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"Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like
the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all." - Buddha
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Dancing with gratitude and grief, fame and shame, gain and loss keeps me flexible if I continue bending like a tree with the gusts of wind that blow in from all those directions. Last week I had surgery to remove goiters which were enlarged to the point of choking me when I breathed deeply. I'm now breathing well and feeling good.
I have immense gratitude for having health insurance, good doctors and friends to take care of me as well as sadness and loss for having a part of my body cut out and becoming dependent on western medicine. Also gratitude for the many blessings in my life; family, friends, home, and health as well as deep grief that so many people in the world are not safe, do not have healthcare and are homeless and shame that I can not do enough to change that. I will keep dancing, bending with the winds, and doing what I am called to do for the healing of our planet and all her beings.
I am very excited to announce that the Work That Reconnects Facilitator Development Program is starting in September as a year long online webinar based program. This program is open to anyone who as done at least one 4 day in person Work That Reconnects workshop or participated in the full Conscious Elders Network Foundations Workshop.
Also pleased to announce that The Conscious Elders Network Foundations Workshop has now been beta tested both as an in person workshop and as an online Webinar and we are ready to roll it out to the Elder public.
I am happy to be headed back to the University of Earth October 6-9 to offer a Coming Back to Life retreat with Molly Young Brown.
Love to all, Constance
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The Work That Reconnects
“..draws from deep ecology, systems theory and spiritual traditions, and builds motivation, creativity, courage and solidarity for the transition to a sustainable human culture.”
Joanna Macy
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Reconnect Services Offered:
Retreats – A rare opportunity to deepen connection and inspiration. Your community or organization can engage me and/or Molly Brown to deliver a Work That Reconnects retreat.
Workshops – Provide experiential and transformative experiences.
The Work That Reconnects can help us explore the challenges of our time with mindfulness, open hearts and creativity. Workshops provide tools for working with the difficult issues facing our world and finding a path of active hope. Teachers as well as business and community leaders can learn to bring these skills to students and staff.
Councils of all Beings – let our creative imaginations reconnects us to the web of life. A participatory experience which awakens our innate ecological intelligence and creativity needed to meet the challenges of the emerging future. A powerful and transformative process available for schools, businesses or organizations as a way to build teams, foster creativity and explore different ways of viewing the world.
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Copyright © 2014 Constance Washburn, All rights reserved.
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