Reparenting 1:
An Inside Job

The way in which we were parented was internalized as children, and is now the same relationship that we, as adults, have with our own younger selves. To the extent that our developmental needs as children were not met through unaware parenting is the extent to which we now do the same thing to ourselves. Until this inner relationship changes through awareness, we will live in the effects of the abuse, neglect, repression, shame, dysfunction and judgment that we now heap upon ourselves and others.

Reparenting 2:
Attachment Styles and Boundaries

Depending on how we were socialized we have learned to relate to ourselves in either anxious, dismissive, disorganized ways, or warmly and lovingly. As adults, this is how we now attach to our own children, friends and partners without awareness. You will learn about your attachment styles and the kinds of inner boundaries you have, so that you can more clearly see how to relate to yourself and others in a healthy,  loving way.

Facing Shame

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Shame is a fundamental experience of our human life.  Learning to be comfortable with it as a teacher is essential for making progress in our development and especially on our spiritual path to recognizing ourselves as expressions of infinite love, instead of believing ourselves to be bad and inadequate. Join us for a deep exploration of this emotion and the beliefs informing the experience, and how we learned to believe untruths about ourselves.

Aging Gracefully

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If you are well acquainted with the inner process of dying in life, you are also well-aware that the inner process always leads to more life, greater expansion, deeper wisdom and vision, more love, compassion, and peace.  Only by relating to our multiple opportunities for death every day do we start relaxing into the certain knowing that final death of the body can only be an expansion into more, not a loss into less.

Creativity:
The Quantum of Compassion​

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Through the work of Georgia O'Keefe, we will examine how to live a life of creativity and compassion.

Truth and Reconciliation

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Drawing on the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission at the ending of Apartheid in South Africa, this is a workshop that examines blaming, judgment, revenge, and self hatred that we have for ourselves, and that is translated into our relationships with others, so as to learn to create inner reconciliations, forgiveness and self love and in so doing can become peace makers in the world.

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Call of the Mountain

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This course will take you into the inner realms of the the mountain archetype. We will explore what it means to have peak experiences, which, of necessity, means speaking about valley experiences too. Everything that evokes a feeling response is a catalyst for an awakening in us of something the object or person represents.  The mountain evokes what is within us, and merely reflects something back to us that we can readily experience, find and know within ourselves.

The Way of Suffering
(Via Dolorosa)

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A deep examination of the stations of the cross through a mystical lens - how do we recognize every step of this path within our own life and experience?

Lenten Series

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“Giving-Up” something for Lent is not an act of will power over our defenses (vices) but rather a recognition (repentance) that they are there. Recognizing and accepting is the first step. Investigation into why they are there, is the second step. 

Let's use Lent to find inner reconciliation with who we truly are and live into a new reality as we die to the fallen state of believing ourselves to be "less than."