Workshops

Current Offerings

You probably never went to school to learn about the purpose of your emotions, how they can be effectively expressed, and what they can teach you. If you are like most people you learned about your emotions from your parents who didn't know any more than you did. This usually results in a variety of ineffective ways of responding to your emotions that go all the way from stuffing them to projecting them onto others.

Wouldn't it be nice if you and your children could learn together how to work with emotions in a way that enhances family relationships and promotes good emotional skills in everyday life? That is exactly what this series of classes is about. In 8 sessions of 1 1/2 hours each you will acquire the knowledge and practical skills that will provide a solid foundation for your family to work effectively with the emotions that surface in everyday living.

Using dialog, role playing, self control techniques, and problem solving skills, parents and their children will learn to identify, express, learn from, and resolve their emotions as well as how to respond in helpful ways to the emotions of others.

Outline

• Recognizing emotions in ourselves
• Recognizing emotions in others
• Using emotions cards in the family
• Tools for self-control
• Distinguishing between emotions and behaviors
• Expressing emotions
• What we can learn from our emotions
• The energy of emotion
• Identifying emotional triggers
• How to handle situations that trigger emotion
• Changing feelings
• When to hide your feelings
• Using problem solving to address emotions
• Family routines for addressing emotions

WHEN: The program began Friday, February 18 from 4 to 5:30 and runs for 8 Fridays.

WHERE: The program is held at the Genesee Charter School at the Rochester Museum and Science Center, Gannett Building.

COST: $150 per family for all 8 sessions or $25 per individual session

If you are interested in more information on this workshop you can call Linda Heron Wind at 585-924-5620 or send e-mail to LHWind@aol.com. (You may come to one or more sessions. This series will be offered at a different place and time later in the Spring.)

Linda Heron Wind, Ph.D. is a transpersonal psychologist and teacher of change. She has 25 years of college teaching and 22 years of private practice experience and has been facilitating workshops that help people develop more authentic ways of living for 18 years. Her current work focuses on creating a better world for our children and grandchildren as well as generations to come.

SCHEDULED SUMMER CAMPS AND WORKSHOPS

Medicine Circle - Vision Quest for Women
June 4-6, 2005 Shequaga, Dansville, NY
Facilitated by Tracy Bell and Linda Heron Wind

A Medicine Circle creates a space for you to experience in solitude a deeper connection with yourself and with the whole circle of life that surrounds you. You will remain in your medicine circle, a small space in nature, from sunrise to sunset on Saturday. Preparation for this vision quest will be made on Friday in the form of cleansing and releasing rituals, talking circle and hiking out on the land to find your medicine circle. When you go out to your circle at sunrise on Saturday you will be free of the usual clutter to open up to a deeper part of yourself, to nature as teacher, and to spirit. Sunday will be a day of creating ritual art representing your experience, and, through group process and ceremony, finding ways to integrate your experience into your daily life. We will create together a loving space to explore your growing edge and celebrate the visions that come.

Time: Friday June 3 (10 AM) to Sunday June 5 (4 PM)
Cost: $150 (limit of 15 participants, all meals provided)
Additional $15 for non-CIRCLE members
Register by: May 21 with a deposit of $75 to CIRCLE

The Marriage Basket: Weaving the Aspects of Self into Unity
with Linda Heron Wind
June 22-26, 2005
Shequaga, Dansville, NY

"It is time," said Old Woman, "all the pieces are contained within this basket. I have been gathering them, one by one, and welcoming them home. They now must be woven into something greater than just many pieces in a basket. This is what you have come here for, are you ready to weave yourselves into ……… Well, perhaps it is not for me to say but for you to discover."

Are you ready? If your heart says yes, join us in this magical time of using solstice energy and the energy of a common-unity of women doing ritual and ceremony together to weave yourselves into something greater. Under the solstice sun by day and the full moon and stars by night we will create a sacred space to do our work. Sacred art, small group work, large group ritual, sweat lodge, silence in nature, energetic tools, song, dance, and community are a few of the tools we will use to weave the many aspects of our selves into unity, wholeness and holiness. We have all been working hard to gather the authentic pieces of ourselves and now is the time to bring them together to form a container for a radiant wholeness. We move through fear into integrity where the inner self is the outer self and the illusion dances around us in support of the radiance we vibrate out into the world.

Begins: Wednesday, June 22 at 7:30pm
Ends: Sunday, June 26 at 12 Noon
Cost: $250 (additional $15 membership fee for non-CIRCLE members)

Register by June 1 with $125 deposit (space is limited so register early to hold your space) call me at 585-924-5620 or e-mail me at LHWind@aol.com checks made out to CIRCLE, 8042 Main St. Fishers, Victor, NY 14564.

SCHEDULED CAMPS FOR CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS

Awakening Spirits Children's Earth School Camps
An opportunity to experience living in harmony with each other and with the Earth.

Mystery Schools over the ages taught the basic truths of the Universe that are often found at the core of every major religious and spiritual tradition. Through small group activities and exercises, community talking circles, creative arts, story telling, singing, dancing, ceremony, and sacred play, Awakening Spirits Earth School camps teach a core curriculum that emphasizes:

• Authenticity - being in good relationship with ourselves, others and the environment
• Accessing and trusting inner guidance
• Working with feelings and emotions to gain wisdom
• Developing effective communication skills - hearing and being heard
  the role of story in our lives - telling and changing our stories
  

Earth School camps provide an opportunity for youth and adults to explore and practice together these teachings in a playful and loving atmosphere.

Mother-Daughter Earth School,
with Linda Heron Wind, Ph.D.
July 15-17, 2005
Shequaga, Dansville, NY

When mothers and daughters share the same deep experience of community where each person, regardless of age, is honored for their gifts and wisdom, magic happens! Through loving community with ourselves, each other and the Earth, we learn how to be who we really are and the skills to take that home to enhance the mother-daughter relationship within the family. Children spend time in age clustered hoops as well as whole community activities. Mothers hoop engages in similar learning and activities that a address mothering concerns as well as self-growth. Come play with us in the beauty of nature.

For: mothers, grandmothers, aunts (or other caring female adults) and girls, ages 5-12
Time: Friday, July 15 (10 AM) to Sunday, July 17 (noon)
Cost: $180 for adult and first child, $60 for second child or adult
$25 extra for CIRCLE family membership if not a member
All meals provided.
Register by: June 8 with a deposit of $90 to CIRCLE, remainder due on July 8

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Parent-Child Earth School,
with Linda Heron Wind, Ph.D.
August 19-21, 2005
Shequaga, Dansville, NY

When parents and children engage in the same process of learning about themselves, it enhances family life. We learn from each other, younger and older and we engage in creative activities, storytelling, music making, and playing in the woods and the water. A girls hoop, boys hoop and parents hoop explore questions and stories and then come together to share around a camp fire.

For: parents, male and female, and sons or daughters ages 5-12
Time: Friday, August 19 (10 AM) to Sunday, August 21 (noon)
Cost: $180 for adult and first child, $60 for second child or adult.
$25 extra for CIRCLE family membership if not a member
All meals provided.
Register by: July 1 with a deposit of $90 to CIRCLE, remainder due on August 1

SCHEDULED FALL WORKSHOP

Dancing into the Darkness, September 23-25, 2005
Facilitated by Linda Heron Wind, Ph.D.
September 23-25, 2005
Shequaga, Dansville, NY

If we are to survive on this sweet Earth and move into the predicted time of love and peace, we must learn to be the conscious dreamers of our lives and our world. Shamans have known how to dream the world and jaguar teaches us the secrets that the darkness holds. Together we will make our dream masks, call on the jaguar and dance into the darkness to bring these ancient wisdom ways more fully into our lives. Join us as we dance, create ceremony and sacred art, and ride the jaguar into the darkness.

Time: Friday, September 23, 2005 (6 PM) to Sunday, Septenber 25, 2005 (noon)
Cost: $120 (limited to 15 women and men) $15 extra for non-CIRCLE members -- All meals provided
Register by: September 9, 2005 with a deposit of $60 to CIRCLE

In addition to the Workshops listed above, Linda Heron Wind, Ph.D. periodically offers the following workshops:

• The Alchemy of Spirit: Therapy in the 21st Century An experimental workshop for therapists and health care professionals.

• Mystic and Scholar: The Joining of Heart and Mind (with Annette Margaret)

• Wakantia Gateway—Living the Truth (with Brooke Medicine Eagle at Blacktail Ranch, Montana)
  

• Women as Keepers of Harmony
• Grandmothers, Mothers, Maidens—Reweaving Connectons
• Creating Ceremony for Women and Community

Check the Calendar for dates and locations or call (585) 924-5620, or write Linda Heron Wind, 8042 Main St. Fishers, Victor, NY 14564 or send e-mail to LHWind@aol.com to schedule a workshop in your area.

Browse the Mystery School for courses and self-study workbooks.

Shequaga is a beautiful 50 acres with creeks, waterfalls, pond, woods, and open fields owned by CIRCLE in the southern tier of NY about 50 minutes south of Rochester. A turtle shaped building houses kitchen, showers, healing room, craft room and an indoor labyrinth. Tent camping with some platforms, and great vegetarian cuisine create a great environment for living in close relationship to the Earth and her rhythms.

Linda Heron Wind, Ph.D. is a teacher of change, transpersonal psychologist, and healer for the spirit, who brings her 25 years of college teaching experience, 22 years of private practice and 18 years of facilitating transformational workshops to creating a basket of wholeness in which the authentic parts of each individual can be integrated and transformed into radiance.

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