About Life Works
Life Works is an organization committed to supporting people in having lives that are healthy, fulfilled and satisfied. We support the well-being of each individual who crosses our path, providing them with ways they can discover and fulfill their true, authentic self-expression and heartfelt desires.
What is now Life Works, Inc. was started in 1984 by Marilyn Graman and Maureen Walsh with the purpose of helping people have more of what they want in life. Since then they have developed a curriculum of courses for women and men, structured to both teach and support the process of creating and living an invigorating, fulfilling and meaningful life.
Our courses are created at the request of the women who participate in our programs. For instance, we began offering the retreats as a result of a 1997 conversation in one of the ongoing graduate groups. We had several long, lively discussions about the profound, life-shaping relationships women have with their mothers and how fully we continue to reflect our mothers in our adult lives. The group requested that we find a way for them to more fully look into that most important of relationships. In January 1998 we offered the first Mother Retreat, which continues to be a popular, freeing and life-changing retreat. This story can be repeated many times about almost all of our courses.
We are a woman-owned and managed business and are proud of the new perspectives that we have provided to thousands of women and men. Most of our course offerings are based on requests we have received from our graduates. We know our courses work because we have tested every time they are offered. We have a large store of intellectual property and technology that can be applied in a multitude of ways and environments. We look forward to new ways to use the insights we have developed in almost 20 years of teaching. We welcome collaborations and partnerships with like-minded people.
Life Works, Inc.
55 Fifth Avenue - Penthouse, New York, NY 10003
212-741-8787 outside New York toll free 877-741-8787 fax 212-741-9242
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Who Is Life Works?
Life Works consists of two principals plus a staff of highly trained Guidesses (formerly known as Coaches).
Marilyn Graman says that she learned most
of what she knows about human beings during her 12 years as a
kindergarten teacher in Jamaica, Queens, New York. She is a
graduate of Queens College and holds a Masters degree in
early childhood education from City University of New York.
A psychotherapist since 1978 with a thriving practice in
Greenwich Village, she has developed most of the
Life Works curriculum of courses for women and men.
Marilyn has appeared on television, gives lectures around the tri-state area and has taught regularly in Dallas, San Francisco and Mexico. With a fourth book in progress, she has a long-range intention to work in early childhood education again. Marilyn teaches ongoing groups, monthly seminars and weekend workshops at Life Works' offices in Manhattan. She leads the training of the Life Works Guiding staff to accommodate the expansion of the organization's business consulting services. A resident of Fire Island's Fair Harbor and lower Fifth Avenue, she travels extensively, studying what it means to be a human being.
Maureen Walsh is the business side of Life
Works, Inc. and is a "business therapist." Her first career choices
found her managing the Philadelphia Company, which was
devoted to staging new plays, then the Children's Theatre
Company, the nation's premiere company for kids. Next
Maureen served as the marketing director at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music and at the Joffrey Ballet, organizing
visibility for the national tours.
One
of Maureen's hobbies is searching for a retreat center to become Life
Work's Wise Women's Home — Fall 2006 at the Mabel Dodge Luhan Center in
Taos, NM.A visit to the world of advertising at Ogilvy and Mather was a way station on the road to her own consulting business in the early '80s helping artists and healers to have successful business lives. Life Works is one of Maureen's collaborations. Others include her real estate ventures with writer and husband William Speers and the landlord relationships she has with her tenants. She has taught marketing and arts management courses at the grad and undergrad levels. Four years ago she created How to Make a Graceful Living, a course to help people find more authentic work. She is currently developing ReBoot Your Life to help Boomers psychologically prepare for the second half of their life.
Her maternal grandfather owned a small resort town in Iowa during her childhood. With that experience in her gene pool, she has been looking at summer camps and retreat centers to create several large projects / ideas. She works from her homes in Santa Fe, NM and Hollywood, CA.
Our staff of Life Works Guidesses includes
Barbara Blair-D'allosto • Carole Forman • Sara Lustigman • Cheryl Marks-Young • Sylvia Moss • Nell Robinson • Gloria Waldman-Schwartz • Marion Yuen
More Information on the Guidesses
David Schaeffer plays Broadway tunes at Life Works
We have a suite of offices, workshop spaces and guiding rooms in the penthouse of 55 Fifth Ave. in the heart of Greenwich Village. Our offices feature a landscaped terrace with sweeping views of midtown Manhattan ... including the Empire State Building and its colorful, changing lights 10 blocks north.
Call 877-741-8787 (local NYC 212-741-8787) to talk to someone here about your interests, the issues you would like to work on and / or questions about our offerings.
What is the philosophy behind the work of Life Works?
Life Works comes from the philosophy that womanhood in our culture is in the process of change. This change began with the baby boomer woman challenging the status quo and pushing the edges of what is possible for women in the '60s and '70s and the change has continued through the '80s and '90s. The '80s sees women trying to be super mom, super wife, super corporate climber. The '90s eased up with women reflecting on what makes them happy and fulfilled, experimenting with balancing home and work in all different ways, some leaving corporate life, job sharing, cottage industries, some women returning home.
The change is still in progress. Some young women are responding to their mothers leaving the home to fulfill themselves, some young women are responding to the fact that their mothers never found what would fulfill them and they are clear they will not repeat what their mothers have experienced. Today women in their 30s, 40s and 50s are confused with the messages they received from their pre-feminism mothers and the messages and experience through the years of transition. Women are left confused about their priorities, the place of a man in their lives, the balance between independence and interdependence.
We work with women to know they can design their lives to fit who they are and they can discover what will make them happy and how to go about creating a life that fits. Each woman discovering what is authentic for them, their unique self.
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