Parenting With Wisdom
Emotional Literacy
E OCTOBER - Thursday, October 3, (7:15-9 pm) Talk: “TOTEMS - THE ZOO IN YOU!” with Julie Desmarais Join Clairvoyant Energy Master Julie Desmarais as your guide in getting to know your ‘true nature’ better! Using inspiring real life stories she will help you REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE and the awesome potential within YOU! She will support, enlighten and inspire ‘Your Connection to Your Animal Totem Guardians’! See you there! Location: at the Ottawa Citizen, 1101 Baxter Rd (donations welcome) (...and continuing...) Saturday, October 19 (1-4 pm) Workshop: “Totems - Discovering & Uncovering the Zoo in You!” with Julie Desmarais Join Clairvoyant Energy Master Julie Desmarais as your guide in REMEMBERING WHO YOU ARE! She will teach Animal Totem 101 and speak to: what is a totem? ; why they are so important in your life ? ; why you may have disconnected from them; how to reconnect, honour and work with them; and finally, how your totems can boost your self-esteem and confidence! Julie will also take you on a guided meditation/journey to meet and be inspired by ' Your Animal Totems'. Location: Hintonburg Community Centre, 1064 Wellington St. ($20.) Phone: (work) please leave messages: 613-688-1717 ( next ) NOVEMBER Thursday, November 7, (7:15 - 9 pm) Talk: Healing Crystals – From Atlantis to present time with Linda Steele. Linda Steele is a Shamanic energy healer and crystal practitioner. Join Linda and discover why crystals are enjoying a renaissance for healing and being used in everyday life. www.lindaenergyhealer.com Location: at the Ottawa Citizen, 1101 Baxter Rd (donations welcome)
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Whirling dervishes will perform Sema, the meditative movements, to traditional Sufi music. Originating among the Turkish Sufis and followers of Rumi “Mevlevi Order of Sufis”, the practice has been passed down to devotees for centuries. In 2005, UNESCO proclaimed the “The Mevlevi Sema Ceremony” of Turkey as amongst the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. The concert is on Saturday, November 9, 2013, 7pm at Kailash Mital Theatre- Southam Hall- Carleton University. For more information, go to www.garoandfriends.ca or to Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/517706981643538/ Tickets are $20.00 online at www.garoandfriends.ca, in person at Singing Pebble Books at 202 Main St. 613-230-9165 or at the door two hours prior to the concert.
motional literacy refers to the ability to first recognize and then speak authentically about one’s feelings. This is a life skill that people of all ages can learn and use effectively throughout life. We identify five core feelings: anger, sadness, fear, joy and sexual feelings. We acknowledge that students prior to puberty do not readily recognize their sexual feelings, so for pre-teens we use the fourcore feelings: anger, sadness, fear and joy. Each of the four feelings is associated with a body centre. Generally, anger is stored and felt in the head, the shoulders and the back; sadness is felt in the chest; fear is felt in the belly; and, joy is often experienced all over the body as well as circulating out of the body in the form of tingling and streaming. Sometimes we may feel a feeling that is a combination of more than one feeling. For example, jealousy is a combination of anger, sadness and fear. Other “combo” feelings are guilt and shame. It’s useful to check in with oneself to determine which of the core feelings is most activated when one is feeling a combo feeling or to honour that more than one of the five core feelings is being activated at the same time. Blame and ‘story’ that are usually defensive in nature are not important and are even discouraged. Why we are feeling the feeling is not as valuable as how and what we are feeling. Authentic sharing of feelings brings about a rapid shift from the core feeling to the experience of aliveness and even bliss if a full feeling cycle is allowed and experienced. Becoming emotionally literate then minimizes defensiveness and drama and aids in returning back to essence, vitality and aliveness. Rabia Wilcox is a Certified Conscious Living Coach with the Hendricks Institute www.hendricks.com. 613-293-7909. For upcoming events and workshops or to order the Conscious Kids’ Curriculum as an e-book for $27.95 (US) please visit: www.rabiawilcox.com
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