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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Workshops
offered in 2012 include
Elderhood
Living Simply Green
Ceremonies to Celebrate Nature and Transitions
First Steps on The Shaman Path
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The Shaman Path and The Elder Path
are based on the concepts in
RE-CONNECTING WITH NATURE: bringing philosophy
to life 
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