Circle Of Love Gathering: Workshops

2008 WORKSHOP INFORMATION COMING SOON!: Read below to learn about the types of opportunities we had in 2007.
Rev. David Leonard - Dance Me To The End of Love: Using movement and various intimacy exercises we will court the Presence of Love. Dr. Ernest Holmes tells us that it is time to move out of concepts and theories and into a direct experience of Love. David has been the Spiritual Director of the Center for Conscious Living in Huntsville, AL since 1989. He lends a playful and passionate energy to his expression of Truth. His desire is that we all unfold into our divine potential, blossoming in the moment, dancing in the light, while we remember who we are. As he allows himself to merge more completely with the Beloved, he is then able to invite others to dance with him as together they unite in the One. His passion for union with the Beloved is contagious. Bring your open heart to this workshop.
(http://www.conscious-living.org)
Rev. Mark Accomando - Peace In an Instant: This workshop will create a space for a deep inner connection with the ancient peace that resides at the center of each of us. Mark Accomando is a Minister and Intentional-Vibrational healer and has worked with hundreds in the practice of recognizing their healing point of awareness using silent and guided meditation, breath work, Affirmative Prayer Treatment, and the ancient sounds of Tibetan singing bowls and African flute.

The workshop is for the beginner in meditation and for the most advanced student who knows that going deeper into the inner sanctuary is an infinite journey.. We will prepare a sanctuary inside oneself that is a solid place of refuge, wisdom and insight so the individual will be poised in peace and anchored in a deep inner knowing and confidence
This workshops intention is to create the capacity within the individual to access their inner sanctuary so when life presents us with ciaos, radical change, and challenges that you will have an anchor of peace that you can access in an instant.
Revs. Mary Beth & Michael Speer - The Incredible Lightness of BEing.: As Joseph Campbell observed, "I don't believe people are looking for the
meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being
alive." This workshop will explore what we are alive to. Revs. Mary Beth and Michael are Co-Pastors of the DuPage Center of Religious Science in Glen Ellyn, IL. From Michael & Mary Beth. "As Husband and Wife, as Spiritual Partners, and as Co-Ministers of Religious Science, we dedicate ourselves to expressing God through all of our affairs, experiences, and relationships. We affirm that all life is God and all life is Good. Because of this, we accept that we are in harmony with every person and outpicturing in our lives. We are the creators of our experience. We express all the qualities of God through every thought and experience. We are well pleased, for we live our lives in Truth, and do not compromise Principle - not even for special occasions."
(http://www.dupagechurch.org)
Rev. Michelle Wadleigh - Choose Love: Join Rev. Michelle as she creates a container so profoundly safe and loving, that you will simply melt away all your normal tendencies to be guarded and allow love to seep deep into every inch of your body and mind and soul. A life of love is a life worth living. She will lead us through a gentle process of remembering who we are and what is important.

Rev. Michelle Wadleigh is the founding Pastor of the Center for Conscious Living in West Orange, New Jersey, the Chair for the Committee of Peace for Religious Science International, a coach, speaker and retreat facilitator. She is known for her deep sense of compassion, available love and robust laugh.
(http://www.njccl.org)
Revs. Renee Leboa & Christy Snow - From The Heart: From the heart is a workshop designed to allow the light of our true Divine nature to shine regardless of circumstance and regardless of the actions of others. No one has to change for us to be happy! To do this we must learn how to and continually choose to, live with our hearts open and from a place that believes that life is for us and not against us. We live our fullest, richest, healthiest life when we learn to live in this way and we stop wasting our life living a guarded existence.

We will explore some of the things that often side track us from our intention to live openly and freely with one another. Then we will practice tools that assist in annihilating those walls of separation. The walls fall from the power of peace that comes from the knowledge that all is God, therefore all is good and my life is perfect right here and now! Learn how to and gain practice in reframing situations to support this belief. Learn and practice heart centered listening and how to look past apparent faults of another and see their potential and from “seeing it right” it is done!
(http://www.cplcharlotte.com)
Dr. David Tharp - Intimacy Through Dance (In-To-Me-See): David Tharp is an internationally recognized psychotherapist who specializes in relationship intimacy, couple relationships and intercultural and dance therapy. He uses dance to assist people in expanding personal awareness and relationship sensitivity on the emotional, psychological and spiritual levels. He was formerly the chairman of the Network Buddhist Organizations of the United Kingdom, and was editor of the magazine of the Network of Engaged Buddhists (UK). David worked extensively with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, and studied different forms of dance expression in India, San Francisco, and South America. He is currently doing research in Japan for a PhD in Cultural Psychiatry. David’s workshops are our most popular every year and therefore you will have the opportunity to experience them daily!
Wednesday Morning Group Experience of Awakening the Love!: Wednesday Morning from 9am to 12 noon we will have a only one workshop option. This option is to bring us collectively into the “EXPERIENCE” of awakening love and calling it into action in our world. This morning will be similar to last year’s “Abiding In Love” day in which we will court the presence through meditation, music and movement. This will be a very sacred and experiential morning.
Allen Wilberton - Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting PlayShop: This workshop is based on the book and playbook by Lynn Grabhorn. This workshop will allow you to look at what you want verses what you don’t want. Allen will teach you ways to open your vibration valve to allow The Law of Attraction to work for you. If you want something (anything), this workshop is an opportunity for you to shift your consciousness – NOW.
Dale Worley ~ Ancient Ways, New Thought: Dale Worley shares his vision and understanding of the underlying principles found in indigenous practices and New Thought teachings. Through the experience of drumming, singing, and dancing, Dale guides us through an honoring of ancient practices, modern ideas, and the Great Spirit that expresses as all ways.

Dale is the founder of Sacred Place Ministries, a New Thought Music and Retreat Ministry, and is grateful to honor his Cherokee ancestors by allowing his love for ritual and tribal energy to shine through in worship services and retreat programs.
(www.asacredplace.net)
David Zasloff & Karen Drucker - Experience The Healing Power of Laughter: These two amazing musicians are also incredible comedians. Their presentation is not really a workshop but rather an opportunity to LIGHTEN UP! Come and enjoy the healing power of laughter through the comedic offerings of David and Karen. Cultivate the laughter within!
(http://www.davidzasloff.com)(http://karendrucker.com)
Janette and Gary Stines - Ready To Embrace An Abundant Life: This REAL workshop will give you a practical, transforming tool to live an abundant life. You will master a strategy to identify what it is you want and successfully obtain it. When you leave this workshop you will have the information you need to live a life of abundance all the time.
Linda Finley - The Journey of Sacred Grief: Being Religious Scientists does not mean that nothing painful ever happens to us. It means that we are more equipped to respond to such experiences. Grief is a necessary walk on the spiritual path. Losses can range from loss of employment, pets, possessions, a sense of safety or order, to the loss of the people nearest to us. We respond with an ebb and flow of processes such as Shock and Numbness, Yearning and Searching, Disorganization and Despair, and Reorganization. Honoring our emotions moves us closer to our Oneness with All.
(http://www.sgceugene.org)
Lisa Ferraro and Erika Luckett - Cultivating Creativity: A Path to the Infinite Divine: Experience the sacred center of your being as a spark of the infinite divine
creates through you as YOU!
This spirit-shop(TM) will offer you ways to:
-Identify and remove obstacles
-Open to your soul's expression
-Awaken and say YES to your divine expression
-Share your spark of awakened consciousness!

Join us for this inspiring journey to the soul that will involve meditating, music as well as creative ways to write and fun ways to play creatively.
(http://www.lisaferraro.com) (http://www.erikaluckett.com)
Margaret Starbird - "Mary Magdalene, Bride and Beloved.": Was Mary Magdalene the wife and Beloved of Jesus? What became of her after the Crucifixion of Jesus? What if the first Christian heresy was the denial of the Bride when her story was suppressed by the Church Fathers. Margaret Starbird’s work explores the Gospel accounts and later legends of Mary Magdalene, the "Bride in Exile," whose voice was silenced when she was called a prostitute. Starbird’s work heals the tragic “design flaw” in Christian doctrine—the loss of the Sacred Feminine. The workshop includes slides of images of Mary Magdalene and the art and artefacts of the "Grail" legends.
(http://www.margaretstarbird.net)