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WEEKEND PASS for Members, $225.00, Non-Members $265.00: To register for the weekend pass, please use the registration form and mail it to Women of Wisdom. (PayPal not available for Weekend or Day Passes, except for Jean Houston's workshop and Tama Kieves' workshop.)

2/20/06: Jean Houston has become suddenly very ill —
Barbara Marx Hubbard is replacing her!

We need to inform you that Jean Houston has cancelled her engagement with WOW for the 2006 conference due to serious illness. We send her our deepest wishes for healing and know that she truly wishes she could be here to celebrate with us and to lead her workshops. We are excited to share with you that Jean’s old friend and colleague Barbara Marx Hubbard is going to attend in her place and present her brand new work on the feminine consciousness with us. We’ll be the first to hear it at the conference! Barbara expressed how Jean’s topics were right up her alley, so we’ve found the perfect substitute. And, in addition to her presence, we are thrilled that Jean’s Mystery School teaching partner, Peggy Rubin, will be with us on opening night for the lecture.

Thursday, February 23rd, 7:30 p.m.
$15 members $20 Non members
Open to men and women. Opening music led by Kimberly Carter.
(Opening ceremonies are from 6:00 - 6:45 p.m., for women only)

Barbara Marx Hubbard and Peggy Rubin:
Drawing Sustenance from the Well of Woman’s Psyche

...and what this will mean for a world in transition. With the advent of the planetary person we are at a unique place of opportunity for human and cultural potentiation. This involves a new vision based on perspectives of global interdependence and a cross-cultural sharing of what it means to be human. We are citizens in a new cosmos which, on a global scale, is in a “whole system transition.” A more holistic way of knowing ourselves is emerging -- an ecological ethic, along with a new partnership between men and women, in which the human acts in partnership with Nature to bring about more symbiotic ecological relationships.

Barbara Marx Hubbard is a communicator of humanity's potential to evolve. As an author, speaker, social innovator and spiritual pioneer, she has established the new field of conscious evolution. Her evolutionary perspective suggests a way through our global crises toward an immeasurable future. In 1984 her name was placed in nomination for the Vice Presidency of the United States on the Democratic ticket suggesting a Peace Room in the White House to scan for, map, connect, and communicate what is working in the world.

In 2005 Barbara received a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Association for Global New Thought and the first Peace Builder Award presented by The Peace Alliance in Washington, DC.

Her new DVD Video Series entitled, Humanity Ascending: A Feminine Voice of Conscious Evolution is designed to place the “meme” of conscious evolution into the global mind. It offers a comprehensive understanding of conscious evolution self and social.

Barbara has been instrumental in the founding of such important organizations as The World Future Society, New Dimensions Radio, Global Family, Women of Vision in Action, the Foundation for the Future and the Association for Global New Thought.

Her books include , Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential, Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence, The Evolutionary Journey, The Hunger of Eve and Revelation.
www.barbaramarxhubbard.com
www.evolve.org

Margaret Nash (Peggy) Rubin is Founding Director of the Center for Sacred Theatre in Ashland, Oregon, where she creates workshops in Living Life as Sacred Theatre, and Sacred Studies of the Divine Feminine. She is also the principal teaching associate of Jean Houston, Ph.D., in Dr. Houston’s worldwide multicultural transformational work and in her schools of spiritual studies, as well as a member of the core faculty of the School for Social Artistry, an intensive leadership training program. Working with Jean Houston, Peggy Rubin has presented classes, workshops and trainings all over the world.

Peggy will bring an exciting, dynamic presence to the Thursday evening event in an interactive performance with the audience.

A message from Jean:

For those who do not know Peggy, she has been my working partner for over 20 years. She and I are a team, creating and co-teaching all seminars. But Peggy brings something special that is so rare, so beautiful, that hearts and souls and minds are awakened and deepened by the depth and luminous quality of her teaching and the sheer power of her dramatic performance. A great classical actress, she is not only a fine scholar, but an evocateur of the possible, a true midwife of souls, with a sensitivity that calls forth the possibilities inherent in each person. It will be an incandescent occasion. If I were not so sick in bed with this miserable pneumonia, I'd be in the audience also.

Please come as planned and bring an open heart and mind. It will be an inspiring time and we know that Jean would like you all to support WOW just as you would if she could be with us in person. She will be with us in spirit and knows what a joy Barbara will be for those of you attending her workshop.

Friday, February 24th, 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. - $95

Barbara Marx Hubbard Workshop for Women:
Deep Nourishment

This seminar will provide you with innovative ways of finding deep nourishment on four levels: sensory and physical, psychological and relational, mythic and symbolic, and spiritual and integral. You will learn how to traverse and explore an archaeology of the self so as to return with treasures and practices to help make your world a better place.

Friday, February 24th, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
$15 members, $20 Non members
Open to men and women

Christina Baldwin:
Spiritual Practice for Times Like These

The tension of modern life is not going away. Spiritual practice for times like these requires learning to transmute tension into energy and insight that can ground and support our stepping into wisdom. Christina Baldwin brings inspiring stories and simple practices of reflection, embodiment, song and ceremony that remind us how to live in a sacred manner.

The session will be based on Christina’s well known books, especially The Seven Whispers, Spiritual Practice for Times Like These. She is the co-founder of PeerSpirit, Building Communities of Reflection, Adventure and Purpose and is the author of Calling the Circle and her new book, Story Catcher. www.peerspirit.com

Saturday, February 25th, 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
$45
Open to men and women

Connie Grauds:
Jungle Medicine … Reclaiming the Medicine
and the Magic

Connie integrates the scientific and spiritual principles of the power of nature to transmit energy and effect deep healing. She will unfold powerful shamanic secrets of the Amazon jungle and spirited tales of ancient sacred healing rituals. www.junglemedicine.net

Tama Kieves:
Nurturing Your Creativity:
Reclaiming the Power of Inspiration

Do you long to write a book, paint, save the whales or start a business? Have you had the sense that you have a creative calling or restlessness, but you don’t know what your path is or how to do what you came here to do? Many of us see our creativity as frivolous, but instead this strength offers us effortless abilities, limitless energy, and personal and world healing. Come join Tama J. Kieves, leading creativity coach and best-selling author of THIS TIME I DANCE! Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love and learn how to jettison fears and discover your greatest power and love. As a top Harvard lawyer, turned writer, and international teaching catalyst, Tama reveals her own personal journey of staying on fire in the real world, plus practical strategies she’s used to help thousands to live their creative dreams. In a safe and sacred space, come play and learn how to set free the wild genius within, turn difficulties into portals of grace and challenges into chariots, love yourself unflinchingly, and live your true, inspired life! Optional support group follows.

Tama J. Kieves, an honors graduate of Harvard Law School, left her law practice with a large corporate law firm to write and to embolden others to live and breathe their most meaningful self-expression. Her best-selling book, THIS TIME I DANCE! Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love was chosen as a Finalist for the Nautilus Book Award. A sought-after life/work coach, she has helped thousands of individuals live their creative dreams. She is known for her dynamic humor and passion and has frequently been featured in the media. Most recently she appeared on the popular national television program “The Vicki Gabereau show,” said to be Canada’s version of “Oprah.” www.AwakeningArtistry.com

ALL DAY PASS FOR SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25th - $115.00
(Includes Fountain of Wisdom, Tama Kieves workshop, Shawna Carol & Lisa Theil Concert)

Register online with PayPal (credit cards accepted): $125.00 (includes $10 one-time registration fee)

Saturday, February 25th, 9:00 a.m. – Noon
$35
Open to men and women

Fountain of Wisdom Celebration!

Jean Houston, Connie Grauds, and Tama Kieves

Special performances by Lorraine Bayes, Sacred Fire Choir, Shawna Carol and Lisa Thiel

Join us in this dynamic presentation by our featured presenters as they share their inspiring messages and uplifting songs for our community!

Sunday, February 26th, 9:00 a.m. - Noon
$40

Victoria Castle, MSC 

Breaking the Trance of Scarcity

If struggling were the way to get there, we'd all be there by now!  In a world where the constant message is "not enough — I'm not enough, there's not enough", struggle seems like the best strategy.  But that very act of struggle keeps us clenched and separate.  Contraction is the breeding ground of scarcity, while abundance thrives in flow.  This workshop offers specific practices for embodying (not just conceptualizing) wholeness and flow, which are the headwaters of abundance. Thinking differently is not enough, in this experiential workshop we will use somatic practices that literally retrain the nervous system so that we can live in the world with effectiveness and ease. Given the essential role of women in our global future, any one of us breaking free from the Trance of Scarcity and bringing in the Divine Feminine helps free us all.  
 
Victoria Castle is a disrupter of limits. As an executive coach, spiritual teacher and author of The Trance of Scarcity, she has helped thousands of people free themselves from old ways of being that keep them trapped so they can move into lives of fulfillment and sovereignty.  Her book is the result of her insistance that people have access to their innate greatness.  She is a dynamic speaker known for her humor, heart and practicality. www.tranceofscarcity.com  

Sunday, February 26th, 9:00 a.m. - Noon
$45

Connie Grauds:
The Energy Prescription …
the 4-Fold Path to Spirited Work

From the teachings of her decade of shamanic apprenticeship in the jungles of Peru, Connie demonstrates how the spiritual law-of-4's to energy flow can transform your life's work to one of deeper meaning, passion, and purpose. Connie, a pharmacist and shaman, is the author of The Energy Prescription. www.junglemedicine.net

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