To my Synergy Community

In this issue >>>
The Marc Slugh Fund
Our Training Center Launch Event
Quotes and Poems
Feedback
Synergy Youth Empowerment Testimonials
Book Review
leaf is a flower. -Albert Camus
Everyone must take time to sit and watch
the leaves turn. –Elizabeth Lawrence
Do not go where the path may
lead, go instead where there is
no path and leave a trail.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
We, the Synergy newsletter team are
committed to creating connection,
contribution & transformation. Creating
a world where everyone knows they
matter NOW!
OCTOBER 2011
A Synergy Leadership Program Publication
To my Synergy Community
Synergy & Leadership Events
BE THE DIFFERENCE
Thank you to the incredible Synergy Community for your ongoing support and stand for my husband Marc who is going through
treatment for Hodgkins Lymphoma.
Marc was diagnosed with this form of blood cancer after completing his workshops and then staffing and coaching advanced and
leadership sessions in 2011. I know it is because of this work that his mind is so strong and healthy, results are the only option. So
many folks have reached out and continue to give unconditional love, friendship, and now many have participated in the Marc Slugh
Fund. This fund was set up my Marc’s aunt Linda who wanted to make sure our family was covered with health insurance no matt er
what Marc needed, in order to regain his health. We are humbled and grateful for Lisa and Peter, who have created a win/win along
with all of this community, to stand for someone in the Basic Workshop and beyond. From the bottom of my heart, our family
thanks the entire Synergy Community for their love, support and standing together to BE the DIFFERENCE.
Love,
Danielle Russo Slugh
NOVEMBER 3-6, 8 BASIC WORKSHOP
Who are you Being the Difference for?
NOVEMBER 18-20 ABUNDANCE & PROSPERITY
Living abundantly and creating prosperity begins
with a way of being– an attitude to operate from, if
abundance is a choice, why wouldn’t I choose it
all the time?
Leadership Program 6
Begins October 24th
If you have the ability to support this amazing and generous man,
you can send a check in any amount made out to:
APPRECIATION EVENT and TRAINING CENTER
LAUNCH!
The Marc Slugh Fund
All Basic Grads welcome!
OCTOBER 20, 2011 7:15pm RSVP ASAP
256 West 36th Street, 2nd Floor, NY NY 10018
By Mail: MSF, 11 Heathrow Lane, Old Bridge, NJ 08857
By Credit Card: Call Linda at 732-547-8803
Marc volunteering yet again! (in the red tshirt)
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Autumn is a second spring when every
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly
about the earth seeking the successive
autumns. –George Eliot
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Keep our community connected!
Making Strides against Breast Cancer at Jones Beach
October 16, 2011 Team IMAGEine Life Without Breast Cancer
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MAKE A DONATION
Sarah Prario, LP5 is supporting The Black Feather Horse Rescue , a rescue that has already placed 50 horses into loving homes,
and Cradles to Crayons who has a vision that “One day every child
will have the basic things they need to be safe, ready to learn, and
be valued..
Our first Teen Empowerment workshop in August was a success!
We would like to thank all of the support staff, without you this incredible weekend would not have been possible.
The continued support from all of the leadership programs has enabled Synergy Youth Empowerment to continue to grow. Thank you LP3 and LP4 for your outstanding contribution of over $7,500! As always, the stand
you have taken for young people everywhere is appreciated. A special
thank you to Paris Art Label, and SVP Ronnie Tarantino for sponsoring
two young people through the program. Everyone gets to go because of
the generous hearts of our Synergy Community!
Synergy Youth Empowerment is a non-profit organization and depends on
generous sponsors from outside associations. If you or your company is
interested in sponsoring a young person through the program, please contact us.
Dear Mom,
Thank you so much for inviting me to this workshop. So far, what I learned about myself is that
even though I am a teen I can be so powerful. I’ve learned that I can do anything I set my mind
to. The considerations I have in my life, I can conquer. I’ve also learned that there are many
ways to do something, I can accomplish so many tasks in different ways. What I have learned
about others, is that they all have considerations in their lives about something and we are alike
in that way. We are all worried or scared about something that holds us back in life. I’ve also
learned that everyone can be funny, caring and powerful. I see this as I make new friends with
people and get to know them. Lastly, I am grateful for having the opportunity to participate in
the workshop and to experience all these things I know I can.
-Synergy Youth Empowerment Graduate
Blooming Where I am Planted
By: Michelle Ogunti, LP4
On my 16th birthday, my aunt and mentor sent me a card that only had one sentence inside of it, “Never forget to bloom where
you are planted.” Since then, that sentence has been my favorite quote, and my Synergy experience has affirmed the importance
of it in my life. Before my life was touched by the Synergy work, I was successful in many respects, but there was something
missing. I was defining my success by others’ terms, putting my dreams on layaway, and afraid of using my authentic voice.
In Advanced, I realized that my discontent stemmed from my inability to ACT on my dreams, because I was waiting for the perfect alignments of time, circumstances and people to come into my life. During those five days, I connected with a power wit hin
that I never knew existed. At some point in Leadership, I decided that I was going to work more to become like the flower from
my favorite quote. A flower doesn’t say “even though I was planted in New York, I’m not blooming until I get planted in Miami!” A flower does not ask for protection, permission or approval before It explodes in beauty for all the world to see.
As part of the commitments I made in Leadership, I volunteered on September 9-11 providing free acupuncture to men, women,
children and animals affected by the September 11th terrorist attacks. I was inspired by those who, in the face of immense
trauma, chose to rise above their circumstances and reclaim their lives. I was reminded that life is short, and life is NOW. Even
at my relatively young age of 27, I don’t know how much time I am promised. By holding back, waiting for others’ validation
and the right time to speak and act, I risk never having my true light shine and never having my dreams come to fruition.
My incredible Synergy experience has given me the power to give an unconditional “yes” to myself and my vision. I am blooming wherever I am planted, knowing that I have the courage and vulnerability to unfold fully into whatever space I find myself,
trusting that I am exactly where I need to be.
My experience in the Synergy Leadership Program was absolutely amazing, “You cannot
anticipate what comes next.” This work is truly transformational and eye opening. Leaders
are born and come alive through Synergy, and I have grown in ways I never imagined. My
inner being has come through in such a way that it is noticed in the universe and has allowed
real life miracles to occur, results! I learned to listen to feedback, and trust the process, and
most of all to let go of limiting philosophies I may have about myself. If we choose to get
out of our own way we can have it all! I am a stand for transformation in the world and for the results of this program!
-Nancy Davidson, LP4
The Art of Mindful Living is a must read!
Written by Thich Nhat Hahn, a lifelong Buddhist Monk, nominated for the Nobel
Peace Prize by Martin Luther King Jr. The simple message offers a practice of mindful
living, and has supported me in quieting the “mind chatter”, starting a practice of meditation and living in the NOW.
-Submitted by Bill Newgent, LP2
“People are often unreasonable and self-centered, forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives, be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you, be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous, be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow, do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough, give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
-Mother Teresa, Submitted by Jennifer Minogue LP4