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Workshops
Classes and Seminars
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Encountering
the Wisdom of Jesus:
Seeking to Live an Authentic Life
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Led
by LynneAnne Forest, Nancy Sibbald, and Patricia Calcagano
Stenger
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Saturdays and 5 Evenings:
Saturday, October 14, 2006, 9 am- 4:30 pm;
5 Monday evenings, 6-9 pm
on Oct. 16, 23 & 30; Nov. 6 & 13;
Saturday, November 18, 9 am - 4:30 pm
Cost:
$300.
(CEU credit is also available for LMFTs and/or LCSWs)
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Gandi,
Socrates, Confucius, Rumi, Jesus. We return to their teachings
again and again, because they contain some essential truth, some
wisdom that infuses our mundane activities with meaning. Something
in us recognizes the life-affirming value they hold as they invite
us to engage and be engaged
by a Reality greater than ourselves.
Though these essential truths exist, at once within and beyond
us, they remain only possibilities until we incarnate them
by living them out in the specificity of our own circumstances.
How might we encounter these teachings in such a way as to help
us, not only to live more vibrant and meaningful lives personally,
but also to respond more authentically and creatively
to the challenges of our world?
In
this six week study, we will explore the life and teachings of
one of these sources of wisdom, Jesus of Nazareth, who lives the
truth of his own life in ways radical, challenging, provocative
and risky, but also rooted in his understanding of the nature
of God. We will compare the accounts found in the Gospels of Matthew,
Mark, Luke and Thomas as a way to wrestle with our own life questions
and reach for our own truth.
The seminar approach used by the Guild leaders is based
in individual experience with no attempt to reach consensus.
Silence, art, movement, journaling, music, open-ended questions
and depth psychology will help to light the way.
LynneAnne
Forest, M.A., began her training as a seminar leader with the
Guild for Psychological Studies in 1983. She has led seminars
under their auspices at The Four Springs Retreat Center in Middletown,
California; in San Francisco; Berkeley; Claremont; Seattle and
Denver on themes grounded in the study of the life and teachings
of Jesus as found in the synoptic gospels and the gospel of Thomas,
using a method of questions and biblical scholar's tools as initially
developed by Henry Burton Sharman and Elizabeth Boyden Howes.
These seminars have included myths, poetry, wisdom from other
great thinkers, art, music, ritual and movement.
She
has traveled through the Guild auspices to Israel, Palestine,
Scotland and England. She has helped train and mentor newer Guild
leaders. A practicing, licensed psychotherapist (Jung's depth
psychology and spirituality), her most recent interests and research
are in the areas of depression as one of the faces of Soul; the
power and value of dreams, journaling, poetry and singing; and
how we might live with difficult changes in this world and in
our personal lives..
She
also sings with Kate Munger's Threshold Choir which consists of
women who sing at the bedsides of the very ill and dying. She
writes poetry and took Lynn Trombetta's poetry writing workshop
at the Angela Center earlier this year.
Nancy
Stone Sibbald, has been associated with the Guild for Psychological
Studies for over 25 years. She has led seminars in Sonoma County,
in Seattle and at Four Springs. She has served as Board President
for the Guild, and is currently the Coordinator for Guild Seminars
held outside the Bay Area. She recently joined the Board of Directors
of Four Springs, and is now serving as Secretary of that Board.
Her passions lie in connections, resolution and reconciliation.
About
herself she says. "I am able to claim almost every role held
by a female: Wife, Mother, Daughter, Stepdaughter, Grandmother,
Great Grandmother, Godmother, Sister (full, half and step!), Sister-in-law,
Mother-in law, Aunt, and Girlfriend." She adds, "Offering
this seminar at Angela Center is a dream come true for me. One
of the first connections I made after moving to Santa Rosa in
1983 was with the sacred precinct, Angela Center."
Patricia
Calcagno Stenger has been an active participant in the seminars
of the Guild for Psychological Studies for over 23 years and a
Guild leader of seminars for 15 years. She was the northern California
coordinator and lecturer for Professional Advancement Success
Systems and has taught at Sonoma State University. Working with
a Jungian orientation she is a practicing psychotherapist in Santa
Rosa, and San Francisco, California.
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