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