Speakers

Holiday Party at Café Arrivederci

Your Positive Money Mindset for the Holidays

The holidays can be a stressful time when money issues are up more than usual. This presentation will support you to open to the joy of the season! Learn about the eight money types to gain insight into your money mindset. Receive bonus practical tips for navigating the holidays!

Susan Shloss, Certified Money Coach (CMC)^®, works with individuals, couples, and groups, facilitating breakthroughs in their relationship with money. Susan has more than 20 years in the financial services industry and a lifetime of training and experience in the world of healing and meditation. Susan helps people navigate money and emotions with insight, clarity, and compassion.

 

Nan Su has been serving as news commentator for SOH International Chinese Radio Network and NTD International TV Network since 2003. He is one of the coordinators of the Human Rights Torch Relay in 2008, which stopped at more than 140 cities around the world.                                                                                The ethical values and principles derived from Chinese culture helped create 5000 years of splendor in Chinese history. With the current state of the world, understanding the true China has never been more important. The presentation reveals the ancient philosophies deeply rooted in the Chinese culture since its very beginning, and explains how traditional Chinese culture was built based upon these philosophies.  

 

 

 

Patricia has been with Schurig Center for 13 years. She earned a BA & MS in Clinical Psychology from San Francisco State University and has worked in research and clinical positions at UC Davis and UCSF. Other professional positions include management of an Alzheimer's and Dementia residential program, administration of neuropsychological testing; teaching at the University of San Francisco; coordinating research projects at UCSF and USF; and providing psychotherapy services to individuals, couples and groups.

Schurig Center helps people reach their highest potential after a stroke, accident or concussion. This enjoyable and informative presentation will introduce you to the amazing and innovative services offered at Shurig Center, the community needs met by the organization, and tips for keeping your brain healthy.

Viveka Rydell-Anderson is an entrepreneur, lawyer, leader and innovator. Recruited by the PDI Board of Directors in 2006 to bring their dream of a non-profit surgery center to reality, she wrote a business plan, secured a construction loan, completed a $1.5mm capital campaign, oversaw construction, and hired key staff, taking PDI from startup to reality. PDI treats patients from 33 Northern California counties, with a strong bi-cultural team as well as growing partnerships in the corporate and philanthropic worlds. 

PDI promotes health equity on the local, state and national level. Viveka won the attorney business development "Marky Award" at McCutchen, named after the late Mark Kasanin of Tiburon. 

 

In addition to being Slide Ranch ED, Maika is a Trustee and Vice President for the School Board of the San Rafael Board of Education and co-founder and current Board Member of SchoolsRule. See many more positions and accomplishments at https:linkedin.com/in/maikallorensgulati/. 

 

 

This presentation will cover the history of San Geronimo Golf Course, the Marin Board of Supervisors' and Trust for Public Land's plans for the golf course, the litigation against the County, the current status of the course, and initiative to save the course which is on the March 2020 ballot. 
Mr. Snell is an active member of the California State Bar Assn. He practiced law in Marin for 37 years. Pertinent to the talk, he worked as a caddie and was Junior Champion at the Presidio Golf Course. The Marin Independent Journal published two of his law-based opinion articles concerning the San Geronimo Golf Course.
 Phil is past President of the Rotary Club of Novato.

 

TBA

Konojel (which means "all together" in the Mayan language Kaq'chikel) strives to create and support platforms through which underserved individuals and families can move themselves toward self-sufficiency. The speaker has led a team of mostly Mayan indigenous women as they developed programs that serve linch 5 days a week to 80 children and adults considered most at risk of malnutrition. Konojel has also established an after-school program for elementary school children and created a job-training program for single Moms. It has also opened a computer center with educational technology available to all students in the local village and started a restaurant staffed by local women with profits supporting these programs.