Individualized Workshops
Scheduled 6 times a year - Friday evening through Sunday noon
Usually the 3rd weekend of the month when 4 or more people commit…For More Information email or call Kathryn.

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Growing Your Emotional Intelligence
"The human brain, with its hundred billion nerve cells and its million billion connections, holds boundless numbers of impressions... These are our memories which not only exist at an impalpable, psychological or 'mental' level, but also have a corporeal existence within the body's nervous system... We know that thoughts pertaining to a memory can give rise to body-based emotions and that there are many situations in which we have powerful somatic reactions to experiences that may have long slipped beneath the surfaces of awareness."   From "Secrets, Lies, Betrayals: How the Body Holds the Secrets of a Life, and How to Unlock Them" by Maggie Scarf
 

This workshop focuses on learning and experiencing the power of the Psychomotor Exercises and PBSP Structure process which assists you in growing your emotional intelligence. Prerequisite: having done some previous Counseling/Therapy Workshop Outcomes know what is inside your bodies' holding patterns make connections between thoughts, feelings, behavior feel supported, confirmed, empowered

"A basic tenet of this theory is that internalized, often very early memories of experiences that felt catastrophic foster ways of looking at the world that are filled with negative expectations... Like chaotic, scrambled bits of raw data that haven't been processed and organized into a meaningful whole, these scattered images and memories of feeling alone, unprotected, overwhelmed in an uncaring universe create an underlying but all-pervasive outlook on life."   From "Secrets, Lies, Betrayals" by Maggie Scarf

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Mind/Body/Spirit Practices for People with Busy Lives
 
This training is based on principles and practices from "The Life We Are Given" by Michael Murphy and George Leonard. This is a do-able practice for people with busy lives. It incorporates practices from eastern and western disciplines and can be adjusted for people of all ages, with all kinds of needs.

Intentionality & Open Heartedness
In Buddhism, a practice is viewed as a path or a stream. The metaphor of the stream invites you to imagine a strong but gentle current that is already present and moves you along on your journey. Simply entering the stream changes you, even if you decide to return to shore. But when you, with intentionality and an open heart, keep practicing, you finally become the flow.

Ongoing, patient practice keeps you on the path to integrated living which offers inner peace and a present moment living which is grounded, relaxed, aware, centered and energized… this flow is GRACE!

"Stand like a mountain, move like a river."   Tai Chi instructor

Come and learn a 40 minute Practice that can increase your capacity for savoring the good times, while supporting you through life's challenging times.

Integral... it incorporates practices for body, mind, heart and soul. Transformative... it aims at long term positive personal change in body and being. Practice... it involves long-term, regular disciplined activities which, above and beyond any specific external rewards, are of value in themselves. Class resources:         "Earth and Spirit CD Set" by Kathryn Power-O'Brien         "The Life We Are Given" by George Leonard and Michael Murphy         "The Tao of Practice" video by George Leonard

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Experiences in Earth-centered Spirituality
Workshop/Retreat - Become more Conscious of your Spiritual Earthcentered Self *5-7 participants

"The notion of 'sacred space' can be better understood as a realm of inner experience, ones inner landscape, if you will, that requires our informed attention if it is to come to full flowering."   Diarmuid ÓMurchú ("Reclaiming Spirituality")

The body is the landscape of the mind. How we think about who we are as embodied creatures on this planet affects our health and well being. The sacred is an element in our consciousness. Discovering this space in ourselves and learning how to nurture it brings a greater sense of well being and authenticity... like coming home to yourself in a more integrated, benevolent way.

A meaningful spiritual life is inconceivable without a meaningful planetary existence. Our will to meaning is stronger than our strongest instinctual drives and desires. Spirituality can be misguided or misplaced, but it cannot be absent in human life. This workshop offers you *experiences to help you explore and ground your spirituality.

WORKSHOP OUTCOMES

Feel more connected and comfortable

• in your spirituality,
• your spiritual experiences,
• your spiritual practices

"Shamanism teaches us that everything that exists is alive and has a spirit, and that we are joined with the earth and all of life via our spiritual interconnectedness."   From "Shamanic Journeying, A Beginners Guide" by Sandra Ingerman

"Spirituality is an innate quality of human life and existence, something we are born with, something dynamic that forever seeks articulation and expression in human beings."   Diarmuid ÓMurchú ("Reclaiming Spirituality"