Programs & Workshops:
Programs and Topics • For Business & General Audiences • For Homeowners
Programs Your Audiences Will Thank You For!
Have a tight program budget? Get two or three programs for the price of one!
Sharon’s broad design experience in various areas of interior and exterior design allows meeting planners to stretch their dollars by asking her to do more than one presentation. Once she’s at your event, she will be totally committed to your success.
1. EEEAAKS! Godzilla is in my Living Room!!
Program: 50 minutes
Workshop 2.5 hours
Godzilla?---OH, it’s just ”that” piece of furniture. The room is filled with lovely things— but does it follow the principles of good design? An interactive program based on five design principles that all design professionals adhere to. We will cover the items seldom addressed by TV or magazines, beginning with the very first things a professional designer does before beginning the design.
Fun exercises, audience interaction, and real examples with gentle humor will allow you to put your newly learned skills into action at once! You will learn from Sharon Breay, speaker, author, and principal of awarded Breay Design. Sharon’s work has been included numerous magazines and newspapers. She has lectured and taught courses for several colleges and universities, and discussed design on TV and radio programs.
2. Why Color Trends Don’t Work in Our Interiors
Program: 50 minutes
Workshop 2.5 hours
Don’t we like to read about the latest color trends for our homes? There are so many articles about them…….too bad they don’t work! Learn why, and then learn how to create your own personal color scheme to create that desired mood, and to enhance your architecture and interior design. Be amazed by examples of how colors change in relation to one another and their surroundings.
Fun exercises, audience interaction, and real examples with gentle humor will allow you to put your newly learned skills into action at once! You will learn from Sharon Breay, speaker, author, and principal of awarded Breay Design. Sharon’s work has been included numerous magazines and newspapers. She has lectured and taught courses for several colleges and universities, and discussed design on TV and radio programs.
3. I have 5 Light Bulbs; What More is there to Lighting Design?
Program: 50 minutes
Workshop 2.5 hours
Lighting is the most important aspect of the build environment, but also the least understood—so the most ignored. Learn how you can create the mood you wish with lighting. Learn how it can greatly help or hamper your home and landscape. Where do you place it to get the WOW effect? Be amazed with what lighting CAN do for you.
Fun exercises, audience interaction, and real examples with gentle humor will allow you to put your newly learned skills into action at once! You will learn from Sharon Breay, speaker, author, and principal of awarded Breay Design. Sharon’s work has been included numerous magazines and newspapers. She has lectured and taught courses for several colleges and universities, and discussed design on TV and radio programs.
4. Why Don’t My Pink Petunias Please Me?
Program: 50 minutes
Workshop 2.5 hours
Your garden the same plants into your garden as the lovely magazine or book illustration, so why isn’t my garden as pretty as the picture? This program is Garden Design 101, providing you the tools of understanding to make to your garden as lovely as that illustration. All flowers and plants are lovely, but even the best gardener needs some design skills to create a beautiful garden. Learn how to “design” your garden as the professionals do.
Fun exercises, audience interaction, and real examples with gentle humor will allow you to put your newly learned skills into action at once! You will learn from Sharon Breay, speaker, author, and principal of awarded Breay Design. Sharon’s work has been included numerous magazines and newspapers. She has lectured and taught courses for several colleges and universities, and discussed design on TV and radio programs.
5. Ways to Create Your Personal Garden Refuge
Program 50 minutes
You entertain, the kids play, the family has cookouts—but where can YOU go when the world closes in on you? Stress is a big part of life today; we all need someplace to unwind, meditate, work out solutions to a problem, journal or write, work on a hobby, or simply take a nap! And what better place than a little lovely, private space in your garden.
Fun exercises, audience interaction, and real examples with gentle humor will allow you to put your newly learned skills into action at once! You will learn from Sharon Breay, speaker, author, and principal of awarded Breay Design. Sharon’s work has been included numerous magazines and newspapers. She has lectured and taught courses for several colleges and universities, and discussed design on TV and radio programs.
6. Helping Mom & Pop Stay in their Own Home
Workshop 2.5 hours
Program 50 minutes
According to AARP, 90% of Americans want to “age in place, remain living in their own home. Typically, 81% of senior citizens live in their own homes. But as Mom & Pop age, they are prone to falls, easier to experience visual challenges, and often must move with a walker or wheelchair. Learn steps to create a safer environment for the golden agers you care about. Decrease your worries, enhance their feelings of self sufficiency, and create sale-enhancing features on the home they live in.
Fun exercises, audience interaction, and real examples with gentle humor will allow you to put your newly learned skills into action at once! You will learn from Sharon Breay, speaker, author, and principal of awarded Breay Design. Sharon’s work has been included numerous magazines and newspapers. She has lectured and taught courses for several colleges and universities, and discussed design on TV and radio programs.
7. Romancing the Colorado Garden
Program 50 minutes
All gardening is fairly easy, right? You may have thought that before moving to Colorado!
Talk about challenges and extremes! As we discuss sun, soil, water, and wildflower, you will learn how you CAN create a beautiful garden—even in Colorado, and without wildflowers.
Fun exercises, audience interaction, and real examples with gentle humor will allow you to put your newly learned skills into action at once! You will learn from
Sharon Breay, speaker, author, and principal of awarded Breay Design. Sharon’s
work has been included numerous magazines and newspapers. She has lectured
and taught courses for several colleges and universities, and discussed design on TV and radio programs.
8. The Gyroscopic Computer User
Program 50 minutes
Be your office at home or in an office building, you need to know how to work both effectively and healthily. (And so do your children who spend hours on the computer.) Learn 3 simple positions and 1 attitude adjustment that will help you be at your best. Get tips on small office design that will allow you to function well.
Fun exercises, audience interaction, and real examples with gentle humor will allow you to put your newly learned skills into action at once! You will learn from Sharon Breay, speaker, author, and principal of awarded Breay Design. Sharon’s work has been included numerous magazines and newspapers. She has lectured and taught courses for several colleges and universities, and discussed design on TV and radio programs.
9. So Here’s My Interior Design Problem:
Workshop 2.5 hours
Program 50 minutes
Wouldn’t you love to be able to just tell a professional designer that and get a solution? This very interactive workshop addresses audience problems with their interior design. You may learn your problem is not so unique, and that you have a choice of solutions. Everyone learns, everyone laughs, and everyone gets solutions to problems, with an explanation of how the solutions can be adapted to varying situations, just in case you didn’t get to be one of the lucky people who’s interior problem was discussed.
You will learn from Sharon Breay, speaker, author, and principal of awarded Breay Design. Sharon’s work has been included numerous magazines and newspapers. She has lectured and taught courses for several colleges and universities, and discussed design on TV and radio programs.
10. Who ME? Say a Few Words to the Group?
Workshop 2.5 hours
Program 50 minutes
You know the biggest or second biggest fear in people is speaking in public—but how do you overcome it? You need confidence in your ability to put together a spectacular speech, and then how to give it, without getting the words mixed up, without looking terrified, and without fumbling or walking frantically back and forth. We will go over the entire process, practicing each step. Everybody needs speaking skills in today’s world. You’ll breathe a sigh of relief as we go through the steps.
You will learn from Sharon Breay, speaker, author, and principal of awarded Breay Design. Sharon’s work has been included numerous magazines and newspapers. She has lectured and taught courses for several colleges and universities, and discussed design on TV and radio programs.
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