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Earth's Imagination
THE EARTH'S IMAGINATION is a series of eight videos each about 30 minutes in length. "Cosmologist Brian Swimme places the human psyche within the fifteen billion year cosmic process in order to highlight the directions in which human consciousness is evolving today and into the future." - MACROPHASE TRANSITIONS "The universe is a trickster. Beings that are negligible in one era of cosmic evolution suddnly become all-powerful in the next. Macrophase Transitions examines the three central moments when such radical changes took place."
- FREE ENERGY "The Earth Story is a drama precisely because the universe demands that each being acquire some free energy in order to exist. So deep is this necessity for free energy that it has shaped every mammalian nervous system, and forms the very basis of the human psyche."
- SYNERGY "Sex is one of life's great synergies and has shaped the minds of all vertebrates over 600 million years. Our desires for each other and our affections and care for one another arise from our sexual natures and are more basic to our consciousness than language or mathermatics or conceptualization."
- BIRTH OF THE IMAGINATION "Just as the slightest touch of a kaleidoscope creates a fantastic explosion of new colors and forms, so too with the emergence of human imagination from the lineage of primate intelligence. A sublime mutation of the homeobox genes evoked this dazzling power which has led to a new era of Earth's evolution."
- END OF THE CENOZOIC "The human with its blazing imagination has drawn cosmic and terrestrial dynamics into consciousness and thus has become a new macrophase power. No human culture has any record of this having taken place before us. Our present difficulty than can be summarized in a single phrase: we are a macrophase power attempting to organize ourselves with a microphase wisdom."
- AN OCEAN OF ENERGY "The future destiny of human consciousness inlcudes the capacities for acquiring qualitatively different forms of energy--energies which are rooted in the splendors of existence and that multiply rather than diminish as they are drawn forth."
- NEW FORMS OF SYNERGY "The future destiny of our sexual natures includes an eroticism of creativity with a comprehensive compassion, both for the members of the Earth Community today and for the new born of all beings in the future."
- THE SURPRISE OF COSMOGENESIS "When the human becomes a macrophase power Earth's evolution becomes to a significant degree teleological or goal-directed. The human then is a transformation of the evolutionary process. That vision of the future which captivates our imagination becomes the goal toward which the Earth Community moves."
Facilitator: Delmarie Gibney, FSPA, D..Min., Director of WomanWell
Delmarie has a nursing background with studies in Theology, Scripture and Women's Studies. she received a D.Min. from Episcopal Divinity School in Boston and an MTS from Catholic Theological Union in Chicago When: This program will be offered twice, as an afternoon series and a once monthly evening series.
Afternoon Series: Tuesdays 3:00 - 4:30 PM
Sept. 9, 23, 30; Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28; Nov. 4, 2008
Evening Series: Fridays 6:30 - 9:00 PM
October 17; November 14; December 12, 2008
Jan. 16; Feb. 13 and March 13; April 17 and May 15, 2009
The evening will begin at 6:30 with a light meal of soup and bread
followed by viewing the video and discussion. Partners, couples,
friends, significant others are encouraged to attend and share the
experience. Cost: $40 for the afternoon series
$15 per person or $25 per couple for each evening session REGISTRATION: Please register using Contact Us on this website, email us at seeking@womanwell.org. or mail your registration to WomanWell, 1784 LaCrosse Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55119.
Kundalini Yoga Kundalini Yoga offers practical and powerful tools to meet the challenges in your life and consciously and courageously engage with them. Yogi Bhajan, a Kundalini Yoga master from India, brought these teachings to the west in 1969. Prior to this, this knowledge was not available to the average person. Kundalini Yoga is for "householders", for people who have to cope with the daily challenges and stresses of jobs, families and life on the planet earth at this time The practice of Kundalini Yoga balances the glandular system, strengthens the nervous system and enables us to harness the energy of the mind and the emotions so that we can be in control of ourselves rather than being controlled by them. Kundalini Yoga is for everyone and you do not have to be a "pretzel" for the physical exercise. If you can breathe, make a movement in the right direction and sit in a chair (if sitting on the floor doesn't work for you), you will benefit. A Kundalini Yoga class includes postures, pranyam(conscious breathing), mudras(hand positions), sound(mantra) and meditation. The goal of a class is to give you a "hand on" experience of your highest self and tools to achieve your personal best. Facilitator: June Bogen, Kundalini Yoga teacher, Radiant Child Yoga teacher,
Reiki Master, Sound Healing Practitioner and Registered Nurse.
When: Thursdays, 6:00 - 7:30 PM
September 11, 18, 25, 2008 and October 2, 9 and 16, 2008
Cost: Donation of $10-$15 per session. REGISTRATION: Please register using Contact Us on this website, email us at seeking@womanwell.org. or mail your registration to WomanWell, 1784 LaCrosse Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55119.
Beading Workshop - Circle of Love Prayer Bracelets A mini-retreat introducing Prayercraft - the art of combining creativity and prayer. Each person will string a gemstone bracelet based on Sue Swanson's Circle of Love pattern. We will explore how using beads for repeated, memorized, counted prayers can deepen our conversations with the divine. The word bead comes from the Middle English word "bede" which means prayer. Sue will present an illustrated history of prayer beads. We will open and close our time together by praying with strands of beads. Facilitator: Sue Swanson, M. Div., is a teacher and retreat leader who helps people find Sabbath time in their lives by teaching them how to practice spiritual patterns together. She calls her work Prayercraft.
When: Friday, 6:00 - 9:00 PM September 19, 2008
Cost: $30 plus $6 for materials. REGISTRATION: Please register using Contact Us on this website, email us at seeking@womanwell.org. or mail your registration to WomanWell, 1784 LaCrosse Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55119.
Breath Song Introduction Workshop Welcome to a fun and energizing introduction to the refreshing and balancing "tools" of the BREATH SONG PROGRAM. You will learn how to access and use your authentic voice to sound your Life Song, by humming, toning, chanting Bijah syllables and I Ching drumming. Learn these tools to:
Manage stress
Balance Mind-Body-spirit-soul connection
Release negative mind and body toxicity
Complement your healing process
Gain deeper self-awareness
Strengthen mindfulness
"Grow your mystic self"
Share in communal energizing vibrational empowerment. You will learn how sounding YOUR Breath Song is an easy yet profound practice to gain further empowerment and well-being! Facilitator: Ginny Helfrich, LMFT/CACI
Ginny Helfrich developed the Breath Song Program while counseling family members to recovery from addictive family systems and studying with Don Campbell(The Mozart Effect), Pat Moffit Cook (The Use of Cross-Cultural Healing Music), Chloe Goodchild (The Naked Voice), Amika Wauters (Chakras and their Archetypes), Fabian Maman as well as Guided Imagery with Music and Mandela Assessment with the Mid Atlantic Training Institute and "The Listening Program" of Advanced Brain Technologies. When: Saturday, September 20, 2008 9AM -12:00 Noon Cost: $40 REGISTRATION: Please register using Contact Us on this website, email us at seeking@womanwell.org. or mail your registration to WomanWell, 1784 LaCrosse Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55119.
T'ai Chi Chih - Joy Through Movement T'ai Chi Chih's gentle movements release stress by relaxing and rejuvenating the body while refreshing the mind. By circulating and balancing the Chi, the vital energy within us, the movements promote physical, mental and emotional health and well being. The 20 simple movements can easily be done by anyone, regardless of their age or physical condition. You slow down enough to listen, tap into the strength and wisdom with yourself. Instructor: Renata Leigay, OSB, is an Accredited T'ai Chi Chih instructor with 15 years experience working with hospitals, churches, schools and community centers - all in Minnesota. She has for the past 15 years maintained a private practice of Massage and Bodywork in Minnesota. Since 1991 she has been a member of Associated Bodyworkers and Massage Professionals.
When: Tuesdays, 6:30 - 8:00 PM
September 23, 30; October 7, 14, 21, 28, 2008
-or- Wednesdays, 1:30 - 3:00 PM
September 24; October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 2008
Cost: $60 REGISTRATION: Please register using Contact Us on this website, email us at seeking@womanwell.org. or mail your registration to WomanWell, 1784 LaCrosse Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55119.
Spirituality and Depression:
Seeking Light in Dark Times Depression affects many of us at some point in our lives, whether it's chronic or once in a while and can pose a critical challenge to our spiritual life. Depression is a suffering that compels one to seek light in dark times. C.S. Lewis reminds us that "God whispers to us in our pleasures, but God shouts to us in our pain." The day will focus on the value and meaning of depression, suffering, resilency, hope and compassion, as well as, sharing our experience, strength and hope. Presenter: Judy Chiodo, MS
Judy has a Masters in Marriage and Family Counseling. She is a spiritual director and provides counselling in the field of Chemical Dependency. Judy is currently working at the Renewal Center at Hazelden doing various workshops that relate to 12 step programs.
When: Friday, October 17, 2008 9:30-3:30 PM
Cost: $65 includes lunch. REGISTRATION: Please register using Contact Us on this website, email us at seeking@womanwell.org. or mail your registration to WomanWell, 1784 LaCrosse Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55119.
Dreams:
A Way to Understand Ourselves and to Experience God Dreams reveal ourselves to ourselves and open our inner selves to a more lively experience of God. This workshop will explore the rich world of dreams and assist in a deeper understanding of this dimension of our inner life. Concrete ways of praying withour dreams will be discussed as well as specific wayus of working with dreams in spiritual direction. You are invited to bring along one of your dreams to process and pray with. This professional day is for spiritual directors, directees, therapists and health care practitioners...and all dreamers. Presenter: Maureen Conroy, RSM, D. Min., Certified Reiki Practitioner and Reiki Master.
When: Friday, October 17, 2008 9:30-4:00 PM
Cost: $65 includes lunch. REGISTRATION: Please register using Contact Us on this website, email us at seeking@womanwell.org. or mail your registration to WomanWell, 1784 LaCrosse Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55119.
Reiki Enrichment Program - for Reiki Practitioners
Healing Others by Healing Ourselves "The only way to heal is to be healed" says the Course on Miracles. Reiki helps us to realize that we have an innate power within us to heal ourselves and to grow in greater health. We will reflect on Reiki as a self healing process and explore how our own self-healing greatly enhances our being instruments of healing for others. This enrichment experience will include:
Self-Reiki and meditation
Input by Marueen Conroy followed by group discussion
Offering one another individual and/or group Reiki Treatments. Presenter: Maureen Conroy, RSM, D. Min., Certified Reiki Practitioner and Reiki Master. Maureen believes in a holistic approach to personal and spiritual growth. She views Reiki as a significant way to foster the healing of body, mind and spirit.
When: Friday, October 17, 2008 6:30-9:30 PM
Cost: $35 Deposit of $15 is required by October 11, 2008 REGISTRATION: Please register using Contact Us on this website, email us at seeking@womanwell.org. or mail your registration to WomanWell, 1784 LaCrosse Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55119.
Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit
First Degree Reiki Training Workshop Reiki, meaning "universal life force" energy, is a natural form of healing, which originated over 2500 years ago. The Reiki System, a gentle "laying-on" of hands healing process, helps to restore balance and harmony in our hearts and lives, supports the body's natural ability to heal itself, balances energy and loosens up blocked energy, and fosters mental and spiritual wellbeing.
The First Degree Reiki Training includes:
Receiving the First Degree Reiki Attunement, which connects you to the unlimited source of Reiki energy.
An overview of the meaning, purposes, effects and history of Reiki.
Procedures for giving a complete Reiki treatment to others and oneself.
Supervised practice sessions: giving and receiving a full Reiki treatment using over thirty hand positions.
First Degree Reiki Certificate.
Recommended: A full Reiki Treatment by a Reiki Pracitioner. Presenter: Maureen Conroy, RSM, D. Min., Certified Reiki Practitioner and Reiki Master. Maureen believes in a holistic approach to personal and spiritual growth. She views Reiki as a significant way to foster the healing of body, mind and spirit.
When: Saturday, October 18, 2008 8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Bring Bag Lunch. Beverages will be provided.
Cost: $175 + $10 for Manual
Deposit of $50 is required by October 11, 2008
Discount of $50 is you take Reiki I and II. REGISTRATION: Please register using Contact Us on this website, email us at seeking@womanwell.org. or mail your registration to WomanWell, 1784 LaCrosse Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55119.
Expanding Your Healing Power
Second Degree Reiki Traiining Workshop The Second Degree Reiki Training builds on the energy healing process taught in the First Degree Reiki Training. individuals who desire to expand their energy healing abilities and open themselves to the deepening power of Reiki are encouraged to participate. Second Degree Reiki Training includes:
Receiving the Second Degree Reiki Attunement.
The Reiki power symbols and their use in a Reiki treatment.
Ways to modify a Reiki Treatment.
Several more hand positions for specific purposes.
Procedures for an Absentee Reiki Treatment (sending Reiki to someone at a distance).
Supervised practice sessions
Guidelines for establishing your own Reiki Practice.
Second Degree Reiki Certificate.
Prerequisite: First Degree Reiki Training and Certificate Presenter: Maureen Conroy, RSM, D. Min., Certified Reiki Practitioner and Reiki Master. Maureen believes in a holistic approach to personal and spiritual growth. She views Reiki as a significant way to foster the healing of body, mind and spirit.
When: Saturday - Sunday, October 18-19, 2008
7:30 PM-9:30 PM Saturday
8:30 AM - 3:00 PM Sunday
Bring Bag Lunch. Beverages will be provided.
Cost: $200 + $10 for Manual
Deposit of $75 is required by October 11, 2008
Discount of $50 is you take Reiki I and II. REGISTRATION: Please register using Contact Us on this website, email us at seeking@womanwell.org. or mail your registration to WomanWell, 1784 LaCrosse Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55119.
Letting Go of What Binds You:
A Celtic Autumn Workshop and Drumming Ceremony
The time around Halloween is a powerful transition point in the Celtic tradition. It is the point of the year when the land lets go to winter. What happens in nature happens in us too - we need to regularly let go. This all day experience will focus on letting go of whatever it is that binds us. Perhaps it is something that has bound us for a very long time, or perhaps it's new. Perhaps we know what it is that binds us, or perhaps we only have a slight feeling that something is blocking our growth and happiness. In this workshop we will call on the Celtic shamanic tradition to help us let go of whatever it is that is holding us back in our spiritual growth. The day will have plenty of laughter, drumming and amazing poetry. It will culminate with an unforgettable highly participatory ceremony of letting go. You'll leave the day opened, refreshed, lighter and freer. Drums and other instruments will be provided, but feel free to bring your own if you have them! Facilitator: Jaime Meyer holds a masters Degree in Theology and The Arts from United Theological Seminary of the Twin cities. He is also a playwright with two dozen plays produced in various cities in the USA. He has studied cross-cultural shamanism for nearly thirty years. He leads a vibrant community in Minneapolis that combines the sometimes wild, sometimes meditative fun of drumming with practices drawn from Celtic and Northern European shamanism.
When: Saturday, 9:00 - 4:00 PM November 1, 2008
Cost: $85 includes lunch REGISTRATION: Please register using Contact Us on this website, email us at seeking@womanwell.org. or mail your registration to WomanWell, 1784 LaCrosse Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55119.
Windows on Aging: Exploring Conscious Eldering This retreat will explore perspectives on eldering versus aging and examine personal and cultural beliefs around growing older. Participants will use poetry, story, art and guided imagery as ways to gain insight about their beliefs regarding conscious eldering. This retreat is an invitation to take time both in solitude and in community to reflect on and re-image elderhood as a new beginning. We will close with a ritual to honor and re-commit to our journey of continual growth.
Facilitators: Lucia Leck and Joyce Eckes are spiritual seekers and pilgrims on the journey of conscious eldering. When: Saturday, 9:00 - 3:00 PM November 15, 2008
Cost: $50 includes lunch REGISTRATION: Please register using Contact Us on this website, email us at seeking@womanwell.org. or mail your registration to WomanWell, 1784 LaCrosse Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55119.
Heart Open, Wisdom Blossoming:
Integrating the Poetry of Rumi with Prayer and Healing Practices Through the poetry of Rumi, we rediscover the expansiveness of the imagination, the depth of the heart. To read Rumi is to excite and revive the soul, bringing our spirit back to its home with the Divine. His remarkable metaphors remind us of our powers to expand our loving consciousness and our power to heal. This workshop will bring new understanding to holistic healing practices with Eastern roots and to your own Inner healer. Come, join us and open your heart to love! As Rumi Says,
"When you go to the orchard,
There your heart opens.
You become fragrance and the light that burning oil gives off.
Don't pray to be healed, or look for evidence of some other world.
You are the soul and medicine for what wounds the soul."
Facilitators: Becky Myrick and Carol Ann Petersen
Becky Myrick is a UCC clergy person, holistic health practitioner and a dancer. She has a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School and a Masters of Holistic Health Studies from the College of St. Catherine. She loves to work with groups exploring the intersections between spirituality, health and the arts and has led many retreats in these topics.
Carol Ann Petersen is a graduate of the Spiritual Guidance Training Program, St. Paul, Minnesota and is currently a dual degree seeking masters student in Holistic Health and Social Work with the College of St. Catherine and the University of St. Thomas. She devotes her life energies to health and healing practices, on behalf of others and HerSelf.
When: Saturday, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM November 15, 2008
Cost: $48 inlcudes lunch
REGISTRATION: Please register using Contact Us on this website, email us at seeking@womanwell.org. or mail your registration to WomanWell, 1784 LaCrosse Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55119.
Coming Home to Healing - Gratitude Beads and Home Blessing Beads A quiet day-apart where we think about the many blessings in our lives. In the morning we will explore gratitude by making a strand of beads that are strung so that when you pull a bead, it leaves a space to mark your place. We will use the beads to count blessings, affirmations, hopes and dreams. In the afternoon we will consider how our homes reflect our spirits. How could you make your home a peaceful sanctuary that nourishes your body, mind and spirit while also being a place that welcomes guests with hospitality and grace? Using guided meditation, writing and art; we will learn how to envision our homes as sacred space. We will write a blessing for each room in the house and make a strand of prayer beads that symbolizes our prayers. Facilitator: Sue Swanson M.Div., is a teacher and retreat leader who helps people find Sabbath time in their lives by teaching them how to practice spiritual patterns together. She calls her work Prayercraft.
When: Saturday 10:00 - 4:00 PM November 22, 2008
Cost: $75 per person (includes lunch) plus $18 for materials REGISTRATION: Please register using Contact Us on this website, email us at seeking@womanwell.org. or mail your registration to WomanWell, 1784 LaCrosse Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55119.
The Healing Power of Mandala's
Mandala is a sanskrit word meaning sacred circle, or center. Creating a mandala is a spiritual practice and can be used for meditation, healing and prayer. While contemplating a mandala one is invited to an experience of relaxation, calmness and personal revelation. This spiritual practice enables one to align the heart, mind and spirit. You do not need to be an artist. What is needed is an openness to experience the surprises that reside deep within your true self. The morning will consist of input on the healing power of mandala's, creating a quiet and sacred environment for drawing mandala's along with time for personal reflection and group sharing. Materials will be provided. We will only be using crayons and/or colored pencils. if you have your own and want to bring them, please do so. Presenter: Judy Chiodo, MS
Judy has a Masters in Marriage and Family Counseling. She is a spiritual director and provides counselling in the field of Chemical Dependency. Judy is currently working at the Renewal Center at Hazelden doing various workshops that relate to 12 step programs. When: Saturday, January 17, 2009 8:30-12:00 Noon
Continental Breakfast 8:30 AM
Presentation 9:00 AM Cost: $40 REGISTRATION: Please register using Contact Us on this website, email us at seeking@womanwell.org. or mail your registration to WomanWell, 1784 LaCrosse Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55119.
Meditation Practices Thursday evenings from 6:30-7:00 PM have been set aside for meditation practice. Meditation will begin promptly at 6:30 PM and conclude at 7 PM. All are welcome. If you are coming for the first time, please arrive by 6:15 for a brief orientation. Meditation is the practice that will facilitate our awakening to a deeper understanding of the self and our work. Meditation, contemplation, reflection, quiet time, centering, goingwithin are words that describe a meditation practice. Donations welcome.
Seasonal Reflection Days Monday, September 29, 2008
Fall Equinox ushers in the dark season, the time of diminished light. The air and land, once alive with teeming creatures, are becoming empty and mute. It is time to reap what you have sown. This is the future you have been preparing for. What will you take into the next season and what will you leave behind? Monday, October 27, 2008
Samhain All Hallows Eve is the shining portal to winter. As the energy of the green world withdraws into the earth, we also settle toward stillness. Nights lengthen, our center of gravity drops, barriers melt like leaves on damp soil, the veil between worlds is thin as a spider's web. What is our call as we go into the darkness of the year? How do we enter the stillness within? Monday, November 17, 2008
Sustaining Life during this Season of Darkness. How do we maintain quietness within during this time when the outside activity is so clamoring for our attention? How do we bring our inner life and our outer life into harmony? Monday, January 26, 2009
Imbolc, Candlemas, Brigit's Day are names for this ancient celebration whose official date is February 2. It is the first feast honoring the return of spring, which is not too evident to the senses as yet. Our reflections will be around the "new life" that has been growing within during the winter months and is now asking to be "birthed'. TIME: 10 AM to 3 PM
SCHEDULE:
Introduction and Opening Ritual
Introduction of Theme/ Discussion/ Reflection/ Quiet time Special Offerings: (choose 2)
Spiritual Direction 1/2 Hour
Massage 1/2 Hour
Reiki 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 17, 2008 Fall Equinox: Celebrate balance of light and dark
October 29, 2008 Samhain: Celebrate the journey into fertile darkness
December 17, 2008 Winter Solstice: Welcome the New Born Sun/Son
January 28, 2009 Imbolc: Celebrate the flames of hope
March 18, 2009 Spring Equinox: Celebrate the awakening of earth
April 29, 2009 Beltane: Celebrate earth's flowering
June 17, 2009 Summer Solstice: Celebrate apex of solar cycle
July 29, 2009 Lammas: enjoying the Harvest
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, 6 PM Newcomer meeting; 6:30 PM Traditional meeting. Meetings are hosted at WomanWell, 1784 LaCrosse Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55119. Call 612-270-2924 for additional information.
An Irenic Vision
Conflict Transformation through Community and Ritual Irenic Vision, named in honor of the Greek goddess of peace, Irene, exemplifies the longing we all have to create peace in lives, relationships, and world. Building on this foundation and story we will engage in a learning community to more deeply understand our own values and how they exist in relationship with others' values.Through this holistic process of learning you will: Applications: spiritual direction, activism, community leadership and development, artists, education group facilitation When:
Saturdays 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM; Sunday 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
2009 – 1/24-25; 2/21-22; 3/21-22; 4/18-19; 5/9-10. Cost: Cost information is pending.
Participants must have a basic understanding of the Universe Story. Content of Five-Weekend Sessions (in development but will encompass the following) 1. Worldview in Story-from personal to the universe
2. Practice Dialogue among Worldviews - internally and externally
3. Learn and Experience Elements of Ritual
4. Discover "Ethics of Creativity" (Brian Henning, 2005)
5. Creating Ritual in Civic Space
6. Living Nonviolence
7. Creating Communities of Compassion/Support
8. Opening Circle - Telling and Celebrating Stories of Transformation
Facilitators: Jill Underdahl CSJ and Roseann Giguere CSJ
Roseann holds an M.Div. from United Theological Seminary along with a BA from the College of St. Catherine and a MA from the University of Minnesota. Roseann is a founder and current staff member of the Spiritual Guidance Training Program. *Jill is currently studying for an MA in Irenic Studies through the Graduate Institute. She holds a certificate in spiritual direction from the Center for Spiritual Guidance. She has her MA in Nonprofit Management from Hamline University and BA in English from the College of St. Catherine. Jill is Co-Director of Celeste's Dream: Spirituality Center for Young Adults. *The design and implementation of this course is designed to meet MA requirements for Action Field Research Project - study of transformation through community and ritual - for The Graduate Institute's Master of Arts in Irenic Studies. REGISTRATION: Please register using Contact Us on this website, email us at seeking@womanwell.org or mail your registration to WomanWell, 1784 LaCrosse Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55119.
Spiritual Guidance Alumni Renewal
Renewal Weekends - 2008-2009
October 25, 2008
Delmarie Gibney, Coordinator
Developing a Spiritual Practice Meditation, contemplation, reflection, quiet time, centering, going within, are words that describe a meditation or spiritual practice. How do we quiet the chattering mind so that we are able to hear the "still small voice within?" And why would we want to do that? As we grow in wisdom our answers more and more come from within rather than from outside of ourselves. Meditation is the practice that will facilitate our awakening to deeper understanding of the self and our work. During our time together we will discuss different practices and benefits that come from a structured practice and experience various forms of meditation. January 31, 2009
Nancy Cosgriff, Coordinator
Integrating the Divine Feminine Come join us as we re-discover the Divine Feminine through her major images and themes from early story until now. Explore your own personal story as you see how the Divine Feminine lives through all of us, women and men, and makes us whole as we become more receptive, creative and connective in the service of dynamic life! We'll overview the themes of early Goddess cultures, Celts and Christian mystics and we'll find the Feminine through a four-fold spiral journey rooted in Earth. Our day will include ritual, presentation, conversation, reflection, creativity - and lots of good humor! May 9, 2009
Roseann Giguere, Coordinator
Spirituality and Sexuality Program Description Pending
Program Format:
Saturday 9:30-4:00 (Lunch included) Registration
Cost per program is $75. Overnight accommodations are $30 per night; charge includes continental breakfast. Please register using Contact Us on this website , email us at seeking@womanwell.org. or mail your registration to WomanWell, 1784 LaCrosse Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55119. Registrants can expect an agenda the week before the meeting.
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