Shift – A Game About Love, Fear and Life

Shift Workshops: Ask you to face your fears, take risks and choose love while uniting your team behind a single thought, your Playing to Win!

The mind is a muscle. You gotta work it. Shift workshops actively work your mental muscles. Other workshops give you a few small exercises to ground the lesson. Shift workshops keep you active. We exercise your mind. We engage that place where shifts take place. When you experience something, you own it. That’s why play promotes learning. Shift workshops are based on play so that you will experience what it feels like to make a shift. You will experience the shift from fear to love, from contraction to expansion, from judgment to open-mindedness and from being your own worst enemy to your ultimate champion.

We work the inside from the outside. When readings, affirmations, and lessons work, they work internally. Playing Shift works from both the inside and the outside. You get instant feedback from your peers who act as mirrors. You can receive acknowledgement, honor and respect. However, you can also get called on your “Shift.”

Instant gratification. Yes. Spray and pray. No. Some workshops spray you with their philosophy, give you a few affirmations and you’re left to pray that it will work. Our workshops give you the tools to see yourself, know that you are always at choice and shift the situation. Shift is a proven, effective tool that creates positive thinking and releases limiting beliefs. Based on you, Shift changes each time to meet your unique needs so that you can constantly make the shift to having the life you want.

Shift currently offers your organization 1 hour, 3 hour or 8 hour workshops. Facilitated game plays are available too. All are customized to meet your needs and timeframe.

Contact Nicole Casanova at nicole at ShiftTheGame.com for more information on costs and availability. Or, call us toll free at 1-866-SHIFT01 (1-866-744-3801). We want to help your organization Shift!

“Please come back to check us on our SHIFT!” … anonymous, Denver Schools

I’ve been MIA becuase I took the last month or so to reestablish my priorities. I was working insane hours and because I just got married, I had an excuse to totally shift gears and think about me, my new husband, and fun. IT WAS FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!! I went fishing in Montana and hiking and biking. I got back to me.

I’ve experienced a shift. For the last many months I was consumed with the struggle. I was pushing instead of going with the flow and I had all sorts of limiting beliefs blocking my success. I can’t tell you how many times I repeated statements like, “I don’t have the time or the money or the people.” Guess what? That’s what I got.

I was working so much that I constantly had back pain from sitting at the computer. I’d go see my chiropractor and things would get a bit better but I was still doing the same stuff to my body.

After taking time in July and Auguest to be a new wife, I saw that it truly was possible to get everything done by working just a few hours. I could take time for myself in the morning with a walk and that everything I needed to get done, could get done even if I stopped at 5 and made dinner or just spent time with my man, me or my friends. Wow. There truly was abundance.

The projects I was struggling with, instantly came to me and the direction I’ve been wanting to go in became incredibly easy to pursue. We now offer workshops based on Shift. This is exciting for me because I’ve been wanting to facilitate for years and now I get to , with my own content. I now get to interact with an audience whether it’s teachers or employees or members of an organization, and see them have their aha moments first hand. I get to see them realize that they are in control of their reality. I see people come into their power and it fills me with energy.

I made a decision to stop seeing my chiropractor even though I love him. I decided to step back to the cause and make a shift in the way I work so that I could maintain a healthy body. I’m cruising now. The creative juices are flowing. I have more than enough time and money and I truly am living in abundance. It’s so cool.

I probably spent 6-9 months wrapped up in the struggle and knew that for things to change for us at Shift, I had to change within. Now I walk or do something for me every morning. I spend some time visioning, really feeling what I want to acheive or have. I am 100% omplete with work. I sleep soundly and guess what, I no longer have any pain in my back.

So on my walk today I thought about conducting an experiment. I’m curious to see what would happen if we could get 1 million people to commit to making a personal shift by January 1st 2007. Would things feel any different? I believe they will.

I’ve been watching these news stories and wish I could snap my fingers and rebuild New Orleans and end every war. I’d also love to improve education, house the homeless and provide healthcare to those in need. I’m guessing it might take a while for me to change the world. However, what I can shift right now is me. I realized that although we might be frustrated with our partners, our work, our community, or even our country, to make a real shift in the world, we need to start within. Making a shift doesn’t require money, the right politician or anything outside us. It can be as easy as just choosing to see something differently. I know that if 1 million people committed to making their own personal shift we’d feel something, more peace, abundance, connectedness, love.

Perhaps you’ve heard that what we think is what we’ll get. My co-worker Joyce puts it another way, “When I believe it, I’ll see it.” It’s true. Our thoughts can create our reality. The cool thing is, when we write what we want down, we are even more likely to attain our goal. So, I’ll start by writing what I’d like to shift and let’s see if we can get 1 million people to join us and declare their personal shift.

Please send this to as many people as you know and when you do, make sure to include the person that sent it to you. (If anything, that person knows you and can “call you on your Shift” to keep you committed to making your shift.) For every 100 people that make their declaration, we’re asking that the email come back to us so that we can post your shifts on our site. Imagine a massive list of people committed to improving their lives by making a shift.

Let’s declare our personal shift to the world and, even better, publicly commit to make that shift.

What are you willing to shift? Please tell us what you are willing to shift and then make sure you include the sentence, “I commit to making this shift,” your name, location and date.

1. I will create balance because I will make time for my physical and spiritual well-being everyday. I commit to making this shift. Nicole Casanova, Boulder, Colorado 8/29/06

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When we reach 100 people, can you please email to info@shiftthegame.com too. Thank you.

One small shift in thought can shift your life!

Let’s make it happen,

Nicole

This is a quote from a participant at a recent Shift Workshop. Other comments included playing Shift in the workshop “taught me how to think and react to any subject”, “I learned my defense is The Critic – I will improve and be less judgmental” and “I came in today with fear and now with the game I have the ability to SHIFT into a happier place”. And this was not an easy crowd! This workshop was with staff from all levels at a public Pre-School – 12th grade special needs school. Staff concerns on their first day back from vacation ranged from time issues to communication to being able to express emotions when needed. Through exercises and playing the game, many SHIFTED to start their year in a better place that just the day before. Check out our Shift Workshop pages to learn more about what Shift can do for your organization. Teachers learned that a game really can change your life.

We are announcing a contest with Wild Oats Natural Food Marketplace and Shift.  Find Shift in any of the Wild Oats Markets listing on our “Gotta Have Shift Now” page.  Check out the details of the contest on the stickers affixed on each game box in Wild Oats.  You could win a Shift in Latitude – aka, a travel voucher to use as you want.