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Judith Tripp
May 24th, 2009
Meeting Mary
In this workshop, we will explore how Mary has been honored and worshiped in Chartres throughout history. We will meet her spirit through lecture, meditation, art, music and ritual. In the sacred circle, we will share our insights, creations and stories. Our day will conclude in the Cathedral with the Vespers service.
Judith Tripp, MA, MFT is a transpersonal psychotherapist, musician, leader of the Women's Dream Quest, certified labyrinth facilitator and Coordinator for the School of the Sacred Feminine, a new set of programs from Veriditas. She has created the CDs Homage, Meditative flute music from Celtic Sacred Sites and Return Again, Songs from the Women's Dream Quest. In 2004, she spent two and a half months in Chartres in communion with Mary and creating Poems from a Spring in Chartres.
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Jeremy Taylor
Walking a Sacred Path, Cycle One
May 25th - 30th
Dreaming on the Sacred Path - Walking the Interior Labyrinth
All dreams, even the worst nightmares, come in the service of health and wholeness and speak a universal language of archetypal symbols and images. Projecting on these nightly experiences, using the "if it were my dream..." form, can help us on our way to greater spiritual depth and conscious understanding.
Dr. Jeremy Taylor, a Unitarian Universalist minister, has worked with dreams for over 35 years. He blends the values of spirituality with an active social conscience and a Jungian perspective.
In the late 60's, while doing community organizing in Oakland, CA, and in the early 70's, as Director of Marin County (CA) Headstart, he discovered that dreams were a tool for both personal and social change. Since then Jeremy has taught thousands how to work with their dreams in groups and individually. He teaches at several seminaries of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA, and many colleges and universities in the area. He has led workshops in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Peru, China and Korea, where he teaches lay and clergy how to work with their dreams.
In the early 80's he was one of four founders of the Association for the Study of Dreams and served as its president 1994-95. He is the author of three books on dreams which explore dream group process, symbolism, mythology, and Jungian archetypes: : Dream Work (1983); Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill (1992); and The Living Labyrinth: Exploring Archetypal Images in Myths, Dreams and the Symbolism of Waking Life (1998). All have been translated into several languages.
Jeremy has worked with students, faculty, doctors, nurses, teachers, prisoners, business people, artists, religious and lay people, adults, and children all over the world, and has found we all speak the same language in our dreams. He continues to be utterly fascinated by the way we integrate ourselves through our nighttime dreams
He has a D. Min. (Doctor of Ministry), M.A. (in American Studies) and B.A. (in Sociology). He was ordained as a Unitarian Minister in 1980 (by the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarians). Starr King School for the Ministry gave him an honorary STD (Doctor of Sacred Theology) in 1999 in recognition of his lay ministry with dreams.
He's on the Advisory Board of the Atlanta Jung Society (Atlanta, GA), director of the Institute for Archetypal Studies and Projective Dream Work at Wisdom University (in San Francisco); founder and director of the Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work; associate director of the Chaplaincy Institute for Interfaith Ministry, director of their Dream Work Certification Program and professor of Archetypal Studies
Click here to visit Jeremy Taylor's website.
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Lauren Artress
Facilitator Training
May 30th - June 1st
Facilitating the Labyrinth is a Spiritual Path
The goal of Veriditas Facilitator Training is to prepare people to introduce others to the labyrinth in an articulate, professional and effective way. The training addresses both meditative walking and ceremonial use. It is focused primarily on the Eleven Circuit Medieval Labyrinth but is inclusive of all forms.
Walking the labyrinth is being embraced as a spiritual practice throughout the Western world mostly because of Veriditas trained facilitators. The Veriditas Facilitator Training - which began in 1997 - remains the most rigorous and comprehensive training offered. Some people take this two-day course to deepen their knowledge of labyrinths. Others take it with the goal of becoming a Veriditas Certified Labyrinth Facilitator.
For more information and the application form, click here.
Walking a Sacred Path, Cycle Two
June 1 - 6, 2009
Approaching Mystery in the Flesh: What the Body Knows about God
Those who seek deeper knowledge of God (or simply deeper lives) often consult a variety of sources--sacred texts, wise teachers, historical traditions, communities of faith--without ever asking how they know what they know about God. This seminar will focus on that question in detail, within a six-day program designed to quicken the Spirit in our lives. Special attention will be given to embodied practices of faith, such as walking the labyrinth, that invite seekers to approach divine mystery in the flesh.
Alan Jones has been the Dean of Grace Cathedral (Episcopal) in San Francisco since 1985. Previously, he served as the Stephen F. Bayne Professor of Ascetical Theology at the General Theological Seminary in New York City from 1972 - 1982. Jones is an inspiring preacher and speaker who draws liberally from poetic and literary sources in his imaginative presentations. He is a prominent lecturer in Episcopal and academic circles both nationally and internationally. He is a prolific writer as well of books, articles, and editorial opinions.
| Click here to visit the Grace Cathedral, San Francisco website where Alan Jones is Dean Emeritus |
Barbara Brown Taylor has been an Episcopal priest since 1984. She now teaches religion at Piedmont College in rural northeast Georgia, where she holds the Harry R. Butman Chair in Religion and Philosophy. She also serves as adjunct professor of Christian spirituality at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. Before becoming a full time teacher, Taylor spent fifteen years in parish ministry. She has lectured on preaching at Yale, Princeton and Duke Universities, and has preached at churches across the country.
| Click here to visit Barbara Brown Taylor's website |
Registration Rates :
- $ $1,399 Cycle One: Jeremy Taylor, Dreaming on the Sacred Path
- $ 600. Facilitator Training (Application required)
- $ 1,449 Cycle Two: Alan Jones and Barbara Brown Taylor, Approaching Mystery in the Flesh: What the Body Knows about God
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