Personal Growth
Exploring Homeschooling
Whether you are just starting to homeschool your children or are just considering this option, this workshop will cover the basics and answer your specific questions about the homeschooling scene in Minnesota. We will discuss the statutory requirements, your options within those requirements, and the broad range of resources and educational philosophies that make up the homeschooling community. Bring your questions and get some answers!
Mind-Body Meditation
Thursdays 6-7pm
558 Vandalia St., Studio 203, Saint Paul
Being calm in daily life can often be the difference between performing well and performing poorly. Meditation teaches us to calm our mind, even in the face of adversity and challenges. In this class, we will learn and practice a variety of meditations. Practiced regularly, these meditations help us to cultivate oneness of mind and body and true calmness in daily life.
Location
Create Your Juicy Life
This workshop is a series of 7 Action Guides that will allow you to create an absolutely delicious life.
It is based on Jeff's upcoming book, Create Your Juicy Life.
You will not only be provided the tools to create and design your life - but you will also be given the nudge needed to take ACTION to achieve the success you want in life.
Aura Strengthening and Psychic Self-defense
This workshop is designed especially for those who work in the helping fields, such as counselors, nurses, massage therapists and others, including anyone who seeks to feel more comfortable with a stronger, more resilient and less porous energy field.
We will discuss and practice time-tested ways of managing and strengthening our energy field through intention and visualization, as well as learn some practical tips to assist us in becoming more comfortable in our home, work, and personal space.
Dress comfortably and come see if what we offer can help you feel more buoyant.
Jovenes Adolescentes
La clase para las Jovenes Adolescentes es enfocada a la autoestima, al desarrollo emocional, fisico y hasta espiritual de una joven. Se enfoca en trabajar en metas.
Location
Experiment in Collaborative Creativity.
The activities in our group will be experiential. We will begin with a few warm up exercises to get acquainted and hopefully get in the flow of creative collaboration. The group includes some personal sharing and reflective writing. The main activity will be choosing a subject to explore, sharing personal stories related to the subject, then creating a piece of work that represents parts of each members story. The form of the work is open to our imagination. The structure of the group evolves as needed and as the collaborative process moves forward. Decisions are reached by consensus. What comes out of the collaboration will be ??????.
A few of the questions and explorations inherent in the activities are how to balance individual needs with the needs of the group/community; how to value and integrate differences and keep conflict stimulating, creative, and productive; when boundaries inhibit integrative processes and when they promote integration; what mix of flexibility and holding the line leads to "successful" co creating,etc.
Throughout the experiment members are encouraged to evaluate the process on both personal and social levels for discussion when the activities conclude. The nature of the class/group experiment requires regular attendance for the full 8 weeks in order to build on the previous exercises and experiences.
Requirements: Curiousity, a willingness to share personal information related to the chosen subject matter, open to exploring in a non linear fashion, and respectful interaction, and regular attendance to derive the full benefit of the collaboration, especially in the earlier weeks of the experient.
Location
Understanding your Personality by combining Myers-Briggs Type Indiator with Eight Archetypes
We will apply the Myers-Briggs Type Incator [MBTI] (will be administered in first class) with eight archetypes that influence our personality. MBTI is a personality inventory to make the theory of psychological types described by C. G. Jung understandable and useful. It answers four questions:
How do you direct your energy and attention?
How do you prefer to take in information?
How do you prefer to make decisions?
How do you orient to the outer world?
We will be examing these archetypes:
Conscious Archetypes
First - Hero or Heroine - Powerful, effortless energy
Second - Good Parent - Protective, nurturing
Third - Puer/Puella - Playful and passionate
Fourth - Anima/Animus - Inferiority complex and idealization complex
Unconscious Archetypes
Fifth - Opposing Personality - Resistance and denial
Sixth - Witch/Senex - Internal and external critic
Seventh - Trickster - Deceptive saboteur
Eighth - Demon/Daemon - Source of despair and hope
Location
Oneness Experiential
Let's explore the experience mind-body oneness! Our cultural conditioning
has created well-traveled pathways (i.e. habits) in our consciousness that
reflect a separation of "mind" from "body". Thus many of us have cultivated a
practice of treating our thinking mind and its habitual synaptic firings as
"self", while objectifying the body/physical experience. In other words,
thoughts/beliefs/opinions/memories are "me" and this thing that they live in
is "my body". (ever tried to "fix" yer body so it feels/appears a certain
way? or tried to "overcome" emotions? or heard yourself say something you
didn't mean?) There are countless ways we reinforce the habits of separation
in our day to day lives; however, there is plenty of space for building new
pathways.
The air we inhale is the exhale of plantlife; the air we exhale is its
inhale. The water we take in and release in this community is the Mississippi
River before and again after it quenches our thirst. The food we ingest grew
from the interactive regeneration of the earthbody: the sunlight and rain,
the decayed bones of our ancestors and the compost of our waste. Our presence
in life is part of a constant interdependent flow of natural living
wholeness. There is deep wisdom in the living body and there is vast
possibility available in allowing the mind to be present in this oneness.
Location
Improve your health and well being with Breathwork.
This class will include discovery and implementation of ways that will help you to uncover and get rid of old patterns of emotional and physical trauma.
Emotional and physical trauma do not completely disappear when an event is finished. How we remember (or think about) these traumas determines the reality that we create. The body "remembers" these traumas at a cellular level and if similar traumas arise our nervous system already has a "built in" reaction called a neural pathway. This is why we have what some call an "automatic reaction".
We will explore the use of techniques that can help us to change these automatic reactions and gain..................
Location
stepping across the gaps- [Being in] Becoming culturally competent in the human services field
This course seeks to continue the dialogue and action steps for human
services workers working across lines of race, class, sexuality, politics and
religion to discern a shared set of values and ethics to inform a culturally
competent practice. It is assumed that we will not ever arrive at competence
but continually strive towards it evaluating our practice in context of the
people and families we work with (our clients), our colleagues and our higher
ideals. Special attention will be paid to the NASW Code of Ethics as well as
other Codes of Ethics (NACSW for instance). Of special interest is whether
(and how) we as human service workers (or foster parents!) in the social,
youth and family work fields are able to harmonize our different ethical, and
religious standards to overcome institutional and personal oppression along
lines of racial, class, sexual, political and religious difference.
Location
The Richest Man in Babylon: A Study in Personal Finance
We will be exploring basic tenants of financial self-sufficiency. The Richest Man in Babylon was originally a series of pamphlets distributed by banks to warn customers of investing in risky stocks prior to the crash of the stock market on Black Thursday in 1929. The lessons outlined in the book are timeless and are told in entertaining parables. We will explore and discuss these lessons and relate them to how we can set up our own savings plan in the similar market situation we have found ourselves in. This is an introduction to personal finance and is designed for students who are looking to balance their saving vs. spending budgets. Students are expected to read the text and minimal take home work will be involved.
Location
You are a Healer!
You are a Healer! is an intro course to the basics of healing and intuitive development. This 6 week class introduces the student to hands on healing and the process of opening up intuitively. Whether you are curious about metaphysical concepts or would like to learn how to work with your own intuitive gifts to facillitate healing, this class is for you! We will learn to connect with our Higher selves, how to "tune in" to our intuition, and release any blocks that may be stopping us from hearing our inner voice. We will also cover energy, chakras, auras, angels, Spirit Guides, disincarnate entities (ghosts), orbs, shielding, psychic tools such as the Tarot and runes, automatic writing, healing with crystals and more! Each class will include an in class healing session and/or meditation.
Location
Women's Circles - Every Woman's Voice Makes A Difference
In the circle, each woman has the opportunity to speak. We allow ourselves to be seen, heard and validated, and in turn we see, hear and validate the women around us. We begin to reclaim and harvest our wisdom and allow each other's wisdom to penetrate our hearts. Together, we strengthen our voices and are empowered to shine. Come experience the Awesome Women circle process, and be nourished, nurtured and inspired. ---------------------------------------------------------- Pam Nelson, CMIC, is a transformational life/wellness coach, and a trained Awesome Women Circle facilitator. She has co-facilitated the Body Wisdom & Vital Energy workshops through EXCO for six terms now, where she has led a modified circle process several times and it was enthusiastically received! She is committed to empowering others to reconnect with their innate inner guidance and to reclaim their voice and the gifts of their whole life's experience.
Location
Becoming More Authentic: The Positive Side of Existentialism
E-mail: PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU
Phone: 612-871-7275
BECOMING MORE AUTHENTIC:
THE POSITIVE SIDE OF EXISTENTIALISM
Do you want to make your life more:
autonomous, focused, organized, and meaningful?
Using a small book of the same name,
we will first define Authenticity, take an Authenticity Test,
consider several possible Authentic projects-of-being,
and finally explore Authenticity as described by
Camus, Sartre, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and Maslow.
If you would like to read a three-page presentation
of the basic concept of Authenticity, go to:
Becoming More Authentic:
The Positive Side of Existentialism.
Another way to describe Authenticity
is to ask where we are on any of
23 growth scales.
If you click the link above,
you will see a phrase describing where we all begin
and a contrasting phrase describing
the destination toward which we move
if we are becoming more Authentic.
For example, here is the fourth growth scale:
In original existence,
we 'pursue' culturally-provided meanings and goals.
Whereas as we become more Authentic,
we create our own meanings and goals.
Existentialism affirms our personal freedom
to re-create our selves:
What is the new purpose of my life?
The instructor is James Park,
existential philosopher and author of the text,
which will be available in class for $15.
(But see cheaper options for buying the book.)
A comprehensive course description appears here:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/D-AU.html.
Class Time:
four meetings, two hours each,
to be arranged to suit the largest number of interested persons.
Class Dates:
Location
