| Hi folks,
What should our intimate relationships look like? What does Shamanism have to do with Psychotherapy? Can our grandparents' trauma pass on to us? Can meditation form an ethical base to change the world? And what did the Ancient Greeks make of it?
The answers can be found in this month's selection of Network articles - displayed in all their glory below :-) We hope you enjoy having a read through these, and checking out some of the great events that are coming up over the next couple of months too!
All the best for now
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Vibrational essences co-created with the dragons, elementals, nature and sacred sites around Ireland are all available to nurture and support you at Dances With Dragons. Aodaoin Hathaway is trained in several energywork modalities and is an accredited flower essence practitioner. She also works in harmony with the Dragon realm to co-create bespoke essences for your specific intention, using crystals, colours, and Dragon frequencies to bring the optimal essence for you into being. Distance energy healing with the Dragon Realm is also available.
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The Stormy Search for the Self: Navigating Spiritual Emergency
'To be a human being means to always in a process of becoming' - Shamanic Practitioner and psychotherapist Martin Duffy writes on the inescapable crises that we face, and how we can best prepare to overcome them. [read more] |
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Reconnecting to Soul
'There is a world within me and a voice that I have never heard or seen but which is now coming to life.' Psychotherapist Peter Devlin writes on tending to our soul, and how nature provides the perfect path. [read more] |
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Soul Empowerment Coach Training with Maria Lopez
Beginning 6th May // Dublin City
This 1 year course can help you make a new career, or can be used as an add-on for your existing one, helping others to Heal, Improve and Empower themselves, their relationships and their lives. 'SE Coaching' is a healing modality that focuses on emotional intelligence and skills, spiritual awareness and patterns, energy sensitivity and healing and life coaching with 1-1 skills.
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Mindfulness Spiritual Companioning
Mindfulness Coaching & Supervision
Spiritual Companioning creates an unhurried sacred space for you to slow down, and to support you to engage in meaningful and nourishing soul care. Mindfulness Coaching is for those who want to learn how to build a mindfulness practise that will seamlessly integrate into your real life and help you to come home to yourself in a way that connects you with the joy that is yours.Mindfulness Supervision is for anyone working with or leading teams of people. Available face to face in Tubrid ~Woodsgift, County Kilkenny, as well as online and by phone. €60 per session - for more see www.mindfulfacilitation.com
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Linking Shamanism and Psychotherapy
When we take away the language of psychotherapy - what is the process that we are left with? Psychotherapist Abby Wynne writes on the links between ancient shamanic traditions and modern psychotherapeutic techniques, and suggests they may be closer than they first appear.
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Anxiety - My Journey towards Healing and Understanding
Psychotherapist Ben Collins writes blends personal narrative and therapeutic theory in an exploration of the phenomenon of Anxiety.
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Pathway Teaching - Shamanic Practitioners Course in Galway
13th - 14th May // Oranmore, Galway
The shamanic practitioners course is a deepening way to help you to heal what is holding you back in your life, to help you to find yourself and to help you connect to nature and the spirit helpers around you more deeply. It takes place over 8 weekends and incorporates learning the tools and techniques from one of the oldest traditions on earth.
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Shaking the Family Tree: Exploring Inherited Family Trauma
A conversation with author and lecturer Mark Wolynn on trauma that passes generational divides. Marrying decades of clinical experience with the latest genetic research, Mark's approach seems to be resonating deeply with people around the world. [read more] |
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The Naked Voice: How sound can change the world
Voice pioneer Chloe Goodchild writes on the healing power of sound - and the impact that working with sound and voice can have on personal level, as well as in our families, and communities - eventually leading towards a new mode of consciousness.
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Family Constellations Ireland - Core Concepts Training
21st - 23rd April // Cork
This course has been designed for therapists and professionals who are already working with clients and are interested in exploring how a Family Constellations lens can support their work. This experiential training will take place in Mardyke House, Cork over four weekends in 2017.
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The Naked Voice - 3 day retreat with Chloe Goodchild
29th June - 2nd July // Dunderry Park
Join us for a life-changing vocal adventure into the music of the soul. This nourishing retreat in the glorious grounds of Dunderry Park, will provide a direct experience of your authentic voice, catalysed by the pioneering core vocal practices of The Naked Voice.
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Socially Engaged Mindfulness
We all know the personal benefits to be found in keeping a steady practice, how do we bring our practice of into the community? And can mindfulness inform an ethical system within which we can be in relationship with others? Mary O' Callaghan explores the idea of socially engaged mindfulness. [read more] |
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The Therapeutic Relationship
If you were given a newborn infant with all his or her amazing potential and were instructed to turn that baby into a violent teenager or a self-harmer or a drug or alcohol addict or a perfectionist or people-pleaser or paranoid ... how would you accomplish any of those developments? Dr. Tony Humphreys explores the value and structure of the therapeutic relationship... [read more] |
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Mindfully at Home in the Cosmos - 5 day retreat
21st - 26th May // Teach Bhride, Co. Carlow
Mindful Facilitation present a 5 day retreat based on the work of Thich Nhat Hanh , Thomas Berry , Judy Canato, Illia Delio, Richard Rohr, and Satish Kumar. This mostly silent experience will be facilitated through a simple routine of mindfulness, short inputs, individual time, group sharing, and ritual.
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Zen, Sex, & the Power of Transformation
Award-winning author Kevin Martin-Smith recalls his first encounter with Zen master Jun Po: "I could hardly believe my ears. Spiritual teachers are notorious for excusing sexual indiscretion through a lot of doublespeak and bypassing of responsibility." [read more] |
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Synchronicity: Opening to the possibility of Magic
Norwegian writer Theresa Stenersen on following the signs that can crop up in our lives: "I’ve learned that synchronicity takes on various forms, but the feeling it fills me up with is always more or less the same. The closest word I can find to describe it, is magical. It feels like true magic". [read more] |
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Dancing the Rainbow weekend course
6th & 7th May // Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
Dancing the Rainbow was created and designed by two Irish women, Antoinette Spillane, a yoga and voice teacher, and Lani O'Hanlon a dancer, colour therapist and writer. We encourage participants to explore different gestures and movements which they would not normally use and see what they can learn about themselves from this.
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Mindfulness in Nature weekend course
19th - 21st May // Co. Meath
Our Mindfulness in Nature Camp is set in a unique private location less that 1 hr 10 minutes from Dublin City. A truly peaceful place of unspoilt natural beauty close to ancient sites of Ireland's Ancient East. The weekend includes mindfulness meditation, forest walks, and arts and crafts. Accommodation is in African Bell Tents!
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Old Fashioned Love - on love and relationships in the 21st century
What if you are single when you 'should' be in a relationship? Or what if your relationships don't match up to other peoples? Or to what is normal? Dr. Meg-John Barker talks to us about how us about how societal expectations around relationships can have a big impact on us as individuals. [read more] |
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The Origins of Tantra
What is Tantra exactly? Dawn Cartwright, director of the Chandra Bindu Tantra Institute in California, looks at the historical and philosophical roots of Tantra - tracing it from Prehistoric times to the present day.
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Earth, Sea, and Sky Woman - with Annette Peard
26th - 28th May // Dunderry Park
Come, celebrate the body of the earth, the physical body of women, and the Goddess that lives and breathes life in each of us. This weekend workshop in the beautiful grounds of Dunderry Park features Celtic Sweatlodge, Trance Dancing, Body Art, Mandalas, and laughter.
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Dawn Cartwright - Tantra Workshops 2017
April & May // Wicklow & Sligo
Founder of the Chandra Bindu Tantra Institute in Santa Monica, California, Dawn Cartwright will host a series of workshops in Wicklow and Sligo through April and May. Dawn has workshops focused on individuals, women, and couples. See our events page for more information on each workshop.
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Mindsight: Being Present with Teenagers
Psychotherapist and group facilitator Margaret O'Connor on how a memory of berry picking has informed her work with teenagers: "the biggest gift you give to your teenager is to take care of yourself inside and out". [read more] |
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Lost Masters - Rediscovering the Ancient Greeks
"Imagine Alexander the Great searching for a Hindu guru, and leading minds of the early Roman Empire advocating vegetarianism and fighting for animal rights. Incredibly, this is no fantasy. According to ancient Greek historians, all these things actually happened" - Linda Johnsen takes a second look at ancient history.
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Grof Holotropic Breathwork - Residential Weekend in Wicklow
11th - 14th May // Mucklagh, Wicklow
Golden Spears Healing hosts an experiential weekend of Holotropic Breathwork at the beautiful retreat centre at Mucklagh in Aughavannah. There will be time for you to go deep inside and commune with that higher aspect of yourself, the Inner Healer, who knows where you have been, and where you are travelling to.
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The Hero's Journey - Residential Gestalt Workshop
1st - 7th July // Kiltegan, Co. Wicklow
How do you react when life presents you with the possibility - or even the necessity - of living in a different way? Do you welcome change or do you freeze at the prospect? Based on the work of Paul Rebillot, this workshop combines Gestalt process and groupwork with elements of theatre, ritual, music, art and movement - facilitated by a team from The Fool's Dance Gestalt Company.
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