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Swing Into Spring Auction 2014
The Intelligent Optimist
About The Intelligent Optimist
We're bringing out the flying pigs.
That's right. In unprecedented move, we've decided to offer FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE INTELLIGENT OPTIMIST to everyone who bids in our spring auction between midnight on Tuesday, May 13, and the close of the auction at 6 p.m. Pacific/9 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, May 20.
It doesn't matter how big your bid is or how many times you bid. It doesn't matter whether you win or lose. We just want you to see all the wonderful items our donors have contributed.
Here are just a handful of the 200+ items on the site:
* A three-month training with the coach who made 73-year-old Ken Blanchard (The One-Minute Manager) fit at last
* A solar energy system
* LED lights
* Qlinks, to protect your system from EMFS
* Classes in Spanish and French
* Hotel stays in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Sacramento and Vancouver
* An organic mattress
* Organic chocolates
* Dinner with Fritjof Capra, author of The Tao of Physics
* Tickets to The Wanderlust Yoga Festival this summer
* Wilderness camp for kids in Vermont and families in the Pacific Northwest
* A leadership training program
* A psychic reading, astrology reading and various coaching sessions
* A training in biophoton therapy with Johan Boswinkel
* A membership to The Intelligent Optimist or a seat in our year-long course
Continue onto the auction site to see more!
And after you enter your bid, just email auction@theoptimist.com to claim your year's subscription to our print magazine, worth $54.95. If you already have a subscription, you can either give it as a gift or add the time to your existing subscription.
Questions? Email me at auction@theoptimist.com.
Thanks for joining us! Every bid supports our programming, which bring us closer to living in the more conscious, sustainable, sympatico world we long to inhabit together.
Make a bid for a better world today!
Carol Greenhouse
Special Projects Director
The Intelligent Optimist
Featured Items
Eco Products: PVT Solar Energy Hybrid System by Solarus
Become grid-independent using a combination of photovoltaic and thermal energy collection.
$6,000.00
Eco Products: SRT-3 Q-Link Pendant Sterling Silver
Spend time near computers, cell phones, power lines and such? These pendants were designed to block the negative health effects of EMFs and leave you feeling balanced and energetic.
$220.00
Events: The Wanderlust Yoga Festival: Discover the Extraordinary with Two Tickets to Any Summer Weekend Event in Colorado, California or Canada
Yoga rockstars. Top musical acts. Exquisite chefs. Thrilling performers. Unplug from the ordinary!
$599.00
For Families: Kroka Expeditions Summer Camp in Vermont
Are your kids ready for a fun, nature-immersion experience this summer with other like-minded kids? Find something for every interest and age group in the Summer Exploration program.
$499.00
Intelligent Optimist: A Half-Page Ad in The Intelligent Optimist's Print Magazine
Widen your audience with a half-page ad for your product, business, or service and reach widely to our global community of optimists who walk the talk, 120,000+ readers strong, and do it for 1/3 of the regular ad pricing!
$1,300.00
Retreats & Workshops : Transformational Speaking Online Course with Gail Larsen
Go beyond your comfort zone. Unlock your gifts. Find your message and deliver it in an authentic way.
$599.00
Retreats & Workshops: Chiren Practitioner Training with Johan Boswinkel
Emerge from this course with the tools you need to bring biophoton technology to your clients.
$26,500.00
The Intelligent Optimist: A Course in Spiritual Healing and Transformation
Find a deeper purpose as you put your knowledge into practice with The Intelligent Optimist's year-long course.
$650.00
Writing Our Memories, Riting Our Myth, Righting Our Lives: A Writing Retreat at Pacifica Graduate Institute
In this writing retreat we will draw on our own re-membered life events and give them a form, in some instances for the first time, primarily through writing, but also through body movement and painting images, as well as responding to and writing poetry.