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2010
Pre-conference Events
October
13 - 14, 2010
SPACE IS VERY LIMITED, SO REGISTER AS SOON AS YOU CAN TO ENSURE YOUR
PARTICIPATION.
Preceding the
October 14-18, 2009
Moving Toward Wholeness Conference -- all at Laurel
Ridge Conference and Retreat Center are three Pre-conference
Events. The time of these events is:
October 13, 6:00 PM to October 14, 4:00 PM (with
on-site registration at 5:00 PM)
All three events require participants to
pre-register. Deadline for Registering is September 28, 2010 (if space is
still available). After that you may still call registrar Tom Lane at
336-545-1200 to see if we can make a space for you.
Registrants to these Pre-conference events will receive a $20.00 discount
off of their fee for “Moving
Toward Wholeness” conference.
Details of each event can be found below.
Registrants, not attending a Pre-Conference event (with the exception of
"Walking the Land," to which all are invited), who would like to REQUEST lodging
for October 13 should use the email button below to make your request
directly as soon you can, to ensure that we are able to accommodate you.
(In your REQUEST for this special non-participant lodging, please specify your
anticipated arrival time. (The fee includes Wednesday dinner, Thursday breakfast
and lunch -- $100.00 per person in a single room; $90 per person in a double
room). You are invited to participate in "Going to the Land" with Muriel
McMahon.
Pre-conference Event #A
The
Language of the Soul
Led by: John and Carolyn Martin
October 13, 6:00 PM to
October 14, 4:00 PM
(with on-site registration at 5:00 PM)
Pre-conference Event #B
Healing from Within™
Combining Psychology and Spirituality to Heal the Soul
Led By: Benig Mauger
October 13, 6:00 PM to October 14, 4:00 PM
(with on-site registration at beginning at 5:00 PM)
Pre-conference Event #C
Dream Catcher Gathering; Preparing for the Sacred;
Going to the Land;
Led by: Muriel McMahon
October 13, 6:00 PM to October 14, 4:00 PM
(with on-site registration at
beginning at 5:00 PM)
The Language of the Soul
Led by The Rev. John L. Martin, D.Min. and Carolyn Martin, M.R.E.
The purpose of this seminar is to familiarize the participants with the basic concepts of Jungian Psychology. We have discovered that the best way to do this is in terms of a living model of the psyche as it was understood by Jung. The seminar is structured to allow us to do just this. In order to communicate his understanding of the human psyche Jung developed his own vocabulary and an understanding of this vocabulary is important is appropriating Jung’s psychology for our personal lives.
Session I - Jung’s Model of the Psyche
We will consider how symbols work in terms of Jung’s approach. We then turn to Jung’s model of the psyche and locate its various aspects: the personal unconscious, the collective unconscious, ego, persona, shadow, anima and animus, complexes and the Self. This material is presented, not as a set of philosophical concepts, but as living realities with which we have to deal each day of our life; the things that make us feel the way we feel and act the way we act.
Session II
Projection - Our experience of the realities of the personal unconscious, the collective unconscious, ego, persona, shadow, anima and animus, complexes and the Self involves an elementary psychological reality that is important for us to understand. We will spend a certain amount of time defining and illustrating the basic psychological experience of projection.
Concepts of Anima/Animus - Would it be safe to say that our relationships with the opposite sex can be a little problematic? We think so. In this session we carefully consider Jung’s contribution to this area of personal relationships. Using his notions of anima (the woman within the man) and animus (the man within the woman), we attempt to clarify the dynamics of these "invisible partners." Film clips are wonderful tools in this part of our study.
Session III - Jung’s Theory of the Complex
Perhaps the most important practical contribution of Jung to modern life is his theory of the complex. To grasp his understanding of complexes can change the way we think about ourselves and can open exciting doors of personal transformation. With this part of our study all that has gone before will come together in a way that we trust will be of genuine benefit to everyone participating.
John Martin was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and grew up in Gadsden, Alabama. Carolyn Martin also grew up in Gadsden, Alabama and married John, “the boy next door”. John received his Doctor of Ministry degree from Louisville Presbyterian Seminary. Carolyn has a B.S. Degree in Elementary Education and a Master’s Degree in Religious Education. They retired at the end of June 2003 after thirty-three years at First Presbyterian Church of Elizabethton, Tennessee. John served as minister and during that time at the church he had an extensive ministry as a pastoral counselor. Carolyn worked there as Director of Christian Education.
John and Carolyn led the Introduction to Jung weekend seminars for the Journey into Wholeness for twenty years and served on the Board of Directors of Journey for several years. John was also a frequent presenter at the Journey into Wholeness Conferences.
| Date: |
October 13 at 5:45 PM to October
14 at 4:00 PM
On-site registration begins 5:00 PM |
| Costs: |
Subject to Availability here are the rates:
$165.00 Single Occupancy;
$135.00 Double; Motel-style Room for
October 13, 2010
(Includes Dinner on October 13, and
breakfast and lunch on October 14, 2010 )
Fee includes tuition, dinner, breakfast, lunch
and lodging
Note: Registrants receive a $20.00
discount off of their Moving Toward
Wholeness Conference registration. |
| Register: |
Deadline for Registering is
September 28, 2010 (if space is still available.) After that you may still call
registrar, Tom Lane at 336-545-1200 to see if we can make a space for you. Click here to Register for the Language of the Soul.
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| Brochure: |
Language of the Soul -
Brochure |
Healing From Within™
Combining Psychology and Spirituality to Heal the Soul
Led by:
Benig Mauger
‘An
understanding of the transcendent and mystical that is deeply grounded in the
psychological is necessary if we are not to get bogged down in the narcissism of
‘woundology’, or swept away by an ungrounded mysticism that promises healing
without struggle.’*
Over half a century after Jung, in
an increasingly fragmented world, man is still in search of his soul. Despite
being told that wholeness and love lie within us, in our ‘quick fix’ society, we
often look for answers outside of ourselves and remain trapped in our wounds
thus hampering our spiritual growth.
Psychology teaches us that we
repeat emotional patterns so that to heal we must revisit the parts of us that
have splintered off due to hurt or trauma. The teachings of spirituality, on the
other hand, tell us that to find inner peace we must practice forgiveness and
acceptance. How do we do this? How do we learn to reconcile our emotional
wounding with being able to forgive? How do we heal so that we can practice
unconditional love and live in harmony not simply with ourselves, but with
others?
Wednesday
evening, using a unique combination of Jungian depth psychology and
spirituality, Jungian
psychotherapist and author Benig Mauger will share how true
healing comes from within and how to travel into this profound terrain of the
heart.
*
From ‘
Love
in a Time of Broken Heart: Healing From Within’,
by Benig Mauger .
Thursday, using meditation, art,
movement and dream work, this experiential workshop will examine how soul
patterns, transmitted to us in early life, influence our relationships. It
will offer a framework for understanding how these imprints are played out in
our lives. Additionally, since the union of the masculine and feminine within
is essential to individual spiritual wellbeing, participants will discover how
heartbreak can be a sacred initiation leading us to love and compassion. With
myth and poetry to illustrate the journey to the Inner Marriage, this workshop
will help you heal your heart from wounds you feel have held you back.
Identifying your own habitual patterns in relationships will help you balance
your male and female energies and recover a sense of your inner wholeness and
spiritual purpose.
"Benig Mauger's teaching message and her personal essence are timeless and
seamless. The highest ancient wisdom is always of the heart and Benig is a
master storyteller, healer and vessel of the soul's traditions. What makes Benig
Mauger unique is her ability to be with people in their grief and their
humanness. A strong teacher and speaker as well as therapist and writer, Benig
is gifted with the ability to provide information while coming directly from the
heart. Her work touches participants through a compassionate engagement that
allows them to access their own hearts as well.
Benig
Mauger
www.soul-connections.com is a Jungian psychotherapist, poet, speaker and
author from Ireland. Well known in her native land and Europe, she now
lives part of the year in Florida and is beginning to expand her work in
the U.S. In 1986, she established the Holistic Birth Centre in London and is
regarded as a pioneer in pre- and perinatal psychology in recognizing the
spiritual aspects of birth and how the birth experience affects the journey
through life. Founder member of IAPA (Irish Analytical Psychology
Association), Benig later also founded Soul Connections, which aims to
restore soul to everyday living.
She
is author of numerous books and articles. some of which have been published in
the USA, Britain, Russia, Germany, Australia and Greece.
Testimonials about Benig Mauger:
"Benig's workshop at Rowe Conference Center was the best I have attended in
a long time, a combination of deep inner work and physical play which included
singing, dancing, writing and drawing. She held us as we told our stories, moved
through our grief, relived our past through our presence with each other. Benig
has the ability to adapt to the participants' needs, and the strength to guide
the group to a compassionate whole. Her books are simple enough for the layman
and yet complex enough to hold the attention of the clinical worker. Wonderful!"
Singer and songwriter
“With
the use of archetypes, fairy tales and dream enactment, Benig encouraged us to
explore how our earliest experiences shape our patterns of relating. I found
Benig to be a very human and compassionate woman who shared some of her own
journey with us thus enabling us to do the same. A truly healing and
transformative experience!” Social Care Worker.
| Date: |
October 13 at 5:45 PM to October
14 at 4:00 PM
On-site registration begins 5:00 PM |
| Costs: |
Subject to Availability here are the rates:
$165.00 Single Occupancy;
$135.00 Double; Motel-style Room for
October 13, 2010
(Includes Dinner on October 13, and
breakfast and lunch on October 14, 2010 )
Fee includes tuition, dinner, breakfast, lunch
and lodging
Note: Registrants receive a $20.00
discount off of their Moving Toward
Wholeness Conference registration. |
| Register: |
Deadline for Registering is
September 28, 2010 (if space is still available.) After that you may still call
registrar, Tom Lane at 336-545-1200 to see if we can make a space for you. Click here
to Register |
| Brochure: |
Healing From Within
Brochure |
Dream Catcher
Gathering
Led by: Muriel McMahon
A North American Hopi prophesy teaches:
Great
Spirit gathered the peoples of this earth together… He said to the human beings,
"I'm going to send you to four directions and over time I'm going to change you
to four colors, but I'm going to give you some teachings and you will call these
the Original Teachings and when you come back together with each other you will
share these Original Teachings so that you can live and have peace on earth, and
a great civilization will come about."
Join Canadian analyst Muriel McMahon, Elder in the Algonkin First Nations
Tradition in a pre-conference Dream Catcher gathering. Muriel will share
Traditional story and song. In this gathering we will begin to come back
together with each other and share these Original Teachings so that you can live
and have peace on earth, and a great civilization will come about. You will
be invited to tie Dream Catcher ribbons to Snowdrop Dreaming (hand drum)
and share your pre-conference dreams.
Preparing for the
Sacred with Muriel McMahon
Preparing sacred space is a responsibility and a response-ability of indigenous
and land based cultures. Join Canadian analyst Muriel McMahon, Elder in the
Algonkin First Nations Tradition for teachings and experiential preparations for
conference Ceremonies. You will learn how to purify and prepare yourself, the
teaching Lodges, the gathering places, and the Ceremonial Fire circles. You will
make Prayer ties and be invited to assist in Ceremonial protocol in the First
Nations Traditions.
Going to the Land
with Muriel McMahon
Thursday Afternoon, October 14,
2-4 PM (This event is open to any participant, who arrives early enough to
participate by starting time -- no additional charge; no discount provided for
Moving Toward Wholeness.)
Indigenous wisdom teaches that our Ancient Ones inhabit the forests, mountains,
rivers, and the plains of Turtle Island. When we walk on Grandmother Turtle’s
back, we walk on the bones of our ancestors. Join Canadian analyst Muriel
McMahon, Elder in the Algonkin First Nations Tradition on an inspirational and
ceremonial walk into the beauty and mystery of Laurel Ridge. With nearly 700
acres of woods, hiking trails, waterfalls, and spectacular mountain views we
will “Go To The Land” to ask the Ancient Ones to bless our conference. We will
offer sacred tobacco to the Keepers of the seven directions. We make a food
offering to our winged, one legged, and four legged brothers and sisters. We
will hike the property and return to a small fire for Ceremony.
| Date: |
October 13,
On site registration 5:00 PM |
| Costs:
|
For Lodging for Oct. 13, 2009 Per
Person, Subject to Availability here are the rates:
$155.00 Single Occupancy;
$125.00 Double Occupancy
Motel-style Room for October 13, 2009
(Includes Dinner on October 13, and
breakfast and lunch on October 14, 2010)
Fee INCLUDES MEAL(S)
AND DISCOUNT to "Moving Toward Wholeness."
Note: Registrants to this Pre-conference event will receive a $20.00
discount off of their fee for “The Moving Toward Wholeness Conference."
|
|
Register: |
Deadline for Registering is
September 28, 2010 (if space is still available.) After that you may still call
registrar, Tom Lane at 336-545-1200 to see if we can make a space for you.
Click here to Register for
Dream Catcher Gathering; Preparing for the
Sacred;
Going to the Land |
|
Brochure: |
Dream Catcher Gathering; Preparing for the
Sacred;
Going to the Land
Brochure |
