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7/18/2017 Prof Dev: Yoga Breathing for Health and Happiness

Yoga Breathing for Health and Happiness
And those times when screaming into a pillow just isn’t an option.

When: Tuesday, July 18, 2017, 10 to 11am
Where: Norris Medical Library West Conference Room

Come learn a few easy yoga breathing techniques you can do at your desk or anywhere with yoga teacher, Lisa Moncure.
Yoga Breathing for Health and Happiness
And those times when screaming into a pillow just isn’t an option.
When: Tuesday, July 18, 2017, 10 to 11am
Where: Norris Medical Library West Conference Room
RSVP: http://uscwim.org/calendar.asp

Come learn a few easy yoga breathing techniques you can do at your desk or anywhere with yoga teacher, Lisa Moncure.

Some possible benefits of a regular practice of simple, deep breathing include:
• Increased energy levels
• Muscle relaxation
• Lower/stabilized blood pressure
• Decreased feelings of stress
• Reduced emotional and nervous anxiety
• Increased lung capacity
• Released acute and chronic muscular tensions around the heart and digestive organs
• Encourages proper nervous stimulus to the cardio-vascular system
• Improved detoxification through increased exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen
• Amplifies the auto immune system by increased distribution of energy to the endocrine system
• Calms the mind and integrates the mental/physical balance

Click for pdf flyer

Reservation and cancellation deadline is July 17, 2017. Please email Ginger Mayerson at mayerson@usc.edu. Checks must be received by July 11 to Ginger Mayerson (MC 0281) to facilitate check-in. RSVPs will be voided on July 12 if checks are not received to accommodate the waiting list. WIM is responsible for each RSVP, so kindly bear in mind that there is no refund for no-shows. Please call Ginger at 323-384-6049 if you have any questions.
Dates and times subject to change, please RSVP to be notified.
Seating is limited, please RSVP at http://www.uscwim.org/calendar.asp ASAP.

Click here for the whole 2017 WIM HSC Summer Program post


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July 27, 2017: HSC Book Club Poet Tea with Lynne Thompson

Poet Tea with Lynne Thompson

This is a free book club meeting like all WIM book club meetings, just this one has a wonderful poet, tea and snacks with it. See below on what and where to read Ms. Thompson’s poetry, if you are so inclined. Or just come for the snacks (but RSVP so we have enough snacks, thanks).
When: Thursday, July 27, 2017, 5-7pm
Where: Norris Medical Library West Conference Room

Lynne Thompson is the author of “Start with a Small Guitar” (What Books Press, 2013) and “Beg No Pardon” (Perugia Press, 2007). She received a Master Artist Fellowship from the City of Los Angeles for 2015-16.

Ms. Thompson’s “Beg No Pardon” won the 2007 Perugia Press Book Award and the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Award. A Pushcart Prize nominee and the author of three chapbooks, “We Arrive By Accumulation”, “Through a Window” and “Jezebels on the Loose”, Ms. Thompson received commissions from Emory University and Scripps College to write poems in collaboration with a choreographer and a sculptor, respectively. Thompson’s poems have previously appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Salamander as well as the anthologies New Poets of the American West and Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes & Shifts of Los Angeles. Thompson lives in Los Angeles, California, where after 20 years, she retired from her position as Director of Employee & Labor Relations at UCLA. (Further proof that not even a day job can keep a poet from the pen!)

You can read Ms. Thompson’s poetry on these websites: http://www.poetry.us.com/lynnethompson.html https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/lynne-thompson as well as http://www.graphitejournal.com/lynne-thompson/ where she provides some insights to her writing philosophy.

Lynne mentioned she’d be reading from Start with a Small Guitar
(http://www.whatbookspress.com/start-with-a-small-guitar.html), also available at Amazon if you’d like to own it, Beg No Pardon, or Jezebels on the Loose.

Click here for pdf flyer

This event is a meeting of the USC Women in Management HSC Book Club.
This is a FREE event. RSVP deadline is July 20, 2017 so we can get the catering worked out. Please email Ginger Mayerson at mayerson@usc.edu. Please call Ginger at 323-384-6049 if you have any questions. Dates and times subject to change, please RSVP to be notified.
Seating is very limited, please RSVP at http://www.uscwim.org/calendar.asp ASAP and see the WIM Blog at http://www.uscwim.wordpress.com for more detail.

And here’s a photo from our previous poets tea in February of our past WIM president, Stacy Patterson, and our future WIM president, Kristin Moe, enjoying themselves. The lady next to Stacy is Liz Camfiord of Beyond Baroque Foundation and Penguin Books who was instrumental in publishing “Wide Awake,” the book we read for the event in February. Click here for a few more photos of that very fun event.

As always, you don’t have to be a member of WIM to enjoy the WIM book clubs, however, if you are ever so inclined…


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WIM UPC Book club – Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Updated: July 10th … new date!

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
By Gail Honeyman
Book Club meeting: Friday, AUGUST 4th, Noon to 1pm
Ralph & Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) room 103
For more information about the book, https://goo.gl/6z5fU2
Please RSVP at http://www.uscwim.org/calendar.asp in case there are updates!

Contact Aubrey if you’ve got any questions.

Book description:

Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart.

Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same clothes year in, year out), means that Eleanor has become a creature of habit (to say the least) and a bit of a loner. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.

But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kind of friends who rescue each other from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one.

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is the story of a quirky yet lonely woman whose social misunderstandings and deeply ingrained routines could be changed forever—if she can bear to confront the secrets she has avoided all her life. But if she does, she’ll learn that she, too, is capable of finding friendship—and even love—after all.

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine flyer (1)

 

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WIM HSC Summer Program

Updated July 17: Click here for updated pdf Summer Program flyer; Updated July 13: good to go on Yoga Breathing, thanks everyone; Updated July 12 to add name and description to 8/8 prof dev biking session; Updated July 11 to add note on Yoga Breathing; Updated July 10 to add prices for events; Updated July 6 to add August 8 biking Prof Dev session (see below).

The first ever WIM HSC Summer Program:

Yoga Breathing for Health and Happiness
(and those times when screaming into a pillow isn’t an option)
July 18, 2017 10:00-11:00am
Yoga teacher Lisa Moncure shows us various breathing techniques to get calm and centered when the stress goes up, and how to use breathing to boost your energy naturally, especially around that mid-afternoon slump. More information on this event closer to the date. Seating is very limited, so please don’t delay submitting your RSVP.
Norris Medical Library West Conference room
FREE for WIM members; $10 for non-members

Mixer at Edmondson Lounge
Unwind with WIM.
July 20, 2017 4-7pm
Edmondson Lounge. Please RSVP in case Edmondson changes the date (this happens sometimes).
FREE to all.

Luncheon with Dr. Barbara Ferrer
Director of LA County Public Health
July 28, 2017 Noon to 1:30
More information on this event closer to the date. Seating is very limited, so please don’t delay submitting your RSVP.
Norris Medical Library West Conference room
$18 for WIM members; $20 for non-members

Learning Google Hangouts
August 2, 2017 8:30-9:30
Rev up your speakers and microphone and learn how fun and useful Google Hangouts can be for you.
Online course, so need you to RSVP so we can email the GH link to you.
FREE for WIM members; $10 for non-members

Citizen Cycling – a quick and fun guide to urban bike riding
August 8, 2017 9:00-10:00am
Josef Bray-Ali and Susan Wong discuss biking in LA, especially the HSC part of LA, biking to work, and biking for fun. It’s all about gear, dressing for bike riding success, safety (hear stories about every possible crazy thing that can happen to riders in this part of LA), and the benefits of biking as often as possible. All your biking questions will be answered on August 8. Children under 18 may attend for free if accompanied by a responsible adult. RSVP closes on Friday, August 4, at NOON. Seating is very limited, so please don’t delay submitting your RSVP. Thanks.
Norris Medical Library West Conference room
FREE for WIM members; $10 for non-members

Using Google Drive
August 9, 2017 8:30-9:30
Spend some time with the most useful tool in the admin toolbox.
Online course, so need you to RSVP so we can email the GH link to you.
FREE for WIM members; $10 for non-members

Mixer at Edmondson Lounge
August 15, 2017 4-7pm
Unwind again with WIM.
Edmondson Lounge. Please RSVP in case Edmondson changes the date (this happens sometimes).
FREE to all.

Joy, Success and Meaning: Creating the Balance you Desire
August 17, 2017 Noon to 1:30
Are you living the life you have always wanted, or are you just going through the motions of every day? This workshop introduces a structured method to help you identify the most important areas in your life and to focus with intention on the areas that you want to improve. You will leave this workshop knowing what is important to you and excited about making positive changes in various areas of your life. You may be discussing topics of a personal nature (but you don’t have to), so please come with an open mind and agree to keep everything said confidential. Facilitated by Elaine Padilla, Ana Nguyen, and Kristine Moe. Seating is very limited, so please don’t delay submitting your RSVP.
Norris Medical Library East Conference room
FREE for WIM members; $10 for non-members

Dates and times subject to change, please RSVP to be notified.


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5 Ways To Get A Raise

“The other day, a client shared with me her financial situation at work, and asked some probing questions about money, salary, compensation and promotions that revealed a good deal about her personal money story and behavior.

“She shared this: ‘Kathy, I’m not earning nearly what I should be, despite asking for a raise repeatedly (and being told ‘Not now’). I just don’t know what else to do. And I can’t figure out why I chronically under-earn compared to my peers at the same level. What should I do differently?’

“We delved into her relationship with money overall, including the salaries she’s been earning, how and when she asks for a raise, ways in which she advocates and negotiates for herself, if she has sponsors and mentors, and other key factors impacting her level of success. …

“What are the core factors behind why we’re able to consistently grow our salaries and job earnings?”
“5 Ways To Get A Raise And Earn More Money, And Why So Many Don’t,” by Kathy Caprino, Women@Forbes, May 30, 2017


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2017/18 WIM BOARD ELECTIONS

Hello!

Do you like organizing parties?
Do you like networking with your peers?
Do you like presenting speakers new and exciting ideas?

Well, nominating yourself for a spot on the USC Women in Management Board might be right for you!

Feel free to contact Stacy Patterson to nominate yourself for role on the WIM Board this coming year. If you’d like more information about all this WIM wonderfulness, please take a look at our Board and Board Members on this webpage http://www.uscwim.org/officerdir.asp and feel free to contact any one of us to discuss your potential future on the WIM Board should you decide to throw your very chic hat in the ring this year.

But don’t delay! Time is running out to nominate yourself for an exciting adventure on the WIM Board.

You do have to be a WIM member to stand for a WIM Board Member position, so…

It’s fun and easy.

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June 23, 2017: UPC Book Club “Death is a Lonely Business”

WIM Brown Bag Book Club

Death is a Lonely Business

by Ray Bradbury

ISBN 9780380789658

Next Meeting: Friday, June 23, 2017, Noon to 1:00

Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) room 308

More information: https://goo.gl/SMQ05I

Please RSVP at http://www.uscwim.org/calendar.asp in case there are updates.

Death is a Lonely Business flyer

 

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June 19, 2017: HSC Book Club: “Nudge”

WIM HSC Book Club
Monday, June 19, 2017
Noon to 1:00pm
Norris Medical Library West Conference Room
Next book:
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
ISBN: 978-0143115267
More book information: http://nudges.org/
RSVP, helpful, but not necessary: http://uscwim.org/calendar.asp

click for pdf flyer

In the most recent issue of The Economist magazine, there’s an article mentioning the authors of “Nudge,” leading me to wonder if The Economist magazine is stalking me again. An interesting read, nonetheless:
http://www.economist.com/news/international/21722163-experimental-iterative-data-driven-approach-gaining-ground-policymakers-around

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May 15, 2017: HSC Book Club — The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

WIM Brown Bag Book Club
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”
by Rebecca Skloot ISBN 978- 0307888444
Next Meeting: Monday, May 15, 2017, Noon to 1:00
Norris Medical Library East Conference Room, HSC
More information: http://rebeccaskloot.com/the-immortal-life/
Please RSVP at http://www.uscwim.org/calendar.asp in case there are updates.

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May 1, 2017: WIM Prof Dev: The Art of Negotiation

WIM Professional Development
The Art of Negotiation
with Sabrian Pasztor
When: May 1, 2017, Noon to 1:30pm
Where: USC Tower, 1150 S. Olive Street, 29th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Getting there: Please take UPS Shuttle to City Center at 11:30 a.m. or if you prefer to car pool, parking is available at the parking lots around the Center for $12 a day.
Cost: $10 non-members; FREE for WIM members
Please RSVP at http://uscwim.org/calendar.asp

click for pdf flyer