 320-266-5614 

    Dara Westra at 320-492-8486. 

    Email marymargaret@centralmnwomenshine.com subject line,         

    "Netweavers Notification."

What to bring: stories, talents, resources, solutions, business cards, event notices. 

Central Minnesota Women Shine believes that each of us is a part of the solution to create thriving 21st Century Communities. Marie Currie calls this  "a shining star within" saying "We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained." At Central Minnesota Women Shine, we describe these gifts as our gems. CMWS Netweavers shines a light on our interactive aptitude/ability to communicate and builds social capital. It is just one facet of this 4 facet, 4 step process to create your wealth and wellness story. We welcome your talents and soltutions. We will support and celebrate you in realizing your goals.

Shine on,


Mary Margaret

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Think Big with Central Minnesota Women Shine: Create and Celebrate our Expanding Community

How you see yourself is also the way you see the world. Do you have to change your vision to get a different picture or should you rather enlarge it and expand it? The latter will definitely help you to 'Think Big'..."  Central Minnesota Women Shine Harvest Festival and Country Store is an opportunity to shine a light on your unique contribution and ours while helping to fund the creation of Central Minnesota Women Shine 501c3. 

Central Minnesota Women Shine provides resources and solutions for women ventures, projects and initiatives. All women just as all men are all part of the solution to create thriving communities in Central Minnesota and in the global marketplace. Yet we know many women have had a difficult time balancing roles and accessing needed resources to realize success.  Dale Hellickson of Sheets Galore is excited to contribute a set of queen size sheets from his business, Sheets Galore. You will find these golden 1,500 count thread sheets on the silent auction table along with Dale's contact information. 

Dale Hellickson, supporter of CMWS and owner of Sheets Galore

Mary Lynn Goenner, Independent Consultant at Scentsy  will join the festivities. Mary Lynn will contribute a surprise item from her Scentsy collection for the silent auction. She is a highly successful and informed business woman and committed to the mission and goals of Central Minnesota Women Shine. Stop by and introduce yourself, share stories, exchange contact information and resources.

Dara Westra of Performance Design Training Center, has accessed her creative abilities and internet know-how to create a QR (Quick Response Code). Add fun and value to the celebration. If QR is new to you, this is the perfect opportunity to practice and or raise your IT IQ. Put on your explore and discover attitutde if  you are new to this technology and we will walk you through the steps to be sure you uncover the secret message and access your prize.

Quick Response Code: The 21st Century Coupon

Christiane Lavanoux  of I Game Attitude says, " To increase your potential means to sharpen, refine and define all of your feelings so you can share the slightest of them. Then it becomes easy to choose: you just pick up and amplify the emotion that moves and thrills you, that awakens and sets in motion your desires and even your most crazy dreams. What is your dream? What moves and thrills you? Expanding access to affordable, whole health products and services; Netweaving, (networking the women's way) to build durable, mutually beneficial relationships;  Women in leadership news and views about and by women; Women ventures, including product development and manufacturing. 

Central Minnesota Women Shine Organizational Board

Central Minnesota Women Shine is here to support and celebrate your expanding vision of self and the world. Together, we are netweaving talents, resources and solutions to create sustainable wealth and wellness in Central Minnesota. 

Do you like this post? Leave a comment, share it with a friend, connect with us on Facebook and  Twitter. Join us at Central Minnesota Women Shine Harvest Festival and Country Store.

LL&L,

Mary Margaret

Central MN Women Shine Harvest Festival: A Celebration of Abundance

 It's harvest time in Central Minnesota.  What better time to celebrate our abundance, share talents and connect than to gather country store fashion with a 21st Century flair. CMWS Harvest Festival and Country Store is the premier fundraising event to kick off CMWS Wealth and Wellness Initiative. Join us on October 17th from 4:30 to 9:00 pm at Mind Body and Spirit Event Center, located between Mind Body Spirt store and Jules Bistro.

CMWS Harvest Festival, downtown St. Cloud

Contribute and or shop products and services crafted, owned and or sold by area folks like the vintage dress seen below. Name your price for the products you bring in. Consider adding an item to our silent auction collection. Purchase tickets for any or all of the 4 fairy tale play sets to be raffled.  These along with items from the children's corner of the store will bring hours of creative fun and learning over the long winter months.

4 Fairy Tale Play Sets

Be sure to bring your stash of cash, bag of gold, check book or credit card as there will surely be a treasure or two you will want to buy. Sign up for an introductory membership to this 21st Century Initiative at a 20th Century price of just $12.00!

You will find the flapper style dress below on CMWS silent auction table. View and share more treasures on CMWS facebook wall: http://www.facebook.com/CMWS4WealthAndWellness

Flapper dress made for Anna White circa 1956
Find this and more treasures at CMWS Silent Auction.

Central Minnesota Women Shine is a concept, a feeling and a belief in our power to thrive. It is women co-creating solutions for women ventures, projects and initiatives. We invite all stakeholders in the future of St. Cloud and its surrounding communities to stop by and celebrate our women, contribute to the cause, share business cards, stories and solutions. Shine a light on your treasures and ours at Central Minnesota Women Shine Harvest Festival and Country Store. All proceeds from contributed items will go to CMWS Wealth and Wellness Initiative.

Mary Margaret, CMWS Netweaver

Photo: Eric Aubry
Gravatar allows us to upload a favorite photo of our self that follows us as we visit each other in the virtual world. If you don’t have your gravatar yet, go grab it at http://en.gravatar.com/. With gravatar, I always welcome you with my best smile and invite you to smile back on me as you  comment on and/or like my posts, products and solutions.

If you haven't yet liked CMWS on FB, please do so http://www.facebook.com/CMWS4WealthAndWellness Facebook like button and comments are the bumper stickers of the 21st century. Comment and or share this blog with friends to expand our solving power. Crisscross local stores, streets and neighborhoods with web-based roadmaps and sites to expand our wealth and wellness.

LL&L,

Mary Margaret

Central MN Women Shine Weaving the Fabric of Community

Central Minnesota Women Shine Netweavers offer a 4 step, 4 facet process to enhance the inner vitality of self and other, co-create solutions that complement the systems in place, provide a conduit to contribute to peaceful prosperity and sustainable financial/material well being. I'm packing up my bags just now to join the CMWS netweavers to tweak the bylaws that will guide us in developing a nonprofit organization that will profit everyone.

We are filled with gratitude for the community members who have already contributed to CMWS Harvest Festival. Sheets fit for a goddess, hand crafted windows, home grown produce and more have been contributed for the CMWS country store, silent auction and fairy tale playset raffle to channel the funds needed for the 501c3 registration.

Dara Westra, of Performance Design Training Center has found the time to create the flyer for this joyful celebration and post it on Central MN Women Shine website.

I'm off to the Ace. Hope to connect with you there.

LL&L,

Mary Margaret

Central MN Women Shine: Express 4 facets of Power and 4 facets of Abundance

All new things begin with an idea...

"Imagination! The future in colorful pictures! According to a Chinese proverb “a picture is worth 1000 words”. The pictures our minds capture are yet another way to express our imaginative power and make our dreams come true. When we imagine our minds are already taking flight, leaping and dancing toward what the future holds, all we have to do is join in!", say the go to ladies at I Game Attitude in the Newsletter, Fall, 2011 

Central MN Women Shine is a co-creative venture and process weaving a tapestry of visions into a richer, healthier Central Minnesota landscape that includes all of our colors and shapes. We are leaping and dancing toward a vibrant future.

What's unfolding today?

CMWS Founding Mothers & Organizational Board

Central MN Women Shine has signed a contract with nonprofit consultant, Marlys Johnson and the Initiative Foundation to develop governance including bylaws, a full board of directors and a first year business plan.

Meet, collaborate and co-create with founding Mothers: Mary Margaret White-Levilain, (far left) and Dara Westra, (second from the right) netweaving talents and solutions with organizational board members: Mary Smith, second from left; Sandi Bernard, third from left and Cynthia Prather, far right.

We Invite Central MN Women to join us each Thursday from 4:30 to 6:30 pm at the Ace Bar and Grill. 

Marla Waseka CMWS Netweaver

Meet CMWS Netweaver, Marla Waseka, of the Olive Branch Retreat. Marla along with business partners, Jessica Town-Gunderson and Sheila Burski have created An Inspirational Women's Entrepreneurs Retreat. Visit the all new Olive branch blog for a full description and an invitation to access a secret business tool that few are aware of .

What role will you play in expanding the wealth and wellness of your 4 human facets? How will you serve the higher purpose of self, family, community and the world?


Express and develop your Power and Abundance with CMWS Netweavers and expand your solving power:

• Join us every Thursday for a netweaving of Central MN Women
• Read and share our Friday Blog
• Visit our website now in construction: http://centralmnwomenshine.com
• Connect with us on Facebook and Twitter

 I Game Attitude offers this definition of 4 facets of Power in a blog post. The excerpt below offers the story in short:

4 expressions of Power as there are 4 expressions of Abundance.

• Emotional Power ~ sound inner vitality and balance
• Social Power         ~ sound cooperative attitude
• Thinking Power   ~ determination, will, leadership
• Physical Power     ~ physical strength to act on your

 To learn more about CMWS Netweaving and Investment opportunities contact us at centralmnwomenshine@gmail.com or call Mary Margaret at 320-266-5614.

Enter the Workplace of the Child and Imagine What You Can Create with Central Minnesotan Women Shine

 You have a vision, fleeting at first like a landscape viewed through the window of a fast moving train. With each passing, the view is etched more clearly in your mind. With action, the seed of your project is fertilized, with breath, voice and intention it is nurtured through the stages of development with the help of talented and innovative co-creators.

It takes a community to build a project just as it takes a village to raise a child, an audience to appreciate a work of art, readers to breathe life into a work of fiction. But life happens and unforseen events and challenges occur that get in the way of the best laid plans. You can let it stop you or take a deep breath and imagine a new way to realize your goals.

The primary care providers of Central Minnesota Women Shine have had several such events in their families from injury to illness, major storm damage, moving, housing family members during transition, the loss of home and IT equipment of a founding Mother and well~life goes on. Christiane Lavanoux of I Game Attitude says, "Free your imagination and find the gift behind each situation." We agree and have seen new possibilities, resources and growth with dawning day.

Central MN Women Shine now has a 5 member organizing team including co-founders and 3 board members. We begin working with expert nonprofit consultant, Myrna Johnson this Friday to develop bylaws, a full board of directors and a first year plan to build a self sustaining resource and solution center for women entrepreneurs, initiatives and ventures. We are each part of the solution as stakeholders in building a thriving 21st century community and global market place. CMWS will specifically address the expanding roles of area women in this process. The Initiative Foundation offered great validation of our beliefs by providing the funding for Marlys to guide us through this organizational process.

We invite all stakeholders to invest in CMWS Wealth and Wellness Initiative. We are all learners in an evolving community and world. Choose one way to connect, validate, invest in area women investing in life long learning, wellness and wealth.

• Follow this blog and share it with friends.
• Follow us on Twitter or Facebook
• Retweet, twitter posts or share an FB posts.
• Purchase raffle tickets for one or all 4 Fairy Tale Play Sets
• email or call us and ask about other ways to invest financially in Central MN Women Shine

About the raffle:

All 4 Fairy Tale Play Sets were donated from the archives of The Growing Tree Day Care and or Early Childhood Classrooms. Each $1.00 ticket purchases a chance for a particular set. The Sets include:

• Winnie the Pooh and Friends with Tree House
• Winnie the Pooh and Friends at the pond
• Dora and Friends with legos playground
• Fisher Price Fairy Tale Family and candy shop

All 4 sets can be viewed at http://www.facebook.com/CMWS4WealthAndWellness

• A treasure trove of early childhood learning materials needing  new homes on short notice
• Other valuable, utile and/or fun objects from several homes were ready to be passed
• Raffle tickets to win one of 4 beloved fairy tale play sets.

Where's Tigger? Someone is always hiding him.

Do you like this post? Share it with friends. Watch for updates and photos these next days on our FB page. Come to our event and take time out from the world you know, to the workplace of the child. Explore, buy and give new life to toys and other goods for home, school, office and play spaces. Ask yourself, "Are you using your imagination daily? Albert Einstein said the imagination is more important than knowledge! Your imagination lays the foundations of your future. You achieve what you believe you can. What do you believe in? What do you feel like believing in? That’s the question. This has nothing to do with magic. What you feel will guide you. You’ll make choices that will lead you to certain people or situations. In turn you’ll act and a chain of events will consciously or unconsciously develop." (Excerpted from IGA Blog). Central Minnesota Women Shine invites your inner child to browse and make purchases with a higher purpose for the child/children in your life while feeding the CMWS Women's Health and Wealth Initiative Fund.  

Live, Love and Laugh,

Mary Margaret

Mary Margaret White-Levilain of  I Game Attitude and Central Minnesota Women Shine

CMWS Netweavers On The Move

CMWS Virtual Happy Hour Netweavers is on the move. Each week we choose a venue and time to celebrate joyful and uplifting stories, treasures and visions of women in Central Minnesota; create a counterbalance to the perceptions of scarcity and struggle; connect on a human level. To follow our weekly social event, go to Central MN Women Shine Facebook Page. If you are unable to join us live, join us on Skype (a free video, group and screen sharing application) at centralmnwomenshine or send us your latest finds, projects and events to expand women's health and wealth via email. 

Like Central MN Women Shine Facebook Page
expand your solving power today

Facebook is the virtual starting point to meet, greet and stay up to date with individuals and groups who  share a value, goal and dream. I Game Attitude Concept and Performance Design Training Center are here to guide you in creating the image, branding and voice that reflects your gifts, contributions and resources. 

Virtual Happy Hour Netweavers
 Cyndi Prather, Dara Westra Sandi Bernard and Diane Larson at Liquid Assets

Who do you connect with, when and why? That is a great question. CMWS FB page is a resource sharing page for women ventures, projects and initiatives. You decide who do be friends with, what pages to like and with whom to share what. A golden rule is that each person you befriend and each page you like offers a mutual benefit. You can create lists, pages and groups to help manage who you share with, when and why. A purposeful social calendar that includes interactions and events through social media venues will enhance your social capital as well as that of others.

Central Minnesota Women Shine's mission is  to provide resources and solutions for women ventures, projects and initiatives in Central Minnesota to achieve our shared goals for self, family and community. 

• Create both a local and virtual platform and space to provide training, marketing strategies and connections to products and services created by area women.
• We will create a website and virtual store for area women to market their ventures and projects.
• We will carry a brand of products and services that will create a sustainable income and cash flow for women's initiatives in Central Minnesota.

CMWS is the non-profit that will profit everyone who welcomes the talents and solutions of women in your community. It is creating the blueprint to build healthy and wealthy communities from the inside out. 

Reports from the latest census, The Humphrey Institute on Women and Public Policy Report, our local, state and federal report cards all indicate there is a need to expand beyond the resources and solutions that are in place. There is a need to break down perceived barriers and broaden our view of self and Other; access all of our resources, (what I Game Attitude refers to as our 4 facets of Power) and welcome all of our talents, roles and possibilities. Welcome and validate the gifts and solutions of Other and weave our talents to create a constelation of health, wealth and wisdom. Each a shining star, autonomous, yet connected. 

Each of us is part of the solution. Each of us has a special gift and our own human resources to offer. Financial investment, just as financial wealth is 1/4th of the solution. Watch for our website and investment opportunities coming this week.  Invest in yourself today by joining our virtual netweavers group. Travel with us around area neighborhoods and gathering establishments; shine a light on your gems and those of women in our community.

To your fabulous success and ours,

Mary Margaret

Central Minnesota Women Shine with I Game Attitude, Performance Design Training Center and You

The world is morphing all around us. Boundaries are blurring and barriers are crumbling. Each of us has a role in the outcome. Central Minnesota Women Shine is listening and net weaving the talents and solutions of area women ventures, initiatives and projects. We are celebrating all of our facets. We are expanding traditional roles and solutions beyond the bake sale and charity ball to realize our goals for self, family and community. 

We believe that every individual just as every community has everything within them to realize their goals. We realize however that development is uneven and we tend to focus on and develop more highly one or two skills or at least compartmentalize them by task. Families as well as communities follow this same pattern which is normal if not natural until we reach a tipping point where circumstances require us to expand. Women leaders in Central Minnesota from all fields, backgrounds, belief systems and walks of life are echoing a national and global movement to look beyond our present perceptions of self and Other in an increasingly diverse community, global market place and technology driven world.   


Mary Margaret White-Levilain of I Game Attitude and Dara Westra of  Performance Design Training Center welcome you to join them and new board members, Mary Smith and Cyndi Prather at Central Minnesota Women Shine, the newly registered non-profit corporation that will profit every one. 

Leaders in business, education, government understand well that the internet, google and social media platforms are changing the way we think, learn, communicate and do business. Hop on the moving train with Central Minnesota Women shine each Wednesday from 4 to 6 pm  for a Happy Hour Virtual Net Weaving at various St. Cloud area venues. If you can't join us live, come to CMWS facebook page. It is a joyful and empowering game of tag to celebrate area women ventures, projects and initiatives. Shine a light on your gems and ours as stakeholders in the shaping of a 21st Century community creating sustainable wealth and wellness. 

Central Minnesota Women Shine

You Dream of A life, A Company, A Community: CMWS is listening

We have a dream job, a dream life dancing inside of us. We are Central Minnesota women who come from all fields, walks of life, belief systems and corners of the world. We are expanding our power to create what we need for self, family and community through a net weaving of aspirations, talents, resources and products for sustainable wealth and wellness.

We celebrate and nurture life individually and collectively in all its facets. We are a collaborative of women, ventures, and projects and initiatives that produce and deliver products and services that: reflect our unique talents and resources, are of value to our community and complement the businesses and institutions already in place. We are creating a living tapestry of the finest materials, and talents we have that are sustainable and you can trust as much as you can trust yourself.

When a woman celebrates her Feminine: nurturing and collaborative side, she opens the door to a Powerful dance with her own Masculine Powers of leadership and productivity, there by providing a mirror for other women who are ready to step into their autonomy as leaders and providers for self, family and community. Autonomous but interconnected, we are women and men each with a special talent and purpose in creating the life of our dreams.

Join us in expanding our patterns of human functioning with Central MN Women Shine, the non-profit that will profit everyone. Subscribe to our blog,  net weave with us at CMWS events and on Facebook to explore and expand Central MN Women ventures, initiatives, projects and products. It is fun, increases your connections with shakers and movers, provides a counterbalance to perceptions of scarcity and conflict offering a call to take a powerful new action towards peaceful prosperity.

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Virtual Happy Hour: Net Weaving Community with Central Minnesota Women Shine

Social Media platforms are just one way to meet, greet and stay in touch with individuals and groups whose values, visions, resources and goals are in line with your own. Happy hour is a time to celebrate your accomplishments of the day, share joyful and uplifting stories treasures and visions, remind friends and clients of upcoming events.

 Perhaps you have not been able to connect with the people who will support you and cheer you on as you build your business or project. Maybe you haven't found the time or place to connect with the people you imagine being in your circle of friends, collaborators, fellow human beings. Time management, lack of a clear plan and uncertainty of how to connect in meaningful ways are challenges that many site as holding them back from accessing and maximizing the power of this growing medium for communication, relationship building and staying connected. 

CMWS Presents an Exciting Platform to Expand Your Solving Power

Adriana Gardella: expert in computer technology, entrepreneur, professor and philanthropist writes, "Why Women Have an Advantage in Technology". The article shines a light on some of the present facts and perceptions as well as the possibilities and promise for women, society and our planet. All of the comments are wonderful and valid as well. The University of MN Humphrey Institute/s Center on Women & Public Policy in partnership with the Women's Foundation of Minnesota reveals that while there remains a gap in workforce and pay equity for women in high paying professions that could evoke unpleasant emotions, a deeper look reveals that hi tech fields are chipping away at the gap faster than other areas.

Adriana's why and how to expand opportunities towards equity is right on and echos the recommendations of Women & Public Policy. We all need to expand our personal perceptions in order to create sustainable wealth and wellness. This requires us to nurture the skills of the masculine and feminine in all of our children and more importantly in ourselves. At Central Minnesota Women Shine we are expanding our power to welcome, validate, envision and create what we need to realize our goals for self, family and community through our netweaving events and projects.

Central Minnesota Women Shine is mirroring the attitudes and processes of a new paradigm for living and doing business in the 21st Century. An I Game Attitude presentation and conference will be filmed in Sydney Australia, the very same day as CMWS' next netweaving event. Whether your field of expertise and passion is technology, marketing, education, invention, human services, wellness or law You will find this experience offers a pragmatic and exciting platform to expand your solving power and ours. We welcome your voice~your vision~your solutions.

At a recent AAUW meeting, St. Cloud area branch, we discussed the findings of the Women and Public Policy report and noted a trend that Adriana pinpointed as well. Men in technology and engineering fields recognize the traditionally female/feminine attributes of being more collaborative and intuitive. This leads to better products. It is by bringing together the powerful masculine skills of leadership and production with the feminine skills of collaboration and openness that we will create the peaceful prosperity that is just beyond these perceptions of inequity and scarcity.

Hop on this moving train with us, cut through the landscape that is hiding the view.  Join us at Central Minnesota Women Shine netweaving this Wednesday and expand your solving power for living and doing business in the 21st Century.

Do you like this post? Feel the vibrance: subscribe to this blog.  Be seen: Like CMWS on FB and be heard: join us at CMWS Netweaving event. Take a powerful, validating and welcoming action and become a member of CMWS cooperative. Add to your social capital and validate these great collaborators in creating peaceful prosperity: Like AAUW St. Cloud area branch on FB; Follow CMWS on twitter .

I Game Attitude: Solar or Lunar? Positive or Negative

Most limitations are self-imposed. Our challenge is to overcome them and be the whole human being we are meant to be. The world situation reflects this limited state of being. Our limiting  beliefs originate in our Lunar  Father Polarity. Yes, our 4 polarities may manifest themselves in their Solar or Lunar light. There is nothing wrong with our Lunar light, it’s a stage of development. Let’s understand that negative and positive are two ends of the same process. Think of  the different stages of germination, growing is done from the rich darkness and moisture of the soil to the warm and open sunlight, both nurtures the seed. The mourning process follows the same path. And so does creativity.
To reach our full potential we have to understand and welcome Lunar, “negative” and Solar, “positive” states not as opposites: not as good and bad, but as a process, weaving the fabric of our growth. Exploring our Lunar light  invites us to an awareness of our internal paradoxes, making us grow stronger each time by understanding our self better and letting go of any feeling of guilt or rejection.  Boosting our Solar light reinforces our balance and harmony as a result.
It’s up to us to learn about our 4 polarities and how they manifest themselves in their Solar or Lunar ambiance. It’s up to us to set up an internal ecology monitor to check the validity of our actions because if there’s nothing wrong with Lunar, staying in Lunar ambiance indefinitely can be disastrous.
Step 1:  Become aware of the Lunar, “negative”  thoughts and beliefs that keep you from growing, from getting what you want and need. Step 2: Bring your beliefs in line with your feelings: Welcome the pain of the loss or rejection you have experienced. Step 3: Validate your ability to create something new. Step 4: Take a Solar, “positive” action with your glowing self esteem to create the vibrant, rich life you are meant to realize.
At Central Minnesota Women Shine, we uncover our talents, shining a light on self and others with The I Game and I Game Attitude as we:

We welcome all stakeholders in Central Minnesota empowering women to shine in all of our facets to join our FB page Central MN Women Shine. Follow us on twitter. Join us for our next netweaving event:

If you believe in this paradigm, click here and become a fan of: I Game Attitude to raise self and collective consciousness. 

This post was co-authored by Christiane Lavanoux and Mary Margaret White-Levilain of I Game Attitude. CMWS co-founders Dara Westra of Performance Design Training Center and Mary Margaret White-Levilain of I Game Attitude are co-hosting the netweaving event.

Talahi Second Graders at The White House Children's Garden Project

Talahi Second Grade Volunteers and Teachers Ready, Set, Plant

Thursday, May 25th was a perfect day for planting and that's what 8 second grade volunteers did with the help of their science and math teachers, parents and several volunteers from Stearns History Museum. The second grade class at Talahi Community School along with their teaching team planted the first seeds for The White House Children's Garden Project at their school last month. The whole class participated in the seed planting and care of these sturdy young tomatoes, turnips, beans along with other vegetables and herbs that will be cared for this summer by children.

Volunteer Planters from Talahi Second Grade Class

The Talahi students participation in this project is now done. The grounds keeping staff and community volunteers from AAUW, RSVP and CMWS will take care of the young seedlings until June 9th when area children ages 7 to 11 will pick up their garden trowels, hoes and claws to plant more seeds and care for the garden throughout the summer as part of the learning and fun filled White House Children's Garden Project.

The 10 week program meets on Thursdays from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. To learn more and/or register your child, contact Stearns History Museum.

We are grateful to the wonderful 2nd grade team of teachers, students and support staff, The Stearns History Museum and the volunteers for shining a light on our gems as a community. We hope that if you are in the St. Cloud area this summer, you will stop by Stearns History Museum to see the project in action and view The Working White House exhibit from which the garden project sprang.

Do you like this post? We welcome your comments. Join Central Minnesota Women Shine on Facebook and Twitter. Contact us at CMWS to learn about our services, products and growing cooperative.

CMWS is expanding how can you participate?

Central Minnesota Women Shine is expanding through a netweaving of area women leaders from all fields, belief systems, cultures and walks of life. Our mission is to unleash the power of women entrepreneurs, initiatives and non-profits in Central Minnesota to achieve our shared goals for self, family and community. Our goal is to create both a local and virtual platform and space to provide training, marketing strategies and connections to products and services created by area women.

We are here to complement the systems already in place, i.e. we will work with area women to develop products and services based on our unique talents and resources that are not yet easily accessible and provide affordable marketing both locally and globally.

The CMWS cooperative provides affordable training and consulting services based on our netweaving model for living and doing business in the 21st Century. In the future, we will add a host of other services to include wellness, finance etc and will benefit Central Minnesota families. We will be looking for group insurance policies and investment opportunities for members and their families. Members would be individuals, businesses, initiatives or non-profits that support the goals of area ventures for women, children and community.

Mary Margaret White-Levilain of I Game Attitude LLC and Dara Westra of Performance Design Training Center LLC are the first investors in this project that is an organization, a netweaving network, and cooperative. We have created a basic framework based on input from various local women, and our own expertise and philosophies as a life coach and a software/softskills trainer.

Join us in this joyful and empowering journey to create the thriving community we all want to be and share this opportunity with your networks.

• Join us on Facebook, blogs, websites and other netweaving platforms  in the virtual world.

• Join us for a weekly social hour to share ideas, stories and just connect as human beings.

• Join us monthly for netweaving events to uncover the unique talents and resources we have to offer the world while boosting our own wealth and wellness. 

• become a member and share information about products and services developed in the Central Minnesota Area and discover more about the wants and needs of our community.

All events will be posted on our Facebook Page as well as the St. Cloud Times.

Thank you for your willingness to bring your energies and creativities to the table to help the women of Central Minnesota Shine.

Mary Margaret and Dara

Community Building with Central Minnesota Women Shine

Central MN Women Shine

Women leaders in Central Minnesota from all fields, backgrounds, belief systems and walks of life assert something new is needed to empower women to realize goals for self, family and community. These courageous women have stepped outside personal and collective comfort zones, looked beyond present perceptions and limits to explore possibilities. On May 11th, 13 of these women came together to share their visions, passions, resources and challenges as stakeholders in creating what we need to thrive: to feel our efforts are making a difference, that our voices are heard, that our care taker natures are balanced with self care and mostly we need to graciously accept a cash flow that validates the gifts and value we bring to our community.

If we are to realize these goals and maintain a balance of wealth in the emotional, social, mental and physical domains, we are going to have to create it.

Performance Design Training Center and I Game Attitude are joining forces through a netweaving of the talents and openness of area women with the ever growing needs of area organizations, government, educational institutions and businesses to create and sustain wealth and wellness in our community. 

How does this work? We provide a safe and welcoming space, expertise, technology and support to connect the talents of area women with whatever you need in the area of local and global communications, product design, manufacturing and wellness. We help you to access the talents that are already here to create what you need while providing a sustainable income for women who are creative and open but may not have found their voice or lack resources needed to start out on their own.

What exactly do we do? This will evolve over time as our community needs change. Our main service, (what we see is most needed for the moment) is growing and managing virtual communications including social media platforms in a safe, respectful and profitable manner. We will also be conducting a survey of talents and needs to see what unique product or services area women could design and manufacture. We are essentially creating a bridge between the feminine skills of care taking and relationship building with the masculine skills of leadership and wealth building within and between individuals and groups.

Our next step is to explore the best business structure and cash flow for this new model that is a business, organization, concept and training center with a focus on the whole person, family and community. Over the next month we will be developing our business plan, and start our search for initial investors and participants.

We have had an overwhelming response from individuals ready to be a part of this. Leave your comments and questions here. If you are ready to invest in Central Minnesota Women Shine, take your own life to a new level, call us today at 266-5614 and ask for Mary Margaret to learn about I Game Attitude Leadership training to be a part of Central Minnesota Women Shine.