Charting Your Life’s Course: Clarifying Your Purpose, Direction and GoalsA Weekend Workshop for Women with Jalaja Bonheim

March 20-22, 2009
Rowe Conference Center
Rowe, MA

When we embark on a journey, four things are essential. First, we must know our destination. Second, we must know how to orient ourselves along the way, make sure we are still headed in the right direction and, if need be, correct our course. Third, we need the courage and faith to face the unknown. And fourth, we need supportive allies—for alone, no one can complete their journey.

Collectively, our society fails on all four counts. We don’t know where we’re going, and therefore have no way of assessing whether we’re on course. We fear the unknown, and build defensive walls to keep it out. And increasing numbers of people lack the support they need—over a quarter of all Americans claim to have not a single close friend.

This weekend we will come together as women committed to “being the change we want to see in the world,” as Gandhi put it. Within the container of a sacredr circle, we will examine our purpose and explore our true goals—not those society would impose on us, but those that bring a sense of satisfaction to our hearts and souls. Stepping back from our busy lives, we will come to a full stop and enter into inner silence. From that place of peace and stillness, we will open to guidance. We will take stock of where we stand, open to the spirit of courage, and drink deeply at the well of loving support that women so naturally offer one another.

Jalaja Bonheim has an extraordinary ability to guide women into a space that is profoundly healing, nourishing, magical and sacred. This weekend, she’ll be working with myths and stories, guided meditations and writing practices, movement, music, and poetry to evoke a state of inner peace, centeredness, and clarity.

Jalaja has been leading women’s circles and training women in circle leadership for over 25 years. She leads circles for Jewish and Palestinian women in Israel and is the founder of the Institute for Circlework. She is the author of several books, including Aphrodite’s Daughters: Women’s Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul, and has just completed a new book on global transformation and spirituality that will be published this year.

For more information and registration, please contact Rowe Conference Center (www.rowecenter.org) at info@rowecenter.org or (413)339-49543.