RECONCILIATION BETWEEN WOMEN & MEN:
Alchemy of Beloved Community
Date: September 21 – 26, 2014
Location:
Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, New York
For more information and to register, please see the Omega Institute.
Description:
Take a step beyond women’s and men’s work. Experience the power of community healing and reclaim the right to live in mutual trust, joyous reverence, and spiritual communion.
Together in this workshop, women and men jointly confront the historical and cross-cultural origins of gender oppression and exploitation, and learn to collaborate skillfully.
Through the transformative process of Gender Reconciliation—applying principles of truth and reconciliation to gender and sexuality injustice—we create a safe forum to unmask and relinquish pervasive layers of social gender conditioning.
Utilizing a range of experiential modalities, including small group work, interactive exercises, focused and sensitive dialogue, short presentations, contemplative practice, breath work, and creative expression, we:
* Explore scientific insights applied to consciousness and gender relations
* Discover relational skills for intimacy beyond sexual and romantic stereotypes
* Develop greater awareness of the hidden traps of personal and social gender conditioning
* Learn practical skills for daily living in integrity as women and men in society
Developed and tested in eight countries over the past 20 years, the Gender Reconciliation process moves beyond equal rights and mutual respect to mutual reverence, restoring the sacred covenant between masculine and feminine.
Facilitators
William Keepin, PhD is co-founder of Gender Reconciliation International, which has conducted 80 programs in eight countries for reconciliation between women and men. A physicist and whistleblower in nuclear science, he trained in spiritual disciplines and transpersonal psychology. His books include Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men (Hohm Press, 2007), Women Healing Women: A Model of Hope For Oppressed Women Everywhere (Hohm Press, 2009), Song of the Earth: A Synthesis of the Scientific and Spiritual Worldviews (Permanent Publications, 2012).
Rev Cynthia Brix is an interfaith minister and co-founder of Gender Reconciliation International, which collaborates with the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation to implement Gender Reconciliation within the university setting. Cynthia organized an international conference in Turin, Italy that brought women spiritual masters together from Buddhist, Christian, and Hindu traditions, and produced a DVD video from this conference in 2009 entitled Cultivating Women’s Spiritual Mastery.Cynthia is a contributing author of Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men (Hohm Press, 2007), and co-author of Women Healing Women: A Model of Hope For Oppressed Women Everywhere (Hohm Press, 2009)
John Tsungme Guy, MA, CACII, LPC is a consultant to Gender Reconciliation International and Satyana Institute based in Seattle, WA. John has co-facilitated numerous Gender Reconciliation workshops including two months of intensive programs throughout South Africa in collaboration with Gender Reconciliation International. He is a psychotherapist specializing in group facilitation and addictions counseling. He is also a meditation instructor who serves on the team of retreat leaders for intensive meditation retreats for graduate students at Naropa University. John holds an MA in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and a BA in Sociology from the University of Nevada. From 2003 to 2012 he worked with youth and adults in diverse settings to instill positive lifestyle habits and foster healthy relationships.
Zanele Khumalo, MA is a consultant to Gender Reconciliation International in Cape Town, South Africa. She was one of four facilitators who led the first Gender Reconciliation workshop for students at Stellenbosch University—the inaugural program of a partnership between Gender Reconciliation International and the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation. Zanele is a trained facilitator with experience in diversity management, intercultural communication, and alternatives to violence. She holds a postgraduate degree in Diversity Studies from the University of Cape Town, and an undergraduate degree in Psychology and Social Anthropology. Zanele is on professional staff of the Center for Conflict Resolution, and earlier spent six years as a social science researcher and trainer of young adult mentors of children at risk.