Creativity and Wellness workshop on February 28

Please join us Saturday, February 28 from 10am - noon for the Creativity and Wellness workshop led by Solveiga Miezitis. All are invited to attend.

The Creativity and Wellness workshop will involve self-reflective activities to promote personal growth and wellness. Participants will have a chance to co-create by drawing, mind-mapping, journalling, and sharing stories. The workshop will be interactive and fun!

Solveiga Miezitis is professor Emeritus at OISE. She has taught in the School Psychology Program in Applied Psychology and more recently in Adult Education and Counseling Psychology at OISE, as well as in the Psychology Dept at the University of Latvia. Her main research work is in the area of Prevention of Depression published in Creating Alternatives to Depression in the Schools.Her current interest is in promoting wellness. During the past decade she has conducted longitudinal studies on risk and resiliency factors in first-year student adaptation at the University of Latvia focusing on factors related to Positive Psychology.

The Holistic Educator’s Group meets Saturday mornings from 10 am to 12 noon approximately every two months from September through April. The meetings are open to all who may be interested in holistic teaching and learning and are not exclusively for those who are associated with studies at OISE/UT. We have a number of captivating speakers each year who join us to lead workshop sessions which tend to be interactive, and participatory. Meetings are also an opportunity to network with those who have common interests.

Our meetings are at OISE/UT, 252 Bloor Street West between St. George and Bedford on the north side of the street. There is a notice board in the lobby where the Room Number (5-280) will be posted. The main floor coffee concession is sometimes open on Saturdays or there's a Tim Horton's just east of the building on Bloor. Parking on Saturday under the OISE building is fairly reasonable. Of course TTC is always a good option (St. George Station on the Bloor line). If you are planning to attend, please RSVP. skarsten@oise.utoronto.ca

The information page on the web for the Saturday Group is http://astralsite.com/holistic/holistic-meet.html

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Terence McKenna on Shamanism

Wave Meditation Video

Meditation, The Brain, The God-Helmet & Other Matters

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JOURNEYING: THE WAY OF THE SHAMAN

An introduction to shamanism and the shamanic worldview, as well as an opportunity for an experience of shamanic journeying.

WONDERWORKS JUICY FRIDAY February 27
79A Harbord St (near Spadina & Harbord) Toronto
7:00pm to 9:00pm

There is no registration or cost for this evening.

www.gowonderworks.com

Singing is healthy for you... WORKSHOP by DON HILL

SACRED SINGING, HEALING HARMONIES:

Modern neuroscience is affirming what vocalists and shamans have
known for years: Singing is healthy for you; and specific vocal
styles that play on harmonic overtones stimulate the sense of well-being.

Harmonic overtones are embedded within sacred choral music performed worldwide.

In this workshop, you will hear and learn how Tibetan monks,
Gregorian chanters and Mongolian overtone singers create the powerful
healing and meditative qualities associated with ritual chanting and
overtone harmonics.

A complementary instructional DVD is bundled with the workshop.

Don Hill is a former host of Tapestry on CBC Radio One. His one-hour
television documentary, Chants Encounter profiled harmonic overtone
singers from around the world.

The two-day course has been taught to clinical therapists, hospital
and palliative care workers, musicians and contemplatives of every sort.

"Excellent instructor, a fountain of knowledge," wrote one evaluator.
"Don Hill is top notch!" Course participants have also written, "he
delivers the content clearly and in a stimulating fashion." Overall
the course is "very inspiring."

The workshop will be held on 13 and 14 March at the Westwood
Unitarian Congregation church at 11135 - 65 Avenue (close to the
Parkallen community centre) in Edmonton.

$150 dollars (GST included) advance registration required with
annehill@telus.net.