SURPRISE FARM RETREAT CENTER
THE JOURNEY-
postponed due to excessive heat- there are still open spots for the cohort!
Please let us know if you want to join the cohort!
Ceremonial Attention
Ceremonial attention is ancient and appears in present forms. We seek to renew the effect of such patterns in personal, community, and spiritual development...
And to understand the loss of them.
I have come to suspect that in the absence of ritual, the soul runs out of its real nourishment. -Malidoma Somé
Ritual Attention
Ritual Attention provides the “container” for the day’s exploration and discovery.
A few definitions of Ritual...
“A performed pattern to call out archetypes necessary for personal power, to arouse and direct disposable energy.”
“Re-fueling for stages of development and dealing with distressing events.”
“Gestures enlarging the personal to a greater universality and sacredness, even maintenance of a cosmic order.”
“A set of careful procedures which in the end are transcended; they are not an end in themselves but a launching place for transformation, renewal, and participation.”
“ritual” . . . a prescribed, stylized, step-by-step, goal-directed performance of a mythological theme -Stanley Krippner
Ritual + Ceremony
Functions of Ritual & Ceremony...
When Ritual Attention is paid, something creative happens.
It provides meaning, order, purpose, relationship...
It helps with passages, transformation, integration of outer/inner, opposites...
It gives solidarity to cultural views and world view; and to membership.
And brings into life those things in our unconscious we do not ordinarily access.
It is a re-integration of intention and action.
COHORT ATTENTIONS!
Come join the Ceremonial Attention to your S/Heroic Journey.
In some traditions, the rite of passage into community takes place not by one individual’s age, but when a cohort is sized.
For this workshop, after ten register, we’ll decide together when.
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We’ll email in preparation, and get to know each other a bit, before settling on a date for the ceremonial attention.
To hold your place, at Registration link select $20.
Guided by Don Eulert, Ph.D.
Co-Founder of Surprise Farm Retreat Center
Don Eulert, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus California School of Professional Psychology Don is the author of Ritual & Healing: Stories of Ordinary and Extraordinary Transformation. For 40 years Don Eulert, Ph.D., taught and practiced integrative psychology as Professor at the California School of Professional Psychology. With an M.A. in Creative Writing from Fort Hays State University, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico, Don Eulert studied post-graduate at the CG Jung Institute, Zurich. During the S/heroic Journey, Don proposes intentional meaning-making in a group. He brings experience in providing a container and pathway for the work of Self awareness. Steeped in Western myth from growing up on a Kansas ranch, Don experienced a rural community’s year-round participation in celebrations and seasonal ceremonies. Spring calving to HarvestFest to church confirmations. He went on to study archetypal psychology at the C.G. Jung Institut, Zurich, and to participate in Romanian folk festivals and Masai ceremony. "In my roaming, I was always looking for Place. Found place in San Diego back country in 1973. First night, bed-rolled in the big fireplace of a miner’s shack beside a running creek. The land was an Ipai kitchen site, turned out. Daily reminders of heritage and seasonal cycles-- we transitory walk on sacred ground. Sharing the beauty that surrounds us, in ceremonies here over the years, we hope to connect community to old and new ways . . . to renew and practice . . . to ground and to take responsibility."
Schedule
~ “Asking Permission” at the bridge followed by meditation walk to the kiva
~ “All our Relations” kiva, understanding the elemental map
~ Isolation time out
~ Amphitheater circle gathering
~ Mindful eating ;-))
~ Sunset Ceremony, firepit story-making, Rites of Passage, Music
Preparation
Bring a handwritten page titled “What I’d Like to Let Go of.” Spend some thought about what will be gained and lost.
Watch Joseph Campbell & the Power of Myth, 'The Hero’s Adventure'
In your own search, consider some reading on ritual, Malidoma Somé is a suggested resource.
Wear shoes for hiking, long pants, sun protection. Re-fillable water bottles rather than plastic ones. Bring layers for after sunset, and a flashlight.
Facilities
Amenities include bathrooms and kitchen, shaded areas in case too much sun.
Note: Three Overnight glamping yurt tents with queen beds available, or bring your own sleeping bag for a comfortable cot in Kodiak stand-up tent. Maintenance $70 for mattress tents, $30 for Kodiak.
Morning coffee and breakfast makings available. Please ask for overnight reservations with your RSVP, booked separately.
Come join the Ceremonial Attention to your S/Heroic Journey.
In some traditions, the rite of passage into community takes place not by one individual’s age, but when a cohort is sized.
For this workshop, after ten register, we’ll decide together when.
~
We’ll email in preparation, and get to know each other a bit, before settling on a date for the ceremonial attention.
To hold your place, at Registration link select $20.