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WORKSHOPS

Transformative learning; Reconnecting with nature

 

The ELDER PATH

You have made the transition from doing to being, and now you want to celebrate, nurture and love all of life more than you want to organize or plan. This program for elders (55+) teaches you how to nurture your community’s soul, explore interior mysteries and cultivate connection to Nature.

 

  

Introduction to The Elder Path.       May 21-22, 2011

 

Elders serve their communities in the functions of ceremonialist, spiritual care companion, eco-activist and story-teller.  Learn about the attributes of elders in Plotkin’s human wheel of development.  Create a short ceremony and develop an green action plan.   

 

Deep Listening: Being Present to the Soul.  July 8 & Aug. 5

 

Listening to the soul is a basic skill in providing spiritual care, counselling and therapy.  Experience five levels of listening and practise ten techniques of active listening.  Learn to use Gendlin’s Focusing technique for listening to implicit messages.

 

Goddess Remembered: Healing the Gender Divide June 24

Through ceremony and myth, sound and image, we celebrate The Great Mother as she is known in many cultures. Descend with Inanna to the shadow regions to discover your unadorned Self.  Like Kuan Yin, discover limitless compassion for the world.

 

Earth Circles.  Sept. 6-7, 2011 

 

Move through disempowering numbness, grief and despair about climate change toward a deeper sense of clarity and purpose regarding your role in The Great Turning.  Experience group exercises, ritual, creative process, discussion, and community building based on work by deep ecologist Joanna Macy

 

Multi-faith Meditations on Compassion  July 24, 2011  

 

Experience spiritual practises from six spiritual traditions. We can build peace by fostering acceptance and understanding between the world’s great religions.  This event takes place outdoors in Terra Mandala Meditation Garden.

 

The SHAMAN PATH

Shamanism is an ancient way of life attuned to Nature and holding the inner being as Sacred.  Our planet in crisis needs shamans to help us re-connect deeply with Nature.

This program has changed to reduce overlap with FSS courses now offered in Winnipeg.  Foundation for Shamanic Studies (FSS)  offers excellent training in divination, death-walking and shamanic healing.  Check FSS courses.

 

 

Journeys with Nature.  Sept 20-21, 2011

 

Cultivate a respectful, appreciative and harmonious relationship with Nature through journeywork and ceremony.  Learn how to restore balance with the Five Elements.  Weather permitting, we do journeywork at Bannock Point, a sacred teaching place. This workshop requires basic training in shamanic journeying. 

 

Journeywork in your Therapy Practise. Aug. 26-28, 2011

 

Learn shamanic counseling methods for teaching clients how to journey as a self-help technique. Guide clients in interpreting their journeys.  Facilitate soul retrieval and support clients as they work with traumatic memories. Explore the common ground between shamanism and Jungian therapy, including individuation, imagination, archetypes and collective unconscious.  This workshop is for strong, healthy people who want to integrate shamanic techniques into their current the rapy/counselling practise. Includes a 2 month follow-up.  Pre-requisites: basic course, at least one year of journeying experience, counseling skills (or Deep Listening course) and pre-reading.  Apply for this course by submitting a 2-3 page paper about how you have prepared for this work.  

 

 

 

Workshops offered in 2012 include

*     Elderhood

*     Living Simply Green

*     Ceremonies to Celebrate Nature and Transitions

*     First Steps on The Shaman Path

 

 

 

The Shaman Path and The Elder Path

are based on the concepts in

RE-CONNECTING WITH NATURE: bringing philosophy to life PDF Icon

 

 

 


 

All workshops are limited to 7 participants.

Location – Pinawa.  Facilitator – Irene Friesen.  

Workshop fee - $80 per workshop day (includes lunch)  

See Contact page for contact information and driving directions.

Send pre-registration form & cheque to Terra Mandala, Box 159, Pinawa MB R0E 1L0

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Refunds: The registration fee is refundable if you cancel 7 days prior to the date of the workshop. If Terra Mandala cancels a workshop due to insufficient registrations, your registration fee will be fully refunded.

 

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