Our workshops cater for:

• Women
• Men
• Couples – Sacred Relating

About Our Workshops

We offer workshops for women, men, couples and mixed groups of all ages. All of our workshops are designed to bring people together for personal growth, conscious dialogue and creative life changes.

We love to create community where we can have series discussion as well as fun and celebration.Life changes are more easily made when we feel abundantly supported by companions who are walking the journey with us.

We use a variety of skills and sacred healing techniques to help people transform and realize their hopes and dreams: ritual, drumming, chanting, storytelling, art, psychodrama and guided meditation. You will be touched and changed in new and exciting ways. Please join us.

Women’s Workshops

My workshops center on classic myths and important initiation stories for women with relevant themes of motherhood, daughterhood, separation, loss, grief and celebration of women’s rites of passage.

Past workshops have included:

• The Myth of Persephone: Honoring our Instincts
• Echo and Narcissus: In Search of the True Self
• Copper Woman and the Old Magic: Inheriting Feminine Wisdom
• The Woman Who Honored the Bones: Coping with Grief and Loss
• Ariadne and the Labyrinth Mysteries
• Snow White: Healing Mother Wounds
• First Blood Ritual/Menstruation celebration
• Embodying the Good Mother
• Dreaming with the Wise Women
• Ancient Mother – Recovering the Goddess
• Receiving the Feminine Blessing
• Finding the Inner Fire: Summer Ritual for Women
• Hearing the Call of Spirit – Following the Crone
• Honoring the Moontime, Honoring the Maiden

A Gathering of Men with Jim Larkin

When men gather with men, a space is created in which truths can be shared and revealed in new and deep ways.

In our society there are few outlets for men to explore and share, especially among peers who are going through similar life phases and transitions. We create a safe and empowering space to be supported and through reciprocity you can play a significant role by holding space for others in the group.

In our men’s group you will be supported and challenged as you reflect on who you are, where you would like to be and how you expect to get there.

We look at the many roles we play in life and discover how to more fully express ourselves as:

• Husband and lover
• Father and son
• Brother and friend

Our gatherings include:

• Drumming and singing to allow new vibrations to touch our hearts and clear our minds
• Open forum for checking in and sharing where we are right now
• Exercises to open those often hidden and misunderstood parts of ourselves.

The group is open to all men and is held on the first and third Wednesday of each month.

Couples Workshops

We currently offer the following couples workshops:

• Deepening Intimacy and Communication (lower link)

• Healing Wounds from the Past (lower link)

Sacred Relationship Workshops

Our philosophy is when two people enter into relationship, they make a sacred contract with each other to learn important life lessons. This perspective helps couples to view their partnership as a blessing that is teaching them something profound.

In the Sacred Relating Seminars we encourage couples to search for the deeper purpose of their relationship by asking:

• What life lessons am I working out with my partner?
• Why did I choose this relationship – consciously and unconsciously?
• How is this relationship transforming me?

This kind of inquiry brings tremendous clarity, helps shift blame and invites a spiritual perspective that is freeing and transforming. Please join us in this journey of discovery.

Our Personal Experience

In our experience of 30 years of marriage, we needed more than talking about our relationship to solve our problems. We needed something more powerful to break up old patterns and break through to new ways of relating.

The shift came when we began using sacred healing techniques – ritual, drumming, chanting, and guided meditation – to reach parts of us that were hidden, buried or locked. As a couple, we experienced profound shifts when we called in a sacred presence to surround and nurture our partnership and included ritual work to accelerate our healing and transformation.

We now offer these sacred healing techniques to other couples wanting to deepen intimacy together.

Our Couples Approach

In our approach to healing work with couples, we integrate traditional western therapies and various sacred healing arts. As Interfaith Ministers, we also value the spiritual wisdom from many traditions, including Jewish Kabbalah, Christianity and African and Native American spirituality.

Traditional Western Therapies:

• Family Systems Dynamics
• Jungian Psychology (understanding archetypes and the shadow)
• Personality Assessments such as MBTI® (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®) instrument, and the FIRO-B® instruments, which looks at interpersonal needs

Sacred Arts

• Ritual, Drumming, Chanting, Storytelling, Guided Meditation and Shamanic Journeying

Couples Seminar – Deepening Intimacy and Communication

This Sacred Relating seminar helps couples deepen their intimacy and communication skills through “sacred relating”. Sacred relating begins when couples learn how to create sacred space for each other, being present and playful, offering time to listen deeply, learning to speak truth with compassion and being open to the transformative power of their relationship.

An important aspect of sacred relating is getting to know and appreciate your partner’s complex and unique personality. To do this, we will participate in powerful exercises and take some well-known personality assessments, such as the MBTI® – the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® and the FIRO-B® instruments, which looks at interpersonal needs.

These tools will help couples identify how each person expresses their wants and needs, solves problems, resolves conflict and makes decisions. We will experience deepening compassion, more openness and acceptance and more space to love our partners for exactly who they are! This seminar will include a ritual to open the heart and deepen our level of trust and compassion for each other.

Couples Seminar – Healing Wounds from the Past

This Sacred Relating Seminar helps us explore what we bring to our present relationship from our past – from our family of origin. We will look at the patterns of communication and intimacy that we learned growing up, patterns that both enhance and hinder our ability to relate to our partner in the present.

Each person will create a Family Genogram, a map of their family tree going back generations, and will have an opportunity to share their family story. It is tremendously powerful to hear our partner speak of childhood experiences and to recount events that shaped their life. We gain fresh insight into our partners’ depth of character and gain deeper compassion for what they have been through.

We will spend time identifying both the blessings and curses that flow down our family line and affect the way we love, show emotion, ask for what we need and deal with problems and conflict. As we discover ways to heal wounds from the past, we are freed up to bring a deeper, truer self to our current partnership. This seminar will include a ritual to release wounds and negative patterns from our past so that we can relate more openly together.