Personal Exploration   

What is the journey of a Ukrainian woman refugee? What was the experience of growing up in Soviet Ukraine? What is the impact of the transition from communism to a free Ukraine on the life of a Ukrainian woman and her family? Becoming a refugee involves a change of identity, loss of status and economic stability, and a descent into an unknown world. Through sharing the stories of six Ukrainian refugee women living in Ashland, these questions will be explored within the larger context of Ukrainian history, women’s spirituality and the refugee experience as a path of spiritual transformation. The course will include lecture and discussion, ritual circles, reflective writing in response to the readings, local Ukrainian women speaker presentations (videos) and out-of-class readings. 

NOTE: Required Text: “Displaced: The Ukrainian Refugee Experience” by Tamar Jacoby, independently published (Sept. 9, 2022) 

Chaos can take many forms — whether with personal struggles or global uncertainties. Yet, peace is always within us. Inspired by the transformative teachings of Sydney Banks’ Three Principles, this understanding offers us a lens to uncover our innate resilience and well-being regardless of our external circumstances. Join this engaging journey, where we will blend insightful discussions with short, impactful videos featuring thought leaders like Syd Banks, Michael Neill and George and Linda Pransky. In watching these videos, we often receive our own deeper insights that can guide us to more clarity, peace and an empowered life. In a world yearning for peace, those of us who have embraced the wisdom of the Three Principles understand that raising our consciousness is the ultimate answer. As we live fully in our own peace, contentment and well-being, we affect all around us, at a personal, community and global level. Join this exploration toward the profound healing of the universal mind.

NOTE: There are many other wonderful Three Principles teachers. To watch other teachers, search on YouTube.

Chaos can take many forms — whether with personal struggles or global uncertainties. Yet, peace is always within us. Inspired by the transformative teachings of Sydney Banks’ Three Principles, this understanding offers us a lens to uncover our innate resilience and well-being regardless of our external circumstances. Join this engaging journey, where we will blend insightful discussions with short, impactful videos featuring thought leaders like Syd Banks, Michael Neill and George and Linda Pransky. In watching these videos, we often receive our own deeper insights that can guide us to more clarity, peace and an empowered life. In a world yearning for peace, those of us who have embraced the wisdom of the Three Principles understand that raising our consciousness is the ultimate answer. As we live fully in our own peace, contentment and well-being, we affect all around us, at a personal, community and global level. Join this exploration toward the profound healing of the universal mind.

NOTE: There are many other wonderful Three Principles teachers. To watch other teachers, search on YouTube.

This course is designed to promote self-discovery and personal growth. It serves as a “personal incubator” to explore authentic self-awareness and unbiased truths, aiming to prepare participants for a deeper understanding of life. Key topics include balancing emotional and spiritual dimensions, living life with integrity and understanding the interconnected aspects of the psyche. The course will incorporate facilitated discussions inspired by short video clips from renowned personal exploration authors Brené Brown, Wayne Dyer and Don Miguel Ruiz alongside the instructor’s own metaphysical beliefs. Participants engage in open discussions to interpret the videos, with no definitive right or wrong answers. The class emphasizes active participation and provides access to supplementary materials online at JourneyBetween.org for further reflection outside the sessions.

 

This course is designed to promote self-discovery and personal growth. It serves as a “personal incubator” to explore authentic self-awareness and unbiased truths, aiming to prepare participants for a deeper understanding of life. Key topics include balancing emotional and spiritual dimensions, living life with integrity and understanding the interconnected aspects of the psyche. The course will incorporate facilitated discussions inspired by short video clips from renowned personal exploration authors Brené Brown, Wayne Dyer and Don Miguel Ruiz alongside the instructor’s own metaphysical beliefs. Participants engage in open discussions to interpret the videos, with no definitive right or wrong answers. The class emphasizes active participation and provides access to supplementary materials online at JourneyBetween.org for further reflection outside the sessions.

 

The newest treatment for pain is one of the oldest, most effective strategies for pain-free living: mindfulness. Learn how to retrain your relationship to pain through traditional meditation practices. Through five step-by-step techniques taught in plain language, you’ll learn how to overcome your internal resistance to pain by observing and opening to it — the key to transforming physical suffering into a flow of pure energy. With regular practice, you can tap into your mind’s own power to overcome pain. You will learn how to deconstruct pain into manageable pieces, experience how pain naturally transforms into energy, how to allow pain to dissipate into space and free up your energy to heal and begin living fully again. This course relies on “Natural Pain Relief” by meditation teacher Shinzen Young. As a close student of Shinzen’s for over 20 years, the instructor has taught his methods, integrated with her own practice of restorative hypnotherapy, with much success.

NOTE: Please acquire the book “Natural Pain Relief — How to Soothe & Dissolve Physical Pain With Mindfulness” by Shinzen Young, and read as much of it as you care to before class begins. No previous experience with meditation is required.

Our lives do not come with an instruction booklet for living our life fully! This discussion course will explore the nature of reality and the purpose of life. What is reality? What are its patterns and how can we live a happier life? The course utilizes the instructor’s latest book, available free of charge. He will highlight selected portions from each chapter of his book. All of the instructor’s ideas aim toward making life better.