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Spiritual Growth Courses and Retreats
Healing courses
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Spiritual Growth Courses and Retreats
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| Council of All Beings: Weekend Retreat |
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Do you love the earth and all living beings? Are you concerned about the
state we find ourselves in? Through discussion, art mediation, exercises
and nature we will co-create a weekend experience that will enhance our
natural bond with the earth and all living beings, and empower us according
to our own gifts and interests. We will explore 4 themes:
- Gratitude for our earthly gifts and the world we live in,
- Honouring our experience of the earth crisis,
- Learning ways to see the earth through new eyes,
- Empowering ourselves to go forth on behalf of the earth.
There will be time available to wander in nature and spend time in quiet
reflection.
See www.joannamacy.net for more information about The Council of All Beings.
Location: Kamp Kiwanis, 30 minutes from Calgary
Friday to Sunday
Subsidized fee: $160. Limited to 16 participants
Facilitators: Diane Allen, David Johnson
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| Claim Your Voice, Claim Your Power |
Do you make a good first impression? This workshop combines spiritual perspectives
and practical vocal techniques to help you express yourself clearly, access
your personal power and increase your self-esteem, enabling you to attract
the personal and business relationships you prefer.
Thursday, 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Cost: $20
Facilitator: Patti Shortreed
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| The Energy Within |
Be in touch with the way you receive body
messages and express (release) those messages while staying grounded in the
divine. In the second half the session will focus on exploring the energy we call
anger.
Saturday, 9:00 am. to 1:00 pm.
Cost: $40.00
Facilitator: Brenda Gibbs
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| Dream Work: A Window on Your Evolving Life Story |
Dreams are an expression of the unconscious and an important source of one's own deep wisdom. Strengthen your ability to use dreams to have a better understanding of the present chapter, and create the next chapter of your life's story.
Saturday, 9:00 am to 4:30 pm.
Cost: $75.00
Facilitator: Sloane Dugan
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| Reclaim Your Authentic Self: Four Enneagram workshops |
The Enneagram is an ancient philosophy used in counselling, education and
business and taught at several universities. It describes nine unique personalities:
how individuals think, feel and relate to each other. This model describes
traits such as motivation and values, conflicts, communication styles,
decision-making, and ways of managing time. As an effective communication
tool, it illuminates areas of potential conflict and helps in reducing
stress. It identifies areas of growth, encouraging creativity and positive
change.
Facilitators: Tom and Gayle Laird
Workshop 2: The Inner Work and Creativity
Understand the transformative nature of the Enneagram. Learn its use to maximize your potential. Understand your lifelong purpose. Gain valuable insight into your interactions
with others.
Saturday, 9:00 am. to 1:00 pm. Cost $60.00.
(Prerequisite Workshop 1. or previous knowledge of the Enneagram)
Workshop 3: Continue Your Journey of Discovery
Deepen your knowledge of the Enneagram. Gain insights into your defense
mechanisms. Explore the sub-types of each Enneagram type.
Saturday, 9:00 am. to 1:00 pm.
Cost: $60.00
(Prerequisite: Workshops 1 and 2)
Workshop 4: Use the Enneagram to Truly Grow and Change
Learn practical ways to express your authentic self. Deepen your understanding of the 9 paths to transformation. Experience ways to reconnect with your authentic self. Develop creative strategies based on type to promote emotional, physical, mental and spiritual health.
Saturday, 9:00 am. to 1:00 pm.
Cost: $60.00
Note: All four workshops for $200.00
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Mindfulness Meditation: A Buddhist Teaching and Meditation
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Cecilie Kwiat, a Buddhist teacher will offer a teaching and an opportunity
to experience mindfulness meditation.
Monday, 7:00 to 9:00 pm.
Cost: Donation
Facilitator: Cecilie Kwiat
To learn more about Cecilie search the web under her name. There are lots
of articles and interviews.
You can also read a brief biography on our Who We Are page
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| A Season of Pilgrimage |
Whether you have an internal or an external destination a pilgrimage contains five distinct phases: call, preparation, pilgrim walk, arrival and integration. Each phase has a distinct spiritual purpose and when walked with awareness and intention, the journey is truly transformational.
6 Wednesdays, 7:00 to 9:00 pm.
Cost: $75.00
Facilitators: John Griffith and Norline Johnson
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| Uncovering the Stories of Our Lives |
We create stories around the heightened moments and transitional junctures
of the phases of our lives. A consideration of these stories in light of
the collective stories that we know through myths and fairy tales will
help you embrace the story of your life.
Five Wednesdays, 7:00 to 9:00 pm.
Cost: $60.00
Facilitator: Lisa Hurst Archer
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| Plug the Holes in Your Energy Bucket |
Use meditation, chanting and guided imagery to explore the seven chakras,
your spiritual backbone. These chakras or energy wheels are connected to
the everyday tasks of our bodies and minds. Knowing how they function will
help you replenish your energy and nurture yourself on your spiritual journey.
Saturday, 9:00 am to 3:30 pm.
Cost: $65.00
Facilitator: Wilma Rubens
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Opening the Heart: Developing Your Emotional Intelligence
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This experiential course promotes emotional
awareness by integrating the clarity of the
mind, the wisdom of the body and the compassion
of the heart. Improve your emotional management,
communicate effectively with others, reduce
stress and achieve peak mental and intuitive
performance. Based on the HeartMath program,
this course also incorporates concepts and
strategies from other teachings about emotional
intelligence.
Every second Tuesday, 7:00 to 9:30 pm.
Cost: $ 90.00
Facilitators: Tom and Gayle Laird
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| A Taste of the Kabbalah |
An experiential introduction to an aspect of Jewish mystical spirituality:
The Tree of Life. Connect with Matriarchs and Patriarchs in your spiritual
family tree who offer guidance for your life.
Monday, 7:00 to 9:30 pm.
Cost: $18.00
Facilitator: Beth Hedva
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Advanced Enneagram
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n this fascinating, interactive course you will:
- use your own type structure as a model for spiritual evolution,
- learn practical methods to identify the nine types,
- understand instinctual variants of each type,
- discover how the defense mechanisms reinforces stress points,
- utilize experiential methods to create higher states of consciousness and
enjoy life more.
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Every second Tuesday, 7:00 to 9:30 pm.
Cost: $90.00
Facilitators: Gayle and Tom Laird
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| Tiptoe Through the Menopause With Me |
Menopause is a time of powerful transition--a time to move fully into our sacred journey. This is the beginning of the most important part of our life. It is a time to take stock. Our body is our teacher.
In this session we will explore how to:
- comfort our physical bodies,
- understand our innermost thoughts and desires,
- reclaim our hidden, disowned and denied aspects,
- work to integrate these at a deep level of our being,
- welcome the fire within,
- celebrate our journey.
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Through this exploration of your empowering inner world you will find new
pathways to attain greater serenity and a more balanced lifestyle.
Saturday, 9:30 am to 2:30 pm
Cost: $65.00
Facilitator: Wilma Rubens
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| Tai Chi |
Tai Chi combines mental concentration, measured breathing and a graceful
succession of deliberate body movements in a moving meditation. Tai Chi
encourages pliant flexibility, relaxed movements, and whole-body internal
power for health and well-being. Suitable for all ages and levels of flexibility.
12 Tuesdays, 1:30 to 3:00 pm. Dates to be announced
Cost: $95.00
Facilitator: Gina Howard
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Theta Healing: Advanced DNA Training
For those who have previously taken DNA Training 1 and 2 . The Theta technique
is used to change underlying core programs and beliefs. This facilitates
transformation and brings health and personal growth. Detailed curriculum
Workshop space is limited. For more information about Theta Healing visit www.thetahealing.com. Under the Instructors link (on that site) you will find testimonials from
people around the world. Comments by Spiritual Directions workshop participants.
Watch for new dates
Cost: $425 earlybird; $475 after
Facilitator: Loretta Mohl
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| Theta Healing Training: DNA 1 and 2 |
Theta is a powerful energy healing technique that allows us to quickly
identify and change the subconscious energies that influence our behaviors,
our reactions and the people and events that we draw to us in our lives.
You will learn to find the root causes of negative experiences and unhappiness
in life and use the Theta technique to change underlying core programs
and beliefs held in the subconscious.
Examples of the ways Theta Healing can provide benefit are:
- reduce or remove symptoms of chronic health problems
- change fear of failure into love of success
- remove resentments, grudges and hatred
- overcome addictions and reduce withdrawal
- minimize reactions to people who "push our buttons"
- reprogram DNA to facilitate health and happiness.
For more information about Theta Healing visit www.thetahealing.com. Under the Instructors link (on that site) you will find testimonials from
people around the world. Comments by Spiritual Directions workshop participants.
Saturday and Sunday, 10.00 am to 5:00 pm. Watch for new dates.
Cost: $455 early bird; $510 after September 11
Facilitator: Loretta Mohl
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| Betrayal, Trust and Forgiveness: A Professional Training Day |
A hands-on program for professionals who
want to experience
using intuition as a therapeutic
tool to enhance their
work. Explore specific
symbolic methods
and inner techniques that
help you train your
clients to use their
intuitive resources.
Define and measure distinct
stages of healing
from the pain of loss to
an experience of
Self-renewal.
Saturday, 9:45 am to 5:15 pm. Cost: $175.00.
Facilitator: Dr.
Beth Hedva
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| The Light Within: A Renewal Workshop |
As we journey we rarely stop to ponder the miracle of our being and the challenges we have so valiantly met. This workshop focuses on healing, renewal and celebrating the Self by gently beginning to replace darkness in the mind, body and spirit with light and joy. As we reflect on our experiences, share life philosophies and learn renewal strategies in an atmosphere of trust and serenity we will have the opportunity to:
- Celebrate past successes and mistakes
- Release limiting beliefs
- Revisit the development of resiliency skills
- Discover the radiance of the energy within through literature, music and
dance
- Experience personal reflection through meditation
- Share and connect with others
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Cost: $15
Facilitator: Rebecca Levant
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| Labyrinth Workshop |
Enjoy a day in the country (Carbon, Alberta) and an introduction to the ancient meditative practice of the labyrinth walk. Learn the history of this spiritual practice and have an opportunity to experience the rituals and meditations associated with the walk. In using the labyrinth for several guided meditation experiences, we will go from our travelling self into our quiet inner space, and conclude with a celebration of movement and praise.
Labyrinth workshop: Saturday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, Cost: $55.00,
Facilitators: June Churchill and Norline
Johnson
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| Soul Shaker |
Working with clay you will create a "heartfelt" soul rattle and
an "earthmask" wall hanging. Guided meditation, music and natural
elements will be combined to focus your creation. You will express yourself
in the clay as you learn basic hand forming, glazing and decorative techniques.
All supplies and clay firing are included. No art experience is necessary.
Four Wednesdays, 7:00 to 9:30 pm
Cost: $215.00
Facilitators: Deb Clay and Straja Linder King
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| About Face: Creating A Life Mask |
Masks both healing and revealing may be used for rites of passage, marking
seasonal changes or simply to record the beauty of your face. A day of sacred play that captures your art of expression forever. Bring a shower cap, pillow and blanket.
Saturday, 10:00 am. to 4:00 pm.
Cost: $110.00 Includes all mask-making materials.
Facilitator: Straja Linder King
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| Embellishing The Mask |
In this follow-up workshop we will take the transformation further as we
embellish our life masks.
Sunday, 9:00 am. to noon.
Cost: $45.00
Facilitator: Straja Linder King
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| Feng Shui For Your Soul |
Learn to apply the basic
principles of Feng
Shui to create a balanced,
harmonious environment
that will nurture, sustain
and energize you.
Learn to make changes that
can help heal
relationships and restore
peace to yourself
and those you love. Heal
your home.
4 Wednesdays, 7:00 to 9:00 pm.
Cost: $55.00
Facilitator: Janet Cafferata,
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| Feng Shui For Your Soul: Let's Go a Little Deeper |
A harmonious space requires balancing the five elements: earth, fire, metal,
water and wood. Learn to recognize and correct elemental imbalances in
your environment. Feng Shui For Your Soul is a prerequisite for this course.
Saturday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.
Cost: $40.00
Facilitator: Janet Cafferata
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| Bagua Dream Map Class |
Enjoy an afternoon of fun, cutting and pasting as you chat with friends. Create a Bagua Dream Map, and be amazed at how quickly your dreams manifest and become realities. This is also a great parent-child activity, appropriate for kids 10 and older.
Materials required: One large sheet of poster board or cardboard per dream map, scissors,
glue and several picturesque magazines.
Saturday, 12:30 to 4:30 pm.
Cost: $45.00
Facilitator: Janet Cafferata
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A Gathering of Men
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Men often spend the initial part of their
lives accomplishing goals in the outer world
and the next phase searching for meaning
in life and finding parts of their own nature
they have overlooked. Using the Enneagram,
the group will help participants gain a new
understanding of themselves in order to discover
and activate the hidden potential in the
lives they have been given.
5 Monday evenings, 5:00 to 7:30 pm.
Cost: $150.00
Facilitator: Tom Laird
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| Celebrating All Life: Moving to Action on Behalf of the Earth |
This workshop will inspire you to change the world-- one step at a time.
Living in this tme of climate change, peak oil and other environmental
crises can leave us feeling powerless to bring about change. What can we
do to help?
The answer is in each one of us. Finding those answers often includes:
- sharing our responses to the present state of the earth
- reframing our sense of helplessness and despair
- experiencing our deep interconnectedness with all life.
In this workshop we will review some very basic science and participate
in group activities, dialogue, art and ceremony to create an experience
that will enhance our natural interconnectedness with all living beings.
Along the way, we will take time to practice gratitude for the earthly
gifts which give us life, support each other in planning our life affirming
choices, and go forth with new knowledge, enthusiasm and action plan that
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The idea that we live in something called the environment is utterly preposterous--the world that environs us, surrounds us, is also within us.
We are made of it. ... it is bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh.
Wendell Berry |
Friday, 7:00 to 9:00 pm, Saturday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Bring your own lunch. Watch for new dates
Cost: $65
Facilitator: Diane Allen
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| Personal Power for the Planet |
In a safe environment we will explore together 4 important themes of deep
ecology:
- Gratitude for our earthly gifts and the world we live in,
- Honouring our experience of the earth crisis,
- Learning ways to see the earth through new eyes,
- Empowering ourselves to go forth on behalf of the earth.
Activities will include discussion, group exercises, meditation and visualization.
Saturday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Cost: $45 (subsidized fee)
Facilitators: Diane Allen, David Johnson
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| A Taste of Deep Ecology |
Do you love the earth and all living beings? Are you concerned about the
state we find ourselves in? Deep ecology workshops bring people together
with the intention of healing our relationship with the earth. We will
briefly explore our ideas and feelings about the position we find ourselves
in and strengthen our ability to respond to the world.
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Cost: $15 (subsidized fee)
Facilitators: Diane Allen, David Johnson
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Healing Courses
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| Muscle Energy Analysis: Introduction |
Which nutritional supplements would I benefit from? Learn the healing art
of M.E.A., a technique for assessing the circulation and energy flow within
your body, revealing your nutritional needs for the day. No experience
necessary. Private sessions available by appointment.
Monday 7:15 to 9:15 pm.
Cost: $25
Facilitator: Lorraine Carpino
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| Traditional Native Teachings |
This experiential workshop introduces you to Traditional Native Teachings
using the Medicine Wheel. The spiritual, mental and physical well-being
of the client is explored. The Medicine Wheel's many aspects are discussed
and applied to your daily living. You will increase your awareness of the
many significant elements of healing and well-being as practised within
Traditional Native Culture.
Friday, 6:00 to 10:00 pm; Saturday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Cost: $185, Limited to 12 participants
Facilitator: Doreen Spence (Executive Director of the Canadian Indigenous Women's Resource Institute) Click for biography
Bring a pillow, blanket and lunch
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Betrayal, Trust and Forgiveness: A Professional Training Day
A hands-on program for professionals who
want to experience using intuition as a therapeutic
tool to enhance their work. Explore specific
symbolic methods and inner techniques that
help you train your clients to use their
intuitive resources. Define and measure distinct
stages of healing from the pain of loss to
an experience of Self-renewal.
Saturday, 9:45 am to 5:15 pm. Cost: $175.00.
Facilitator: Dr. Beth Hedva
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| Journey From Betrayal to Trust |
This course uses the book Betrayal,
Trust, and Forgiveness as a basis for each week's focus. The book describes seven areas
of betrayal and suggests exercises to help you identify your own experiences
in these areas. Each week the course will go deeper into these topics.
The evenings are designed to help you with emotional healing and self-renewal
by identifying learnings in past events, developing compassion for yourself
and letting go of negative attachments so you have more freedom and energy
to pursue your life goals and dreams. This is not a therapy course.
A conversation with Jeanette will precede the beginning of the class to
clarify your expectations and goals for taking this course. Jeanette
is an authorized Betrayal to Trust facilitator, trained by Dr. Beth Hedva,
author of Betrayal,
Trust and Forgiveness.
8 Thursdays, 7:00 to 10:00 pm. Watch for new dates.
Cost: $175.00 (plus book $20.00)
Facilitator: Jeanette Thiessen
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| Family Constellation Experiential Workshop |
| Come experience this cutting edge approach which has captured much interest
in Europe and more recently in North America. |
The goal of every human is to live in harmony and love with their parents, grandparents, children and grandchildren. When we are well connected with them our soul opens up and we feel the flow of life which brings us support from our ancestors. We are then able to pass on this life force to our children. This flow makes us healthy and gives us strength for our everyday problems. We are all so intensely connected to our family that, out of love, we undertake burdens for those who died early, or are/were not respected or included in the family system. This burden is a shadow that stops the flow. Through family constellation work, developed by Bert Hellinger, it is possible to discover these unknown ties and resolve them. This workshop is for anyone wishing to experience a healing process, either by working on their own family issues or acting as a representative of another participant's past or present family member.
Saturday and Sunday workshop
Facilitator: Dr. Gabriele Wilhelm
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| Journey Into Wellness |
A 6 week workshop/support group where we will
teach about depression and offer coping strategies that can assist in the
recovery and prevention of depression. We focus on journeying towards
wellness. We assure confidentiality and
respect the world view of each member.
This is a peer support approach and is not intended to replace drug
therapy or counselling. However, it can be useful as an adjunct to such therapies.
Wednesdays, 1:00 to 3:00 pm.
Cost: $140. (includes manual)
Facilitator: Suzanne Willems
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