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REMEMBERING THE WISDOM
OF THE CIRCLE;
BEING IN COUNCIL WITH
NATURE
An Ancient Earth-based Practice
There is a community of the spirit,
Join it and feel the delight ...
Open your hands
If you want to be held.
Sit down in this circle
Flow down down down in always
Widening rings of being.
The art of being in Circle or Council is an ancient, cross-cultural practice and a modern technology that calls all life forms to gather together in harmonious community, valuing each voice and the welfare of all members. This non-hierarchical and sacred form comes to us from our indigenous ancestors, many of whose descendants are still living in community with the circle at the center of daily life. It is also based on the cycles of the nature world. As we see our reflection in nature it provides a natural mirror for our essential nature. Come and rekindle your connection to this ancient practice and be part of calling the circle back into our lives and communities.
Circle Practices include:
- Deep listening, mirroring and witnessing
- Personal, group and global visioning
- Connection with the larger earth community
- Creating a trusting, creative and diversified environment
- Earth-based ceremony and the medicine wheel
- Rotating and shared leadership
- Being a carrier of council in our lives
- Solo time on the land
We will meet in a natural setting with an option for overnight camping.
Dates: August 30 and 31, 2008
Time: 9am - 5pm daily (includes transportation to and from the natural setting)
Location: in a natural setting in the Cascade Mountains, TBA
Registration deposit: $100
Facilitator: Anne Stine, MA, MFT, is founder of Wilderness Rites, LLC with 30 years experience as an ecopsychologist, psychotherapist, and wilderness rites of passage guide. Her programs offer initiatory earth-based healing rites and practices that assist people to reclaim their true place within the wisdom and cycles of nature and have been offered in the wilderness areas of California, Idaho and Oregon as well as at several universities. In addition, she offers an ecopsychology practice, which includes mentoring, teaching and guiding as well as training others in the way of earth rites. Her current interest is on calling back the elders into our communities, and offering initiatory rites for women in all stages of eldering.
For more information or to register,
please contact:
Anne Stine, Ashland, OR 97520; 541-488-4899
astine@wildernessrites.com
www.wildernessrites.com
Click here to view a pdf flyer for this program.
To listen a soul into disclosure and
discovery is the greatest service
one human being can do for another.
– a Quaker saying
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WILDERNESS RITES, LLC