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Embracing My Aging Self
Monday, September 13, 2010
Through story
examine our beliefs about aging and beauty
Monday, October 11, 2010
Shifting our perception of aging and beauty through experience
Monday, November 8, 2010
Living a life of beauty
The sessions will include ritual, input, discussion and time for reflection and creativity.
Facilitator: Lucia Leck - MA in Adult Education, spiritual director, retreat facilitator, Certified Sage-ing Guild Facilitator.
Delmarie Gibney, FSPA, D. Min., Director of WomanWell 16 years.
When: Mondays (as above) - 10 AM to 12:30 PM
Cost: $50 for Series. (Individual Sessions - $20)
Registration: Please register by September 1, 2010.
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Circle of Presence
Awakening Your Spirit to Tend Your Soul
Discerning the presence of spirit within you as an ever-present guide and nurturing gardener to the fragile growth of your soul in every season of its living will be central to this ongoing monthly gathering.
We will come to know ourselves deeper, as well as meet and greet the mirrors each of us may be to the other. Together we will share from the experiences of our lives and be inspired by the gifts of presence within, between and beyond us.
Facilitator: Jean Lauer, M.A. www.heartwisdomccc.org
When: 2nd Tuesday of each month beginning September 14, 2010
Cost: $20 for Session
Registration:Contact Jean at heartwisdsom.jean@gmail.com or 507-453-0576.
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Embodying Calm:
Practical Approaches to Handling Stress without Creating More
This class will teach you that reducing stress doesn't take a lot of time. The class consists of practical, straightforward techniques for meditation, mindfulness and stress relief and includes ways of integrating them into the events and circumstances that arise in your everyday life. A unique approach that makes use of the one thing you carry with you always - your body, this information lays groundwork for even deeper more enriching experiences.
Facilitator: Kate Sciandra has had a healing practice since 1992. She integrates all parts of the individual in her work helping others eliminate pain and stress, including OrthoBionomy (of which she is a registered instructor), Flower Remedies and meditation and mindfulness instruction. For information go to: www.thehealingpresence.com.
When: 6 - 9 PM September 15 or October 13, 2010
Cost: $55 per person per session
Registration: email Kari Harsted at kari.harstad@gmail.com or call 763-232-1727.
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Living From the Center Within
Treat yourself to a four week class exploring consciousness and our desire to maximize our potential in everyday living. We will explore practical and empowering skills to calm the mind, body and emotions and tools to deal with those triggers that pull us off center. When we practice quieting the mind and find the stillness in the Center within, we become relaxed, balanced and harmonized. From this condition, the world of intuition, synchronicity, gratitude, abundance, connectivity, revelation and transformation open into our awareness. Building on such practices as breahting, poetry, music, chant, movement and guided imagery, we will explore the profound effect of Living From Our Center Within on our personal, profesional, relational and collective life. Each class will contain teaching, reflection, sharing, quiet tiime and discussion.
Facilitator: Michele Rae Okposo is a spiritual director, registered pharmacist, Reiki and therapertic Touch practitioner, Mind-Body Medicine teacher, organization development consultant, speaker, author and community faculty at the University of Minnesota Center for Spirituality and Healing and College of Pharmacy.
When: 6 - 8:30 PM Sept. 21 & 28; Oct. 5 & 12, 2010
Cost: $100 per person or $80 for each participant you bring.
Registration: email Michele@centerwithin.com or phone 612-310-8876.
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Mandalas as Soul Expression
For our Psyches, mandalas are vehicles of wholeness and healing. Experience processes to produce your own transfromative and deeply personal mandalas. Learn about mandala journaling as a personal spiritual practice. No artistic exprience needed. Previous inner work such as prayer or meditation helpful but not required. Watercolor sketching, group discussions. Bring watercolors (a small pan set is fine). Bring other art materials you like to use such as pastels if you have them. Paper supplied.
Facilitator: Patricia Salek holds a MA in Human Development from St. Mary's University where she studied dream work, art therapy and Jungian psychology. She also holds a MA in Fine Arts from the University of Iowa and has taught art at several universities. A member of Minneapolis College of Art and Design adjunct faculty for a number of years, she currently teaches personal growth courses using active imagination and intuitive imagery in the Twin Cities area.
When: 3 - 6 PM Sept. 22, 2010
Cost: $25
Registration:contact Patricia at 612-499-1526 or email psalek@zero-max.com one week before.
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Beyond Theology
"The ultimate mystery of being is beyond all categories of thought."
Joseph Campbell
Beyond Theology explores the evolution of consciousness. The series (DVDs) focuses on the emergence of a worldview that integrates science and spirituality, while exploring the notion that the guiding myths of modern civilization are in transition. The presenters include Karen Armstrong, Dr. James Forbes, Jr., Sister Joan Chittister, Bishop John Shelby Spong, Huston Smith and hosted on-air by Charles Atkins, Jr.
Sessions will consist of viewing a 30 minute DVD followed by reflection and discussion.
Church and State ................................................... October 7, 2010
American Pluralism ................................................. October 14, 2010
Spirituality and Religion........................................... October 21, 2010
Mysticism and the Perennial Philosophy...................October 28, 2010
A Congress of World's Religions.............................. November 4, 2010
Facilitator: Delmarie Gibney
When: 7:00-8:30 PM
Cost: $50 for Series. (Individual Sessions - $12)
Registration: Please register by Oct. 6, 2010.
Introduction to Esoteric Healing
The courses in Esoteric Healing began over 40 years ago in England and have grown to a worldwide group of teachers and students, the International Network of Esoteric Healing. It is a soul-centered, chakra based approach to energy healing facilitation. Esoteric Healing has often been called "Prayer in Action".
Purposefully steeped in the Ageless Wisdom teachings and in science, the classes strive to develop both sensitivity to the flow of subtle energies and the requisite conscious soul connection and development necessary to be a healing light in the world.These principles can be applied to any conditions and circumstances that call for healing.
Our students have been from all walks of life and there are no prerequisites for this foundational course. The three courses that follow are scheduled about 6 months apart to allow for integration.
Additional information is available from the instructor, Patricia Enstad. She can be reached at esoterichealinginfo@gmail.com or 651-210-6158.
Instructor: Patricia Enstad, MS, CMT
Patricia Enstad has a B.A. in Education, a Masters Degree in Community Counseling and is a certified massage therapist. She has worked as a public school teacher, a social worker and a counselor. Patricia has maintained a private bodywork practice, including Esoteric Healing in St. Paul, Minnesota since 1998. She has advanced training in Myofascial Release, CranioSacral Therapy and incorporates Visceral Manipulation and Lymphatic Drainage. She also worked collaboratively at Partners in Healing, a holistic mental health healing center in Minnetonka. She brings a grounded approach to Esoteric Healing, focusing on making the teaching applicable in both the personal and professional lives of the students who study with her. The Twin Cities Network for Esoteric Healing was established this year by a group of students and Patricia, dedicated to on-going study, practice and service.
When: September 23-26, 2010 - Thursday through Sunday = 9AM to 5:30PM
Cost: $395
Registration: Please register with Patricia Enstad at 651-210-6158 or esoterichealinginfo@gmail.com
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Connecting with Hearts of Compassion
Compassionate communication is a way of connecting from the heart based on Mashall Rosenberg's work (www.cnvc.org). The practice of compassionate communication will teach you how to:
- respond to demands, diagnoses and blaming
- express your feelings without attacking
- minimize defensive reactions in your self and other
- make clear requests
- receive difficult messages.
Each session includes conceptual tools and experiential learning processes to transform your habitual reactions into conscious and compassionate responses.
Facilitator: Jean Lauer, MA www.heartwisdomccc.org
When: Sept. 25 and Oct. 9, 2010 ..... 9 AM to 4 PM
Cost: $75 for single session or $150 for both
Registration: 1 week before each session. Participants are welcome to sign up for a single sesion or for both.
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Energy Immersion For the Awakening Woman
The Whole Experience for the Whole Woman
Even before our energy immersion for the Awakening Woman weekend begins, you will have experienced four of its vital concepts: Energy, Vibration, Frequency and Resonance, activating:
- Unconditional love
- Radiantly influential energy
- Personal wellbeing
- Right life balance
- Greater insight into how your life actually works, supported by exciting scientific research.
A prerequisite energy treatment and consultation is required before participating in this women's wisdom weekend, included in your investment fee. This intimate engagement and immediate experiential understanding of energy, vibration, frequency and resonance will allow you to give mind, emotion, spirit and body-voice to your intention for this sacred woman's work of embodying personal, professional and planetary healing and beautiful wellbeing for us all. Furthermore, this woman's wisdom honors the true awakening woman-the way we really walk and really talk and really move throughout the world in an everyday authentic and practical way. From morning meditation through preparing mindful meals to night-time ritual we - the women - will live out loud the sacred truth of who we are and who we are becoming - women who are healing ourselves, each other and the world.
Instructor: Sharon LeFlore, Internationally Trained and Certified Energy Practitioner, Certified End of Life Attendant for Allina Medical Hospitals., Consultant for St. Catherine's Women in Holistic Health. Energy Practitioner for six years as Pathways Crisis Resource Center.
When: October 15,16,17, 2010 ..... Friday - 6:00 PM to Sunday - 3:00 PM
Cost: $375 - includes all vegetarian meals and two night accommodations.
Registration: Please contact Sharon LeFlore at 651-323-9537 or leflore101@yahoo.com
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Universe Story
The series will be a variety of videos, DVDs and reading materials showing different aspects of our evolving Universe and how we humans are now co-creators in this important unfolding story. The evening will begin at 6:30 with a simple meal of soup and bread followed by viewing the video or DVD and/or discussion. Partners, couples, friends, signifiant others are encouraged to attend and share the experience. We will finish at 9 PM.
- Oct. 8 Biology of Belief--Bruce Lipton Part 1
- Nov. 12 Biology of Belief--Bruce Lipton Part II
- Dec. 10 Visions of a Universal Humanity--Barbara Marx Hubbard Part 1
- Jan. 14 Visions of a Universal Humanity--Barbara Marx Hubbard Part II
- Feb. 11 TBA
- Mar. 11 TBA
- Apr. 15 TBA
Facilitator: Delmarie Gibney, FSPA, D.Min.
When: 6:30-9:00PM 2nd Friday of each month
Cost: $15 per person or $25 per couple each session.
Registration: Please call the Wednesday before each session.
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Animals as Personal Archetypal Images
Animals are amazing archetypes expressing and embodying qualities of our own human experience. These archetypes can be consciously accessed to guide and heal our psyches. We will experiment with active imagination techiques of Carl Jung to enter the inner realm of animal energies, so well known in Native American wisdom traditions. Learn how to use imagery for personal transformation. Basic art supplies provided. Please bring pan watercolors and/or pastels if you have some you like to use.
"An imagery class with Particia gives you positive actions to take toward a goal that you want to accomplish."
"...food for the soul". Class Participants
Facilitator: Patricia Salek holds a MA in Human Development from St. Mary's University where she studied dream work, art therapy and Jungian psychology. She also holds a MA in Fine Arts from the University of Iowa and has taught art at several universities. A member of Minneapolis College of Art and Design adjunct faculty for a number of years, she currently teaches personal growth courses using active imagination and intuitive imagery in the Twin Cities area.
When: 3:00-6:00PM November 10, 2010
Cost: $25 per person
Registration:Contact Patricia at 612-499-1526 or email psalek@zero-max.com one week before session.
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From Comfort to Healing:
Self-Care Techniques from Ortho-Bionomy You Can Practice on Yourself
Ortho-Bionomy was developed around 40 years ago by a Canadian osteopath as a unique way to address pain and imbalance in the body. By positioning and mirroring the body's preferences and positions of comfort, deep recognition leads to deep self-healing. In this class you learn how to apply the principles of an Ortho-Bionomy session to simple techniques you can practice on yourself. Using everyday items such as blankets, pillows, walls and furniture, you can put yourself in the most delicious places of ease where self-correction takes place in luscious comfort. Appropriate for anyone in any physical condition. For information go to: www.thehealingpresence.com
Facilitator: Kate Sciandra has had a healing practice since 1992. She integrates all parts of the individual in her work helping others eliminate pain and stress, including OrthoBionomy (of which she is a registered instructor), Flower Remedies and meditation and mindfulness instruction. For information go to: www.thehealingpresence.com.
When: 6:00-9:00PM November 17, 2010
Cost: $55 per person
Registration: email Kari Harsted at kari.harsted@gmail.com or call 763-232-1727.
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Honoring the Generosity of Motherhood
---Mothers and Adult Daughters Pajama Party---
This overnight workshop is designed to be fun and serious. Having navigated the perils of the Mother-Daughter connection so far, we hope to sit together and learn about the vast cultural differences in which we came to be who we are. There is a generation gap; is there also a cutural gap? How have we come to appreciate each others generation? What are the differences which cause us to roll our eyes? Can we respect each generation's struggles and victories?
We will discuss the circle of a woman's life from Maiden to Mother to Crone, motherhood being the time of life when we focus on giving to family, work and community (whether we have kids or not), to becoming an honored Crone, the much maligned term for older women in a youth oriented society. We will find a way to celebrate moving toward being a Wise Woman! And thus, spread our nurturing to the wider world.
Please bring with you a journal if you wish and a picture of a mother/daughter.
Facilitators: Kate Scully and Delmarie Gibney
Kate Scully is a Spiritual Guidance Counselor, personal coach, mentor, crone, daughter and mother of daughters from whom she learns daily.
When: October 29-30, 2010 - Friday 7 PM through Saturday 3 PM
Cost: $120 for Mother/Daughter pair
Registration: Please register at WomanWell
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Personal Reflection Days
We will use Margaret Silf's book SACRED SPACES: Stations on a Celtic Way as a guide for our monthly reflections. She introduces seven traditional sacred spaces and through them we are led into a deeper reflection on what such sacred space can mean in our own lives.
Monday, October 4, 2010
"THE INFINITE KNOT, weaving wholeness out of partialness and simplicity out of complication"
Monday, November 1, 2010
"THE HIGH CROSS, connecting Earth and Heaven, our facts and our dreams"
Monday, December 6, 2010
"HILLTOPS, offering us the vision of what might be and the inspiration to follow the vision"
Monday, January 10, 2011
WELLS, taking us to the depths of our experience to find the treasure in our shipwrecks"
Monday, February 1, 2011
"GROVES AND SPRINGS, giving us the support of community and inspiring new life and new hope"
Monday, March 1, 2011
"CROSSING PLACES, such as causeways, bridges and burial grounds, inviting us to go beyond our present limits"
Monday, April 11, 2011
"BOUNDARIES, where the cutting edge of growth and change is encountered"
There are private spaces if you wish as well as a gathering room. Each may choose two half hour sessions of: Reiki, Cranial Sacral, Reflexology or Spiritual Direction. We will conclude the day with a closing ritual.
Facilitator: Delmarie Gibney, FSPA D.Min; Director of WomanWell 16 years
Time:9:30 AM to 4 PM
SCHEDULE: Introduction and Opening Ritual
Introduction of Theme/ Discussion/ Reflection/ Quiet time
Special Offerings:(choose 2)
- Spiritual Direction 1/2 Hour
- Reiki 1/2 Hour
- Cranial Sacral 1/2 Hour
- Reflexology 1/2 Hour
COST: $60 (includes lunch
Honoring the Creative Cycle of the Year
We celebrate eight seasonal transitions throughout the year which are related to the sun and its relationship to the earth. Because of the earth's rotation on her axis, it seems the sun moves closer or further from us, lengthening or shortening our hours of light. Our ancient ancestor were very aware of this phenomenon and created rituals around each of these great or lesser transitions. It was a time when folks believed that the veil between the worlds were thinnest. These festivals are times of heightened creativity and freedom of expression.
- September 22, 2010 Fall Equinox:
Celebrate the Balance of Light and Dark and the harvest
- October 27, 2010 Samhain:
Celebrate the Ending and Beginning of the Celtic Year
- December 15, 2010 Winter Solstice:
Welcome the Reborn Cosmic Sun/Son
- January 26, 2011 Imbolc:
Celebrate the Approaching End of Winter
- March 16, 2011 Spring Equinox:
Celebrate and Honor the Awakening Earth
- April 27, 2011 Beltane:
Celebrate the Refreshment of the Life Force and Renewed Beauty of Mother Earth
- June 15, 2011 Summer Solstice:
Celebrate the Earth's Midpoint on Her Journey Around the Sun
- July 27, 2011 Lammas:
Celebrate the Cross-Quarter Day representing the Fullness of Growth
Facilitator: Delmarie Gibney, is a crone, passionate about facilitating the empowerment of women and care of the earth. She has been Director of WomanWell for 13 years. Del received a Doctor of Ministry degree from the Episcopal School of Divinity in Boston and prior to that spent fourteen years in Central America in health care and midwifery.
When: 5:45 PM Gathering Time, 6:00 PM Ritual Time.
The Carondelet Center also honors these Earth Holydays.
OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS
Are you a Compulsive Overater?
This series of questions may help you determine if you are a compulsive overeater
- Do you eat when you're not hungry?
- Do you go on eating binges for no apparent reason?
- Do you have feelings of guilt and remorse after overeating?
- Do you give too much time and thought to food?
- Do you look forward with pleasure and anticipation to the time when you can eat alone?
- Do you plan these secret binges ahead of time?
- Do you eat sensibly before others and make up for it alone?
- Is your weight affecting the way you live your life?
- Have you tried to diet for a week (or longer) only to fall short of your goal?
- Do you resent others telling you to "use a little willpower" to stop overeating?
- Despite evidence to the contrary, have you continued to assert that you can diet "on your own" whenever you wish?
- Do you crave to eat at a definite time, day or night, other than mealtime?
- Do you eat to escape from worries or trouble?
- Have you ever been treated for obesity or a food-related condition?
- Does your eating behavior make you or others unhappy?
Have you answered yes to three or more of these questions? If so, it is probable that you have or are well on your way to having a compulsive overeating problem.
Overeaters Anonymous is a fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating. We welcome everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively. There are no dues or fees for members; we are self-supporting through our own contributions, neither soliciting nor accepting outside donations. OA is not affiliated with any public or private organization, political movement, ideology or religious doctrine; we take no position on outside issues. Our primary purpose is to abstain from compulsive overeating and to carry this message of recovery to those who still suffer.
Is Overeaters Anonymous for You?
Only you can answer that question. No one else can make this decision for you. We who are now in OA have found a way of life which enables us to live without the need for excess food. We believe that compulsive overeating is a progressive illness, one that, like alcoholism and some other illnesses, can be arrested. Remember, there is no shame in admitting you have a problem; the most important thing is to do something about it.
Meeting Schedule
Every Wednesday, from 6:30 to 7:30PM. Meetings are hosted at WomanWell, 1784 LaCrosse Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55119. Call Mary P. at 651-774-1502 for additional information.
Spiritual Guidance Alumni Renewal Weekends -- 2010-2011
How Sandplay and symbols can be used in the art of spiritual direction and can enrich our own spiritual life.
Our day together will be a combination of learning how the sandplay process can be used in spiritual direction and in our own spiritual practice and of recognizing the richness that symbols can have in our lives. We will explore sandplay and symbols through expriential exercises, reflection, interaction and ritual.
Priscilla W. Braun, i.e. "Cil" grew up in Oak Park, IL. After her first career as a dietitian, Cil changed her interest and work from corporate food to "soul" food. She graduated from United Theological Seminary, worked as a chaplain and pastoral counselor. Next she trained in spiritual direction. She studied Sandplay and became a certified Sandplay Therapist and a Teaching member of STA/ISST. Cil was one of the founding mothers of the Spiritual Guidance Training program.
When: April 16, 2011 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Cost: $60 (includes lunch)
Registration: Please register at www.womanwell.org or mail your registration to WomanWell at 1784 LaCrosse Ave. St. Paul, MN 55119 or email us at seeking@womanwell.org.
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