A PATH OF COMPASSION AND EMPOWERMENT w/ Karl Steyaert and Kathleen Macferran
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"A Path of Compassion & Empowerment" Co-facilitators Karl Steyaert and Kathleen Macferran Discovering your unique gift to bring to your community is your greatest opportunity and challenge. The offering of that gift – your true self – is the most you can do to love and serve the world. The path of the warrior is a lot more daring: you are cultivating a fearless heart, a heart that doesn't close down in any circumstances; it is always open, so that you could be touched by anything. • Do you love to live passionately? A Path of Compassion & Empowerment is a powerful, year-long transformative learning community program supporting people to play a conscious and engaged role in co-creating a thriving, sustainable world. It consists of integrated and community-supported training in various practices and principles of nonviolence, sustainability, community, creativity, and consciousness. An embodied and free-spirited expression of Nonviolent Communication and an Integral Approach (integrating body, mind, & spirit, and self, culture, & nature) offer the foundation for the learning community, and will serve as consistent themes throughout the year. In addition, we will explore a range of both ancient and leading-edge tools for individual and community well-being. Major learning themes will include the theory and practice of: Over the course of 2011, the program will consist of: Faculty: For these retreats, we will be bringing together an exceptional team (see their biographical information below), including CNVC Certified Trainers Alan Seid, Kathleen Macferran, and Karl Steyaert, as well as educators and transformational practitioners Abigail Lynam, David McNamara, and others. Requested contribution: We are dedicated to making this opportunity available to everyone whose life path and passions align with this program, regardless of their financial situation. At the same time, to support administration, professional training services, facilitation, and mentoring for the entire year, including the four retreats, we request a sliding scale financial contribution of $3,600 - $1,200 for the year. There are a limited number of work-exchange opportunities available. Please contact Karl Steyaert at (ksteyaert “at” gmail “dot” com) to dialogue about financial questions. Applying: To support mutual discernment as to whether this learning community is a match for you at this time, we invite you to complete an application form and to dialogue with us. To request an application form or to ask any questions about the program, please contact Karl Steyaert at (ksteyaert “at” gmail “dot” com). December 15th, 2010 is the deadline for submitting application materials for the 2011 program. Karl Steyaert & Kathleen Macferran Faculty Biographies: Karl Steyaert Certified Trainer, Center for Nonviolent Communication Since 1998, Karl has directed, designed and taught university courses and programs interweaving the themes of sustainability, community, and consciousness, through the University of Michigan, the University of Massachusetts, the Findhorn Community in Scotland, and Auroville ecovillage in India. Also, as a Certified Trainer in Nonviolent Communication (NVC), he has led trainings in conflict resolution and communication for corporate, non-profit, and intentional community clients in North America, Europe, and Asia since 2003. In addition, since 2009 he has been facilitating Restorative Circles, an approach to restorative justice grounded in NVC. Beyond his academic training in Anthropology and Environmental Policy, Karl has also spent years dedicated to the study and teaching of aikido (a nonviolent Japanese martial art), Buddhist meditation, yoga, sustainable community design, and integral theory. While still occasionally traveling globally, Karl is currently based in the Pacific Northwest, teaching courses, providing organizational consulting, facilitating groups, and coaching individuals. Certified Trainer, Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) Kathleen is also one of the trainers for the Freedom Project, an affiliate organization of CNVC that strengthens community safety through supporting the transformation of prisoners into peacemakers. Beyond her extensive work with nonviolence education, her other professional experience includes public school teaching and serving as the Music Director of the Rainier Chamber Winds for 19 years. Abigail Lynam, M.S., teaches in the field of experiential and expeditionary learning, environmental and natural history studies, leadership development and transformative adult education. She is faculty for Lesley University’s Ecological Teaching and Learning MS degree program for educators (www.lesley.edu/gsass/audubon/etl_program.html). Abigail also taught for the Audubon Expedition Institute and UMASS’s Integral Sustainability in India program for many years. Abigail brings an integral framework to these programs, in particular incorporating research on human development, curriculum to support the inclusion and development of interiors and drawing on the latest research in integral ecology. Through her twelve years of teaching for the Audubon Expedition and Living Routes, Abigail has extensive experience guiding expeditions both overseas and in wilderness settings and facilitating sacred solos. She is passionate about sharing her love of the natural world with others, supporting personal development and leadership skill and capacity building in the context of diverse cultures and wilderness settings. David McNamara, Ph.D. has been committed to the endeavor of personal transformation for over thirty years, having studied with spiritual teachers of traditions as various as esoteric Christian prayer, shamanic working, Tibetan Buddhist dharma teachings, and the varieties of transpersonal / integral psychology. Meditation and spiritual practice are central to his life and work. He lived, practiced, and taught as a staff member of the Findhorn Foundation, an intentional spiritual community / ecovillage in northern Scotland for over ten years where, among other focuses, he directed “The Human Challenge of Sustainability” program, a semester-course for university students. As part of that program, he served as lead faculty for the “Worldviews and Consciousness” course. Dr. McNamara received his Ph.D. in psychology from the Fielding Institute and currently practices as a psychotherapist in Southern Oregon, where his deep interests are transpersonal family work and the process of spiritual emergence. ~~~~~ Alan Seid is a seminar leader, facilitator, coach, special events speaker, and author of the forthcoming book Take It To The Next Level: a toolbox for positive change agents and cultural creatives. Alan has immersed himself in learning, practicing, and teaching powerful sustainability tools for 20 years. Alan's recent clients include the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), ForestEthics, and Transition Whatcom. He lives with his family in the foothills of Washington's North Cascade mountain range. Alan is known as a fun, knowledgeable, and engaging presenter. "Alan has a unique ability to understand and teach some of the most important ideas and practices of sustainability. He is a visionary as well as a grounded, clear and engaging educator as well as walking the talk with real poise and integrity. If you want a powerful set of conceptual and practical tools to make your commitment to a sustainable future effective, I highly recommend his courses." |
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The tuition is between $1200.00 and $3600.00. |