Finding the Wedge of Freedom in Your Own Heart ~ Big Ideas Small Group April and May 2013

Last night as I was sleeping,

I dreamt ~ marvelous error! ~

that a spring was breaking out in my heart.

I said:  Along which secret aqueduct,

Oh water, are you coming to me,

water of a new life

that I have never drunk!

    ~ poet Antonio Machado

When we can begin to see our armor and decisions made from fear, we discover we are not free but living in a small and heavy space.  You may know something about this space.

Together in our small groups, we are discovering what works and celebrating.  It is less about the past or achievements in the future.  It is about the present moment and the power to transform it with one small awareness and one small choice.  We practice together.  The waters begin to flow again from hidden places and we have a different conversation with the world.  We are no longer stagnant.

We pay attention.

Our next small group series begins on Wednesday eve, April 17, or you may choose Friday morn, April 19.  We meet every other week for 5 sessions.  For new members the first session is without charge with a handful of seats available only.  We meet in my home in Sonoma.  All the details are below.  Call Carole Peccorini 707-996-2167 for information and to register in advance. 

Carole Pecorrini

What will you discover?

We engage.  We build resilience.  We move away from judgment and toward moments of shared awe and belonging.  When you return to more of yourself in the process, I return to more of myself.

We begin to see the weight of pleasing, performing, perfecting, numbing and judgment.

When we return to the truth of our vulnerability, we grow our courage and creativity to transform from that lowly, yet sacred place.  We move toward whole hearted living and being worthy.  In our culture we dry doing more to feel worthy and it is never enough.

We were meant to be spacious and free and to feel our own hearts beating.  Then we can bring our true selves into courageous conversation with the world and authentic relationships with others.

You can join us.

Dates of the Series:

Attend on either Wed Evenings or Fri Mornings

Wed Eve from 6:45 - 9pm                    Fri Morn from 9:45 - Noon

April 17                                                   April 19 (this session only from 10:45 a - 1pm)

May 1                                                       May 3 

May 15                                                     May 17

May 29                                                     May 31

There will be one more meeting in June ~ date yet to be determined.

Send your check for $225 for the entire series to Carole Peccorini/Big Ideas, 18398 Riverside Drive, Sonoma 95476.  If you are a brand new member to our small groups, there is no charge for the first session and reduced series fee is $180.

Welcoming you to new freedom and joys.

Carole

Carole Peccorini RN, MA

Big Ideas and Rich Conversations with Women

707-996-2167  

carolep43@sbcglobal.net           

A special invitation to "Give Forward"

“Sometimes you need your God to be a simple invitation.”  Second Sight, David Whyte

Dear Big Ideas Women,

Sometimes there are difficult places we are invited to walk through

To be well and healthy, and then suddenly fall ill, is one of those places. The focus shifts inward and new questions emerge about life itself. One has to pay attention to parts of oneself in tremendous need and to discovering the art of asking for help. These are journeys never meant to be taken alone.

In September by "accident", a small tumor was discovered on the tail of my pancreas. Because of its early discovery and location, complete surgical removal was possible. It was classified as Stage 1 which means there's lots of hope for cure and full recovery. However, the cost of this hope comes with an enormously high price tag. This is a very vulnerable truth to tell you and yet I know it happens to many, many people.

Throughout this time I practiced something I learned from Dr. Brene Brown in her newest book Daring Greatly. It helped me find my way through all the uncertain places. Whenever I felt afraid, I said "I am vulnerable. It's OK. I am grateful for. . . ." I found there were always things to be grateful for in the many people and kindnesses that came my way.

We continued our Big Ideas Small Group series through the fall and holiday season.  

It was not exactly smooth and a few sudden trips to the ER meant we had to reschedule another time to meet and yet we did it. Honestly, I see us doing the most transformational work we have ever done and it moves me deeply. It is the work I've been seeking always. We will be continuing with our next daring series beginning January 23/25 through March 20/22 on Wednesday nights or Friday morns.

There is yet another Big horizon emerging for 2013.

A circle of Big Ideas Women has come together to help generate financial support for me and my husband Francisco for medical and drug costs not covered by insurance. These costs have already far exceeded our total monthly income.**

Margarita Ramirez, who often greeted you at the door at Big Ideas events, recently wrote this beautiful request ~ "Please join us in expressing our communal gratitude to Carole by Gifting Forward at www.giveforward.com/carolepeccorini. You will be surprised how this can change your life."

To kick off the fundraiser, we've decided to use the same approach that I used to raise funds to send nine young African women to college with The Butterfly Project through sharing the story and inviting people to both make small donations and pass along the story to others as well.

We are hoping to invite a very large community to participate and here's where you could help.

You are some of the most powerful women I know and you have broad connections to many people. Would you be willing to donate $10 and share my fundraising site with your own social network (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, emails, etc.) this week? 

We think we could involve 10,000 people in no time and we might create a model for a new, manageable way for people around the world to help each other in a moment of sincere need.

We all need help and one of the blessings of the internet world is that we can reach out and build a community of caring people who have a BIG impact for the good quickly. www.giveforward.com/carolepeccorini

During the first year of Big Ideas, one of our speakers was Alec Loorz. As a teen he's engaged thousands of people and especially kids taking leadership in an awareness campaign about global warming. He has a great visual that shows the ripple of influence we just described and are hoping to spark with this campaign. It visually depicts the ripple effect of small donations shared by many (1 person > shares with 170 friends who in turn share with their networks of friends > ripples out to a spontaneous brand new community of 10,000). And we've reached our goal just like that.

Image courtesy of Alec Loorz, iMatter

As Annie Lamott says, "Help. Thanks. Wow!"

Love, Carole
www.giveforward.com/carolepeccorini

Closing the Gap ~ Big Ideas Small Group Series August and September 2012

Later I was in a field full of sunflowers.
I was feeling the heat of midsummer.
I was thinking of the sweet, electric drowse of creation,
when it began to break.

The lightning brighter than any flower.

The thunder without a drowsy bone in its body.

Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.   (by Mary Oliver, from poem Sometimes)

In August and September, we invite you to join our next small group series of 4 meetings as we take another creative pause between our Community Gatherings for Big Ideas.

You have two choices for the series:  Wednesday evenings 7 - 9 pm or Friday mornings from 10 am - noon.  Wednesday evening dates are August 8 and 22, September 12 and 26.  Friday morning dates are August 10 and 24, September 7 and 28.  You can substitute a date if you have a conflict in a particular week.

Join our small group success in Closing the Gap between brightening your awareness and getting it into your body where it can truly take hold and reshape your life into your wholehearted greatness.  And, we can say with great certainty that there is greatness in all of us.

However, insight alone never changes our behavior and experience of our life.  We transform our life when our awareness moves into our bodies ~ our thoughts, feelings and actions ~ and literally changes our brain chemistry.  This is how we can dare greatly.

We pay attention.
If we want to live and love with our whole hearts, and if we want to engage with the world from a place of worthiness, we have to talk about the things that get in the way, especially shame, fear and vulnerability.   

The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown will guide us along with her new book Daring Greatly.  We will also draw from old wisdom stories, poetry, imagination, our dreams.  Whatever we give our attention to expands.

We are willing to be astonished.
You and I can close the gap between who we are being and who we truly are.  Unwiring habitual patterns and old emotions of shame and vulnerability changes our brain chemistry and we can begin to see a new landscape of possibilities.

Something stirs within us.  We discover the birthplace of joy, creativity and belonging to something bigger.  We feel our passion and purpose electrify in the greater Why?.

We tell about it.
We find others who are committed to participating in the evolutionary impulse and we connect in conversation focused on transformation regularly.   

We plan for it and own that the change is ours to do, yet not in isolation.  In a greater context, we access a greater source of energy that is bigger than ourselves and our plans. Small group conversations are the unit of transformation in the 21st century ~ for people, for communities and for the planet.

When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self moves and the world of imagination and meaning comes towards you.  Michael Meade.

Carole Pecorrini

You may choose either the Wednesday evening series  ( 7 - 9 pm) or the Friday mornings (10 am - noon).  Each will be open for up to 8 women.  Preferences will be honored on a first come basis.  We will meet at my home for a more intimate setting.  18398 Riverside Drive (at Comstock) Sonoma 95476.  Doors will open for light refreshments 30 minutes prior to the program beginning.

Our gathering will include writing and rich conversation.  It will include new language and images for this creative territory we are in and old wisdom stories will offer us with fresh perspectives.  We will use books by Brene Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection and Daring Greatly as guides.

This is my passion and purpose in life.  It is that something that lives in the center of my heart and soul and ripples out to others.  It is something I simply must contribute.  You have your something too.  We can tend to it.  We know about how to close the gap and will yet still discover more. 

Registration deadline is August 3 by check or online here using your credit card (see top right sidebar).  You may register for the entire Small Group Series of your choice with one payment of $180 or two monthly payment of $95 each due by August 3 and Sept 7.  Your check can be sent to Carole Peccorini/ Sonoma Big Ideas at the Riverside Drive address just above.  Will you join us?  What does your heart say?

What Are We Here For? Big Ideas July 25

It is life changing to start with the question Why?  We live in a world that doesn't start with Why?  Yet, this question opens up the space for meaning and purpose, passion and inspiration ~ to reveal our true gifts and legacy.  The uncertainty and vulnerability we feel with this question is at the heart of the secret door to living a wholehearted life and actually feeling deeply alive.  What gets in our way?  The Creative Force of the Universe never gives up.  What about us?

Ellen van den Berg

Our next Big Ideas Community Gathering will be Wednesday eve, July 25, at the Sonoma Valley Inn and features Ellen van den Berg and "a longing so deep for me", the journey to feel her Self and discover her legacy.  What am I truly here for?

In 1994, Ellen left her successful career in financial planning.  "I had to go away until I had some answers."  She drove away and disappeared into the forest of the Pacific Northwest.  Here, as in David Waggoner's poem Lost, you are not lost.  Stand still.  The forest breathes.  You must listen.  The forest knows where you are.  You must let it find you.  Ellen realized in the stillness and the clearing it offered her that I could be anybody I wanted to be.

The impact of her decision to let go has led her to people and to travel she had never imagined ~ in Thailand, India and a Tibetan Refugee Center.  Her journey eventually guided her to Holland where she was born and raised and a reconnection with being Dutch and her parents' survival as Jews from the Nazis in WWII.  When she returned to the USA, she settled in Sonoma County to complete her BA and MA at Sonoma State University.  For the past 13 years she's been helping small business owners create meaningful and profitable businesses.

Today she continues to be engaged at that creative edge where dreams and fears meet her longing to connect Ellen with "Why?" at a deeper level.  She works on overcoming her fear of being visible which had been so real and life threatening for her parents and which she had taken on as the truth from a very early age.

This is the story of your life.  It is the story of my life.  It is the story of the research with Brene Brown on living a Wholehearted life.  In addition to listening to Ellen's inspiring story, we will have our own small group conversations around the tables of 8.  What are we here for?  In expressing ourselves, we make the evening truly our own.

Also in July, we will create space to feel and think and dream and question in a small group of 6 to 8 women.  We will engage new material from Brene Brown during our time together.

This is the next opportunity for women who were part of the transformational work we did together in our Small Group Series in April and May and also for new women to experience the power of small group work.  It is a single event offered at two times for your choice:  Wednesday eve, July 11 from 7 - 9 pm or on Friday morn, July 13 from 10 am - noon.  Small groups meet at my home in Sonoma.

There is a Special Summer rate for women who attend both, one of the small group sessions plus the Community Gathering with Ellen van den Berg on Wednesday eve, July 25.  $75 covers both July events.

In August and September, we will begin our Second Small Group Series 2012 of 4 sessions.  We will use Brene Brown's book The Gifts of Imperfection as a guide along with wisdom about the Evolutionary Self, myths and old stories, poetry, our own writing and more.  Bringing this all into rich conversation with other women activates it in our lives and is life changing.  We know it works now.

Will you join us for Big Ideas and Rich Conversations with Women 2012 on Wednesday evening, July 25?  Our community gathering is held at the Krug Event Center, Sonoma Valley Inn, 550 West Second Street (just off West Napa Street near the Plaza).

Carole Peccorini

In addition to our creative evening program with Carole Peccorini, co-founder of Big Ideas and her special guest presenters, you will have the opportunity to meet other women and teens around your table in rich and soulful conversations.

In the way we come together and the conversations we have, we are creating the future right 
now.


Greeting one another begins at 6:15 pm.  A Cash Contribution Wine Bar is available to you for $5 along with gratis coffee, tea and water.

A homemade dessert will be served at 6:50 pm as the evening program begins.

Deadline to register is Friday, July 20, with an additional $10 late registration charge after the 20th.

Will you be attending?  2 ways you can register and reserve your chair at the table.

1. Register online for either the Small Group Session (choose either July 11 eve or July 13 morn) or the Community Gathering on July 25 eve with Ellen van den Berg for $47.  Or you can do the Summer Special of one Small Group Session + the Community Gathering $78 for both.  You do not have to be a PayPal member.  See upper right sidebar.

Send your check in advance for $45 for either one of the small group sessions or the Community Gathering on July 25.  Or, $75 Summer Special for both.  Carole Peccorini/Big Ideas, 18398 Riverside Drive, Sonoma CA 95476.

Teens and Students $15 with scholarship funds available as needed.  Would you like to gift a chair at the table for a teen?  Simply add $15, $10, or $5 or more to your registration.


The Best Western Sonoma Valley Inn is located at 550 Second Street West in Sonoma.  If you enter from Second Street West, drive all the way to the back of the property behind the Inn to the Krug Event Center and its garden patio entrance.  You can also park along First Street West and follow the walkway at the left to the Event Center garden patio entrance.

At the Edge where Our Dreams and Fears Meet ~ Defying MS for a Wholehearted Life ~ Big Ideas June 27

We are all vulnerable.  We live in a vulnerable world.  And, it turns out that when we allow the truth of this, it is the portal to living a wholehearted life.  It is how the river flows and is the defining difference in people who live wholeheartedly.

For Ronda Giangreco, author and former stand up comedienne, waking one morning to discover the entire left side of her body numb was the unexpected edge where her dreams for her life and her fears met.  Within 6 weeks she had a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis.  Her immune system was attacking her spinal column.  It was August 2008 and she was told to prepare for life in a wheelchair.

"If I wasn't going to be walking much longer, where should I walk now?" To the kitchen, she responded, to prepare her beloved Italian meals for friends, every Sunday for a year ~ a simple, yet bold idea, an epiphany that arrived on the edge, seemingly outrageous given her newly unpredictable body and episodes of disabling pain.

This epiphany also led to the discovery of The Gathering Table conversations.  She and her husband Michael served up a meaningful question to their 8 guests gathered around the table for homemade pasta and wine.  These rich conversations created cherished moments of connection and belonging.

On Wednesday evening, June 27, Big Ideas and Rich Conversations invites you to our next Community Gathering at the Sonoma Valley Inn, Krug Event Center.  We will have a bigger, deeper conversation with Ronda Giangreco.

And, as we do at all Big Ideas and Rich Conversations Community Gatherings, we will be sitting around tables of 8 to enjoy homemade Italian dessert and share in this small group a conversation that invites us through a question to find our own expressions that are truly in us.  The evening becomes ours.

Ronda's 52-week experiment evolved into a book, The Gathering Table, published this past Spring 2012.  She stepped onto a new edge where her lifelong dream of publishing a book and seeing it  in the store window met her fears of being publicly vulnerable in front of others.  Inner voices raged.  "You can't do it.  Don't make a fool of yourself."  I was so scared.

Ronda will have her book available for sale at our gathering on June 27.   $14.99  Ronda will be available to sign copies of her book for you.

As it turns out, those big YES to life moments often happen on the edge where we meet our fears and feelings of unworthiness eyeball-to-eyeball, toe-to-toe.  Yet, there is a robust part of ourselves that is alive and can be activated when we are faced with the unknown and uncertainty, big and small.  It is available to us on this edge and we can learn to align with it.


We will be exploring this evolutionary self and its wisdom from June through October.  We can also identify the secrets of how those who live wholehearted lives do it.

After June, our next Community Gathering will be on July 25 and features a conversation with Ellen van den Berg who has faced many edges with the unknown and has recreated herself and her work.  Disappearing into the woods at one point, she had the startling revelation "I could be anybody I want to be."

She is currently on a new edge which includes a deeply-felt, surprising reconnection with her Jewish lineage and how her father kept a dream alive in his journal during the ordeal of surviving the Nazi occupation of Holland in WW II.

Earlier, and over the edge with burn out, a camping experience in the Pacific Northwest and travel to India wove into a journey of renewal in finding herself and what is truly hers to do.  It is a tender, vulnerable, courageous story still unfolding as we speak.  As owner of Nexus Consulting for 25 years, a financial planner and then coach for small business owners to find what they value most, Ellen is engaged once again in her own discovery of her great gifts within and how to share it with the world.

From these conversations we can all learn to be more awake to our own evolution and to discover what are the qualities and actions that allow us to navigate this edge between emerging dreams and our fears?

Will you join us for Big Ideas and Rich Conversations with Women 2012 on Wednesday evening, June 27?  Our gathering is held at the Krug Event Center, Sonoma Valley Inn, 550 West Second Street (just off Napa Street near the Plaza).

In addition to our creative evening program with Carole Peccorini, co-founder of Big Ideas, and her special guest presenters, you will have the opportunity to meet other women and teens around your table in rich and soulful conversations.
In the way we come together and the conversations we have, we are creating the future right now.

Networking begins at 6:15 pm.  A Cash Contribution Wine Bar is available to you for $5 along with gratis coffee, tea and water.

A homemade Italian dessert will be served at 6:50 pm as the evening program begins.

Deadline to register is Friday, June 22, with an additional $10 late registration charge after the 22nd.

Will you be attending?  2 ways you can register and reserve your chair at the table.

1. Register online here with your credit card $47.  You do not have to be a PayPal member.
2. Send your check in advance for $45 to Carole Peccorini/Sonoma Big Ideas, 18398 Riverside Drive, Sonoma CA 95476

Teens and Students $15 with scholarship funds available as needed.  If you would like to gift a chair at the table for a teen, simply add $15, $10 or $5 or more to your registration.

The Best Western Sonoma Valley Inn is located at 550 Second Street West in Sonoma.  If you enter from Second Street West, drive all the way to the back of the property behind the Inn to the Charles Krug Event Center and the patio entrance.  You can also park along First Street West and follow the walkway on the left back to the Event Center garden patio entrance.

The Leaf is Singing Still ~ Big Ideas Small Groups April and May 2012

What can I say that I have not said before?
So I'll say it again.
The leaf has a song in it

The song you heard singing in the leaf when you were a child, ~ is singing still.  Mary Oliver

In April and May we invite you to join one of our small group series of 4 meetings which we are offering in the creative pause between our Community Gatherings for Big Ideas.  You have two choices for the series, Wednesday evenings 7 - 9 pm or Friday mornings 10 - noon.  Wednesday evening dates are April 11 and 25, May 9 and 23.  Friday morning dates are April 13 and 27, May 11 and 26.  Our next Community Gathering is in June.

When freshness comes bursting out like spring green leaves in dew, it is healing medicine for our lives and for the world and it makes us whole.  Old cultures believe that every one of us is born with a song in our soul and we are whole when we hear and sing our song.  The word ear is inside hear and hearing is our body faculty through which we receive inspiration, intuition, imagination.

It can happen for you in any moment.  "Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard." urges Anne Sexton.  Mary Oliver concludes her poem, "I am of years lived, so far, seventy-four, and the leaf is singing still."

Small group conversations are the unit of transformation in the 21st century - for people, for communities, for the planet.  We also know it works and have had many demonstrations from women in our small groups over the past nine months of significant shifts in discovering and moving toward their dreams.  Deep down in your heart, you love something that is the real you and it is calling to you.  Small groups help us listen closely.

Carole Peccorini

You may choose either the Wednesday evening series (7 - 9 pm) or Friday mornings (10 - noon).  Each will be open for up to 10 women.  Preferences will be honored on a first come basis.  We will meet at my home for a more intimate setting.  18398 Riverside Drive (at Comstock) Sonoma 95476.  Doors will open for light refreshment 30 minutes prior to the program beginning.

Our gathering will include writing and rich conversation.  It will include new language and images for the creativity territory we are in and old wisdom stories to guide us with fresh perspective.  It will include the Happiness Advantage and a Simpler Way.  This is my passion and purpose in life.  It is the something that lives in the center of my heart and ripples out to others.  It is something I simply must contribute.  You have that something too.  We can tend to it.  The leaf is singing still.


Registration deadline is April 6 by check or online right here, upper right sidebar.  You may register for the entire group series of your choice with one payment of $175 or in two monthly payments of $90 each due by April 6 and May 4.  Your check can be mailed to Carole Peccorini/Big Ideas at my Riverside Drive address above.  Will you join us?  What does your heart say?

Ronda Giangreco

After the small group series, our next Community Event will be on June 27 and will feature a conversation with Sonoma's new author of The Gathering Table, Ronda Giangreco.  Her new book is a humorous,  heartfelt memoir about 52 dinner parties that she chose to do Defying Multiple Schlerosis with a Year of Pasta, Wine and Friends.  My first conversation with Ronda was extraordinary and I can hardly wait to include you.

We will continue to offer our Community gatherings alternating with a small group series throughout 2012 to give flesh and motion to our ideas and possibilities.  Each gathering becomes part of the future we want to create.

Stay tuned.  There is more to come.   Carole

Strategies of Hope ~ Including a Better World on Our Bottom Line ~ March 21 Big Ideas

We are all in this together.  Have you been hearing about the newest emerging organizations called by many names ~ Visionary or Social entrepreneurs, Social business, Benefit corporations and even Self-organizing structures ~ a call to create new ways of meeting the great challenges of our time?

Mary O'Connor

People, young and old, are hatching outrageous ideas about creating a better world and building new forms for this work that supports creative expression, well being, integrity, peace, belonging and sustainability for the long term.  Individuals simply decide to do public good as their business and fuel a vision of a world that works for everyone.  These entrepreneurs tend to think and work outside the box and often create rich courtships between profit, non profits and governmental agencies to get the ideas hatched.  They tinker.

On Wednesday evening, March 21, Big Ideas and Rich Conversations invites you to our next Community Gathering at the Sonoma Valley Inn, Krug Event Center.  We will have a bigger, deeper conversation with Mary O'Connor about how Social Entrepreneurs are choosing a new way of being in the world and how this is shaping possibilities including what structures suit this new frontier.

Mary is on the faculty at Sonoma State University and teaches social entrepreneurship in the School of Business.  She is the founder of The Institute for Social Entrepeneurship teaching business development for visionary entrepreneurs.  She has also helped hundreds of businesses including Genetech, Whole Foods, New Leaf Paper, YWCA and Solar Sonoma County.

I love this conversation and it has been part of the inspiration and deepest purpose of Big Ideas and Rich Conversations with Women from the beginning.   I want to invite us all to participate in healing the split between business profits/money and good works.  We can experiment with new ways of being that both brings our true gifts to ripple into the world and also sustains us and other financially with authenticity and dignity and joy of life.

In addition, you are offered a gift of participating in and giving to two SVHS Senior Projects with social entrepreneurial principles if you choose.

Selena Caruso

Selena Caruso will tell us about her Senior Project with the Teen Documentary filmed a year ago with 34 Sonoma Valley teens talking together about what kind of world they want and how they can help create it.  In March 2011 we filmed a similar conversation with 26 students at Banjika Secondary School in rural Tanzania.  What happened was stunning!  Selena wants more students to see the film and have their own conversations and more adults to invite teens to share what they want for a better world.  She also has a goal to send 34 Banjika orphans to school in their next school year.  $100 provides each student a year's tuition and she must raise $3400 to do this.  Please bring your checkbook to co-create this with Selena.

Kelsey Severson

Kelsey Severson is working with Stop Hunger Now and is holding an event on Saturday, March 24, from 1 - 3 pm at the Sonoma United Methodist Church.  It only takes two hours to package 10,000 of these nourishing raw meals that will be sent to people in countries in need of food.  Each meal costs only 25 cents and she must raise $2500 to do this.  So far she has raised $1875 and is seeking $800 more.  She also wants 10 more volunteers to help package the meals on March 24.  Donations can be made now on this site:  http://kelseysseniorproject.bbnow.org/events.php

Will you join us for Big Ideas and Rich Conversations with Women 2012 on Wednesday evening, March 21?  Our gathering is held at the Krug Event Center, Sonoma Valley Inn, 550 West Second Street (just off West Napa Street near the Plaza).

Carole Peccorini

In addition to our creative evening program with Carole Peccorini, co-founder of Big Ideas, and her special guest presenters, you will have the opportunity to meet other women and teens around your table in rich and soulful conversations.

In the way we come together and the conversations we have, we are creating the future right now.

Networking begins at 6:15 pm.  A Cash Contribution Wine Bar is available to you for $5 along with gratis coffee, tea and water. 


Dessert created by the Lovin' Oven teens will be served at 6:50 pm as the evening program begins.


Deadline to register is Friday, March 16, with an additional $10 late registration charge after the 16th.  Your timely decision gives our Lovin' Oven teens the time they need to plan and prepare desserts.

Will you be attending?  2 ways you can register and reserve your chair at the table.

1. Register here online with your credit card $47.  You do not have to be a PayPal member.
2. Send your check in advance for $45 to Carole Peccorini/Sonoma Big Ideas, 18398 Riverside Drive, Sonoma CA 95476

Teens and Students $15 with scholarship funds available as needed.  Would you like to gift a chair at the table for a teen?  Simply add $15, $10 or $5 or more to your registration.

The Best Western Sonoma Valley Inn is located at 550 Second Street West in Sonoma.  If you enter from Second Street West, drive all the way to the back of the property behind the Inn to the Krug Event Center and its patio entrance.  You can also park along First Street West and follow the walkway to the left to the Event Center garden patio entrance.