Declutter with Dawna Walter

ONE DAY SEMINAR ON "HOW TO DE-CLUTTER YOUR LIFE" PRESENTED BY DAWNA WALTER OF "LIFE LAUNDRY".

De-clutter expert Dawna Walter, founder of The Holding Company, the UK's first specialist retailer of products to keep you organised and presenter of "The Life Laundry", will lead this Ann Maurice Ltd one day seminar offering ways to get rid of all the un-wanted clutter in your life to enable you to make the most of your space and personal development.

This "Declutter Your Life" one day seminar will take place on Saturday 20th March 2004 at Jurys Great Russell Street, London between 9.30am and 5.00pm.

Says Dawna "All types of clutter can prevent you from moving forward and getting more enjoyment out of life. Is Clutter getting you down and preventing you from moving forward in your life? Do you have family members that you would like to help? Or, are you always helping other people sort out their homes and wanting to start up a business in home organisation? If so this course is for you."

Dawna's approach to clearing clutter is influenced by her practice of Reiki, a complementary healing therapy. She believes that letting go of clutter can help you more efficiently focus your energy to enable you to accomplish more in less time to more fully appreciate the full potential of your living space and personal relationships.

Course topics include:
Why you need to rid yourself of clutter. Case studies of different types of clutter situations including: bereavement; empty nesters; families with children, collectors. This will include the physical and emotional impact that clutter has on your life.
Self-assessment workshop to clarify areas that need improvement in your home, or to look at ways of assessing and organising to help others. Photos can be brought in of any problem areas that need special attention.
How to decide what is clutter and what is worth keeping in order to create more space in your home including creative storage strategies.
Creating new routines to stay de-junked forever. Proven strategies to help you stay on top of things rather than letting them build up. Techniques to deal with paperwork, media, wardrobe, and other household and office clutter on a routine basis.

De-Clutter Your Life Seminar costs £188.00 (incl VAT), including morning and afternoon tea and course notes.Bookings can be made by phoning 020 8408 0122 or visiting www.housedoctor.co.uk.

Background
About Dawna Walter

Dawna Walter is best known for presenting BBC2's The Life Laundry, a prime time series that has just completed its third season. As the de-clutter expert on the programme, she visited families around the UK who had serious problems with clutter. The team worked at eliminating the emotional issues that related to the clutter as well as changing the living space to be more in harmony with the families needs and desires.

Dawna is an accomplished author and has written five books. The Life Laundry How to De-Junk your Life and How to Stay De-Junked Forever accompany the series and are both bestsellers. Her first book, Organized Living, has numerous international editions, and was first published by Octopus Publishing in 1997. It was reprinted in 1998 and was released in paperback in March of 2001. Go For It, released in March of 2003 and New Leaf, New Life, published in January 2001 by Quadrille and have been translated into numerous foreign editions. She is a regular columnist for Prima Magazine and was a frequent contributor to Retail Week, the trade publication for the retail industry. She has written columns for The Sunday Times Property Section, The Mail on Sunday, The Sunday Express and other national magazines and newspapers.

She has also appeared on many radio and television programmes throughout the UK and Ireland. She has done features on organisation and storage on regional and national television. She has appeared on The Gloria Hunniford Show, Richard and Judy, Homefront, Doing It Up, Special K Collection, and two episodes of Housestyle, a Granada series. Fuji Television in Japan did a thirty-minute programme on her home and shop. Recent radio programmes include the Steve Wright Show on Radio 2 and Nicky Campbell on Radio 5.

She has received extensive international press on interior design. Feature articles include: Hello! Magazine, BBC Good Homes, Evening Standard, Italian Architectural Digest.

She has devoted half of her time over the last four years to the study and practice of Reiki, a Japanese healing complementary therapy, and became a Reiki Master in 2001.

American born Dawna Walter is 51 and moved to London in 1992 to marry her English husband. She founded the Holding Company in 1994, the UKs first specialist retailer and mail order. She stepped down as Managing Director in 1999 and left the Board of Directors in December 2000 to pursue other interests. She still retains a financial interest in the company.

She graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1974. She studied psychology and education and has a BA in Urban Education. She worked in marketing, shopping centre development and politics in the United States before moving to England in 1992.

Dawna lives in London with her husband, Jerry, and two standard poodles.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

Contact: Jill Brandenburg

Ann Maurice Ltd

69A Mt Ararat Road

Richmond Surrey TW10 6PL

Web: www.housedoctor.co.uk

Email: jillb@blueyonder.co.uk

Tel: 020 8408 0122

M: 07947 220 129