Highlands, NC—Old Edwards Inn & Spa and Patrice Dickey are teaming up to present The Renewal Experience April 9-11, 2010. Patrice Dickey, “Your Guide to the Life You Love,” has led her popular life-changing class, Get the Life You Love, for more than a decade at Emory University’s Center for Lifelong Learning, helping hundreds of students and coaching clients shift to higher levels of self-awareness, wellbeing, creativity and productivity.

This spring, the award-winning author of BACK TO THE GARDEN: Getting from Shadow to Joy is joining with Old Edwards Inn and Spa, a Forbes Four-Star resort in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, to offer The Renewal Experience, April 9-11, 2010.

Dickey says, “So many people want to generate more meaning in their lives and enjoy deeper creative expression and new paths to self-discovery, and combine those pursuits with quiet, reflective time, spa therapies, yoga and just strolling a mountain resort town.”

Kyra Russell, director of The Spa at Old Edwards says, “Our wellness spa embodies all that makes the mountains such a rejuvenating wellness experience. Having just completed a $50 million renovation in 2007, our facilities were constructed of native stone and wood to provide a welcoming, nurturing environment perfectly suited for self-renewal.”

In this conference participants will learn to:

• Re-Envision Your Life/Create Your Own Re-Vision Board
• Greet Your Inner Guide
• Reconnect with Your Values
• Roll with Vision and Focus on the Wheel of Life
• Make Your Vision Vivid
• Engage Active Imagination through Journaling
• Raise Your Vibration to Attract Your Good

Renewal Experience Scholarship Available Through ProWomen.Org

Patrice Dickey, along with Old Edwards Inn and Spa and an anonymous donor, and are granting a scholarship for The Renewal Experience to an executive woman who, as a volunteer, gives a great deal to her community but rarely takes time to recharge herself. The nomination will some from the board of ProWomen.org, which is dedicated to eradicating harassment of professional women, and provides educational alternatives to prevent negative impact on women’s careers. Contact Executive Director Sandi Aigoro at 866-943-5797x7015 or Board Members of ProWomen.org to suggest nominees.

Find out more about Patrice Dickey and register for The Renewal Experience at www.oldedwardsinn.com.

About Patrice Dickey: (www.patricedickey.com) For 25 years as an enthusiastic sales trainer, motivational speaker, life transition coach, yoga teacher and award-winning author, Patrice Dickey's intention is to help people recognize the highest and best in themselves and translate it into authentic, positive forward movement in their lives. She has led Get the Life You Love, a popular creativity enhancing and life enrichment class at Emory University's Center for Lifelong Learning since 1999. Released in 2006, her book BACK TO THE GARDEN: Getting from Shadow to Joy has won five awards in inspirational, spiritual and non-fiction categories--a standout in every contest in which it has been entered. The greatest honor to Patrice was discovering a young woman's comment on MySpace: "Most amazing self-help book I've ever read. It actually works." Now that's authenticity!

Her background includes a successful 16 years as a public relations entrepreneur, heading her consulting firm PD Communications. British Airways, the Center for Women's Care & Reproductive Surgery, Executive Medical Marketing and other high caliber groups comprised her client base, mostly health and wellness related. She regularly contributes articles to national and regional magazines on topics of health, relaxation and top destination spas. After 15 years as an award-winning instructor of Dale Carnegie Sales Training, she expanded the scope of PD Communications to include corporate keynotes and workshops, giving people the tools to embrace change, develop more meaningful lives, and leave a legacy.

About Old Edwards Hospitality Group: (www.oldedwardsinn.com) The Old Edwards Hospitality Group encompasses The Old Edwards Inn and Spa in Highlands, NC, as well as The Old Edwards Club—a private club that features a professionally designed golf course, outdoor heated mineral pool, tennis courts, a fitness center, clubhouse and pro shop. Also introduced in 2009 was Satulah, Old Edwards Private Residences, which includes 14 luxury mountain homes just two blocks of Main Street, Highlands. The Mobil Four-Star, AAA Four-Diamond resort is located at 445 Main Street in Highlands, NC. Also included in the Old Edwards Experience are a Mobil Four-Star wellness spa, Madison’s Restaurant and Wine Garden, The Farm at Old Edwards special events and wedding facility, Acorn’s and Acorn’s Annex upscale retail shops, and The Rib Shack & Sports Corner. Madison’s Restaurant and Wine Garden has won the Wine Spectator “Award of Excellence” every year since 2005 and the “Best Of” award in 2008 and 2009.