"Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have bought it or baked it or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot,
or die a little, even."
— Daniel Berrigan

Worlds Within Worlds,
Worlds Beyond Worlds
4 Weekend Workshops In 2009

~ For Healers, Visionaries & Change Makers ~
With Dr. Sandra Phocas & Robin Rice

Moving Beyond The Threshold

So many, many healers, visionaries, and change makers today are moving beyond the current threshold of understanding that has been given to the everyday human. Intuitive understanding has increased. Other-worldly messages have been “received” by ordinary people who were not even aware they were listening. An inner stirring has grown to new levels, creating a sense of internal pressure to “expand or die.” For some, the world is crushing in, forcing change, growth, and new dimensions of understanding. For others, an expanding beauty has opened, offering unexpected ecstatic experiences that seem to have no reason or context.

Perhaps this has been happening to you. Perhaps it has been happening to those you love or work with. Perhaps you have been called to go further, but don’t know where or how, or you simply do not wish to travel alone. 

Following the extremes of what is possible, Robin Rice (author, contemporary shaman, and mentor to women leaders) and Sandra Phocas (psychiatrist, contemporary shaman, and Holotropic Breathwork™ practitioner) have personally ventured into these expanding worlds for many years while maintaining a grounded sanity. Both, at different times, have gone far beyond what would be considered “ordinary reality” for extended periods and returned to offer new insights and roadmaps. As friends and fellow travelers, they have allowed each other to “hold the kite strings” and provide solid insight and counsel as the other reached her own edges. They returned from their “dreaming” with the ability to dream while awake.

Now, in 2009, they will together offer for weekend workshops (single workshops are an option) featuring highly experiential training to help others follow these inner and outer experiences, as well as help train them to lead others. As a part of the grounded nature of the program, participants will be encouraged to vision and bring to form a tangible product or defined service to the world.

January 17, 18
The Journey Begins—Your Personal Mythology

Connect as a tribe and explore your personal mythology. Expand your concept of the self both outward and inward, learning to open to other realms, energies, and spirit beings. Increase your awareness of the different levels/layers/parts of self/body/soul/spirit. Learn the nature of self in relationship to your own personal stories and learn to move more outside of them. Work with the power of ritual. Understand and honor your own unique path. Learn ways to experience direct teachings by Spirit. Connect to past lives (you don’t have to “believe” in them) as a form of mythology and as a healing tool. Explore creating a personally chosen tribe (vs. standard family relations). Begin to break from “Mother Culture” and unhealthy and/or limiting aspects of the collective consciousness. Vision your creative expression as an authentic product or service.

May 9, 10:
The Journey Widens—Your Expanded Presence

Explore the inner and outer universes using expansive meditations. Work with Nature as teacher, focusing on wide-angle awareness. Experience expansive presence, grounding, and silence as a whole body listening tool. Explore simultaneous dimensions including oneness. Foster your deep connection to Spirit. Let go of definitions of good and bad, honoring the cycles of death and rebirth. Deepen your ability to stay present while exploring. Consider the Mystical, Artistic, and Shamanic lifestyles as a matter of calling and choice. Integrate the personal and universal in an active, living, breathing way. Make plans for your creative expression in the world. (Note: One day of this season’s retreat takes place at the ocean.)

September 12, 13:
The Journey Deepens—Living Archetypes & The Collective

Experience the multi-dimensional aspects of the natural world. Deepen your connection with innate wisdom and guidance. Explore archetypal perspectives of self and the world. Integrate the inner and outer, including “What the World Needs” and “Being with What IS.” Let go of ‘I’ identity. Being with paradox. Identify and work with the “trickster.” Understand omens (direct teaching by Spirit thru experiences). Consider true relationship/partnership within the greater individual path. Set creative tasks in motion, preparing for launch.

December 5,6:
The Journey as Joy—Living As A Multi-Dimensional Being

Move towards wholeness in the largest sense. Discover how to live multi-dimensionally in the world while manifesting your life’s work. Clarify your identity, living with an expanded awareness within daily life. Explore shapeshifting. Create space for tribe and community. Balance vertical/horizontal and rational/irrational aspects of living. Walk humbly in your own authenticity. Birth and announce your creative product or service.

Location/Hours: Annapolis, Maryland, 9 AM Saturday to 5 PM Sunday.

Costs:$329 per weekend, with a 10% discount ($1,200 total) if all four are commited to and paid in full by January 15, 2009. To use a credit card via paypal.com, please add 3% to your payment. Notes: Overnight accommodations (floor space only) on Saturday night are available free to those who are traveling more than an hour from Annapolis, MD. Workshop meals are potluck with everyone participating in planning, shopping, preparation and cleanup.

NEW! This program has been approved by the Maryland Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists for Category A CEs.

(See Dr. Phocas' Website at www.ExperienceSacredHealing.com)

To apply, write: ssatchi@earthlink.net.