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Survivorship Music Webinar and Writing Workshops - February 2010From: ritualabuselinks@aol.com (ritualabuselinks) 2010 Mike Skinner Webinar, February 6, 2010 Hope, Healing and Help through Music and Advocacy Mike Skinner is the Webinar presenter on Saturday, February 6. "Hope, Healing and Help through Music and Advocacy." If you would like to attend this Webinar, please register by the evening of Thursday, February 4, as registration closes then. Mike played in 2003 at the first East Coast Conference at the Friends MeetingHouse in Cambridge MA and he was great. We have been in e- touch ever since. Because of his wonderful, large, open heart and the quality of his music, he is one of the very, very few people I know who has been able to support himself by speaking out about his abuse. It's a privilege to count him among my companions on the healing journey. Articles of his have been published in Survivorship. Many Voices, Male Survivor, and many other places. You can listen to nineteen tracks of his music at Registration: The cost of the Webinar is $20.00, plus the cost of your telephone call. There are a limited number of full and partial scholarships available. To reserve a space in the Webinar, e-mail Jeannie at shamai@survivorship.org and give her this information: 1.Your name 2. The Webinar you wish to attend: "Hope, Healing and Help through Music and Advocacy" on February 6 from noon to 2 P.M. Pacific time -- and/or one of the Webinars listed below 3. Whether you need a full or partial scholarship and the method of payment (PayPal or check) PayPal button is at http:// /webinars.html 4. Your preferred e-mail address and your time zone if you have moved Other upcoming Webinars in the series are: March 13 Lynn Schirmer "Art and Activism: What the Public Sees." April 17 Kitty Downey "Healthy Supportive Relationships - What They Are, How to Make One." May 15 Celestial "Riding off into the Sunrise." More information about the Webinars is at webinars.html Survivorship Writing Workshop February 13, 2010 Writing Ourselves Whole A writing workshop with Survivorship Some Survivorship folks did this workshop with Jen in November and it was wonderful. The writing exercises will be different and so if you came to the last workshop, you are welcome to come to this workshop as well. You do not have to be "a writer" to have a good and healing experience at this workshop. WHERE: Family Justice Center COST:$50 470 27th St Oakland, Ca TIME:12:30 -4pm WHO: Jen Cross : transformative writing workshops Support person: Dvora Gordon Many of us who are survivors of loving trauma feel fragmented or disjointed and have come to believe we must always live our lives this way. Transforming our language is one way we transform our lives; we can create new art and new beauty out of the difficult and complicated realities of our lives. During this 3.5-hour workshop, you'll write in response to exercises chosen to elicit deep-heart writing, engaging with such subjects as family/community, dreams, love, faith, and more. Although the setting is a supportive one, this workshop is different from a therapy group, as the focus of the workshop itself will be on each person's writing. Also, even as we come together as survivors, we are never required to write any particular version of our "abuse story." In this space, you have the opportunity to write as you feel called to write, no matter what the subject. You'll leave this workshop with: a renewed sense of yourself as resiliently creative, a rich body of new creative writing, feedback from your peers about what's already strong in your new writing, and connection with a new writing community. Your facilitator, Jen Cross, is a writer who has facilitated survivors writing workshops since 2002. I spent several years working with survivors of domestic violence and other traumas, individually and in groups, before I began leading writing workshops through which trauma survivors and others could initiate deep and abiding change for themselves and their communities. I hold an MA in Transformative Language Arts, am an experienced group facilitator, and am certified to facilitate Amherst Writers and Artists workshops. Dvora Gordon has been a member of Survivorship for over 10 years and is currently on the Board of Directors. She is trained as a peer counselor and did grief support for many years. " I love Survivorship and I feel honored to be giving back to this organization that has given me so much over the years." REGISTRATION To reserve a space at the workshop or to request a scholarship or work exchange, e-mail the information asked for in the form below to survivorshipstaff@yahoo.com. You can pay by Pay Pal on our web site. If you are paying by check or money order, copy, print out, and complete the form below and mail it, with your remittance, to: SURVIVORSHIP Family Justice Center 470 27th Street Oakland CA 94612 Name ________________________________________ Address _______________________________________ City ________________________________________ State _________________________ Zip ____________ Phone _______________________________________ E-mail _________________________________________ Survivorship work shop March 6th, 9:30 to 4:30 SHARING DIFFICULT TRUTHS/" Nothing too Hard to Share" WHO: Mary Ciofalo MFC Support person: Dvora Gordon WHERE: Family Justice Center 470 27th St Oakland, CA COST: $75-$100 (Scholarships and work exchange arrangements are available) We are offering a day for survivors to share their difficult truths with each other. We tried this out once before on an art day, and it was both successful and welcomed. Participants said that they wanted more. So we are offering this day for safely sharing our deepest truths. Nothing too hard to share. There will be two sessions of sharing. The schedule is below. 9:30 to 9:45 arriving and settling in 9:45 to 10:15 Checking in and Setting up Safe Space 10:15 to 11:45 Sharing Time 11:45 to 12:30 Checking in Again 12:30 to 1:30 LUNCH 1:30 to 2:00 Checking in 2:00 to 3:45 Sharing 3:45 to 4:30 Final Checking in Because the sharing can be triggering and reactive, there will be collage materials, the children's room and quiet spaces available for calming and quieting if needed. You can choose where you want to be at any moment. Both Dvora Gordan and Mary Ciofalo will be holding safe space and tracking each participant. Mary Ciofalo MFC has been a therapist in San Francisco for over twenty- five years, working with dissociation and multiples a good deal of that time. she is also an artist, focusing on painting and tile mosaics, and has written two books. Dvora Gordon who has been a member of Survivorship for over 10 years and is currently on the Board of Directors. She is trained as a peer counselor and did grief support for many years. " I love Survivorship and I feel honored to be giving back to this organization that has given me so much over the years." REGISTRATION To reserve a space at the workshop or to request a scholarship or work exchange, e-mail the information asked for in the form below to survivorshipstaff@yahoo.com. You can pay by Pay Pal on our web site. If you are paying by check or money order, copy, print out, and complete the form below and mail it, with your remittance, to: SURVIVORSHIP Family Justice Center 470 27th Street Oakland CA 94612 Name ________________________________________ Address _______________________________________ City ________________________________________ State _________________________ Zip ____________ Phone _______________________________________ E-mail _________________________________________
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