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Workshops & Seminars
MKP / WWI CONFERENCE
There are many opportunities to
continue your personal growth journey. One way is by
participating in programs that help you strengthen the bond with the
community and deepen your connection with yourself.
Some of the programs that women in our
community have participated in and recommend are:
A Couples Weekend
The Absent Father
Advanced Couples
Weekend
Child Within Calls Out
Circles of Women: Creating Dynamic Empowerment Circles
Couples Path Workshop
Finding
Mother Peace
Learning
A Mother's Language -Love
Leaving My Father's
House
Living in Personal Mastery
Maiden's Journey
Odyssey
to Higher Ground
Parents as Guides
Path to Spirit
Shadow
Work Weekend Seminar
Soul
Connections
Taking
It Lightly
Taming
the Tiger
Transforming Your Inner Critic
Warrior Monk
Training Intensive
Wildly Alive: A Practical Guide to Inspired Living
Women Empowering
Women (WEW)
Women Within®
Level 2
Writing
Your Spiritual Journey
A Couples Weekend
The Mission of the Couples Weekend is
to create bridges for couples to reach deeper levels of love, intimacy,
acceptance and trust.
This weekend was created and is lead
by Rich and Char Tosi. They have been leading the Couples Weekends
since 1977. Char is a therapist and founder of Woman Within®.
Rich is founding president of the Mankind Project. Together, Rich
and Char are committed to enriching and empowering couples' relationships.
It is helpful, but not necessary, to be
a Woman Within® or New Warrior® graduate to enroll in this training.
For more information, or to register for this weekend, contact Rich Tosi
at 810-750-7227 or email using this link:
THE ABSENT FATHER
Sponsored by ManKind Project Indiana and St. Luke’s Men’s Spirituality Group
Phil Strock retired after spending his life as partner/owner of a local family business in Anderson, IN.
Subsequent to volunteering for more than six years at the Anderson Center, an addictions and mental health
facility of St. John’s Health Systems, he then accepted a therapist position facilitating groups, and
individual and anger-work sessions.
Phil’s lecture, The Absent Father is a product of growing up with a father who was physically present but
emotionally absent. He will address the father-out-of-the-home through abandonment, divorce or death, and
the father-present-in-the-home but emotionally absent. Not only have we lost our fathers, but our fathers
have been lost in their own journeys. Phil will describe healthy fathering. To start the healing process
after growing up in a dysfunctional family in which we developed unexpressed anger, we need to learn to
experience and release our anger in a safe setting, in therapy or groups, and to experience the grieving process.
Only then can we progress to forgiveness, the ultimate healing.
This lecture is part of the Men's Speakers Series, a bimonthly series of lectures about men's issues. The series
is for men and women to explore a path toward a balanced and spiritual life. The presentations are followed by
discussion and questions. The talks are open to the entire community.
for additional info visit: www.indiana.mkp.org/mss
or CONTACT : Darrin Gray
317-850-5233
Use this link to send Darren an email:
Advanced Couples
Weekend
A five day advanced training for
couples who have attended the "A Couples Weekend."
The purpose of this weekend is to
develop more skills to deepen a couple's relationship. You learn how to
lead A Couples Weekend or how to create your own Couples Workshops.
This workshop is intended to focus on the issues of sex, money and power
in a relationship and teaches how to coach couples.
This weekend was created and is also
lead by Rich and Char Tosi.
For more information, or to register
for this weekend, contact Rich Tosi at 810-750-7227 or email using this
link:
The Child Within Calls Out
"Get on With Your Life"
A ONE DAY WORKSHOP FOR MEN AND WOMEN WHO CHOOSE TO LIVE IN THEIR ADULT
PRESENTED BY: MARLENE NAPPA, M.S.
Discover the relationship between your Inner Child’s core belief system and your Adult’s current life choices
Understand the differences between the ‘Child state of being’ and the ‘Adult state of being’
Learn the difference between ‘expressing’ a feeling and ‘acting out’ a feeling
Release your Inner Child, the one lost in the present and embrace the power of Adult living
For more information, or to register
for this weekend, contact Marlene Nappa at 519-966-9676 or email using this
link:
Circles of Women: Creating Dynamic Empowerment Circles
This weekend has been presented for three years, and has helped women become more empowered,
understand themselves more, and provided skills for them to self-process at a deeper level. The women who are in a circle walk
away from this weekend feeling better equipped to support the other women in their circle. This weekend is for all women - in
circle or not!
“Creating Dynamic Empowerment Circles” is a weekend workshop to explore the many different
ways to do creative work in Empowerment Circles as well as learn and experience skills to empower yourself and others in your everyday
life.
This weekend has been presented for three years, and has helped women become more empowered,
understand themselves more, and provided skills for them to self-process at a deeper level. The women who are in a circle walk
away from this weekend feeling better equipped to support the other women in their circle. This weekend is for all women - in
circle or not!
The weekend is non-residential. 10% of the registration fee is donated to the sponsoring
community scholarship fund. Scholarships may be available for this weekend – please inquire.
For more information, contact Sheri Zuccato at 630.675.7544 or email using this
link:
Couples Path Workshop
The Couples Path Workshop™ (formerly Running With Iron John™) opens
the doorway for individuals and couples to take the next step in deepening their relationship and exploring
their mission together as a couple.
Our Mission: To create deeper intimacy by sharing safe and sacred space.
Contact Information: Phone: (317) 562-2972, or press this link to send an email:
or press here to connect with the
Couples Path Workshop web site.
Finding
Mother Peace
This is a workshop, led by Judith
Pauly, for
women to explore, examine, understand, experience and heal the wounds of
mother/daughter relationships by looking at generational wounds, which
began in the womb and continue today. See and hold the
various connections that exist between you and your mother, living or
dead, and create new pathways for peace.
This workshop provides opportunities
to explore childhood needs, abuse, neglect, guilt, addictions, shame,
anger, agreements, fantasies, hopes, dreams, traditions, adult
relationships, and the archetypal energies of Mother, Divine Mother and
Mother Earth.
For more information or to register
for this program, contact Judith Pauly by using this link to send her an
email:
Learning
A Mother's Language of Love
Do you remember, as a small child,
hearing hurtful, shaming messages from your mother?
Is it possible that you are passing
these messages on to your children?
Do you want to stop the cycle and
teach your children love and respect through language?
You are invited to attend an
experiential workshop that will bring the answers into the light. In
this workshop, you will explore the ways in which a mother's language
instills in her child that she is lovable, loved and loving.
This workshop is created and
facilitated by Esther Robertson. For more information, please
contact Esther at 847-662-3451, or send her an email by using this link:
Leaving My Father's
House
This workshop is designed to allow
women to face and transform unresolved and incomplete issues related to
Father, by working with experienced and compassionate male
facilitators. It is open to any woman willing to do personal
work, and who sincerely wishes to have positive change in her life. The intended
outcome is that a woman is more aware and conscious of how she relates to
men and the masculine.
For more information or to register
for this program, contact Dennis Mead-Shikaly, 408-554-9488 or press this
link to connect with Leaving
My Father's House.
Living in Personal Mastery
A ONE DAY WORKSHOP FOR MEN AND WOMEN
STEP OUT OF THE APPRENTICE AND INTO THE MASTER PART OF YOU
Saying yes to this workshop is a sign that you are ready to step into the extraordinary.
Mastery is doing what you can do well with the tools you have gathered, knowledge you have acquired
and experiences you have lived. You are the Master and the Masterpiece.
This workshop begins at the edge of ‘Unconditional Confidence’
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Learn the language and behavior that leads to
Personal Mastery
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Your thoughts, moods and choices affect you for good
or ill. Learn to be victorious in your endeavors and triumphant over
difficulties
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Who you spend time with affects you profoundly. Get
conscious about your connections.
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Everything in your environment reflects back to you
something about who you are. What does your environment reflect?
For more information, or to register
for this weekend, contact Marlene Nappa at 519-966-9676 or email using this
link:
Maiden's Journey
Maiden’s Journey is a dynamic weekend program for girls ages 12-16
focused on supporting transition from adolescence to young womanhood.
Guided by Carol Kahn and a skilled and dedicated staff of young and adult women.
Program Philosophy: To provide adolescent girls with a foundation for creating a healthy life in mind, body and spirit.
This program will provide the adolescents with experiences and opportunities to:
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To identify, understand, and express feelings
(sadness, joy, anger, fear)
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Learn active listening skills
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To take personal responsibility for thoughts, words
and actions
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To trust self and others, gain confidence in what
they know
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To learn the skills of conscious decision making
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Discover and accept who they are, know their
strengths and areas of growth
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Examine relationships with self, friends, family, and
the world.
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To explore myth and realities of being a woman in
today’s society
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Understand the changes their bodies are going through
and how to care for themselves in healthy ways.
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Listen, witness, share and feel the support of peers.
Activities Include: Guided imagery, movement, art, music, sharing, journaling,
play and celebration. Participants will have individual, small group, and large group time. The activities shared
will provide each young woman with a greater awareness of herself and others.
This weekend provides a nurturing and challenging environment for adolescents to greater understand themselves
and others. To learn about the changes they are going through and to make decisions in their lives that will
take them in the direction they want to be going. This weekend is not therapy or group therapy.
For more information, contact Carol Kahn at at 414.774.6063 or email using this
link:
Odyssey
to Higher Ground:
Part One:
The Mother/Warrior Dynamic
Part Two: The
Magician/Sovereign Dynamic
Where men and women meet in
Authenticity
Presented by Gaye Hall and Marlene
Nappa
Understand how you relinquish your
power in mixed gender situations
Two weekend workshops for those who
want to understand self-defeating, repetitive patterns in their lives, and
move beyond them. Through experiential and didactic processes, you
will learn how you have been driven, often unconsciously, by your own
internal archetypes. Each weekend is an in-depth, intensive dynamic
exploration of two archetypes. Based on the archetypal model, the
material is innovative and eye opening. It brings you to new ground
on your personal journey, by offering in a fresh perspective to and old
idea.
These workshops are presented by
Marlene Nappa and Gaye Hall, crones in Woman Within®.
For more information contact Gaye Hall, 713-528-0420
Parents as Guides
If I fill up my children's lives with the things that are important to me
there may be no room for the things that are important to them.
Meditations for Parents Who Do Too Much
The parent we think we should be may not be the parent our child needs us to be. It is important to see our
children as individuals. Believing in these statements will change our approach to parenting. Spend a day
uncovering driving forces that influence your parenting. The format of experiential exercises is designed
to assist you through personal discoveries to unlock the door to easier parenting and more fulfilling relationships.
For more information, or to register
for this weekend, contact Marsha Marsh Coaching at 847.537.7691 or email using this
link:
Questions? Call Pam Turner, 856-0261 or Marsha Marsh, 847-537-7691.
Path to Spirit
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Would you appreciate some new tools to live your life
more fully?
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Do love and joy somehow escape your moment-to-moment
experience?
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Do you often forget or get sidetracked from your
mission?
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Would you like to experience your life as more of a
celebration than a series of sufferings?
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Do your personal growth successes not transfer to your
close relationships or career?
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Or do you just need to be pointed down the path of the
next step,
Making the decision to attend this training or any other training requires the desire to change.
When you are ready, consider our commitment to you:
Our teaching is to combine love and faith with the path of courage and strategy. We believe that it is possible to
convert to an ongoing path of spiritual renewal. Grace and ease are the gifts of this path. Picture a life of gratitude
and celebration rather than living with regrets and remorse.
This training is committed to creating healthy choices and then dynamically showing you how these choices can be
manifested here and now. The “Path to Spirit” training has been offered 40 times to over 470 individuals.
The results of the training are far-reaching and long lasting.
What happens at the Path to Spirit training?
We challenge each “pilgrim” (participant) to
fiercely love themselves in the moment. The container is loving and
supportive of you being in a meditative and curative space. Processes and
teachings include an emphasis on:
deep meditation with visualizations throughout the
weekend conscious eating while consuming delectable organic food physical fitness, beginning with yoga.
We offer a process of
transcending your human "burdens" through the steps of surrender,
acceptance, forgiveness, and thankfulness. When combined with warrior
effectiveness, the work of spirit creates opportunities for peaceful
growth.
Individual processing is based on psychodrama, gestalt and
“shadow” work. The work on mission is practical spirituality based on the
“call of spirit”.
The “spirituality” offered at the training flows
out of your belief system and relationship to Spirit. All religions and
their belief systems are welcome.
Who can attend? Women who have done personal growth work, either through
other training programs or through work with therapists or coaches. Interviews will be conducted in advance of the
training to be sure this program is a good fit for each participant.
Note: when the time is right to attend, we will find a way together to finance the training. No person will be turned
away for lack of funds. Transportation will be through participant carpools.
For more information and to speak with David Lindgren 312.415.7455 or send him an email:
or press here to connect with the
Path to Spirit web site.
Shadow
Work Weekend Seminar
This non-residential seminar is a
unique personal growth experience that offers each participant an opportunity
to work with his/her shadow and to reclaim parts of the self that have
been unconsciously disowned. It is a good setting to learn how to:
- Increase the ability to make
powerful choices, and experience a sense of blessing
- perceive reality more clearly, and
develop new solutions to old problems
- deepen the capacity for intimacy,
and activate creative talents
- improve the ability to set boundaries,
deal with money, and follow through on goals
Shadow Work(r) is a highly safe and
effective way of accessing the value in our shadows so that we can bring
the full range of our gifts to light, and move toward what we really want
in life. During the weekend, all participants will experience a
series of processes carefully designed to help with accessing the full
range of emotions. For more information on shadow work visit
For more
information, contact Becky Schupbach at 502-458-0705 or email her using
the link below:
Soul
Connections
Created and presented by Judith Pauly.
Connect with your soul, Discover the purpose of your soul, experience the
essence of your soul.
This intense, yet simple, 3-5 hour
process, allows you to connect with the core essence of who you really
are. That reflection of the divine often referred to as the soul,
and through this connection gain insight and awareness of your soul's
purpose in this life experience.
Through the examination of your life
story, meditation and light trance you will be led on an exciting journey
of soaring with your soul and looking at life connections through the eyes
of the soul. This often 'life changing' adventure allows past
experiences that may still be held at a cellular level to shift and
creates awareness and new space for love, peace and forgiveness. It
allows you to release old resentments and change old patterns that have
perhaps kept you stuck and been in the way of fulfilling your life
potential.
The cost of an initial session is $300
(terms available).
For more information or to schedule a soul connection
contact Judith Pauly by using this link to send her an email:
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Taking
It Lightly
From the Center for Creative Living,
Milwaukee, WI with Patricia Clason
A major focus of the work of Taking It
Lightly is recognizing that we all made decisions as children that were
based on what we had observed about how to survive and be loved.
Those decisions were also about avoiding pain and shutting down our
emotions.
As adults, we are guided through life
by those decisions, keeping us 'safe'. However, upon introspection,
it becomes clear that those decisions also keep us from functioning in
present time and keep us limited in the experience and expression of all
of our emotions. Through individual work and participating in the
group during the weekend, each person has an opportunity to make a new
choice and integrate it, freeing up their emotions and their
aliveness. This intense personal focus is possible because each
weekend is limited to fifteen students and staffed by as many assistants
and instructors.
Press this link to visit the web site
for The Center for Creative Living.
Local contact is Jana Lovick
317-852-7103 or click
to send her an email.
Taming
the Tiger
From the Center for Creative Living,
Milwaukee, WI with Linda Todd, and Patricia Clason (founder of
"Taking It Lightly")
A weekend to guide you to enhancing
your spirituality, becoming safe with your emotions and learning to use
the 12 Steps as a guide for healthy living.
Through the 12 Steps we learn about
honesty, hope, faith, courage, humility, self-discipline, perseverance,
and charity.
Often, trauma or addiction will cause
us to lose our connection with our higher power. When first coming
into recovery, the newness of being free of addictions or pain for the
first time is freeing. We feel reborn to the world. After a
while, we feel as if there is something missing, longing for something to
help us deal with the emotions that have come to the surface. With
the help of your Higher Power and the group, you will move through emotions
into the feeling of freedom that you once had. Think of the TIGER as
being your over-reactive self, emotions from the past that have not been
'tamed'.
Taming the Tiger will help guide you
to
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accepting the emotions which may
be keeping you stuck in the past
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finding what beliefs and what
decisions are operating in your life
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experiencing emotional integration
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a deepening spirituality, and
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the next phase of your recovery.
Open to men
and women, training in Woman Within or MKP is not a requirement.
Press this link to visit the web site
for The Center for Creative Living.
Transforming Your Inner Critic
A one-day workshop for women
Within each of us lies the most destructive saboteur ever. It’s voice is negative,
destructive, energy depleting, and keeps us in a cycle of shame, paralysis, and sabotage of our power and success. Our
inner critic lives in the land of drama and chaos, and it tells us lies. Yet, what most of us don’t realize is that this
loud voice brings us important messages! However, because of the way it brings it to us, we don’t hear the message we
just feel bad. You can’t cut it away – you can’t GET RID of it…
You can TRANSFORM it!
In a safe environment, through experiential exercises this weekend will provide you tools to…
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Explore your inner critic and its role in your life
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Discover where it came from
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Uncover the hidden value it brings to you
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Transform the power it holds from destruction to creation
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Learn techniques to befriend your critic and have it work for you.
Facilitator: Sheri Zuccato is an International Life Coach and workshop creator/facilitator. For more than 15 years, Sheri has worked with thousands of men and women Internationally in the field of personal For more than 15 years, Sheri has worked with thousands of men and women internationally in the field of personal growth through one-on-one coaching, workshops, seminars, and retreats. She has created
The ReAwaken and Own Your Life Series™ to provide a series of skills-building workshops and products to help women and men to create the life they desire for themselves. She brings to her work a rich history and passion for the subjects which are the foundation of this series. Sheri has lives the skills she shares in each of her workshops. From a past of addiction, drama and chaos, she celebrates the life she has created today!
Contact Sheri Zuccato at
630.675.7544.
Warrior Monk
Training Intensive
A mystical journey that balances
spirit & soul! Recommended for men and women who are in
transition and/or want to deepen their connection with the Divine.
Four days to hold your attention on three questions:
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Who Am I?
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Where Am I going?
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With Whom?
The mission of Warrior Monk is to
develop evolved, soulful people able to live a spiritual life (monks)
while powerfully engaging in the world (warriors). Warrior Monk
makes it possible to live the paradox of doing and being by balancing the
energies of inner peace (soul/being) with higher power magic
(spirit/doing). It brings together monk and warrior skills and
attitudes. Warrior Monk has all the pieces in place: quiet
space, reality creation, life mission, manifestation skills and do-able
step-by-step process.
For more information or to register
for this program, press this link to connect with Warrior
Monk.
Wildly Alive: A Practical Guide to Inspired Living
Leslie D. and Darrin D. Gray’s 10-year marriage is grounded in healthy communication
and love. The Mankind Project and Woman Within communities played a central role in
the development of their relationship. Darrin has a degree in Theology from Hanover
College and spent the first 15 years of his career engaged in the meaningless pursuit
of financial freedom, before discovering his current career founded on principles of
servant-leadership, loyalty and love. Leslie has a degree in Education from Ball State and is a student
of nutrition, organic gardening, holistic healing and ecology. Do you feel stuck in your current life circumstances?
Wildly Alive – a Practical Guide to Inspired Living will be an evening filled with
experiential activities designed to encourage participants to reflect upon their
life's purpose and to create more meaning, passion and intention. Darrin and Leslie
will share personal insights and humorous stories about how they’ve established
positive daily, weekly and monthly rituals that help balance their own spiritual,
emotional, physical and mental selves and ultimately to support their relationships
with each other, family, friends, community and God.
This lecture is part of the Men's Speakers Series, a bimonthly series of lectures
about men's issues. The series is for men and women to explore a path toward a
balanced and spiritual life. The presentations are followed by discussion and
questions. The talks are open to the entire community.
For more information contact Darrin Gray at 317.850.5233
or visit
www.indiana.mkp.org/mss. Use this link to send Darren an email:
Women Empowering
Women (WEW)
This workshop is required if you want
to staff Training Weekends, but it is also a powerful workshop for helping
you learn more about yourself and group dynamics. The workshop
includes skills on listening from the heart, stages of group development
and safety for groups. It also teaches you skills to enable
you to speak your truth in a clear and direct way when in
conflict.
For more information or to register
for this program press this link to contact Woman
Within International.
Women Within®
Level 2
This program is a pre-requisite for
women interested in the facilitation track for Woman Within® Training
Weekends.
This is a five day intensive training
held once per year for learning and experiencing in greater depth your Woman Within®.
This training is based on five archetypes of women (Mother, Lover,
Warrior, Queen, Crone) and how both the shadow and light side can affect
your leadership abilities in your home, work, and all areas of your
life. This training is open to all Woman Within® Graduates, no
other pre-requisite applies.
For more information or to register
for this program press this link to contact Woman
Within International.
Writing
Your Spiritual Journey
Creative writing becomes a record of
your spiritual experiences and is also an exploration that can lead you
deeper and further in your spiritual development. This class offers
inspiration and encouragement to get you started in writing about your
childhood religion, times of challenge, change and new insights.
Learn through exercises, readings, discussion and reading aloud what you
choose to share of your own writing. Previous participants say they
enjoyed hearing each other's stories, and some were surprised by what they
were able to create.
This class is instructed by Linda Lee.
For more information, email Linda Lee at the email
link below:
MKP / WWI CONFERENCE
July 15-17, 2005
Around Milwaukee, WI
Sponsored by Woman Within International and ManKind Project
CELEBRATING THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST WEEKEND
INITIATION OF MEN
into
THE MANKIND PROJECT
Men and Women Coming Together:
Honoring our Beginnings,
Celebrating our Present,
Embracing our Future!
The roots of the ManKind Project were planted in the Milwaukee area with
the very first weekend designed to initiate men occurring in January 1985 at a
former nunnery called Haimowoods. Did you know that the work spread from that
first weekend to include over 40 centers all around the world now? Did you know that we
are approaching 35,000 initiated men worldwide?
It is time to celebrate 20 years of initiating men. Women, this is the Year to support and celebrate the ManKind Project!
At the Country Springs Hotel
located north of Waukesha, Wisconsin just 18 miles from Milwaukee.
Friday Evening:
Kick off the Conference Celebration with opening ceremonies, an awesome
outdoor drumming,
entertainment and a Wisconsin Fish Fry and Brat Fest.
Saturday:
Saturday will feature two nationally known speakers. We are currently in
negotiations with
Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD and John Lee and numerous workshops of interest to
people on a personal
growth path-especially those interested in bringing male and female energy
together- in concert
with our theme, the awards luncheon and vendors. Enjoy the various CD's,
drums, clothing, sacred items and other goods being sold at the Vendor's Fair, on Saturday.
Saturday Evening:
The “Gift of the Play” will be presented following evening dinner!
The Late Saturday Night Adventure: Haimowoods in Kenosha
It will be possible to visit the place in the country, scene of the first
Warrior Weekends and
the first Woman Within Trainings!
Come along with Rich & Char Tosi and Bill Kauth to hear stories of the
early days of our work
and to SEE fabled Haimowoods and enjoy drumming on the sacred grounds.
Sunday Morning:
More breakout sessions, a buffet luncheon and a joint closing keynote talk
with Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD
and John Lee. Finally, we will bring the Conference Celebration to an end
with a powerful closing ceremony.
Please consider this announcement an open invitation to you, your family,
your friends and I-Groups to
attend this fun and entertaining Conference 2005!
FOR FURTHER INFO: www.mkp.org and
www.womanwithin.org.
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