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Connor PR working with Sarah Rozenthuler, author of Life-Changing Conversations

Glamour magazine sept13Author of Life-Changing Conversations, Sarah Rozenthuler contributes to the latest version of Glamour Magazine (September 2013) on The ‘C’ Word! How to deal with confrontation.

Sarah Rozenthuler is an organisational consultant and chartered psychologist with over 10 years’ experience working in the private and public sectors. She has designed and facilitated conversations at senior levels for a wide range of global clients including the World Bank, BP and the BBC in Europe and USA. Since 2007 Sarah has created, designed and delivered A New You mind-body-spirit events. These have been attended by hundreds of people from many different countries, earning her an international reputation. Sarah has been called ‘the next best thing to me’ by her mentor Neale Donald Walsch, author of the bestselling Conversations with God books.

Have that Big Conversation – and change your life!

Talk is our key action tool for moving forward at work and in our personal life, yet how often do we feel we’ve missed crucial opportunities or failed in our communication?

This book explains why effective talk can be truly transformative and provides a practical guide to having the kinds of conversations that will turn your life around. Expert psychologist and coach Sarah Rozenthuler provides the seven keys to success: calling up your courage, creating positive space, focusing on your intention, having a flexible style, speaking your truth, surrendering your “story”, and finding closure.

Throughout the book you will find real-life examples of problem situations, including healing family rifts, standing up for yourself at work and resolving relationship difficulties. The author shows through extended sample dialogue how, in each case, a challenging situation was worked through and a positive result achieved. Improving our effectiveness at having good conversations is the single most important way to bring about positive change in our lives.

 

Engaging and practical, this book will show you how to put theory into action and have conversations that will move your life forward.

 

 

Connor PR working with Sam Pooley Wallpaper Project

We love our boobs so much we turned them into wallpaper

–       300 ladies get it off their chest by baring their breasts for wallpaper

–       25% of proceeds of the wallpaper to go to coppafeel website, a breast cancer awareness charity

–       Artist Sam Pooley took part in her own topless photo-shoot describing it as “an invigorating experience”. She has posted one of the photographs on her website boobwallpaper website

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As the saying goes, a picture paints a thousand words. Likewise, for one Shropshire artist, a wall became an expression of her personality. More than 300 women have been photographed topless as part of a project to create limited-edition wallpaper of women’s breasts.

With a renewed campaign to ban Page 3 models; topless women demanding equal rights on the streets of New York; controversy raging over paparazzi pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge sunbathing semi-nude; and Angelina Jolie revealing she’s had a mastectomy, breasts are very much in the news.  This inspired artist Sam Pooley, from Shrewsbury, Shropshire to think about how she feels about her own breasts. Sam did a topless photo shoot in The Quarry, a local park in Shrewsbury town centre – it was both terrifying and liberating.

Sam embarked on a tour of the UK visiting York, London, Bath, Bristol, Northampton, Totnes, Chester & Watford, looking to recruit women to bare breasts of all different shapes, ages and sizes. Sam discovered that the majority of women she photographed didn’t like their breasts. She was inspired to create an artwork that celebrated breasts and in the process, enabled women to feel liberated by the experience and have their self-confidence boosted.

The breast has been an image used in art for many thousands of years, from Stone Age fertility goddesses and classical sculpture to breast-feeding Italian Renaissance Madonna’s and fleshy modern nudes. It has been revered as life-giving, wholesome and liberating. In modern times, photographic images of breasts have become something smutty or rude, while women in many African and South Pacific cultures wander around bare-chested and no-one bats an eyelid.

Sam Pooley says she has been overwhelmed by the response and the inspiring personal stories of many of the volunteers.

“The women in the wallpaper are from all walks of life, from the age of 19 right up to an 82-year-old grandmother.” she said.

“The wallpaper tells so many stories of women who have had mastectomies, breast reductions and enlargements, lifts and tucks, even a professional wet nurse who has breast-fed over 50 children.

“I’ve received some truly inspirational emails from women who’ve had breast cancer and wanted to be part of this campaign. I’m amazed at the stories coming out.”

The final artwork will be unveiled at Miss Pooley’s fine art degree show at Birmingham City University School of Art alongside a soundtrack of some women talking about their breasts. It will be reproduced and sold as limited-edition wallpaper with 25% of proceeds from the sale going towards breast cancer research.

***Sam Pooley is available for interview***

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Notes to editors:

Sam Pooley is available for interview, for any media enquiries please contact Siobhan at ConnorPR Tel 07966 177025 / Siobhan@connorpr.com

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Case studies of are available on request.

Sam Pooley Biography

Is an artist and a mother. She lives in Shrewsbury Shropshire. She is studying Fine Art at Birmingham City University School of Art.

Sam has many fingers in many pies. She shares a shop Compost & Gooseberry in The Market Hall Shrewsbury where she sells her art and other Artisans creations. She runs Compost Kids art classes for children of all ages. She is the features editor for Severn Magazine where she has a regular column showcasing local creative talent, she works as a creative consultant and has even been known to design and coordinate events.

Mark Williams Thomas worked with Connor PR on Jimmy Savile story

To remain consistently ahead of the competition in covering the UK’s most impactful news story of the year is a remarkable achievement. At the heart of this entry is Lucy Manning’s relentless journalistic determination as well as her compassion for all concerned. Revelation followed revelation, scoop followed scoop in this exemplary news coverage.

Savile, ITN for ITV News

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Sarah Rozenthuler Book Launch

This is a link to the Sarah Rozenthuler Life Changing Conversations book launch that Connor PR organised:

Here is a link to Sarah Rozenthuler talking about the book:

Middle Class ABC

Connor PR helped to launch Fi Cotter Craig’s book ‘Middle Class ABC’ which Stephen Fry referred to as “Indispensable and entirely charming”:

HBO Pacific Launch Event

The HBO Pacific Launch event was organised by Siobhan Connor whilst she was working with Taylor Herring:

In November 2010, HBO released The Pacific TV show on DVD and we wanted a launch party that would really stand out and set HBO apart.  Siobhan planned an incredible launch party on the HMS Belfast that included a press junket in the day time and a 1940s themed event in the evening.  Siobhan’s planning was exemplary, her calm approach filled us with confidence and she delivered an outstanding event that many of our retailers and journalists said was the best entertainment event they had been to all year.  Needless to say, I would highly recommend Siobhan and personally, I can’t wait to work on the next project with her!

Ian Fullerton

Marketing Director, HBO