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Enneagram Instincts Workshop - June 1st, 2019
What better way to kick off your summer than with a deeper sense of self awareness!? Have you been wondering what the heck Enneagram Subtypes are? What about the Instincts? Are they the same or different? And how does this apply to me, my life, and my path of growth? You're in luck, because we are going to take a deep dive into the Enneagram Instincts in a fun, intimate and interactive workshop on June 1st, 1-4:30pm! Spots are limited to 12 participants, so RSVP soon to save yourself a spot!
The Instincts are the three primal drives inherent in all of us that drive our programming. Self preservation, social, and sexual instincts are found in all animals, including humans, and they are the building blocks of our survival and our personality. (Yes, this is related to subtypes!) We’ll take a deep dive into how these drives are showing up in your habits and life decisions, which Instinct is dominant (compulsive) for you, and which one is in your “blindspot” (neglected). Understanding the beauty and power of all three instincts and balancing their energies in your life will lead to greater self knowledge, self respect, Presence and grounding, minimization of conflicts with others, effectiveness and capacity to become the person you have always wanted to be.
This workshop is for beginners and experienced Enneagram practitioners alike. You need not know your Enneagram type to attend. Understanding the Instincts lays a foundation for understanding the Enneagram typing system and helps avoid mistyping. Cost is a sliding scale between $30-$50. Pay chosen amount to "Chelsea Forbrook" on either Venmo or PayPal to reserve your spot (or if you'd rather pay cash/check, just email me, and I'll get you on the list!)
***Sorry, this workshop is full***Stay tuned for future opportunities!***
Connecting with the Divine Feminine- June 15th, 2019
This will be the first in a "Summer Institute" series through Sacred Ground Center for Spirituality, and is open to all genders.
Through the day-long Divine Feminine Institute, participants will:
- gain a historical understanding of the lost identity of the Divine Feminine within Judeo-Christian tradition
- experience different spiritual practices that will facilitate getting in touch with the Divine Feminine in our hearts, bodies, and world through journaling, art, movement, music, meditation, and prayer
- begin to name and reclaim the holiness of the feminine within each of us, facilitating a path to balance and healing
- explore our own stories and how the Holy Spirit Mother has been and is calling us to further wholeness
This workshop is scheduled from 9 am to 3 pm with a break for lunch. The programs will take place on the St. Catherine University campus with free parking. Enrollment is $120 for each workshop. Tuition discounts are available.
For more information or to register, contact Sacred Ground Executive Director Will Hegeman – will@sacredgroundspirit.org
Explanation of the Divine Feminine topic and why I feel it is an urgent teaching:
Growing up being very involved in the life and teachings of the modern western church, I was exposed to the love of God, and to a select few spiritual practices. While grateful for this introduction, the repetitive and insistent use of male and masculine language for God led me to internalize a sense of inferiority and even self hatred. If God is male, then I, as a woman, could not be created in God's image. I later saw how this emphasis on the sacredness of "masculine" qualities was also severely limiting and damaging to men as well, who felt a need to hide and repress the more nurturing, emotional, compassionate, and caregiving parts of themselves. Eliminating feminine attributes and energies from descriptions and names for God has been hugely damaging to me, my friends, those I accompany through spiritual direction, and to society as a whole. When femininity is not sacred, its exploitation, neglect, and abuse are easily justified. Men become holy and whole; women become dirty, sinful, second-class creatures. Patriarchy is painted as the natural order of things.
I discovered the Good News of the Holy Spirit Mother in my college theological studies, and something lit up in me. It turns out that the early Christian communities all understood the Holy Spirit to be female, and this was also the language that Jesus himself used. The lost/gnostic gospels that were not cannonized were also very clear about this. It also it turns out that the Hebrew language had several feminine names for God, and the Old Testament is full of feminine imagery (God's breasts & womb, birthing of creation, etc). Learning this felt like cool water on parched land. It also felt very familiar, more like a remembering that a discovery.
A couple years ago, I acknowledged that some of the most spiritually moving times in my life have been while singing, and singing hymns in particular. But I also noticed an aversion to these beautiful songs since their masculine language for God was triggering to me. I undertook to re-write these beloved hymns using all feminine language for God, and singing these new versions makes them not only approachable, but a healing and inclusive balm that allows to me feel, in an embodied way, that I am a reflection of the Divine, and that I was created good. I want to pass on this inclusive and healing balm of the Holy Spirit Mother's love to all people; women, men, and people with non-binary gender alike. There is medicine in Her love for all of us.
Through the day-long Divine Feminine Institute, participants will:
- gain a historical understanding of the lost identity of the Divine Feminine within Judeo-Christian tradition
- experience different spiritual practices that will facilitate getting in touch with the Divine Feminine in our hearts, bodies, and world through journaling, art, movement, music, meditation, and prayer
- begin to name and reclaim the holiness of the feminine within each of us, facilitating a path to balance and healing
- explore our own stories and how the Holy Spirit Mother has been and is calling us to further wholeness
This workshop is scheduled from 9 am to 3 pm with a break for lunch. The programs will take place on the St. Catherine University campus with free parking. Enrollment is $120 for each workshop. Tuition discounts are available.
For more information or to register, contact Sacred Ground Executive Director Will Hegeman – will@sacredgroundspirit.org
Explanation of the Divine Feminine topic and why I feel it is an urgent teaching:
Growing up being very involved in the life and teachings of the modern western church, I was exposed to the love of God, and to a select few spiritual practices. While grateful for this introduction, the repetitive and insistent use of male and masculine language for God led me to internalize a sense of inferiority and even self hatred. If God is male, then I, as a woman, could not be created in God's image. I later saw how this emphasis on the sacredness of "masculine" qualities was also severely limiting and damaging to men as well, who felt a need to hide and repress the more nurturing, emotional, compassionate, and caregiving parts of themselves. Eliminating feminine attributes and energies from descriptions and names for God has been hugely damaging to me, my friends, those I accompany through spiritual direction, and to society as a whole. When femininity is not sacred, its exploitation, neglect, and abuse are easily justified. Men become holy and whole; women become dirty, sinful, second-class creatures. Patriarchy is painted as the natural order of things.
I discovered the Good News of the Holy Spirit Mother in my college theological studies, and something lit up in me. It turns out that the early Christian communities all understood the Holy Spirit to be female, and this was also the language that Jesus himself used. The lost/gnostic gospels that were not cannonized were also very clear about this. It also it turns out that the Hebrew language had several feminine names for God, and the Old Testament is full of feminine imagery (God's breasts & womb, birthing of creation, etc). Learning this felt like cool water on parched land. It also felt very familiar, more like a remembering that a discovery.
A couple years ago, I acknowledged that some of the most spiritually moving times in my life have been while singing, and singing hymns in particular. But I also noticed an aversion to these beautiful songs since their masculine language for God was triggering to me. I undertook to re-write these beloved hymns using all feminine language for God, and singing these new versions makes them not only approachable, but a healing and inclusive balm that allows to me feel, in an embodied way, that I am a reflection of the Divine, and that I was created good. I want to pass on this inclusive and healing balm of the Holy Spirit Mother's love to all people; women, men, and people with non-binary gender alike. There is medicine in Her love for all of us.
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Encouraging and holding space for the opening of hearts, minds, bodies, and souls to healing and wholeness,
that we might move toward Peace.
Encouraging and holding space for the opening of hearts, minds, bodies, and souls to healing and wholeness,
that we might move toward Peace.
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