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Trainings

  • Experience transformative learning that integrates ancient wisdom into contemporary life.

  • Learn time-honoured tools, practices & skills for strengthening sustainable communities that live gently with the earth.

  • Experience a safe and supportive learning environment that emphasizes praxis - the integration of reflection and action.

    THE SHAMAN PATH

    THE ELDER PATH

    THE WORK THAT RECONNECTS

    REGISTRATION FORM

THE SHAMAN PATH

Develop the skills for shamanic practice and prepare to serve your community in four shamanic functions: healer, seer, death-walker and geomance.

  • First Steps on The Shaman Path (level 1) May 22-23, 2010 July 7-8, 2010
    In this course, using the methods of core shamanism, you experience the shamanic state of consciousness and travel between ordinary reality and non-ordinary realities where you interact with power animals and spirit teachers. Experience your introduction to shamanic functions: healing, divination, geomancy and artist. Pre-reading: The Way of the Shaman by Michael Harner.

  • Working with Nature Spirits (level 2) June 24-25, 2010
    In this course, you deepen your relationship with your power animal and spirit teachers. Through journey work and ceremony, you strengthen your connection to the Five Elements and to the mineral, animal and plant realms. Experience a journey to connect with ancestor spirits at a sacred place.

  • Divination (level 3) Sept 4-5, 2010 (tentative)
    In this course, you begin journeying for information on behalf of others, with opportunity to debrief your experience. Explore several divination tools that can help you enhance your skills using intuition, imagination and imagery.

  • Deep Listening (level 3) Fall 2010
    In this workshop, you experience five levels of listening, practice ten techniques of active listening and apply Gendlin’s Focusing technique for listening to the body’s implicit messages.

  • Shamanic Healing (level 4) 2011
    In this course, you learn to journey for healing on behalf of others using two shamanic methods: soul retrieval and deathwalking. These methods require an understanding of how to work with trauma (PTSD). Pre-requisites: Divination workshop, Deep Listening workshop or equivalent. Apply for this course by submitting a 2-3 page paper about how your spirit teachers have prepared you for this work. This workshop is for strong, healthy people who want to bring shamanic healing work into their practice with others; it is not for people looking for personal healing.

  • Shamanic Counselor (level 5)
    In this course, you learn the process of shamanic counseling. This process involves teaching someone how to journey for themselves as a self-help technique. The counselor requires significant journey experience in order to assist the client interpret their experiences. You also prepare to teach courses on The Shaman Path, first as co-facilitator, then independently. I provide mentoring and coaching on advanced shamanic topics including shamanic emergencies, shamanic initiations and integration with mystical traditions. Pre-requisites: Shamanic Healing, Deep Listening workshop or equivalent.


THE ELDER PATH

Develop skills in supporting the spiritual life of your community in the functions of ceremonialist, story-teller, spiritual companion, spiritual teacher and activist.

THE WORK THAT RECONNECTS

Earth Circles How do we deal with our pain for the world, in the face of the current climate change crisis? We Reconnect. We come together to share our gratitude, our pain, our joy, and our vision. We move from coping to compassion. We listen to the wisdom of our bodies, our hearts, our brother/sister beings, and our Earth. We open to our creativity, our spark of divine connection. We seek out and rely on community, so we know that that we are not alone. Through opening ourselves to all that we are connected to, we see with new eyes the possibilities for action. This experiential workshop process is based on work by systems theorist and deep ecologist Joanna Macy. Earth Circles offer training and process to help people move through disempowering numbness and despair toward a deeper sense of clarity and purpose regarding their role in the healing of the planet, and uses group exercises, ritual, creative process, discussion, and community building, for engaging our hearts and minds.

Links:

Joanna Macy
Earth Circles
Gaia Workshops
Animas Institute- explorations of Soul and work for the healing of the Earth
Climate Change Connection is a source for Manitoba-based information about climate change.

All workshops are limited to 7 participants and take place in my home at 1 Lisgar, Pinawa. Workshop fees are $75-100 for one day workshops, $150-200 for two day workshops. To register, contact Irene Friesen telephone 204-753-2699 or email: mailto:wolfston@mts.net. Send pre-registration form and cheque to Terra Mandala, Box 159, Pinawa MB R0E 1L0

Registration for Terra Mandala Workshops


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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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