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Day Seminars:
JOYFUL TRANSITIONS: Bringing Death and Grief Back to Life
One could say that the entire world today is "on hospice." We are all being called to die to the old so as to make space for the new! This seminar will help you discover new ways to let go and grieve and forgive the past so that you can move into the joy and sweet harmony that is awaiting you, now. Learn some of the all too well-kept secrets of hospice and liberate your spirituality to a new level.
We will explore how to weave life and death back together again in a culture that has "pathologized" and separated death from life. We will look at ways that death can teach us about life, and how we can remain open to learning from death and grief in our lives. Simple techniques for relaxation and healing will be taught that can assist people who are moving through any kind of transition and stress. These are techniques that can also be used for healthy self-care.
Some questions to ponder:
1) What or who do I need to grieve and "let go of" in my life at this time?
2) Who do I need to forgive in my life -- to help me live more fully in the moment?
3) What are some ways that could help me relax and bring more JOY into my life right now?
Pieces to be covered during the seminar:
* The transforming power of grief
* Forgiveness (letting go) piece
* Healing/relaxation tools, including possibly a DVD on healing dreams and symbolism (from one musician's long process with cancer)
Please be in touch with Maria if you or your organization are interested in hosting a day seminar. We would need to have at least 10 people to work with.
Testimonial:
Maria's coming to Sedona, AZ and going ahead with her Day Seminar with flexibility, depth of resources and permission for me "to take care of myself" was most helpful. I am thankfull for her redirecting me to put the energy of "my fear of dying" to positive work. I meditatively visualize the re-generating of my Heart, Liver, & Brain cells and borrow from Maria's name Dancing Heart.
--Bus the Awakening Heart, survivor of 10 heart attacks
Your workshop was an excellent combination of all things we should be aware to change our lives and destiny. I loved the film you showed and the meditation was wonderful. Most of all was the sharing among us on stories and feelings. It wasn't just another death and dying seminar. It was a death and living one. Thank you. I now look at the death of my mother in a new way.
-- Kathleen Nelson, RN BHS
Most wonderful workshop... Forgiveness Meditation was the deepest and most profound because my children who rarely call, called me within a half an hour of each other right after the seminar. It was an amazing event! Learned some wonderful tools like the "silent witness" method to use with people whose animal friends have passed on. Love the book -- it's a wealth of helpful resources and stories. You've clearly done your research!
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Ann, pet care provider
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Presentations
November 8th, Sunday, 2 - 4 PM, Making Friends with the Last Adventure of Life
Soul Food Books 15748 Redmond Way, Redmond
For more info., call (425) 881-5309
December 16th, Wednesday, 10 - 12 (noon), JOYFUL TRANSITIONS: Bringing Wholeness and Relaxation Into One’s Life
Group Health Senior Caucus Presentation
Central Campus, Main Bldg., 6th Fl. Doctors' Lounge, 201 16th Ave., Seattle
Chair: Ben Eide -- (206) 306-2451
January 26th, Tuesday, 7 - 8:30 PM,
When the Going Gets Stressful, RELAX! Simple Self-Care, Relaxation, & Healing Ideas for Our Times
Topic: We are living through changing times. RELAXATION is the key to this stress/fear. If we can relax enough, we can get through any change!. Maria Dancing Heart will share some simple relaxation and healing techniques to help you cope. Among others, these will include: breathing methods, fingerholds, and some simple brain-gym techniques that you can do in a few minutes to reprogram your subconscious mind and bring miracles into your life. Maria will also introduce the Heart Wall Healings that she's now offering. (FREE event.)
A Gathering Grove, 2820 Oakes St. Ste.C; Everett, WA; 425-512-8845.
February 13th, Saturday, 9 - 9:45 AM, Book Presentation
Joyful Transitions: Bringing Relaxation and Wholeness into Life's Changes"
Part of all-day event - 9AM - 5PM: Search for Meaning: Pacific Northwest Spirituality Book Festival
PIGOTT BUILDING | SEATTLE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS: FREE and Open to the Public
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Workshops:
Making Friends with the Last Adventure of Life
It has been said that if all the women of the world could cry at once, the world could have peace in an instant! If everyone who needs to cry could cry, we could create more peace-full communities. Come and join us for an exploration of the power of grief and death ("letting go" of all kinds) in our lives. Maria Dancing Heart, author of The Last Adventure of Life, will lead us through an exploration of how to help ourselves and others better express the unshed tears and "pent up" losses in our lives. Together, we will renew our spirits as we share our stories and healing tools around the "final transition" and the grief & letting go process. A powerful process of transformation is now marking our entire world. We will create an interactive time to move deeper into issues around transformation, grief, and death.
"The Last Adventure of Life: Bringing Death Back to Life"
March 18, 2010, Dinner Program at the Center for Education, Stanford Hospital & Clinics
Standford, CA -- Contact: Suzanne Taylor (650) 725-0249
In this engaging seminar, you will hear inspirational stories, anecdotes, and gleanings from a spiritual and bereavement counselor's many years of experience with hospice. In these times when it feels like we're moving through major transitions of one kind or another, we can learn a great deal from what death teaches us. We will reflect together on how we might better prepare for death as we explore different cultures and traditions and how they approach death and grief as well.
In this course you will also learn some simple "tricks" for relaxation and healing from some of the many and varied complementary and integrative modalities. If you can relax enough, you can maneuver through any change, even the biggest change of your life!
"Finding the Light in the Darkness of Grief: A Journey of Forgiveness, Releasing, Letting Go, and Moving On"
Aug. 9th (Sun.), 2 - 5PM, Richmond Beach Cong. Church, UCC, 1512 NW 195th St., Shoreline, WA (206) 542-7477
Aug. 10th (Mon.), 7- 10PM, Lynnwood Unity Church, 16727 Alderwood Mall Pkwy. (425) 741-7172
This workshop is a book sharing and grief workshop using the Mandala practice of letting go with commuity -- finding light in the darkness.
Maria Dancing Heart and Dr. Jane Hendrickson will together help you explore death as a way of celebrating freedom and realizing that you are an immortal Soul. Experiencing grief and sorrow/loss is a natural process of community using the Mandala Process for healing. For more about Jane's work, see: www.MandalaInnerLight.com.
Cost: Material Fee -- $10.00; Suggested Donation: $30.00
CEUs Now Available
1 CEU is awarded for each 10 hours of workshop time.
Bridge to Dreams, in partnership with The Heritage Institute (THI) awards continuing education units (CEUs) to professionals required to maintain their professional licenses. THI, PO Box 860, Clinton WA 98236, has been reviewed and approved as an Authorized Provider of CEUs by the International Association of Continuing Education & Training (IACET), 8405 Greensboro Drive Suite 800, McLean VA 22102. THI awards one (1) CEU for each ten (10) hours of work successfully completed. CEUs from IACET are accepted by most state licensing departments, departments of education, school districts and professional associations. Please check with your state or professional office prior to taking courses to determine their policy on IACET CEUs.
IACET website: www.iacet.org
THI website: www.hol.edu
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Interviews
Guest Appearance on Co-Creator Radio Network: February 12, 2010 at 12 noon CST with host Leigh Kubin.
Second Interview with Joseph Varley Presents, "Home and Back", KLAY (1180 AM) Tacoma, WA, February 1 (Sunday), 2 - 3 PM (PST).
Interview with Joseph Varley Presents, "Home and Back", KLAY (1180 AM) Tacoma, WA, January 25 (Sunday), 2 - 3 PM (PST).
Interview with Pamela Marie Edmunds, "Bridge Between Two Worlds" Radio Show (Contact Talk Radio Network) 5:00 PM PST/8:00 PM EST on Monday January 26, 2009
Interview with Conversations Live with Vicki St. Clair, KKNW (1150 AM & 98.9 HD), December 1 (Mon.), 12:30 - 1 PM (PST). Listen here.
Interview with medium and spiritual guide Eva Ravenwood now available.
Interview on "Tell Me Your Story" with Richard Dugan available to listen to now.
Interview with Deborah Beauvais of Dreamvisions 7 Radio Network, October 9, 10-11AM (PST). Listen here.
Interview with Rev. Anne Marie Evers, the "affirmation doctor," at Contact Radio, 106.9 AM, HD Channel, October 11 (Sat.), 12:00 Noon - 1 PM (PST). Listen here.
Interview with Darren Main, Yoga teacher and fellow author (through Findhorn Press) on his show "Inquire Within." Listen here. |
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Testimonials
The Last Adventure of Life has been a wonderful blessing for the women in our book study group at Horizon House, a retirement community and life care facility. Maria has made it possible for us to look at and to think about leaving the Earth plane with much less fear and more faith in what awaits us on the other side. Maria's accounts of her experiences in Hospice and her choices of the writings of others will be so very helpful and comforting to us and our loved ones as we approach our own "Last Adventure". Thank you, Maria! Blessings always!
-- Louise Barker, Horizon House resident
"Maria brings great heart to a gentle exploration of what it means to experience the losses that come with transitions. As a participant in her workshop, I found tools to shine a light on feelings that had been deeply held but never really shared...and in doing so found new beginnings of healing with grace and warmth and safety."
-- Terra Kelsey, healer
"Having experienced several deaths in my own family, and ministering to countless families in grief after the loss of loved ones, Maria's workshop on grief and end-of-life care was of tremendous benefit. We want all of our Stephen Ministers to have this experience as they also deal with so many who experience loss and grief."
-- Rev. Mark Dowdy, The United Churches of Olympia, Presbyterian (USA) and United Church of Christ
"Thank you so much for a wonderful workshop in Portland...it helped me personally and professionally...the content was varied and all of it interesting...I loved your style and hospitality with each of us...you left me wanting to listen to more and that is a very good thing...I bought your book at New Renaissance and have told others about you and your book...so glad to have connected with you and thank you for all that you gave me--us!! Peace and Joy."
-- Jan Kalberer, M.A.
"After reading a little of The Last Adventure of Life, I heard about the workshop from my volunteer coordinator. This is something that would benefit my hospice work, I thought.
The workshop involved doing some personal grief work. My mom had passed four years ago and I felt I had worked well through that, forgetting that relations with a particular family member had been very strained ever since mom's death. I had perhaps given up on the family member after a few seeming failed attempts, so during the workshop I focused again on Mom.
I came to another new awareness of Mom's passing that day, which was well worth the effort, but in addition I soon realized something else had shifted. Maria shared about forgiveness at the workshop, and encouraged us to do further reading from her book on the subject, which I did.
A few days later, I noticed the change. The resentment I had been carrying since Mom's death towards the family member, was gone. I am now able to think about her and talk to her without the hurt and pain of the past. I am thrilled to have a soft place in my heart again for my sister.
Thank You Maria Dancing Heart."
-- Louise, hospice volunteer
"Maria - I love your gentle, open-hearted approach. You were very flexible and ready to meet the needs of our group, which were very diverse. You are an amazing resource, and seemed to have a wealth of experience and contacts. Your suggestions following some of our questions and interests were helpful.
The flow of the day went well. I'm glad we were given two options for the afternoon. Both were good ones! ... I will appreciate your book as a wonderful point of reference ... Again, thank you for being very thorough in your research and in your presentation. You were quite helpful."
-- Jackie Huetter, hospice lay minister |
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