[Sdpg] Sdpg Digest, Vol 113, Issue 7

Wed May 16 09:48:34 PDT 2012

Our's is a very mobile society - how would you adapt these principles
to a more nomadic apartmentment lifestyle with perhaps
less-than-desired cooperation with fellow hivemates?

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>    1. Art of Mentoring: Creating Resilient Mentors, Village,	&
>       Community (Living Mandala)
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> Subject: [Sdpg] Art of Mentoring: Creating Resilient Mentors, Village,
> 	& Community
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> Dear Friend,
>
> For anyone looking to deepen their experience as a mentor and trainer, and
> to experience the art and alchemy of what it takes create a village... we
> recommend the upcoming Art of Mentoring - facilited by Jon Young, the 8
> Shields Institute, and a team of experienced mentors and facilitators from
> around the country and world.
>
> This year happening in the Santa Cruz Mountains the second week of August.
>
> More Information below.
>
> -Living Mandala
>
>
> Art of Mentoring
>
> Creating Resilient Mentors, Village & Community
>
> August 6-12, 2012
>
> Santa Cruz Mountains, California
>
> Facilitated by Jon Young, Mark Morey, Lauren Dalberth, David Hage & a Team
> of experienced leaders, facilitators, and educators from around the world.
>
> For More Information Click Here
>
>
>
>
> Because it Takes a Village to?
> Engage the gifts of our elders
> Create essential rites of passage  for our teens
> Ensure parents are supported and thriving
> Welcome our babies into a world of open arms
> Feel deep compassion and gratitude for All of Our Relations
> Understand your gifts and how to apply them in service to the people.	
>
> Course Description
>
> The Art of Mentoring is a week-long, experiential, nature based program
> designed to help us remember these old ways and learn to apply them to our
> modern communities. Guided by a team of experienced leaders and facilitators
> from around the world, Art of Mentoring participants come together to
> experience, learn from and co-create a joyful, engaged learning community.
> You will walk away with tools and embodied practices of regenerative
> community design, mentoring techniques, deep nature connection, and an
> amplified passion for learning. Deep in all of our roots, there are stories
> of our ancestors living in healthy, regenerative communities?villages where
> people of all ages were in deep relationship with the land, each other, and
> themselves. Our hope is to activate and inspire you to create healthy
> communities right in your own back yard!
>
> The course is taught through group experiential activities, lectures,
> storytelling, and music. We will be both indoors and outside exploring in
> the field.
>
> This is a Family Friendly Event!
>
> Creating a village where the whole family is welcome, supported and growing
> together is an important element to the Art of Mentoring culture. In that
> spirit, there are youth nature connection programs for children aged 4-12
> and a teen program for youth ages 13-18. Both the teen program and the youth
> program run concurrently with the adult program, overlapping for most meals
> (read further for more information).
>
> Youth Program
>
> The Youth & Kids? programs include sensory awareness games and exercises,
> earth living skills, native scout skills, arts and crafts, music and
> storytelling, and getting to know the natural world through ?native eyes.?
> Children learn these skills and knowledge through artful mentoring that taps
> into their passions and interests.
>
> The Youth Program for children 7-12 old and the Kid?s Program for 4-6
> year-olds make it possible for the whole family to attend the Art of
> Mentoring and is a critical part of the living culture of awareness. The
> children add the spark of playfulness as they interact with workshop
> participants at mealtimes and the evenings. Participants also get to witness
> mentoring at work with children as the children explore, imagine and play
> outside with the guidance of a regional network of instructors. The children
> in turn have an enlivened experience of what it might be like to live in a
> village surrounded by adults looking out for them.
>
>
>
> AOM Teen Program: Mountains to Sea Teen Rendezvous
>
> The AOM Teen Program is designed to immerse teens in wilderness living and
> adventure. Guided by a team of experienced nature connection mentors, the
> teens will connect more deeply to the natural world, their peers and
> themselves through daily activities including primitive skills, tracking,
> awareness games, scout skills, team building, etc.
>
> The week will culminate with an overnight backpack leaving from the Art of
> Mentoring base camp and heading out from the mountains to the sea and back
> again.
>
> Enriching the experience and making it more than ?overnight camp,? the Teen
> Program will have connections with a community of elders, aunts, uncles, and
> youth that have formed around the Art of Mentoring. The teens will leave
> with an embodied experience of what it might be like to live in a village
> surrounded by adults looking out for them. They will play an important role
> in bringing back the stories of the landscape to the village at large.
>
> Opportunities for Returning Participants!
>
> This year there is a 2nd level experience in the Art of Mentoring for folks
> who have previously attended an Art of Mentoring and want to deepen their
> experience being a mentor for others. This ?Ring 2 experience will include
> staff guided nature connection and core routine activities deepening your
> capacity to guide others in nature connection and core routines. There is a
> limit of 20 in this program.
> For more Information please email: laurendalberth at gmail.com.
>
> For More Information Click Here
>
>
> Living Mandala
> Organizing Education, Events & Initiatives for Personal & Planetary
> Transformation
> www.LivingMandala.com
> Find Living Mandala on Facebook!
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