Green Valley Women’s Conference — bring your best self

The 2007 Green Valley Women’s Conference celebrates women once again with “Women of the World: Healthy, Wealthy & Wise—Being Your Best Self,” Friday, Oct. 12, in the Ballroom at the Madera Clubhouse at Quail Creek Resort Community, 2055 E. Quail Crossing Blvd.

The conference is scheduled 9 a.m.-3:15 p.m. Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m.

Tickets, which include the conference and lunch, are $20 and are available at the La Vista front desk at La Posada; the Green Valley News & Sun, Suite 42 in the Green Valley Mall, and at the Madera Clubhouse in Quail Creek. Tickets are limited.

Sponsored by the Green Valley News & Sun and La Posada at Park Center, the conference will feature a variety of speakers focusing on many ways women work to becoming their best selves.

The Women’s Conference Committee is composed of Pam Mox, publisher of the Green Valley News & Sun; Lisa Israel, president and CEO of La Posada; Joyce Finkelstein, executive director of the Green Valley Community Coordinating Council; Mary Roush, president of the board of Casa de Esperanza; and Val Roehl of the Women of Quail Creek.

Returning to the Green Valley Women’s Conference is Jana Stanfield.

Known as “The Queen of Heavy Mental,” which she describes as “psychotherapy you can dance to,” Stanfield got her start writing songs for other artists, including Reba McEntire and Andy Williams. As a performer, Stanfield has shared stages with entertainers ranging from The Dixie Chicks to Lily Tomlin to Kenny Loggins.

Stanfield works hard to become her “best self.”

When she couldn’t find a big record company to release her positive, uplifting recordings, Stanfield did the next best thing—she started a record company.

Since 1991, she has built a mailing list of 18,000 fans and sold nearly 100,000 albums at her shows. Her record company, Relatively Famous Records, is one of the most successful companies of its kind. Sharing her success principles across the country now as a professional speaker, Stanfield combines music with a message that entertains, inspires and encourages. She sees herself as a musician with a mission—to give audiences a “faith-lift.”

In addition to her volunteer work each summer at Muscular Dystrophy camp for kids, Stanfield also does fund-raising concerts and performs annually on the national broadcast of the Jerry Lewis Telethon.

Green Valley will be one of Stanfield’s last U.S. stops before leaving on her “Women Helping Women World Tour.”

Stanfield will share her unique perspective on humor as part of a panel that will kick off the Conference.

Joining Stanfield on the panel to talk about physical well-being will be physical therapist Andrea Tuijl and psychotherapist and teacher Rami Katz.

Born and raised in the Netherlands, Tuijl completed her physical therapy training at the prestigious Leffelaar in Amsterdam. At the age of 33, she moved to the United States and for the past 15 years, she’s worked in several sports and orthopedic physical therapy settings, including seven years as part of the “spine team” at the Tucson Orthopedic Institute.

Tuijl believes that her personal development, both on a physical and emotional level, has been driven by experiences in her late teens and early 20s when she “joined the world of seekers to strengthen my spirituality. Self help books, hypnotherapy, inner child work, Non-Violent Communication and eventually Buddhist teachings have shaped and strengthened me.”

Not only a licensed and practicing physical therapist, Tuijl has studied Shiatsu and became a Hatha-Yoga instructor.

Katz has been an international teacher since 1971, with training in psychotherapy, yoga, meditation, and various mind/body transformational modalities. Combining the great wisdom of East and West, Katz is committed to experiencing and sharing a possibility of balanced dynamic daily living. A Master Therapist since l994, Katz works with individuals, couples and groups. Her specialty is in integrating body, mind and soul.

Currently, Katz is a psychotherapist at Cottonwood de Tucson, an inpatient facility for behavioral health challenges and addictions.

An author of articles on spirituality, religion and meditation, Katz is also a gifted workshop leader and has facilitated workshops for the Tucson Medical Center Multiple Sclerosis support group, and the St. Mary’s Hospital Healthy Heart support group.

After lunch, Stanfield returns with her Keynote Concert titled, “I’m not Lost, I’m Exploring: Explore the Mystery of your Best Life.”

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