Who has the secret to having an attractive presence?
You do, when you use the tools from the Dress Your Essence® workshop!
Announcing: a mind, body, soul approach to the art of dress for today’s woman
The answers revealed in this amazing workshop are so in harmony with you, they will enable you to ignite your vibrant presence, open your heart to yourself, and open the doors to deep connection with others!
The Dress Your Essence® workshop is based on….
the unique combination of art principles from the field of image consulting
access to your essence qualities using techniques from advanced market research
the clearing of beliefs that limit how attractive a woman allows herself to be
Designed and taught by Nicole Mertes, AICI, CIP, award winning instructional designer and one of the world’s top 100 image consultants.
“If you want to really be who you are and look great all the time- take the Dress Your Essence® workshop today. I feel more alive, gets tons of compliments, and I’ve stopped buying clothes that just hang in my closet. The personal attention you get in the training teaches you how to develop your personal style and best looks.
The workshop is the real deal! Do yourself a favor; come to Seattle and find out for yourself.”
Joan Casey MSW Founder- Boundaries: Solutions for Life www.joancasey.com
“I want to thank you for the way you are doing your work in the world–it takes so much courage to work at the level you do. It is an honor to be part of a group of women who are challenging themselves to go deeper. Thank you for being such a fearless leader.”
Sheri Perry sheri@bellefemmeseattle.com
“Well, I delivered a presentation at the Leadership Institute. I feared I was nowhere near ready, but knew I would ultimately depend on sheer presence to carry the day.
And it did! Wow, I got thunderous applause and whistles at the end! People said they would visit my <new> web site, which was my goal.”
The closet door is open and you need to look good . . .
What is the right style?
What color should you wear?
How should you accessorize?
How are you going to decide?
Are you going to go for what’s safe or choose the garment you just purchased? But what if you’re running late? You’ve tried on several outfits and haven’t found the right one yet.
Aren’t you tired of that routine? Isn’t there an easier way to look great without the frustration and pressure?
Dressing your essence is a new approach to looking great all the time.
“I know that when I go out of the house I look my personal best. I can’t tell you how much anxiety that relieves. It allows me to play artfully in the morning. Then I don’t have to think about myself for the rest of the day. I am freed to be there for others.”
Catherine Mcleod Doctor of Oriental Medicine
Dress Your Essence® is an extraordinary workshop.
Dress Your Essence® is an experience in transformation. You don’t just receive generic principles; you get customized tools, tailored answers, and transformation in three afternoon sessions. What you learn enables you to look better and better over time. That’s because it’s an integrated system that works with all of you–mind, body, and soul.
Haven’t there been times when you weren’t noticed as the special person you are? Wouldn’t you like to be naturally you and be really seen and appreciated? The answer has everything to do with presence.
I want to show you how to activate your presence through the Dress Your Essence® four-part system. But before I tell you more, I want you to know why I’m so passionate about this, and why I want to share it with you.
The quest to become more attractive is not mere vanity.
Have you watched a blazing sun sink into the sea or smelled the fragrance of a magnificent rose and felt touched by grace? When your true magnificence becomes visible, then you too touch people in a deeper, more profound way.
Beauty isn’t about glitz and glamour. The derivative of the word is associated with “bountiful goodness.” We seek the beautiful because it invites us to reach higher, to be better people, and it affects everyone we come in contact with.
This is how you make the world a better place!
Dress Your Essence™ is a four-part system that takes you to a new, more attractive style of dress from start to finish. This workshop provides a completely integrated package. You will:
Dress to accentuate the positive, by using color, line, texture, scale, and proportion to bring focus to your assets.
Super-charge your presence by activating your Essence Qualities.
Seamlessly and permanently shift frames of references about yourself and your appearance that hold you back.
Learn the secrets to combining garments and accessories to create fabulous outfits that beautifully express a style that is so authentically yours, it will become your signature.
Using clothing as a path to greater fulfillment may sound too light-weight to be of value, but that is absolutely not the case. What you wear is a powerful mechanism for triggering your inherent beauty and power.
It's easy for women to become so focused on doing, they lose out on being valued for who they are. In addition to hearing, “great job,” don’t you want to be the woman who – just by your presence, momentarily stops the world, so that it might inhale something wonderful that emanates from you?
Being attractive isn’t about artifice; it’s about radiating qualities like joy, magnificence, majesty, spirit, compassion, and wisdom. These qualities are called Essence Qualities, and you will discover the ones that are the truth of you.
Your search could take years, but it doesn’t have to.
Without a process that gets your conscious mind out of the way, your search for these qualities could take years, and still, you’d probably get the wrong answers. The qualities you are looking for aren’t goals or dreams; they are the very essence of you.
In the first session of the Dress Your Essence® workshop, you will use a process based on recent findings in neuroscience and now used in the market research field that will open the door to your unconscious mind. It’s there you’ll discover your Essence Qualities. Click here to learn more.
“The shopping trip was so much fun, as I found it so much easier with my Essence Qualities to find the styles that fit me. What was also amazing is that three different strangers stopped me in the mall to tell me I looked good! This class was life changing for me.”
JoAnne Fabian Alternative School Principal
How do you create a dynamite style that really expresses you? Where do you begin?
The traditional way to start is to find the right classification for your style, such as classic, sporty, dramatic, etc. But that approach won’t work when your goal is to create a distinctive style that expresses your uniqueness.
This is why discovering your Essence Qualities is so crucial. They will describe the paradoxical, complex, multifaceted woman you are. Think of how differently you will think of yourself if you call yourself radiant, creative, magnificent, versus the more typical image labels, such as traditional or dramatic.
Why does this outfit look good on me?
Wouldn’t it be nice to know once and for all, what looks good on you and why? Wouldn’t it be great if half of what you buy doesn’t hang unworn in your closet?
How many times have you been talked into buying something you never wear? And worse yet, because you spent a lot of money on it, you can’t bear to give it away. You tell yourself, “Maybe some day I’ll wear it,” but in reality, it sits in your closet for years, reminding you of your shopping mistake.
The fact is no woman is a standard size. Even gorgeous movie stars have figure “flaws.” Wouldn’t you like to know what works best for your body?
I know you’ve read fashion magazines looking for answers. They fill every issue with problem solving tips but…
What really works is the opposite of what you have been told.
Dress Your Essence® takes a completely different approach. When you put attention and energy on fixing something you don’t want people to notice, guess what? They notice! Cover-ups haven’t worked since the time of Eve. Why? Because you are giving so much attention to the cover up, you are actually packing it with broadcast energy!
The solution is to do the opposite – pack your Points of Beauty with energy
“You told us to dress to our assets but I never dreamed that opening the neckline, shortening and tapering my slacks and opening my shoes would make such a difference! Sure, I look different but what surprised me is how much better I feel about myself.
This class has been liberating. The gypsy in me is ready to sing and dance!”
Mary Fleischman Seattle WA
Stop wasting your precious time using trial and error to figure out what your specific looking-good formula is.
The Dress Your Essence®workshop will teach you the valuable techniques that the professionals use. Here’s a sample of what you’ll learn in the workshop.
The first thing you must do before you put a single garment on.
19 tests every winner outfit must pass.
The secrets practiced by the pros to draw attention away from figure variations.
Four simple measurements that determine the ideal length of your jackets, tops, skirts, slacks, and shorts.
An illustrated list of styles you should avoid for your figure type. (Click here to learn more)
The little known factor that determines the most flattering size of construction details like collar bands and plackets, and the width of your purse and shoe straps.
The easy to use formula that will tell you when paying a lot for something is really a good deal.
The easy cure for a boring outfit.
Proportion tips master artists use to determine the ideal length of necklaces, neck openings, and the placement of pins.
The most basic and overlooked things you want to know about yourself in order to put a dynamite outfit together.
The 4 best techniques to accentuate your best physical features.
An exact list and illustrations of styles that are superior for your figure type from the basics like skirts, slacks, and dresses to bathing suits and wedding dresses. (Click here to learn more)
How to cover up something and not communicate the energy of cover-up.
Five guidelines for wearing texture.
How to determine the proper scale for you, for jewelry and prints – under-scale makes you look tentative; over-scale communicates insecurity.
The most important part of any outfit you create.
The difference between finishing and integrating an outfit and why both are important.
15 tips for creating balanced proportions.
How to determine whether straight or curved lines flatter you the most.
The five-second test that tells you whether or not an outfit works.
The question to ask to stimulate your creativity when creating an outfit.
The point system to determine whether you are under or over accessorized.
How to double your outfits without purchasing twice the garments.
If you think this is the complete list, think again. There’s more! We haven’t touched the power of color yet, and it will be the most important item in your Dress Your Essence® toolkit.
Color is what people notice about you first!
The colors you wear can make your look alive and vibrant or old and tired. The right colors will draw attention to your face, which is your communications center, but if your wear colors that are wrong for you, people will only notice the colors you are wearing, not you!
Color is so complex, even people trained in color theory don’t know their most flattering colors to wear. You see, theory is just theory. It needs to be tested in real life to become practical, and that’s what will happen in a Dress Your Essence® color session, which is a prerequisite for the Dress Your Essence® workshop.
If you’ve had your colors done before, you’ll find that this system is a whole new ball game!
Color analysis got a bad rap in the 1980’s, but don’t let a flawed approach from the past keep you from something that can make such a dramatic difference in your appearance now! Click here to learn more
You’ll save money with this system, because you can build an exciting wardrobe that works together. Wouldn’t you like for it to be normal to put a fabulous outfit together in minutes?
Call 206-270-1060 for your Glow Color Analysis Appointment now.
If you are thinking this might be one more workshop that you forget about once it’s over, read on…
Your makeover will continue to get better and better!
The workshop will start a momentum that won’t stop. Why? Because the positive effect of your Essence Qualities is unlimited! Get ready for the compliments. I’m serious; you are going to get them!
Think about what it might be like to spend three afternoons with compatible and interesting women, building on each other’s comments to stimulate even more valuable personal discoveries. Learning is substantially accelerated in a small group environment.
You’ll receive a detailed, full-color, illustrated manual to document this comprehensive workshop. But there’s another more important reason it is easy to learn and make lasting changes in Dress Your Essence®. Advanced learning techniques are built into the design of the workshop.
You’ll experience five-minute warm-ups that will get the right and left sides of your brain to work together to make learning easier. They also shift you out of any leftover “school phobias,” so you can have fun learning naturally and easily.
Get ready for change!
It’s a funny thing; we want change, but we resist change. Your resistance will take a vacation in the Dress Your Essence® workshop. The classes are so much fun, you will find it easy to let new possibilities in. But, you might be asking yourself, “Will these changes last?”
When I decided to create this workshop, I had an outrageous goal in mind.
I was determined for every workshop participant to experience lasting change and ongoing improvement.
As you know, it’s difficult enough to change; it’s harder still to keep the change. The culprits are beliefs that reside deep in your subconscious, and you probably don’t even know you have them, until they rise up to drag you back to your old ways.
Dress Your Essence® goes after these beliefs head on. You will learn how to use your Mistaken Belief Detector to cull them out and then have the opportunity to neutralize them.
You can’t talk these beliefs into going away, but the negative power in the belief can be neutralized, leaving you free to be at choice again.
Four bonus teleconferences will be offered exclusively for you and your classmates. You’ll have the opportunity to privately bring forward issues/beliefs for quick, permanent, and comfortable clearing. The process is so seamless that afterwards you probably won’t even remember you had the issue.
“I am a Public Health Nurse and a Vietnam Vet. In the teleconference, I cleared a piece of the post-traumatic stress that came from my war experience. I came to the workshop to change how I dress; I didn’t expect it to change my life!”
Mary Paananen Public Health Nurse
“With what you taught me in Dress Your Essence® and the beliefs that got cleared, I can’t help it – I can’t be small any more!”
Jamie Clifton Finance Director, Center for Spiritual Living
With these kinds of results, I’m sure you can see why participants call the workshop life changing. You can claim similar dramatic and lasting breakthroughs for yourself and have the bonus of looking good!
The Dress Your Essence® workshop is right for you if…
You are ready to open a new chapter in your life.
You are willing to stop negative self-talk and be open to discovering what’s great about you.
You are willing to experiment with wearing colors, lines, shapes, and textures that are different from what you have worn before.
You are willing to share your journey with a small group of women and honor their confidences.
Most workshops make money on sheer volume. That’s why they fill cavernous ballrooms with hundreds of people. I want you to receive information tailored for you, and, at the same time, receive the rich benefits of group interaction and support. This can only be done with a small group. I actually limit attendance to ten.
You heard it; no more than nine like-minded women will be with you in your workshop.
You’ll be in the workshop with others, but you’re going to get a lot of personal attention.
This is a long-term investment in your presence and beauty!
If you were to compare the time you would spend with me in the workshop to doing what a typical image consultant would do, i.e. a closet cleanout, a color, style, figure, and lifestyle assessment, and shopping, the hours would roughly be the same. But the value, the lasting impact, and the fee are drastically different.
For consulting, you would pay almost three times more per hour than you will for the workshop, and with consulting, you wouldn’t receive:
The extensive knowledge of your Points of Beauty and how they impact your style lines.
A computer generated, illustrated booklet of over 490 great, good, and avoid styles. Only a computer can make the complex calculations to determine many of your best styles. For example, to determine the ideal neckline for you, your neck length and width, face shape and breadth and slope of your shoulders all need to be taken into consideration.
Access to video clips to model what presence looks like, so it’s easier for you to activate it.
Techniques to anchor your Essence Qualities to enhance your presence.
Advanced learning techniques to make your learning easier and more comprehensive.
The support of classmates to help you accelerate your changes.
The special opportunity to detect and clear sabotaging beliefs.
The illustrated color manual to refer to after the workshop is over.
“This is the most supportive gift I have ever given myself! I have been looking for this for a long time, only I didn’t know what I was looking for. I have struggled with the idea of beauty and femininity for so long. It’s been confusing and depressing when the feedback I have received is that I wasn’t feminine. So now to feel the way I do in one short class is amazing!”
With the Dress Your Essence® workshop the focus is on personal discovery, experiencing tailored answers, and skill acquisition. There is a big difference between mentally understanding something and actually successfully doing it for yourself.
Would you rather spend – $2,880 for 12 hours of image consulting and not even receive tools to use in the future or $1,520 for the three Dress Your Essence® 5.5 hour weekend classes and a series of tele-classes that will show you how to develop your own looking-good formula, based on your inner and outer Points of Beauty?
Roughly, you will pay $350 per class, for the Dress Your Essence® 4-part series that will transform how you look and feel about yourself forever. You'll leave with tools that will help you shop, the makings of your own signature style, knowledge of how to work with your best features, and a confidence about clothing yourself that you have never had before. Bottom line: the struggle and questions will be over; you will know what to do and enjoy doing it.
Am I crazy?
Why would I offer such a remarkable workshop for so little and for so few women? I know it sounds crazy, but let me explain.
Teaching something as profound as the Dress Your Essence® workshop is important to me. It’s a calling, and it is something I insist on doing right. That means that I sincerely want to draw the right audience. The fact is for the workshop to be effective; the audience can’t be too large.
I have always believed in offering extremely high value in return for the fee charged. That policy has led to great success for me. I have already made my fortune from the management training/software company that I founded and ran for 28 years. I sold it several years ago. Now I’m doing what I love most, which is teaching.
If you want to learn more about me, please click here for my bio.
The next workshop will be in 2008:
The specific dates to be announced
I encourage you to register for the Dress Your Essence® series of your choice now; as you can see the number of people I can teach is really limited. Click here to register now.
Here’s how you can save $40
If you send your $195 deposit for the workshop and book your color appointment at the same time, you will receive $40 off on your color analysis, which will be refunded after the first day of the workshop. This means you will only pay $460 for the 2-hour color session and the incredible fan that will enable you to shop smart and fast.
Wearing flattering colors is absolutely the fastest way to make the biggest and most positive impact on your appearance.
If you are sold on the program, but are tight on funds right now, the best way to get started is to get your colors analyzed right away and then enroll in the workshop as soon as you can. Since you’ll need to have your Color Fan before you attend the workshop, getting your colors done now allows you to reap huge benefits before you take the workshop.
Here’s why you’ll be glad you invested in the Glow Color Fan and the Dress Your Essence® workshop!
If you add up the cost of the garments hanging in your closet that you don’t wear, can you afford not to invest in the tools I’ve described?
Imagine the pleasure of seeing your closet full of clothes that you really wear and love!
Look at it this way, this investment in yourself is the equivalent of what you’d spend in one serious shopping trip, but the knowledge you receive from the Dress Your Essence® workshop will last forever.
So take action right now, while all of this is fresh on your mind.
Go ahead; give yourself the gift that will open a new chapter in your life and continue giving back to you for the rest of your life.
Yours in beauty and presence,
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The Dress Your Essence® workshop will give you everything you need to create a beautiful style that is all yours. You can try to do this on your own, but will you really do it? Wouldn’t it be wiser to set aside three afternoons to delight in a guided discovery to the answers you are looking for? Pick up your phone right this minute and call 206-270-1060. Or click here to register.
P.P.S. Remember, space really is limited. There will be nomore than nine women in a workshop and only four workshops are taught each year. Register now to guarantee that you will have a place.
