Circles are an ancient yet also new approach; simple yet profound. Circles offers a space for introspection and sharing, to give and receive support, and to engage in productive conversations to create positive change. By empowering people to reach across differences, conflict can be transformed and relationships are built.

The focus of the workshop will be on Circle processes and facilitation for dialogue and community building. Like the nature of Circles, this workshop will be structured, yet flexible to meet the needs of the group.

You will learn and apply the fundamentals of Circles process, including:

• Types & uses of Circles
• Circle structures & core elements
• Circle processes & stages
• Circle facilitation (learn to be a keeper of the Circle)

If you would like to gain an understanding of Circle process and to begin to develop skills for using Circles in your personal or professional life, then this workshop is for you! Come step into another possibility…

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Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012
9 am – 5 pm
Facilitator: Evelyn Zellerer, Ph.D.
Cost: $125 + HST

Evelyn is a facilitator and trainer. She has been a peacemaker her whole life. Over the past 15 years, Evelyn has worked with a wide variety of groups in many countries, including arts collective, boards of directors, social housing residents, insurance company, government agencies, and maximum security prison. For more information, visit www.peaceofthecircle.com

For more information about workshop content or to speak with the facilitator, contact Evelyn Zellerer at evelyn@peaceofthecircle.com

You will learn to:

• build a strong connection to yoga as a form of moving meditation
• awaken and connect to your subtle, energetic body
• learn ways to practice yoga on and off the mat

This workshop is suitable for all-levels

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Saturday February 4th
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Kushala Yoga at Suter Brook
$45 + HST

about Joni

Joni Neha Leung, 200-hr & 300-hr RYT approaches life and yoga to learn how to be happy, healthy and whole. Over the past 10 years, she has studied Tibetan Heart, Hatha + Classical Ashtanga yoga systems. Her classes often integrate a dynamic blend of these traditions with special attention to breath control, body alignment and subtle inner awareness.

Learn what goes wrong in love—and how to put it right! In this groundbreaking relationship series you will learn how to:

• Renew and strengthen your relationship
• Create lasting trust and intimacy
• Make sense of your own and your partner’s emotions
• Break the cycles of frustration and loneliness in your relationship
• Forgive injuries that destroy trust and safety
• Problem solve and break the argument cycle

Schedule, Pricing and Format

Dates and Times:
Friday February 17th from 7:30 – 9:30pm
Saturday February 18th from 9 – 5pm
Friday March 2nd from 7:30 – 9:30pm
Saturday March 3rd from 9 – 5pm

Location: Kushala Yoga at Suter Brook
Cost: $399 + HST*
Format: Lecture, video presentation, and couples exercises.

*This course is regularly offered at $595 per couple so you receive a savings of $196.

About the Facilitators

Kim White (M.A.) is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) who is trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, the #1 model for couple’s therapy in North America. As a conflict mediator (Cert. Con Res) and coach (PCC), Kim combines her practical skills with warmth, deep listening, and gentle enquiry.


Peter Clark, MSc (Neuroscience) MA (Conflict Management) is a knowledgeable practitioner who brings empathy and relationship wisdom in assisting people to improve their interpersonal and organizational relationships through effective communication and conflict resolution skills. 

Interested in learning more? Contact Peter at peter@pacificcollaborative.com

Come join Todd Caldecott, author of the new book Food As Medicine: The Theory and Practice of Food, on an exploration of food, what it is and how it impacts your health. Using the framework of Ayurveda, learn how to develop a healthy diet for your unique needs, how to eat strategically for the different seasons, and what herbs and foods can be incorporated into your diet to treat common health issues. In this workshop you will learn about the basic elements of food preparation, cookware, detoxification, and therapeutic diets.

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February 25th (Saturday)
1pm – 4pm
Kushala Yoga at Suter Brook
$10 + HST

Todd Caldecott
Medical Herbalist
Practioner of Ayurveda
Registered Profession Member, American Herbalists Guild, RH (AHG)
Author of Ayurveda: The Divine Science of Life
Editor of Ayurveda in Nepal
www.foodasmedicine.ca
www.toddcaldecott.com

Money today is the very antithesis of the sacred. The modern money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme – but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being.

Tapping into a rich lineage of conventional and unconventional economic thought, Charles Eisenstein presents a vision that is original yet commonsense, radical yet gentle, and increasingly relevant as the crises of our civilization deepen.

In this talk, Charles Eisenstein will explain the forces driving the collapse of our current system, and lay out a vision of a new kind of money system that will replace it. Explore avant-garde concepts including negative-interest currencies, local currencies, resource-based economics, gift economies, and the restoration of the commons. Explore of way of living in accordance to your ideals in a world seemingly ruled by money. It is a vision already emerging today as institutions and individuals step deeper into transition.

This will be a mind-opening glimpse of solutions and new ideas for the future of money and economics – and how we can contribute to it and be part of the positive change.

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Thursday January 12th, 2012
7:30pm – 9pm
Kushala Yoga at Suter Brook

Following the talk, participants may make a donation based on their sense of gratitude, propriety and value.

“I consider Charles Eisenstein one of the up-and-coming great minds of our time. Rarely have I met a person who combines such philosophical and spiritual depth with such practical insights into the cultural and institutional origins of the potential terminal dysfunctions of modern society, and the potential solutions.”
~ David Korten, Author of The Great Turning

about Charles Eisenstein

Charles Eisenstein is a teacher, speaker, and writer focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution. Eisenstein graduated from Yale University in 1989 with a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy, and spent the next ten years as a Chinese-English translator. He currently lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and serves on the faculty of Goddard College.

Visit Charles Eisenstein‘s website.

Video Featuring Charles Eisenstein “The Revolution is Love”

books

Interested to read more before the event? Charles’ books are available online and will also be for sale at the event.

Sacred Economics

“This brilliant and beautifully written book is an indispensable must-read for all those who believe our economic system is terminally sick and in need of radical, sacred rehaul. Charles Eisenstein has the great gift of being able to make complex ideas both thrilling and inspiring. I hope this book begins a serious, worldwide conversation on how we can reinvent our attitude to money.”
~ Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism

“With his breadth of knowledge, enthusiasm, commitment, diligence, and sensitivity, Charles has become a beacon of hope for others. Your heart and mind will be opened by this treasure of a book that shines with wisdom of crucial importance to our troubled world today.”
~ Kamran Mofid, founder of the Globalisation for the Common Good Initiative

The Ascent of Humanity

“Brilliant and original, with great depth of insight and understanding, Eisenstein’s Ascent of Humanity easily ranks with the works of such giants of our age as David Bohm, Julian Jaynes, Jean Gebser, Whitehead. It is a profoundly serious, indeed somber portrait of our times, even as it opens a door of honest hope amidst the dark destiny we have woven about us. Accept the challenge of this major accomplishment and discover the light shining within it.”
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, Evolution’s End, and The Biology of Transcendence

“Quite marvelous, a hugely important work… This book is truly needed in this time of deepening crisis.”
~ John Zerzan, author of Future Primitive and Elements of Refusal