The International School of Temple Arts Presents
Healing the Wounded Feminine
3-Day Post Conference Advanced Intensive
for Sacred Sexuality Practitioners
October 5-7th, 2009
Catskills, New York
As sacred sexual practitioners, “healing the Wounded Feminine” is not just the grand calling of bringing the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine into full integration on Earth. It is also the intimate journey a healer accompanies their seekers on, a journey of releasing traumas, nurturing the capacity to transform pain and receive pleasure, rediscovering one’s voice and sexual agency, and eventually awakening to one’s own divinity.
And this journey is not without its challenges for the initiate and pitfalls for the experienced practitioner.
As mid-wives of others’ transformation, we know all too well that most seekers will not know how delving into, stirring up, and beginning to confront their shadow sides will manifest. It is our responsibility as their teachers and guides, as best we can, to mid-wife our clients through their emotional and psychic upheavals with compassion and supportive grace. But even the best and most experienced among healers can experience unaccounted for difficulties and challenges.
Whether you are a daka or dakini who has learned “the hard way,” someone who’s still struggling for better tools, or one of the “blessed” who’s career in healing the Wounded Feminine, so far, has had few upsets, this is 3-days that you will not want to miss!
Live, eat, train and bond for 3-days in the Catskill Mountains with this dynamic and diverse teacher-triad and an intimate group of knowledge-hungry healers!
This Practitioners’ 3-day Advanced Intensive is being held October 5th, 6th and 7th, immediately following the Daka/Dakini Conference East. Like the Conference, this Intensive is happening at Shandelee Lake Inn located 2-hours outside of New York City.
“We’re one of the few communities willing to deal with this stuff and we’re so often not given the tools for diffusing the dynamite so that we don’t get burned and our clients don’t get re-traumatized.”
~David Cates
Dive deep into the
dynamics, nuances, opportunities and pitfalls
existing inside the work of healing the Wounded Feminine with
clients and with other practitioners.
“In Chiropractic school, they used to tell us ‘If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.’ What you have is this… [holds up a hammer.] What you need to help people in our line of work is this…[holds up Leatherman tool, folded out to the pliers, scissors, knife, screwdriver and 20 other gadgets]“
~ Betty Martin
In this 3-day intensive, you will learn:
- How to access and wield your Sacred Masculine in ways that protect and support the healing of another's Sacred Feminine.
- How to create a powerful container appropriate for deep work inside of the Wounded Feminine.
- Practical tools, protocols and approaches to doing Wounded Feminine work that are applicable on all or most clients, as well as ways for mapping out the mid-wifeing of their journey back to wholeness.
- Ways to create boundaries and agreements that will support your client while preventing you from over-extending and depleting your reserves.
- What to watch out for and, especially, what not-to-do when working with seekers who have histories of abuse, and how you can best support them and yourself through such work.
- How to account for our own learning curves when working with the Wounded Feminine, and do it in ways that strengthen our work, empower our clients and lessen mishaps.
- Ways to take responsibility for “wrong calls” (when and if they happen) that will keep you grounded, strengthen your seeker’s trust rather than undermine it, and move the healing forward in ways that being defensive and attempting to “be perfect” cannot.
Doing Wounded Feminine work with seekers inevitably touches upon their scars, sometimes reopening them. It also, at times, unexpectedly re-activates and re-opens our own wounds.
“Staying current with our own “stuff” is THE foundation of our work.”
~David Cates
During this intimate, intense journeying with David, Betty and Reid, you will experience:
- The edges of your own woundedness in order that you may bridge your experience to that of your seekers’.
- Protocols that will allow you to “front-load” a seeker’s awareness and preemptively direct their stored-up rage and mistrust in constructive ways, ways that will empower their healing and lessen the load on you.
- How keeping your composure and taking “full-responsibility” when you are the one who is being blamed creates an opening for quantum healing.
- The support and witnessing of your peers in ways that will strengthen your practice and empower the community of sacred healers as a whole
Extend your conference experience in the Catskills with 72-additional, intimate hours of learning alongside these three amazing teachers!
“When I need my time on the table, where do I go? Who do I see? I have learned the hard way not to assume that a Daka or Dakini knows anything more than an initiate. I don’t assume. When I work with a peer, I start with the basics just like anyone else. We may move faster, but always start with the basics. Never assume anything just because you’re working with a peer.”
~Betty Martin
Journey deep as David, Betty and Reid share their individual journeys, role model techniques for dealing with your own shadow-side during client sessions, and help you deepen the steadfastness and groundedness that is so vital to sacred sexual healing as a practitioner.
“We owe it to ourselves as a community of sacred sexual practitioners to be as ‘on top of our game’ as possible, and to support our peers in being as capable and impeccable and as ‘on top of their games’ as possible, too. I promise you that these 3-days will nourish your practice, yourself, and the community from which you can draw support. If not, I will give you your money back for the course. Me. That’s how strongly I feel about this 3-Day Intensive. Join us!”
~Reid Mihalko
Cost for this 3-Day Intensive:
$495
(Rooms and Meal Plan not included)
All Attendees:
Lodging, meals and transportation are not included in the registration.
For Room Rates and Meal Plan FAQ/Sign-up follow this link or call 718-581-9987 .
We have arranged for a variety of room discounts and food plans so your weekend will be pleasant and restful.
For further questions and suggestions, please call Reid Mihalko at 917-207-4554 or email him
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Given the statistics, all of us, whether we know it or not, will at some point in our practices, work with a client or clients with abuse histories.
Join us and explore what precautions we can take that can prevent us from re-traumatizing our clients and free them from re-experiencing disempowering patterns.
If you think learning the hard-won knowledge of experiencing the fury of a wounded woman or man as they heal themselves and reclaim their sexuality is important to your practice, then this is 3-days with three mentors you do not want to miss. If being able to masterfully create a container with your Divine Masculine so that the Divine Feminine can re-calibrate herself within your seekers, or if knowing how to role model steadfastness and reliability in times of concern and distress for your clients are skill sets that you think will take your clients deeper and your offerings to the next level, then register today.
And, if it has been your own journey towards healing yourself that has given you an intimate experience of completing your own Wounded Feminine nature, and midwifing others through their own journey has become your calling, then this is definitely the place for you to peel back the next layer.
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