Lots Of Tribal Art From Africa

The one website that we now recommend for African art is Strictly Africa which is based in Rochester, New York. They have lots of tribal art from Africa including masks, carvings, textiles and even African drums. A beautiful website as well with lots to see so check them out.

Removed Two Art Retailer Partners

Long time visitors to Free Spirit Gallery may have noticed that we have removed two art retailer partners from our website, one for African art and the other for mainly southwest native Kachina dolls. This is because we have found problems with their websites which is probably a result of neglect due to the recession. Since we want to recommend only reliable art sources for our Free Spirit Gallery visitors, we have removed them. We still do have art partners that we suggest for both African art and Kachina dolls.

Inuit Art Retailer Has Special For Us

Gallery Canada, one of our partners for Inuit art, has announced that they will have a special for all visitors and customers of Free Spirit Gallery. For Friday November 27, Saturday November 28 and Sunday November 29 only, followers of Free Spirit Gallery can get 15% off at orders over $100 at Gallery Canada, which specializes in white stone Inuit carvings. But you have to use the coupon code 'freespirit' in order to get the 15% discount. After these three days, Free Spirit Gallery visitors will continue to get 10% off with the same coupon code.

Inspirational Self Help Blog

For those who like following blogs, motivational speaker and author has a separate self help blog that is updated several times per week in addition to his official motivational speaker website. This inspirational self help blog is also linked to his Facebook fan page.

Will Announce Possible Changes For Kachina Dolls Sources

We will likely be making some announcement about possible changes for our recommendations for sources of Native American kachina dolls tomorrow. It will also go out to all of our free subscribers of our Native Art Gallery Newsletter as well. We intend to bring you only the best sources of kachina dolls especially for the holiday shopping season. Stay tuned.

Karate Champion Talks About Self Help Personal Growth Guide

Karate champion and author of the native art ebooks at Free Spirit Gallery, Clint Cora, talks about his free self help personal growth guide and other tools that he makes available through his motivational self help website. You can see him speaking about these tools at self help video.

African Art Make Great Christmas Gifts

African art make great and unique Christmas gifts. Although we don't carry African art, we have been dealing with an online partner of ours for some time and they have a wide selection of African art in the form of tribal masks, carvings, textiles and even African drums. They are called Strictly Africa and we suggest that you take a look at their website to see what they have to offer. Take your time because they do have a lot of different items available.

Our Suggested Source For White Stone Inuit Art Carvings

Since the holiday shopping season is here, we will suggest several of our favorite sources for various forms of Inuit art and native art over the next couple of days. First, our long time partner for uniquely white stone Inuit art carvings is Gallery Canada. White stone is pretty uncommon since most Inuit carvers tend to use dark color stones for their artwork. But Gallery Canada has sourced a specific part of the Arctic where the local carvers do use white stone. Take a look at the Gallery Canada website.

Helping Native Students Do Well In School

If you know native high school, college or university students, it is worthwhile to show them this YouTube video on how to do well in school. It will give them the best strategy in study skills to give them the edge they need to improve their grades. It also eliminates cramming for exams.

How Aboriginal Students Can Do Well In College

Here's a new video where I describe the study skills strategy I used to pull myself out of the rut during my studies. It is a great effective strategy in answering how to do well in college or university. High school students can also use it as well. In fact, they are highly recommended to use it as the earlier they get used to this method, the better they will do in college or university. A great thing about this method is that it doesn't involve any cramming for exams! Aboriginal and non-aboriginal students alike can benefit by using this study strategy. So check out this How To Do Well In College University video to learn more about it.

November Dose of Motivation Audio Podcast Is Up!

The November episode of the Dose of Motivation audio podcast is up and running. Each month, Karate World Champion and motivational speaker/author Clint Cora puts up a five minute audio to help motivate others for success. He was also the author of the two art ebooks on Free Spirit Gallery. This month's episode has a 'water' theme. To listen to this month's episode and previous ones too, just go to Dose of Motivation.

Olympics Will Promote Polar Bears

Since the winter Olympics is coming and the Olympic torch relay is underway in Canada, it is hoped that the campaign will promote to the world, the effects of global warming on the polar bears. Part of the torch relay will be going through polar bear country in the Arctic where people can see the effects global warming has had on Canada's beloved polar bears. See some wonderful 2010 calendars of polar bears so that you can appreciate these magnificent creatures.

Native American Art On 2010 Calendars

There is indeed a lot of nice Native American art on 2010 wall calendars. If you are a lover of Native American art and culture, there's no need to stick with boring real estate calendars when you can have beautiful and inspiring native art on the walls each month. Since Christmas shopping season is coming, the following webpage of beauticul Native American Art Calendars will be come in handy.

Olympic Torch Reached Arctic Canada

The Olympic torch has reached parts of Arctic Canada including the most northerly base of Alert in Nunavut. The organizers wanted the Arctic regions to be represented in the routes that the Olympic torch relay will take enroute to Vancouver for the winter Olympics.

Karate Champion Would Love To Entertain Youth Audiences Up North

World karate champion and diversity speaker Clint Cora entertains high school youth audiences quite effectively with martial arts group activities during his talks. To see an example that was recently caught on video during a college campus activities conference showcase, see how he keeps the audience entertained at the middle of his Youth Speaking Program webpage. He would love to travel up north to the Canadian Arctic to do the same with the Inuit youth up there. If only some organizations would sponsor the travel.

Clint Cora To Speak In Niagara Falls, NY

World Karate Champion Clint Cora will be presenting his Life Champion In You motivational keynote as a workshop at the Toastmasters International District 65 conference this Saturday November 7, 2009. The general public is invited to attend at a cost of only $25 and this will entitle you to attend THREE different workshops from a choice of TWELVE sessions that will be running throughout the day.

Here are descriptions of the possible workshops you can attend.

Clint's particular workshop is described in full at Clint Cora workshop. This is his motivational presentation that he usually does for corporate groups.

So if you are in the Niagara Falls, Fort Erie, Buffalo and western New York area, this is a chance to see Clint Cora live along with some other great speakers for a very low price.

Next Book Will Be On Diversity

The next book project of motivational speaker and Karate World Champion Clint Cora will definitely be on diversity to complement his Kick Down Diversity Barriers talk. He's already scheduled writing time about five days per week for the next two months to this project. Hopefully, there will be a new book ready shortly after New Year sometime. Current book titles by Clint can be seen at his website. You can read the foreword to The Life Champion In You book there. Of course, his two art ebooks which you can download for free are at Free Spirit Gallery.

PDF Of Sexy Diversity Press Release

The PDF version of this week's Sexy Diversity press release is now available for reporters/writers of print media and online publications. This PDF version is brought to you by PRLog, an online press release website.

Canadian Motivational Speaker To Start Work On Next Book

Canadian motivational speaker and owner of the Free Spirit Gallery group of companies Clint Cora will start to work on his next book project which will be on diversity since this is his other area of specialization. Clint's 'The Life Champion In You' complements his motivational talks and since demand for his diversity presentation is increasing, a book to complement it would be a logical step.

Sexy Diversity Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Yes, Diversity Can Make You Sexy!

Toronto, Ontario, Canada - October 22, 2009 - Diversity, inclusion and equity are important factors promoted in society these days, especially in companies. However, sometimes diversity is considered as just another politically correct topic that doesn’t grab much public interest. Fortunately according to motivational and diversity speaker Clint Cora, diversity can certainly be a very sexy topic.

Cora claims that personal skills, which he refers to as ‘diversity skills’, developed from interactions with a wide variety of people from different cultures make an individual more attractive and sexy. He even proves his claim with a fun audience activity during his talks.

Women Prefer Mr. Worldly

The ladies in his audiences are presented profiles of two different men. Bachelor number one is the ‘Sports & Beer’ guy who only likes to talk about sports and is not well traveled resulting in a very narrow exposure to different cultures. He’s the typical meat and potatoes man, preferring to stick with very standard cuisine with a few bottles of beer.

In contrast, bachelor number two through his travels around the world has been exposed to many different foreign cultures, people, food, customs and languages. This man is definitely more ‘worldly’ than the first one.

When the women are asked to choose which guy they think would be a more interesting date based on just these characteristics, Cora reports, “They always overwhelmingly vote in favor for Mr. Worldly.”

Diversity Skills Make People Sexier

This proves that if a man immerses himself with culture and develops the diversity skills to be able to interact well with many different people, he will probably be considered sexier than other men who are much less cultured.

This can work for the ladies as well since cultured and sophisticated women are often considered more sexy than those who are not adventurous enough to appreciate diversity.

Cora says, “Let’s face it, anybody who has experienced the world is always more interesting to talk to compared to somebody who hasn’t ventured out too far from home.” He goes on to add that, “A diverse environment also offers ideal opportunities for people to develop diversity skills.”

Since diversity skills are now essential to both business and personal success in a diverse society such as North America, Clint Cora, a well-traveled former corporate executive and karate world champion, presents a program called ‘Kick Down Diversity Barriers For Success’ at companies, universities and colleges – see www.clintcora.com for more info and articles on success. Being skilled in diversity is indeed very sexy.

Contact Information:

Clint Cora
www.clintcora.com (high resolution photos available at website media section)
905-814-5763
contact@clintcora.com

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Thoughts About Hotel Rwanda Movie and Rwandan Genocide

I just saw the movie Hotel Rwanda this weekend which was about how a hotel manager saved the lives of hundreds of people during the Rwandan genocide. The movie and some subsequent online research finally gave me a better understanding of what happened during this terrible period in Rwanda. It's absolutely incredible and sad how such a thing can still happen in modern times. We would think that our capacity to hate and discriminate should be diminished in humanity by now but looks like that's not the case unfortunately. This is yet another reason why diversity education is so important in our society so that something as horrible as the Rwandan genocide never happens again. At least this movie made me feel good that I as a human being, am doing something good for society by promoting and speaking on diversity. African culture is awesome and there's certainly no reason for people of different ethnicities there or anywhere else to hate each other.

Diversity Can Make You Sexy

Diversity is often a topic these days that fits under the politically correctness category and therefore not a very sexy topic. Issue about integrating Native Americans into the rest of American society is the same thing in terms of public attention. However, it doesn't have to be that way. Diversity can indeed make you sexy and everyone likes to be sexy. So here is a new article that discusses just how diversity can make you sexy!

October Dose of Motivation Audio Podcast Is Up

The October episode of Canadian motivational speaker Clint Cora's Dose of Motivation audio podcast is up online now. It's about how small things over time do matter for your success and this month has a great example to illustrate this concept. As always, all previous episodes of Clint's motivation audio podcast are on the same webpage for your listening and learning pleasure.

Diversity Includes Native People

Diversity expert and speaker Clint Cora has a new article on diversity published in a college activities magazine by the organization COCA and in this article, Clint mentions the inclusion of native students as part of the increasing diversity on college and university campuses. He adds that diverse student populations will benefit greatly from diversity skills development not only for enriched campus life but also for future careers since much of the working environment is so diverse.

Next Motivational Audio Podcast Coming This Thursday

The next motivational audio podcast from my Dose of Motivation series will be coming this Thursday. I'll actually upload it sometime late on Wednesday night. Presently, all episodes going back to January from this free monthly motivational audio podcast are available for your listening pleasure. This same podcast series is also on iTunes. This free series is excellent for all of you art lovers who also could use some motivation in your lives these days.

Top Study Skills Strategy For Native American Students

Since the readership of this blog does include many Native American students, college speaker Clint Cora has written up a new article revealing his top study skills strategy for college and university students. This shows how to study effectively and Clint used this method to pull himself from a 'C' student to a respectable 'B+/A-' student by the time he graduated from university.

Advice For Aboriginal Students Facing Job Market

I was asked by a college magazine on some advice to give to college students, particularly seniors who will be facing the job market. Since I speak at colleges, one of the things that I tell students all the time is that they should work to develop their people skills, ie., their ability to interact well with lots of different types of people. People skills will be more important than their grades when determining how successful they will be in their future careers. Also, because we live in a more diverse society now, it is important for students to be able to work with people from all different backgrounds and cultures. This is what I do in my college diversity presentations. People and diversity skills, whether acquired through part time work, volunteer work or even extra-curricular activities with people other than their friends, will separate these forward thinking students from their competition in the job market. This advice would be equally effective for aboriginal students as well.

Native American Indian Houses

This week was interesting because we received an email from somebody who saw our video on Native American Indian houses. Actually, this video is technically of Native Canadian work at the Museum of Civilization in Canada. It turns out that this person is the nephew of the artist who was commissioned to create the work on this video.

Star Trek Is A Great Example Of Diversity

I saw the latest Star Trek movie yesterday and much like other types of movie (Star Wars, etc) in this science fiction genre, there is often a mix of different human races as well as aliens working together. I recall the series Star Trek Voyageur where the first office was of Native American origins. It was during one episode that I was first introduced to the concept of the dreamcatcher. This is a great example of diversity working at its best and this latest Star Trek movie was no exception. Seeing a developing friendship between Kirk and Spock was a real pleasure. Having said that, seeing Spock kissing with Uhura was certainly not expected!

Art Auctions On Cruise Ships

Yes, it's true, they do have art auctions on cruise ships. This is one of the entertaining aspects of having meetings and conferences one cruise ships. I did attend a cruise on the Mediterrean Sea as part of a pharmaceutical company meeting. At that time, I was product marketing manager and was involved in organizing a big meeting for our entire sales force and marketing team on a Celebrity cruise of the Mediterrean. Thinking about that particular cruise, I was quoted in a recent article about meetings on cruise ships.