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Teen Talking Circle Facilitator's Training

Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 4:00 PM - Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 2:00 PM (PT)

Bainbridge Island, WA

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Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
A non-refundable deposit of $200   more info Ended $200.00 $5.00
Balance: Full Participant Fee   more info Ended $350.00 $8.75
Balance: Teachers Fee   more info Ended $250.00 $6.25

Event Details

Imagine having a safe space to tell the truth without fear of judgment, criticism, or rejection. A place where you can take down the tough guise, soften your heart, look honestly at your life, tell the truth, work through conflicts, express your deepest self, and see that you are not alone. Now imagine that you are 15 years old and part of a circle like this. How might your life have been different? How might this change the world? The Teen Talking Circle Facilitator Training is a deeply experiential workshop for adults who are interested in starting Teen Talking Circles in their communities. Participants will learn the basics of creating safe space, setting intentions, and how to use specific conflict resolution techniques and Compassionate Listening* to work through core/wound/defense issues. You'll come away from this training with a direct experience of what it feels like to be in circle and go through the exercises and processes you will yourself facilitate in your own groups. Our intention is for you to come away knowing that you can do it; all it takes is a commitment to do your own work, and trust the organic process that will unfold. Teen Talking Circles started in 1993 as the Daughters Sisters Project, under the fiscal umbrella of Context Institute, founders of In Context Magazine. As the Project grew to include more men and teen guy circles, our name changed. Today, there are TTC circles worldwide, and branch representatives in Boulder, Colorado; Seattle, Washington; Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; Lopez Island, Washington; and Yelapa, Mexico; For a more information on circles and facilitators in your area, see: www.teentalkingcircles.org or contact our home office: info@teentalkingcircles.org Speaking and Listening from the Heart is led by Linda Wolf, founder and executive director of The Teen Talking Circle Project, and co-author of Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun: Young Women and Mentors on the Transition to Womanhood, with the assistance of young women and additional facilitators of local circles. Linda is a certified facilitator of Compassionate Listening*. The practice of Compassionate Listening teaches us how to reach through layers of defensiveness and reactivity to our essential core. From there, we can shift our energy, communication, and relationships into a heart-to-heart connection. Your non-refundable deposit of $200 or full payment reserves your space in the workshop. The greatest gift we can give another is the gift of ourselves - our presence, our acceptance, our willingness to work towards having sustainable relationships and acceptance of our interconnection. From this we naturally contribute to cultures of peace wherever we are. Addendum: Please note there is a $200 nonrefundable deposit if you decide to cancel participation in a workshop at any time. *Compassionate Listening is a service mark of the Compassionate Listening Project - for more information see: www.compassionatelistening.org If you can't come but would like a copy of our new Handbook, you can order it at: http://ttcpbooks.mollyguard.com

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Gaia House
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Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 4:00 PM - Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 2:00 PM (PT)


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"Last spring was a time for me when the world looked staid, and there seemed little hope of breaking out of the box. I had one specific week I had to get away, and put that week into Google along with the word "retreat". What came up was synchronicity. A group of women from the west coast, it seemed, were gathering for a  "compassionate listening circle" in a place called "Yelapa". Where?? What??

Yelapa, it turns out, is a remote fishing village accessed by tiny boats off the coast of Puerta Vallarta, and inhabited by only 1500 native residents. No cars are allowed, only donkeys who carry your provisions, and wild parakeets who carry your dreams. There are
no brick or cement houses, only "Palapas," palm frond roofs on four or more posts with maybe some bamboo walls for privacy and a sleeping loft. In your loft you are rocked to sleep under the stars accompanied by the insistent sound of the sea.

Many of these ten women knew one another, so I could have walked into an intimidating situation. But from our first circle on the very first day, Linda Wolf pulled out her bag of magic. She is a gifted facilitator with a heart as large and colorful as all of Mexico. As each of us shared our stories, why we had come, where we were in our lives, it was quickly apparent that we were making a family. A FUNCTIONAL, safe, loving family.

And the food! Yum! Linda's partner and gourmet chef du jour, Eric, took Yelapa's abundant local fare and transformed it into such happiness for our tummies. I begged him and his inner Julia Child to come home with me, but he insisted he was already previously engaged.

At night, we cranked up the music, hoola hooped, danced, giggled, became twelve again, or dressed to the nines and went on the town. We went to a waterfall in the wilderness and swam naked, we went on field trips and ate meals at the home of locals who warmly invited us in. We explored deep into Yelapa's amazing abundance. We explored deep into the mysteries of ourselves. It was a magical time. How happy I am for synchronicity.

If you find yourself wanting to get away from this world into an indescribably lush and beautiful setting, and doing something
really really unique with a week, treat yourself to one of Linda's retreats. It's the kind of time that will stay with you. One that you can call up from your heart whenever the world feels impossible and all too much to bear."

--Ally Aker, poet, author, filmmaker, New York