Upcoming Storycatching Events
For more information on any of these events, please contact us at the PeerSpirit office.
- Book Event: The Spirit of a Woman, Bellingham WA USA
- The Listening Well, Ontario, Canada
- The Listening Well, Melbourne, Australia
- LifeLines, Round Top TX
BOOK EVENT:
The Spirit of a Woman: Stories to Empower and Inspire, by Terry Laszlo-Gopadze (Editor)
with Christina Baldwin & Colleen Haggerty
September 8, 2010
Blending adept storytelling and courageous honesty for those who seek spiritually optimistic guidance, this compilation of inspiring stories of female creativity and compassion celebrates courageous women living spiritual lives while facing challenging circumstances. The authors surpass their perceived limits and show how challenges are really just opportunities to reach into their souls and find meaning and new strength in life.
Writer, seminar presenter, keynote speaker, and spiritual activist, Christina Baldwin, believes everybody has a story, and that story is the voice of humanity. Reclaiming the place of story is the core of her life work, for she believes we weave the world from the story outward. She and PeerSpirit co-founder Ann Linnea travel extensively to lecture, teach, and call people and organizations into conversations of heart and meaning.
Colleen Haggerty lost her leg in an auto accident when she was seventeen years old. The journey of her disability has taught her about the power of her spirit and how it guides her body through this lifetime. She is a trained SoulCollageTM facilitator, a process that guides people to their inner wisdom. As a trained life coach, Colleen coaches and mentors at her job at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Washington. She lives in Bellingham with her husband, two children, and her goofy dog.
Join Christina and Colleen at Village Books in Historic Fairhaven in Bellingham for this evening event!
DATE: Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 7:00pm
LOCATION: Village Books, 1200 Eleventh Street, Bellingham, Washington
COST: Free
THE LISTENING WELL - THE ART AND PRACTICE OF CIRCLE AND STORYCATCHING
With Christina Baldwin
October 21-24, 2010
Leadership includes the skills to elicit and respond effectively to the stories of those around us. Story provides the foundation for how we organize ourselves to get life's business done. In an increasingly complex world - where texting and email are often our primary means of communication - the practice of sitting down together and putting ourselves intentionally into a narrative context is now an essential skill.
- Circle is the practice of creating space where every voice is heard, and is the study of listening as much as it is the practice of speaking.
- Story offers us a way to hear what's really being said, and a means to recognize and appreciate the essence of identity.
Woven together, circle and story facilitate a deep shift in how we come together in groups to hear each other, especially in times of change and transition.
Please join Christina and a circle of colleagues from Ontario - Sylvia Cheuy, Holly Greenwood, Sharon Faulds and Chery Lyon - for a long weekend of practice and skill-building in the art of circle and story. For more information on the content of the workshop and the folks who are co-facilitating it, please download an event flyer.
REQUIRED READING: The Circle Way, A Leader in Every Chair by Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea (Berrett-Koehler); and Storycatcher, Making Sense of our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story by Christina Baldwin (New World Library)
DATES: October 21-24, 2010
LOCATION: Geneva Park Leadership Training and Conference Center (http://www.ymcaofsimcoemuskoka.ca/geneva_park/), located 90 minutes from Toronto in Orillia, Ontario. Built on a peninsula on Lake Couchiching, The Conference Center encompasses over 150 acres of pristine natural peninsula including a beautiful shoreline, marshland, and woods with 4 walking trails.
COST: Tuition is $990 CAD. This fee includes tuition, accommodation and meals.
REGISTRATION: Please contact Holly Greenwood at hollygreenwood@sympatico.ca.
Christina and Ann tailor their work to meet the needs of their clients and/or local organizers. The following event scheduled for this fall in Melbourne, Australia, is a one-day version of "The Listening Well".
THE LISTENING WELL – THE ART AND PRACTICE OF CIRCLE AND STORYCATCHING
A 1-day workshop with Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea
Abbotsford, Australia
November 18, 2010
Leadership includes the skills to elicit and respond effectively to the stories of those around us. Story provides the foundation for how we organize ourselves to get life's business done. In an increasingly complex world - where texting and email are often our primary means of communication - the practice of sitting down together and putting ourselves intentionally into a narrative context is now an essential skill.
- Circle is the practice of creating space where every voice is heard, and is the study of listening as much as it is the practice of speaking.
- Story offers us a way to hear what's really being said, and a means to recognize and appreciate the essence of identity.
Woven together, circle and story facilitate a deep shift in how we come together in groups to hear each other, especially in times of change and transition.
Please join Christina, Ann and Melbourne colleagues Deirdre Downie and Diana Coverdale for a day-long workshop of practice and skill-building in the art of circle and story. For more information on the content of the workshop and the folks who are organizing it, please download an event flyer.
RECOMMENDED READING: The Circle Way, A Leader in Every Chair by Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea (Berrett-Koehler); and Storycatcher, Making Sense of our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story by Christina Baldwin (New World Library)
DATE/TIME: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Thursday, November 18, 2010
LOCATION: Community room of the Abbotsford Convent, 1 St. Heliers Street, Abbotsford, Australia (near Melbourne). The convent is a beautiful venue - surrounded by gardens near the Yarra River.
COST: Tuition is $AU 395. This fee includes tuition, lunch, morning and afternoon teas. Early bird discount of $AU350 by September 17.
REGISTRATION: Download the event flyer for information on payment and registration, which is being handled by local hosts Deirdre Downie (djdownie@insightnow.com.au) and Diana Coverdale (diana@gatewaydc.com.au).
LIFELINES: A WEEKEND WRITING RETREAT
WITH CHRISTINA BALDWIN
Round Top, Texas
March 4-6, 2011
What if we really talked with each other, and listened to each other, and held each others' stories as sacred information that could transform our lives? What if we learned to shape the stories of our lives as containers for our experience & an expression of our heart's greatest desires? What if we wrote what we had learned & took it home with us as a guide to realizing our dreams & hopes? Writing our past in the present can be a life line to a future filled with hope.
Join Christina for this women-only weekend lifewriting retreat offered by the Story Circle Network (http://www.storycircle.org). The venue is the unique 200-acre Festival Hill campus (http://www.festivalhill.org), which contains major performance facilities, historic houses, extensive gardens, parks and nature preserves. Enrollment is limited, so register soon!
DATES: March 4-6, 2011
LOCATION: Festival Hill Institute in historic Round Top, Texas, 75 miles east of Austin.
COST:
--Early bird registration (before December 31, 2010): $435 for non-members (includes a 1-year membership), $400 for Story Circle Network members;
--Regular registration (after Dec. 31): $460 for non-members (includes a 1-year membership), $425 for SCN members.
The fee includes tuition, 2 nights in a triple-occupancy room and 5 meals. Single occupancy rooms are available at an increased cost.
REGISTRATION: Story Circle Network will be handling registrations. For all the details, and the online registration form, visit http://www.storycircle.org/LifeLines/.
To delve more deeply into story and Storycatching as a movement, see the website created for the book Storycatcher at www.storycatcher.net.
