with Luna Ray, Laura Billings, and the When Women Come to Pray Community.
Join us for healing, upliftment, togetherness and vision post Hurricane Helene
Sundays, November 10 - December 15, 2024
3:00 - 6:00 PM
For thousands of years people have gathered in circles to heal, learn, survive, thrive and sustain harmony in community. The circles hold space for listening to your own heart of wisdom, grieving, learning and healing on a deeper level. This space doesn’t critique and is not intended to be intellectually analyzing or deconstructing but hearing spiritually. I believe our current culture is asking us to use the old ways to support a new paradigm of being and working together.
As we learn and lead in this new way, we bring with us more peace, connection and healing in these challenging times.
This training will provide a deep and intimate experience of collaborative leadership and collaborative vision. You will gather more understanding of yourself , and all the tools and skills you need to facilitate and model empowered leadership. This can be used in your family circles, corporate circles, yoga circles, one on one relationships, community projects, and even with nature. You will experience ways of being with people in a more skillful and connected way.
Week by week outline of teachings:
Nov. 10- The Power of The Circle
Nov. 17- The Soul of The Voice
Nov. 24- Ancestral Remembering (w/special guest Jessica Durivage)
Dec. 1 - The Taoist Leader
Dec. 8 – Elements of The Circle (Leadership nuts, bolts, resources, & more)
Dec. 15- Stepping Up, Stepping Out (Love In Action)
“THE wise leader is like water. Consider water: water cleanses and refreshes all creatures without distinction and without judgment; water freely and fearlessly goes deep beneath the surface of things; water is fluid and responsive; water follows the law freely. Consider the leader: the leader works in any setting without complaint, with any person or issue that comes on the floor; the leader acts so that all will benefit and serves well regardless of the rate of pay; the leader speaks simply and honestly and intervenes in order to shed light and create harmony. From watching the movements of water, the leader has learned that in action, timing is everything. Like water, the leader is yielding. Because the leader does not push, the group does not resent or resist.”
-John Heider, The Tao of Leadership
Are you interested in leading women's circles or other types of community circle?
Have you wanted to experience safety, trust, and healing in a circle of like like-minded women?
Maybe you are a teacher or a leader who would like to learn new techniques, tools, prompts, themes, rituals or songs to sing in your circles.
Are you needing to fill your own cup, with a nourishing, rich and resourceful training that will re-source you even beyond our 6 weeks together.
Anyone who is looking for a safe haven and deepening relationships during this time?
Each session will include:
Singing together
Learning together
Open conversation together from our hearts
Ritual
A Deeper understanding of embodied, and collaborative leadership.
An intimate circle of intergenerational women to continue working with after the training
Support for starting your own unique circles after our training (if that is your desire)
A song book with chords and 20 plus circle songs
Inspiration and Transformation
Luna is a PSEP (Somatic Experience Practitioner) and is ERYT-200 Yoga Certified. For over 15 years, Luna has been leading a variety of body-centered classes, sessions, workshops and retreats locally and internationally. She is a musician, international recording artist, and an activist for developing holistic and sustainable community collaboration. She lives in the mountains of Asheville, NC with her husband and her two beautiful daughters, Jaya and Sasha.
Luna has a BA in Community Studies, and is a Co-Founder of True Nature Education (http://truenaturetravels.com) and The CREER Service Organization (501c3). For more information on Luna and her work, you can go to: www.kristinlunaray.net
Laura is an active, interfaith minister celebrating both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions. She is a long-time Yogini, especially dedicated to chanting and Yoga Nidra.
Laura is a teacher leader with a doctorate in education from UNC Chapel Hill and the co-author of several articles and books on democratic dialogue based on classical texts.
She is part of the chaplain’s mentor program for residents at the Western Carolina Correctional Center for Women. Laura and her wing-mate, Paula Sims, have a small, food is love ministry in Asheville.
Financial assistance available by request.
No prior training or knowledge required.
Book recommendation for the course: The Tao of Leadership by John Heider
