Speaker series AND WORKSHOPS

DECLUTTER YOUR HOUSE, DECLUTTER YOUR MIND

Tuesday, January 28th in Newtonville. Register here: https://thedoingcircle.org/event-5987717 

Kristi Perry will share strategies for preparing for significant life transitions, whether you're downsizing, moving yourself or aging parents, or simply decluttering and refreshing your living spaces. If you're feeling overwhelmed by storage areas filled with outgrown kids' clothing, toys, and family memories, or by the process of deciding what to do with excess furniture, dated antiques, and family heirlooms, Kristi will offer simple strategies on how to start, sort, save, sell, or rehome unwanted items. Additionally, she will provide expert tips on managing these important yet often daunting decisions and projects, from clearing crammed closets and piles of papers to refreshing your home furnishings and décor. Kristi's guidance will help you approach these tasks with confidence and clarity.

As the owner of Art of the Space since 2020, a former 30-year public relations and crisis management professional and mother of three grown children who has moved and downsized herself and many others several times in the last two decades, Kristi has seen firsthand how comforting it is to have guidance in triaging and tackling these major milestones. She looks forward to sharing how to tap into local resources and create a strategic action plan that will help you feel calm and in control.

A CONVERSATION ABOUT ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE: CURRENT RESEARCH AND LIFESTYLE INTERVENTIONS

Wednesday, March 5th in Newton Center. Register here: https://thedoingcircle.org/event-5994409 

Please join us for a presentation and discussion with Meg Smith, CEO of Cure Alzheimer’s Fund.  Meg will provide highlights of current research supported by the Fund and speak about new diagnostics and therapeutics targeting Alzheimer’s pathology.  She will also discuss lifestyle factors scientifically proven to reduce risk and share potential interventions to help those around you.

Meg Smith was appointed Chief Executive Officer of CureAlz in October 2023. Meg joined the non-profit in 2015, successfully building and managing the research program resulting in important progress and new discoveries. Meg started her career with McKinsey & Company after clerking for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and serving as a Fellow at the Berkman (now Berkman Klein) Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Meg holds a juris doctor degree from Harvard Law School and a bachelor of science degree from Duke University.

LIVING IN ALIGNMENT: TAPPING YOUR CORE VALUES 

Spring 2025

In this interactive session, coach Dr. Sarah Birkeland will lead you through a series of exercises that illuminate your core values. Each of us has developed a unique constellation of values that drive our decisions and form the foundation of our identities. Feelings of burnout or dissatisfaction often stem from spending our energy on tasks that are out of alignment with those deeply held beliefs about what matters most. When we surface, name, and embrace those values, we can say “yes” to things that honor them and “no” to things that don’t, building a more joyful and fulfilling future. This session will get you thinking, writing, moving, and talking about what you most care about. You will leave with clarity about the values that guide you and a planned first step toward greater alignment.

Sarah is a Newton-based life and leadership coach with a bachelor’s degree in English from Stanford University, a master’s in Education Psychology from the University of Colorado, and a doctorate in Education from Harvard. She completed coach training through the Co-Active Training Institute and is a member of the International Coaching Federation. She has spent her career asking powerful questions to foster others’ learning as a teacher, qualitative researcher, continuous improvement consultant, and now coach.  As the mom of two increasingly independent teenaged daughters, she is actively engaged in designing the next chapter of her life, saying “yes” to things that align with her values (like this session!) and “no” to things that don’t. She looks forward to engaging in this journey will all of you.