Promoting Divorce in a Box

November 22, 2011 by Suzy

For those of you who would like more people to stay out of court and use non-adversarial routes through divorce, feel free to copy the attached html code onto your webpages or blogs to promote the SOS Divorce in a Box. And if you think your resources should be made available via our online resource pack, then let me know via suzy@startingovershow.co.uk.

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Travel Guide for Divorce

Helping people to ‘break up right – please don’t fight’ and to allow their families to take on new forms in ways that keep them out of court and save them money, requires a collaborative and co-operative approach. Which is why more people need to give mediation and collaborative law serious attention when facing divorce.

Travel Guide for Divorce in an attractive box which includes over £500 of complementary access to skilled professional advice: legal, financial and wellbeing maps to guide you through the journey, and show you a range of choices most people don’t realise are available to them.

Divorcing “outside of the box”. Ribbon is optional. Available for £40 including vat and UK postage at www.sosdivorceinabox.com.

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Sam shares her experience of a potential divorce and family break up and how she is using SOS Divorce in a Box to provide information and inspiration.

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Logos & online marketing material

November 24, 2010 by Suzy

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Please add this to your email signature to let your clients and colleagues know about the event:

Official Exhibitors Starting Over Road Show

Over 60% of you will know someone RIGHT NOW going through divorce or break up. Help them. Tell them about the Starting Over Road Show: Information on divorce & break up – Inspiration on starting over. www.StartingOverShow.co.uk.

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Over 60% of you will know someone RIGHT NOW going through divorce or break up. Help them. <a href=”http://www.startingovershow.co.uk/index.php/sos-roadshows/surreyhamps-border-sos-road-show/”>Tell them about the Starting Over Road Show: Information on divorce & break up – Inspiration on starting over. www.StartingOverShow.co.uk.</a>

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Short online film: (as seen on home page http://www.startingovershow.co.uk/index.php/sos-roadshows/surreyhamps-border-sos-road-show/)

To paste the short film about the Surrey/Hampshire SOS Road Show straight into a webpage or blog, please use the following code:

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Useful links to take people to key information to put on the end of blogs/web copy/press releases:

SOS Surrey/Hampshire Road Show

Farnham Castle 10 Feb 2011 17:30-20:30

Click here for full information

Free private legal, financial, mediation & parent advice powwows – click this link to book now

Information & Inspiration from our exhibitors

Getting to Farnham Castle

Our hosts: the Collaborative Family Law Group

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Farnham Castle 10 Feb 2011 17:30-20:30

<a href=”http://www.startingovershow.co.uk/index.php/sos-roadshows/surreyhamps-border-sos-road-show/”>Click here for full information</a>

<strong><a href=”http://www.startingovershow.co.uk/index.php/financial-surgery-davenport-financial-management/”>Free private legal, financial, mediation & parent advice powwows – click this link to book now</a></strong>

<a href=”http://www.startingovershow.co.uk/index.php/exhibitor-list-surreyhamps-border-road-show/”>Information & Inspiration from our exhibitors</a>

<a href=”http://www.startingovershow.co.uk/index.php/farnham-castle-venue-for-surreyhamps-sos-road-show/”>Getting to Farnham Castle</a>

<a href=”http://www.startingovershow.co.uk/index.php/davenport-financial-host-1st-ever-sos-divorce-road-show/”>Our hosts: the Collaborative Family Law Group</a>

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Please post a page about your involvement in the SOS Road Show. You can use the text below to create a web page, blog entry or press release.

Official Exhibitor at (or if a member of the Pod: Official Host of) the Starting Over Road Show at Farnham Castle 10 February 2011

The Surrey/Hampshire border SOS Road Show, hosted by the Collaborative Family Law Group, is the first local event to help people bounce back from relationship break ups and life crises. Farnham Castle is the venue and on the evening of November 11th, we created a safe haven in which local people could take professional advice to build the confidence and skills they need to go it alone, whether going through divorce and break up, or just looking for a new beginning.

Our next event will take place between 5.30pm and 8.30pm on Thursday 10 February 2011.

A relationship break up can be the perfect time to make positive changes whether that’s starting up the business you always dreamed of, getting your pension sorted, or losing weight and taking more care of your health. The event also focuses on how to create a less combative approach to break up, and to protect the welfare of any children.

The events will include:

free legal powwows
free financial powwows
free parenting, personal development and wellbeing advice
information & inspiration to start over

The first Surrey/Hampshire border Starting Over Road Show is taking place at Farnham Castle, Farnham, Surrey GU9 0AG, on Thursday 10^th February 2011 between 5.30 and 8.30pm.

Find out how to get complementary tickets by signing up to our free 1-1 advice powwows……

Why not bring along a friend-in-need and help them to start over?

The Surrey/Hampshire Road Show is based on creator Suzy Miller’s successful national events at Brighton and London during 2009-2010. The London event was featured on GMTV and mixed family lawyers and yoga, financial experts and guided meditation, life coaching and dating advice – a holistic approach which visitors truly appreciated.

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exhibitor testimonials

August 24, 2010 by Suzy

Testimonials from Surrey/Hampshire border SOS Road Show at Farnham Castle Feb 2011:

“Just wanted to say a big congratulations on a fab show last night – seems like people came from far and wide to attend. We had a really good evening with the Revealed stall! I’m hoping to follow up with people over the weekend and next week, but I’m very excited about the prospects we met…. I’d also like to know about any other events you may have further afield as I would be very interested in attending.”
Elrina van Zyl
BSc(Physio) SRP MCSP MAACP MBMAS Cert KHT

“Just wanted to give you a huge thank you for organising yesterday so efficiently, you are great!
We had an excellent evening, lots of contacts and thanks to your huge marketing efforts and tips were able to make much more of the evening than we would probably have done otherwise…… Thank you so much for welcoming us in as you did, and look forward to being in touch again soon.”
Alison O’Mahony
Be StepWise

“Thought the night had a real buzz about it, the message is obviously getting out there.”
Paul Cobley CFPCM
CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERCM Practitioner
Resolution Accredited Divorce Specialist

“I thought the evening was a big success. I met some really nice people and have collected a number of leads who I believe I will work with. It was interesting the geographic spread. Quite a few had travelled quite far to be there.”
Lucy Gilchrist
LG Marketing

“Just wanted to thank you so much for all your hard work which is much needed by many and much appreciated by me”

Diana Jordan
Divorce Consultant

“It was great to be part of the SOS evening last week…..I did have a lot of people stop by to chat and learn more which was great.”

Helen Turier, Holistic Empowerment

Testimonials from the SOS 2010 events in London & Brighton:

“a huge thank you for a fantastic event.. Well done to you and your team.”

Verity Frost, Forensic Accountant

“I got business, clients and workshop bookings out of it, so am well happy!”

Gina Hardy Relationship Educator

SOS live event March 09

I (Suzy Miller) would like to thank all our amazing exhibitors and partners who made the first SOS event the awesome experience that it was. I’m looking forward to doing it all again!

PWMLtd @SuzyMiller Thanks for the kind words and just so you know we est. the spend for the SOS to be £1,170 and our % return was 1068%

“we all thought yesterday was fab – far exceeded our expectations of the level of serious inquiries and the whole ambiance of the event was lovely – everyone seemed happy!”

Val Rush, TR Resolutions, Exhibitor

“Thank you so much for a really brilliant day yesterday!! I loved it. It felt very special and such great energy and I met such great people.”

Julia Armstrong, Exhibitor

“Congratulations and thanks to Suzy and her team for creating and maintaining the concept and momentum for a hugely successful show.”

Kirsten Gronning, Breakup Angels, Exhibitor

“It was great and I’d love to be a part of it every year and in different venues…..the turn out was superb and the hotel staff incredibly helpful.”

Elissa J Da Costa, Barrister, Mediator, Collaborative Lawyer, Exhibitor

“Thanks so much having the foresight and the energy to organise this. I found it very helpful because of the networking with other exhibitors…. I am certainly up for it next year!”

Charlotte Friedman, Divorce Support Group, Exhibitor

“You have done a great job launching the show… vision, tenacity, entrepreneurship are all words that come to mind. There was a great energy at the Show.”

Estelle Laybourne, non-denominational pastor

“You can definitely count on me to exhibit at the next one….I have received positive feedback about the show from the people who visited me – I do hope we have managed to help more people than not to move forward to new beginnings.”

Martina Mercer Hall, Life Designer

“thank you for putting together something so amazing – I am delighted and honoured to be part of it. I feel that the work we are doing is so important – creating healthy ways of relating. That’s what I’m passionate about and my vision for the future is that we create a society where endings are acknowledged as part of successful relationships. This requires a fundamental shift in our hard wired understanding of marriage. If we can achieve that, the positive impact on other areas of our lives will be enormous.”

Vena Ramphal, holistic coach

“I think the show was brilliant…..Congratulations on your first show, I am sure SOS will become a regular and familiar event”

Geoff Cox, Xocai Chocolate

“Myself and the in:colour team really enjoyed our day at the hotel, thank you for the opportunity to be a part of it.”

Bernay Laity, in:colour consultancy

“I thought the show got off to a very successful start which can only be put down to your hard work enthusiasm and pre show planning. There is no reason why it should not build on Sunday and go from strength to strength.”

Robert Sheppard, Findon Legal Consultants

And a couple of our visitors comments for good measure……

“Thank you so much for arranging this – it was excellent…… I will certainly be contacting one or two of the advisers I met. Thank you again.”

I.B. Visitor

“I was at the show and I thought the atmosphere was fantastic – relaxed, friendly, helpful and brilliantly organised – well done.”

A. O’Neill, Visitor

‘Coming here today has sealed it, really. It makes me feel I’ve moved on, taken control a bit.

‘What I’ve gained from coming here today is that it’s more helpful to talk to people who know the legality of a situation, who do not hate or blame or even know my ex.’

Rachel

Interviewee at SOS London by Daily Mail 10 March 2010

(contact suzy@startingovershow.co.uk for information about exhibiting at SOS events)

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Visitors Pack

June 28, 2010 by Suzy

Who do I speak to first? Download a guide to who can help you at each stage of starting over at SOS: Starting Over from divorce or redundancy? Who do I talk to first? Sept 2011

Our talk:

Speaker: Paul Cobley – Church’s Financial Planning

Financial Planning on Divorce

Paul will provide a brief introduction to Financial Planning, how it differs from Financial Advice and how it can often provide a solution to the needs of people going though divorce. It is often the emotional needs that need healing, with the financial needs being secondary. Fear, anger, worry, denial and of course loss. These are emotions that will resonate with many people who have suffered family breakdown. Paul will address in a short 25 minute talk how Financial Planning, and not Financial Advice, can deal with these issues.

Interactive talk:

Lisa White of Too clever for counselling but still need help?

“Logical Levels of Change”

Think of a situation in your life that you would like to handle better in the future. Or maybe there is a particular person who is a problem to you… this can include someone from your past who you no longer see, but who continues to bother you in some way.

After a brief explanation of how the “Logical Levels of Change” model works, I will guide you through an exercise which, potentially will transform the way you see and feel about the old problem situation or person.

Legal & Mediation:

Collaborative Family Law Group

Hosts of the Surrey/Hants SOS Road Show

Naim Qureshi Collaborative Family Law:

Family breakdown is one of the most stressful events many people go through in the course of their lives. We can advise and guide you through the process, helping you to concentrate on rebuilding your life and, particularly where children are involved, on maintaining family relationships without unnecessary damage and acrimony.

Divorce Mediation: Samantha Jago of RHW Solicitors

Samantha is an accredited family law specialist with both the Law Society and Resolution, and she is also a qualified family law mediator with rhw solicitors.

W.Davies: Wills/probate/trusts

A well regarded regional law firm based in Woking for over 100 years.

Lee Newell BardellsLLP: Redundancy & Unfair Dismissal

Are you facing problems at work – have you been unfairly treated by your employer (including your colleagues) or have you been unfairly dismissed and need to explore your options? Talk to an expert employment law practitioner and accredited mediator and find out what you can do to redress the balance or obtain a remedy to your complaint.
Lee advises clients on a wide range of employment matters including dismissal, redundancy, TUPE (when employment transfers to another employer) and discrimination. As well as being an accredited Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Mediator, Lee holds a Bar Council Licence with the Bar Council of England and Wales and has also represented clients in the ET and EAT.
Lee has the benefit of seeing both sides of the coin and as well as acting for individuals, he also acts for client organisations in both the public and private sector and during 20010/11 was retained to advise a joint department of the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

Financial:

Financial advice from Ian Taylor of Davenport Financial and Paul Cobley of Church’s Financial Planning.

Book a free financial powwow and speak in confidence to an experienced financial planner, who can help to demystify money-matters, and guide you towards a future where you are fully in control of your finances.

We can help you to prioritise your expenditure and to budget sensibly. We can also arrange longer meetings to help with more complex issues such as pension sharing, school fees and tax planning.

The service we offer which people often find the most useful, is helping you to create a long term financial plan; modelling the lifestyle you want against the assets and income you have, in order to create a sustainable structure and to help you to achieve long term financial security.

When you book your free powwow, we will provide you with the code for two free tickets to the SOS Road Show.

Jason Peace of Eurodebt Financial Services: Providing debt management solutions to people in financial distress

Eurodebt are a licenced and registered debt management service who have been in business over 16 years. Eurodebt are currently assisting over 2,500 individuals with serious debt problems. Our long term goal is to help you become debt free. Eurodebt will always act in your best interests and help put you back in control of your finances.

E-Accountants: Kim Teh FCA business tax & accounting advice

With many years of experience in the accounting industry, E-Accountants (one of the leading Accounting firms in Surrey, UK) offers accounting, taxation, payroll, and bookkeeping to customers throughout the local area. Founded in 1994, the firm is a member of ICAEW and has their mark of practice assurance. Our service is designed to be cost effective, helping clients to increase their revenue, reduce costs, increase their profits.

We offer valuable advice for people starting in business or starting over in business.

Wellbeing & Inspiration:

Soul Conneczions

Marina Pearson assists individuals in overcoming relationship breakdowns and the heartache of divorce and breakups.

Working with my clients I see this every time. I see that they come with anger or hurt but by the end they are able to see the blessing and the gifts of the situation and how the person they once saw as their enemy they now see as their friend and supporter.

The truth is we usually don’t see how situations that we label bad can help us in that moment or even in the long run. How many times have you confronted a situation that in the moment it was happening you thought it was the worst thing that you could go through? Maybe years later you now realize that without that experience it would not make you the person you are today?

FREE RELATIONSHIP POWWOWS

Achievers Coaching: Annie Winfield is a Survivor Coach

Following a life changing event, sometimes we need help sorting our thoughts and direction. I will enable you to identify what you really want personally or professionally and then support and guide you while you achieve your goals. I will keep you focused and on track and will help you overcome any challenges and obstacles in your way.

Rhiannon Ford Divorce Coaching: practical & emotional support through divorce/separation

Rhianon Ford Divorce Coaching provides step by step support for people going through divorce or separation. A qualified solicitor, Rhiannon has valuable insight into the legal process, providing her with a clear understanding of the emotional difficulties facing her clients. She can also help on a practical level, translating legal jargon, completing legal forms and giving guidance to prepare for court and mediation.

Fresh Eyes Consulting

Rianna Avis shows you how to deal with ‘difficult conversations’.

Riana works with people going through divorce and situations synonymous with ‘difficult conversations’ where discussions are often derailed by conflict and strong emotions. She teaches strategies and skills so you can better manage your emotions, stay more balanced, keep focused and feel more in control. Armed with these tools, it becomes easier to have these discussions, stay in discussion and work through the issues so you can get unstuck and move on.

Counselling:

Jennifer Hooper: Family Crisis & Wellbeing Therapist MBACP

Mind and mind-body therapies, for domestic violence, divorce and separation with a counsellor and specialist therapist-coach. Feel freer and much happier now with a human experience just for you with Jennifer of Jennifer Hooper Enterprise. Her Energy Organics business focusses on a holistic-psychology by means of organic food supplement and other products as a complete solution to Wellbeing.

Jenny Edwards: Sexual & relationship therapist

I have been working as a Sexual and Relationship Therapist with couples and individuals for more than 20 yrs. I write about issues that couples face and I also lecture and I am involved in teaching medical students about sexual issues. Couples seek me out when either one or both of them feels the relationship is no longer working for them or there is a crisis in their lives which they are not coping with. In 2009 (the last year for which figures are available), there were 113.949 divorces in the UK. I firmly believe that many of these could have been prevented if the help of a professional such as myself had been sought early on. When a relationship breakdown is inevitable then I offer a safe place for either on or both of the partners to share their distress and to help them to learn from their experience to give them a better chance of not repeating it in the future.

My main practice is at the Cardinal Clinic in Windsor but I also see people in Beckenham in Kent. I am an accredited Member of the College of Sexual and Relationship therapy, an accredited member of the British Association of Psychotherapy and Counselling, and a member of the British Infertility Counselling Association. I am also a qualified Family Mediator and a member of the Family Mediators Asociation.

Parenting:

Too Clever For Counselling and Still Need Help?: NLP based masterclass for mothers.

An NLP based personal development service, showing people how to improve the quality of their thinking, their behaviour and their lives. Private One to One sessions as well as the revolutionary ‘Masterclass for Mothers’, an intensive programme offering support and help for mothers wanting to raise the bar on their parenting, relationships and their lives.

BeStepWise: professional support for step-families

Be StepWise brings wisdom to step-parenting. We are a team of qualified, experienced, step-parenting professionals; here to enable you to realise your family’s potential and experience all the good things that step-family life can bring. Many step-families experience difficulties, frustrations and challenges. Be StepWise through one-to-one and group workshops help you make your family rewarding, fun and special.

My Offspring

Online diary & tools to reduce post divorce conflict

Wellbeing:

Cory Cook Professional Organiser: Organising solutions for big life changes

Navigating through a major life change – such as divorce, redundancy or a move – is incredibly stressful. Our physical surroundings can bring us down and represent our upheaval. Cory will guide you through an intelligent, hands-on process of organising your living or working space. Clear out the old and start afresh!

Specialties include: homes, home office, paper management, time management, de-cluttering, wardrobes.

Photography: Scott Collier Photography

Photographing families in their new forms. Positive images ideal for online networking, business profiles and just having fun.

The Mystic Housewife: Spiritual psychotherapy.

Traditional psychotherapy combined with spiritual psychic knowledge bringing an added level of insight. Offering a confidential, caring level of service of counselling and therapy, bringing you clarity, comfort and hope.

Magnus the Masseur: African Rhythms Massage combined with truthful conversation
“My name is Magnus Woyingi-Kuro Agugu, which means The Great Power of Gods Love.

My aim is to lay my healing hands on as many people as possible and to inspire and set people free to follow their spirits. I wish to heal people through touch, smiles, hugs, massage, dancing, words, laughter and using every medium available to get my message across.

I am an extraordinary British-born African healer, who combines African Rhythms Massage with
truthful conversation.

My treatments work on physical, psychological, cellular and soulular levels, thus impacting every area of a persons life.

A treatment will leave you nourished, nurtured, re-vitalised and back in touch with the joy of life, a peaceful heart and an optimistic outlook.

One Massage,
Many Possibilities

Business Opportunities:

Paul Way: Utility Warehouse - helping people save money on bills and creating an income for themselves

I help individuals create an income from helping themselves and others save money on household bills and general shopping. This can be part time or full time, with full training and support, to fit in with your lifestyle.

Charities:

Surrey Law Centre.

The Surrey Law Centre is a registered charity employing qualified solicitors dedicated to providing specialist legal advice and representation to the community of Surrey who are either eligible for legal aid or unable to afford the services of a traditional ‘for profit’ solicitor in the County of Surrey.

South West Surrey Domestic Abuse Outreach Service: Support for people suffering from any type of domestic abuse

Providing support and services for those living with and/or fleeing from domestic violence. Helping survivors re-build their lives through support, advice and education. Services also extend to the children who have witnessed or suffered abuse themselves.

Health:

Farnham Fitness & Wellbeing Centre: Much more than just a gym

Welcome to Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing, an innovative approach to your health and fitness.

If you’ve belonged to a traditional health club before, you probably feel a bit underwhelmed by the general level of facilities and service once you’ve signed up.

But we’re not interested in just getting you to sign up and then ignoring you. Our aim is to improve your wellbeing for the long-term by helping you to actively take control of your health. And we do this by offering a combination of fitness facilities, health services and expert staff that you’ll find hard to beat.

Chandananda Yoga in Guildford

Michelle Chand runs Chandananda Yoga in Guildford. She believes passionately in the transformative power
of yoga as a vehicle for self- development and transformation.

Her belief is that “…you don’t have to be fit, thin, young, flexible, vegetarian, celibate or particularly clean living to benefit from a yoga practice…”

Michelle endeavours to make yoga fun and accessible to everyone no matter what age, build or level of fitness. At the SOS show she will be giving informal talks on the possibilities that yoga could hold as a tool to help move through turbulence in life, to gain strength both physically and psychologically, and to become flexible not only in body, but in the ability to roll with the changes that life brings.

There will be opportunities to try simple yoga techniques including movement, breathwork and positive visualisation, or just to put your feet up in a nice calm space, and you are welcome to just pop along and join in, no special equipment or clothing required, just an open mind.

Michelle can be contacted via her website www.chandanandayoga.co.uk for details about classes, corporate work and individual tuition.

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April 3, 2010 by Suzy

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who do I talk to first?

March 18, 2010 by Suzy

Breaking up or divorcing? Who you need to talk to in order to move your life forwards….

dowload pdf version here: I’m breaking up – who do I talk to first 17 March 2010

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Why I’m putting on the Starting Over Shows

February 3, 2010 by Suzy

Suzy Miller (center) with ex partner and his wife (2009)

My partner ended our 10 year relationship in 2003. Our three children were aged 6, 4 and 1 at the time, and it was the most painful and traumatic experience of my life. However, as the years passed, I soon became grateful that my ex had the courage to end a relationship that was not truly feeding either of us and we now have a healthy respect for each other.

It was tough getting to where I am now, and on the way I learned that accessing the right information, support and help both legally, financially and emotionally was essential. My ex partner is a supportive co-parent, living in the same village, sharing the same values and sometimes it amazes me how we got to be in such a good place despite some very difficult times getting here.

It takes courage and vision and a determination to believe in a positive future when life seems nothing but a struggle, but the joy of children is that they provide a massive incentive to make that extra effort. It is not a journey anyone needs to make alone. There are skilled people who can help with all aspects of Starting Over who are there to be accessed via the www.startingovershow.co.uk website.

Information and Inspiration are what helped me move forward in my life. I want to make those resources available to other people through the Starting Over Shows, and through the SOS Village resource hub.

I am now bringing the concept of SOS down to a local level. The SOS road shows will provide a holistic approach to divorce and break up, taking place in towns throughout the UK on Thursday evenings.

As you can see, Starting Over Show is more than just an ‘exhibition’ – it’s a new way of thinking.

Suzy Miller

Creator of Starting Over Show

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