Seminars and Workshops

Smart Space organizing offers seminars and workshops in the areas of Organizing at Work, Organizing at Home, Organizing at School, Time Management and Creative Individuals. For details, please read the descriptions below:

Letting Go and Lightening Up

This is a four part workshop that will help you learn the tools that you need to get and stay organized. We talk about letting go of emotional, mental and physical stuff in order to have time and room in your life to do what you want to do. Learn fun and creative on how to clear the clutter from you mind, home, office and life.

Part One – The Mind This is the foundation class that focuses on clarity and choices. Learn greater self-awareness so you can consciously make decisions. Gain new insights to your clutter and learn how to view it without shame.

Part Two – The Home. The second class focuses on imagination, balance, order and placement. An organized home provides us with the respite needed for balance and harmony. Learn how you can create a space unique to your sense of order that will bring you serenity.

Part Three – The Office. The third class focuses on organizing, prioritizing, storing and creating the system and using the technology that is right for you. Learn ways you can become more focused and productive in your work and home office.

Part Four – Life. The fourth class concludes the workshop with a class that focuses on your relationship with time, honouring your values, the importance of self-care and living a balanced life. Learn how to use the workshop tools to live a more authentic life.

Organizing at Work

Organizing Your Work Space

Learn how to re-organize your office space for more efficient use. Understand the basic principles of effective filing systems, and how to customize your system for your needs. Develop systems for purging and maintaining paper and electronic information, and learn tips for managing your e-mail and voice mail more efficiently.

This workshop is useful for almost anyone, and can be effectively incorporated into an “Office Clean Up Day.”

Organizing at Home

De-Cluttering Your Space and Time

Develop an understanding of why we collect the clutter we do, and how to learn to live (relatively) clutter free. Learn the basic principles of organizing, applicable to any area of your life. Examine your own time management systems and learn ways to make them more effective and easier to use. Time permitting, organizing specific areas of office or home will be included.

Home Paper Management

The average household generates a quantity of paper very similar to a small business. If you do not have easy, effective systems in place to keep that information under control, you can very easily drown! Learn the joy of being able to find what you need, when you need it. Amaze your accountant (or yourself!) at tax time with your orderly and quickly assembled records!

Organizing 101 for Students

Lost your homework again? Can you find the floor in your room? Learn some tips and tricks on how to reclaim your space and put new effective systems in place that work for you.

Organizing & Decluttering Your Space

When organizing anything, the golden rule is to give whatever is disorganized a home and create a system to get it there regularly. We will try to find a system that works for you.

Organizing for the Creative Person

Help you to learn ways of keeping your papers without losing them in a filing cabinet, to be in better control of your life without becoming rigid.

Taming Family Chaos

Attendees will learn 10 family organizing secrets you can use to simplify your life and take control of your home. Organizing is a life skill that your kids will use throughout school, work and life.

Taming Your Closet

Don’t think of this task as “organizing your closet”. Think of this as “discovering the boutique within!”. We use 20% of our clothes 80% of the time. Learn to make better use of your clothes and your closet.

Downsizing

The kids have moved out, you’ve simplified your life. Moving to a less spacious home requires a change in lifestyle, but planning makes the transition far more seamless.

Holidays without Hassles

This course offers ideas as to how to plan your year with all holidays so that there are no surprises. Whether it is winter, spring, summer or autumn, we all go on a holiday or celebrate holidays the key is planning so you have time to enjoy your holiday.

Organizing at School

Organizer in the School

Through interactive 30-45 minute classroom presentations, students, teachers and staff learn about the impact and importance of being organized and basic organizing principles. Organizing information, paper, space (such as desks and backpacks) time and stuff is discussed.

Sessions are tailored according to the grade level of the students and needs of the class. (Kindergarten, Grades 1-3, 4-6, 7-8,9-10, 11 or 12) and the special needs of students with learning or developmental disabilities.

Handouts, which include organizing tips, are distributed for parents to start a dialogue between parents and students about being organized.

Organizing 101 for Students

Lost your homework again? Can you find the floor in your room? Learn some tips and tricks on how to reclaim your space and put new effective systems in place that work for you

Organizing 101 for the School Year

Clutter is inevitable, especially during the school year when new stuff makes a daily appearance. The key is to find some clutter-busting solutions to help you get organized once and for all. Learn how to keep kids organized between September and June.

Organizing 101 for Teachers

Teachers tend to accumulate a lot of craft supplies, books, lesson ideas, and other resources that might be useful in the future. Learn to identify what you really need to keep, as well tips to organize things efficiently so you can always find them when you need them.

Time Management

Not enough hours in the day? Take control over your time and environment to reduce the stresses of life. To be successful, goals must be identified, priorities clarified and realistic schedules established.

Managing Your Time and Balancing Your Life

We all have the same amount of time every day – how do some people manage to use it more effectively than others? How do they balance the demands of others with their own needs, get everything done and still have time for themselves? You too can make time work for you, become more productive and effective than you may have thought possible, and still have space for a personal life!

Procrastination Prevention

Most of us procrastinate a bit at one time or another – but unchecked it can lead to a stressful life full of crises and disorganization. In this workshop you can learn how to identify your procrastination problems, and some tips and tricks for getting you past that stage and into productive and timely activity.

Time Management for the Creative Person

This course over a period of three weeks will help you find strategies for stopping procrastination, getting control of the clock and calendar, and freeing up your time and your life.

Time Management for Students

Between school, job, homework, sports, chores, and friends, there doesn’t seem to be enough time. Learn some tips and tricks on how to manage your time.

Decorating

Small Spaces

Small space decorating is a hot topic these days. Condos, apartments and small homes all offer unique challenges in decorating: will everything fit, which colours should be used, and how can spaces be multi-functional and still beautiful? This seminar will help you with the planning and decorating your space.

How to Find Your Decorating Style

It really is important that you understand your style before you set about decorating your home. Why? It’s kind of like reading the recipe the whole way through before you start to cook it; or writing your grocery list down organizing items by categories. You can cook a recipe by reading only one line at a time, and you can grocery shop one item at a time, but you’ll have a much easier time accomplishing your goal if you have a clear picture of the desired result! It’s the same with decorating. You can search for your decor one thing at a time by looking everywhere and considering everything, but it will be much easier (and enjoyable) if you have a clear idea of what you are, and are not looking for.

Inspired Spaces

Does your home say “Welcome” when you walk through the door? Rejuvenate yourself by inexpensively rejuvenating your home, using pieces that you may already have. Learn the effects of light and colour as well.