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I believe that eliminating visual chaos is the first step in creating the life you deserve. By evaluating the small details of daily living, you can start to envision larger life goals. Getting organized is the first step in designing and achieving those goals. Getting organized will save you time, energy, and money. Not only that, getting (and staying) organized helps keep you sane!

I am committed to helping people understand their relationships to the objects in their environments, and providing them with creative, inexpensive ideas for clarifying these relationships. I offer my knowledge of order, organization, and interior design to encourage my clients to live more efficiently, within their means, and with total abundance.

My services are for people who truly desire to change and are committed to educating themselves in new ways to live and relate to things in their environments. Clients enjoy working with me because I am authentic, I work with integrity, I am a practitioner of organized living, I offer humor, empathy, and compassion, and I teach them the art and rhythm of organizing.

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Meg Connell, Professional Organizer, established her private practice in 1997. With over 15 years of organizing experience, including 8 years as an employee of a Fortune 500 consulting firm, and a degree in Interior Design and Architecture, Meg is uniquely qualified to offer estate, corporate, and residential organizing services. Her office is located in Oakland, California, and she serves clients all over the country. She is an active member in many professional associations including: the National Association of Professional Organizers, the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization, the Estate Planning Council of Southern Alameda County, the East Bay Estate Planning Council, and the East Bay Women's Network.

Meg has presented to the Piedmont Chapter of the Daughter's of the American Revolution, the East Bay Women's Network, Peninsula Partnership Training Institute, National Association of Professional Organizers, Support Center for Nonprofit Management, as well as many other venues on various organizing topics including time and paper flow management, and handling of estate assets at the time of personal loss.

In the summer of 2004, Meg filmed "The C.H.A.O.S. Clinic" (on location all over England), a wacky, wily, comedy for people who “Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome,” (a very highly disorganized state of living!) highlighting the lighter side of getting organized. Dream sequences, psychedelic lights, adventurous spelunking amidst clutter with hardhats and headlamps, and tongue-in-cheek support-group farces pushes this 8-episode series out beyond the average to the wildest possible edge.

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TV Shows

Meg Connell, “The Organized One,” is straightening out the lives of England’s chronically disorganized denizens using wit, wisdom, and a six-step program to achieving streamline success in “The C.H.A.O.S. Clinic,” (Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome). The eight-episode series follows Meg into the homes of hopeless hoarders and obsessive shoppers, where her ironic, alternative, comedic, and sometimes even outlandish techniques help clients face the facts of their situations and get organized.

Professional Association Memberships


The National Association of Professional Organizers
National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization
Professional Organizers Web Ring
The East Bay Women's Network
Estate Planning Council of Southern Alameda County
The East Bay Estate Planning Council

Professional Association Board Positions


The National Association of Professional Organizers
SFBA Chapter
Treasurer (1999-2001)

The East Bay Women's Network
President (1997)

Estate Planning Council of Southern Alameda County
President (2002-2004)
Vice President (2001)
Education Director (2000)
Member at Large (2004-2005)

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Conferences

National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) Conferences
Nationally held 3-day conferences on organizing topics, trends, tips, and products
May 2000, 2001

National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization (NSGCD)
National half-day conference on chronically disorganized clients and how to better serve them
October 2002

NAPO Annual Regional Conferences hosted by the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Day-long conference on organizing topics, trends, tips, and products
October 1997-2002

Workshops included:


Records Retention: Why, How, When, and Where to

    Throw it Out
Understanding and Helping (Not Treating) Clients with

    Psychiatric Disorders
Needs Assessment: Organizing Principles in Action
Industrial Organizing
Clients with Depression
Organizing Estate Information and Documents
Diagnosing and Treating Affluenza
Organizing By Brain Type
After a Move: Restoring Order to a Home

Teleconferences

National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization (NSGCD)
Hour-long discussion groups with other professionals on issues affecting chronically disorganized clients.

Topics included:

Backsliding

Basic Attention Deficit Disorder

Basic Chronic Disorganization

Boundaries and Ethics

Building Long-term Client Relationships

Couples as Clients

Dealing with Clients with Fatigue Causing Diseases

Issues Effecting Chronically Disorganized Clients:

   Depression & Grief

Logistics and Administration of Phone Appointments

Measurement and Success Indicators for Chronically

   Disorganized Clients

Medications for ADD/Chronically Disorganized Clients

Methods of Assisting Movement Impaired and Device

   Assisted Chronically Disorganized Clients

Motivation Techniques for Working with the Chronically

   Disorganized Client

Obsessive Compulsive Disease – An Overview

Overview of Legal Documents for Elderly and Physically

   Challenged Clients

Pack Rat Syndrome

Running a Clutter Support Group

Strategies for Dealing with Reluctant Family Members

Strategies for Helping your AD/HD Clients Improve Their

   Focus

Strategies for Working with ADD/ Chronically Disorganized Clients by Phone

Time Management for the Chronically Disorganized Client

Tools for working with the Physically Challenged

   Chronically Disorganized Client

Working with Elderly Chronically Disorganized Clients

Working with Physically Challenged Chronically

   Disorganized Clients

Working with Sight Impaired and Hearing Challenged

   Chronically Disorganized Clients

Certification

Certificate of Study in Chronic Disorganization

Certificate of Study in Basic ADD Issues with the Chronically Disorganized Client

Certificate of Study in Chronically Disorganized Client

   Administration

Certificate of Study in Basic Physical Conditions and

   Challenges affecting the Chronically Disorganized

   Client

Certificate of Study in Understanding the Needs of the

   Elderly Chronically Disorganized Client
Chronic Disorganization Specialist Certificate

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Thursdays at 7.30pm on the U.K.'s Five

 

The National Association of Professional Organizers
National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization
Professional Organizers Web Ring
The East Bay Women's Network
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