Elders 2010 Seminars

Elders 2010 Wisdom Seminars

Please register for wisdom seminars online here, or at the Registration Table during the Elders Gathering. You may register up until the seminar begins.

Wisdom Seminar Descriptions:

Restoring Access to Our Spiritual Sovereignty

PATRICIA DOWNING DEASIS, TSALAGI

Monday August 2 9am – noon

Tuesday August 3 9am – noon

Morning Seminars Both Days Same Teachings

In this Wisdom Seminar, we are invited to open our minds to remembering the importance of restoring access to our spiritual Sovereignty.

The call is to get in touch with out consciousness. Scientist are now stating that consciousness is in all the cells of our being not just in out mind. Our Ancestors knew this and taught it to the people long age. Participants are invited to look at how they may get in touch with their inner knowing. By doing this we prepare ourselves to be in the ones of “The Dance”. It is simple to do; yet often one misses the realization that it is simple. It is importanthat we recognize that we are in charge of doing so. Someone else cannot do it for us.

We will explore our inseparability with the elements and with ourselves. To know that we are of the Earth and can of benefit to it.

We also will look at how being aware of our consciousness and out thoughts are so important as it affect our environment. We will look at how meditation helps us in the process of “Knowing” and “Doing”.

Moving Beyond 2012

MIKE BASTINE, ALGONQUIN

Monday, August 2^nd 9:00 am – 12 noon

All Day Seminar 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Things we can work on now, to be ready for what the future can be. Dealing with duality to be ready for singularity. Many people are looking at 2012 as an end point. In this seminar Mike encourages us to look beyond 2012, to look at the enlightenment element which is arising in all of us.

Wabanaki Tales and Traditions

ARNIE NEPTUNE

Monday, Aug. 2 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Arnie will share with us a brief history of the Wabanaki people including the customs and ceremonies.

Substance Abuse in the dance of life

KODOTA BRITTON, ECHOTA TSALAGI

Monday, Aug. 2 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Kodata will share with us how Substance Abuse creates unbalance within us, family, and the universe in the dance of life.

Creating Nvwatiyi

(Cherokee - A Place Of Good Medicine)

JANET WINDWALKER JONES, TEXAS TSALAGI

Monday, August 2 9am – 12pm

Nvwatiyi is a place of harmony, peace, respectfulness and honor. It is a realm within us where our spiritual essence keeps our biological, psychological, sociological, emotional, intellectual and cultural identities in harmony. Nvwatiyi is also an environmentally safe and sacred place where we can explore our gifts, including those we came into this life with and those we develop as we follow our path, honoring the 7 directions, ourselves and one another. This workshop will invite us to look inside to create our Nvwatiyi.

Every participant is invited to bring something that is sacred or special to him or her to put on the altar we will create in the center of the circle during this ceremonial workshop.

Each person is also invited to come prepared to demonstrate a 5-6 minute ritual/exercise with the group that participants can take and use with others.

Transition:

Traditional Culture/Mainstream America

ALLEN SOCKABASIN, PASSAMAQUODDY

Tuesday, August 3 9am – noon

Allen discusses the experience of living in an isolated Native community that spoke the Passamaquodday language while living in a society where the primary language of today is English.

Jews: Restoring Access to Tribal Spiritual Sovereignty:

We Join all Our relatives in the dance of one To Heal the World (Tikkun Olam).”

Dr. Barry Roth

Tuesday August 3 9am – 12noon

The Tallis and Telfillin illuminate how we must wrestle with 2 present problems--- in their relationship to each other and to us: the appearance of adversity between Israelites and Palestinian Ishmaelites; and environmental crisis from an oily economy.

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