POST CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS - May 9th

Awakening the Dreamer—Changing the Dream Symposium
Ruel Walker and Tracy Apple
$60 (Half Day) QGH01

This Symposium addresses the questions, “Where is our modern western world headed?” “Why are we doing this?” and “What can I do about it?” The specific focus is three deeply connected areas: the environment, social justice, and spiritual fulfillment. Enriched by the insights of indigenous people and some of the world’s most respected thinkers in these areas, participants decide what they can do to change the future to create an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence on this planet.


A Compass for Life: Finding and Fulfilling Purpose
Peter  Wrycza, Ph.D.
$60 (Half Day) QGH02

Participants will become more at home with the Balinese life-compass or mandala that underpins how they approach both crucial and ordinary events in their lives with creativity and practical thoughtful-ness. We will use the compass to create and enliven our own personal mandala, a sacred space that places us at the centre connecting inspiration and execution, vision and action. We will use drawing and movement to bring what we conceive fully into our hearts, muscles, and bones. Paper and oil pastels will be provided for drawing. Participants should bring a pen and paper for personal notes. Artistic abilities and experience are not required.


After the Conference—Bringing the Vision to Life
Illana Berger, Ph.D. and Ernesto Sanchez
$60 (Half Day) QGH03

Revisit the highlights of the QGHII conference, explore ways to carry the vision home, and learn how to keep the magic alive.  We will discuss ways to bring a greater sense of "presence" into our daily lives through the practice of daily offerings, thoughts, and intentions.  Learn to create a space in your home for reflection, inspiration, and for the life you want to live and dreams you want realized.  We will engage in group discussions, guided meditation, share our individual goals and ways to keep them grounded.  Let’s discuss the inspirational moments of the conference and  learn how to hold these memories in a ceremonial way. Most importantly, we will explore how to take home our newfound experience of ceremony and bring it into our daily life to enable our VISION TO TAKE FLIGHT!


Native American Concepts for Worldview Purification: A Writer’s Guide to Four Direction Healing
Lyla Johnston and Pat McCabe
$60 (Half day) QGH04

Using the Native American Traditional Sweat Bath Ceremony as a guide, this circle will go through the “Four Doors” of the “ceremony” through writing. In the First Door, through meditation and writing, we begin by making relationship with our personal Healers, Guides, Teachers and Helpers. In the second door, we state our concerns through guided creative writing. In the Third Door, the Healing Round, we learn to invoke our helpers to assist us. We explore the many faces healing can express. We then turn to Coyote, the trickster, to show us the power of reversal, revealing our true nature and purpose. In the Fourth Door, the Giving of Thanks Round, we perform the Giveaway, sharing our new found gifts with each other. We emerge “reborn” in our thinking, all options for life, light and love open to us once again.


Transformational Philanthropy: The Science and Spirituality of Giving and Asking
Charles Bernard Maclean, PhD - PhilanthropyNow.com
$60 (Half Day) QGH05

Enjoy discovery learning and take home practical action plans as we dance with these worthy questions: Why do donors give or not give? Are we hard wired to give or at least predisposed?  What does the neurochemistry of oxytocin and dopamine tell us about the uplift of giving?  What are universal spiritual principles around giving and receiving?   How do you craft a personal giving missing that brings joy, results and control to giving?  Why is peace making, giving and asking the most "self-full" thing you can do?  


Writing for Change—Write Here, Write Now!
Jan Cornall
$60 (Half Day) QGH06

apture the highlights of your conference experience through the written word. Learn how to transform the important moments of your conference week into writing you can take back home or share with the world at large. In any genre, including articles, essays, memoir, or poems, find out how to use the craft of writing to express your deepest concerns for the world we are living in. Explore ways of continuing to develop ideas born from the conference, into a positive future. Find out how on a daily basis you can continue to transform inspiration into inspirational writing, with its potential to effect change across all levels of society. No experience necessary. Bring a notebook and pen, and be ready to enjoy the effortlessness of meditative writing.


A New You—A New World
Sharon Forrest, N.D., Ph.D., CCHt
$120 (Full Day) QGH07

Many of you know there is a better way to create the difference you choose to see in the world. Go from extraordinary to exceptionally extraordinary! You shall initiate this reality.  Experience one of the most superb methods for creating and maintaining great family, business and effectively from pain, blame, anger and hate, to love and compassion... no matter who they are or what they have done. If you want something that works with anyone, anywhere, this is it!


Changing My Story—Changing the World
Jane Hughes Gignoux
$120 (Full Day) QGH08

Using tales of transformation from cultures around the world and throughout time as a springboard to open the imaginal realms, this workshop invites participants to examine troubling or painful aspects of their own personal or cultural “story”. From here, we explore possible new perspectives, then gently move along a path that allows more light-filled meanings to emerge. Dialogue, interactive creative exercises, journaling and simple movement are all used to facilitate this personal healing process. In addition to mapping a healthy path towards individual wholeness, this workshop sets out simple tools and practices for people to support one another in manifesting common holistic choices and decisions.


Cultures of Peace through InterPlay (Stories, Music & Dance) 
Masankho Banda and Elizabeth Frye
$120 (Full Day) QGH09

The creative arts give us a window into knowing each other deeply. Please join international InterPlay leaders for this day long journey into your creativity. Explore your own and your fellow participants’ cultural information.  Incremental steps will be taken to guide you to find your own song, dance and music. Come discover this magic for yourself. NO prior experience necessary – just a desire to play, have fun and explore the beautiful world of our cultures. InterPlay is reaching and changing communities on all five continents in forty cities around the world.


Healing the Wounds of War
Dr. James Gordon
$120 (Full Day) QGH10

This workshop will present a new model, based on psychological self-care, mind-body medicine and group support, for treating those affected by trauma.  Dr. Gordon will discuss his work with victims and survivors of war, torture and physical, sexual and emotional abuse.  He will provide an overview of mind-body medicine as well as its role in helping to overcome the debilitating symptoms of PTSD, anxiety and depression. He will describe work with New York City firefighters suffering the aftereffects of 9/11, with war torn Israel and Gaza, and how this model has come to be central to the community mental health system in Kosovo


Quest for Global Eating: Sustainable Cooking for a New Planet
Marcel and Shannon Biro and special Balinese Chef Restaurateur Ibu Wayan
$169 (Full Day) QGH11

As we prepare to depart Bali and continue on our personal paths to earth stewardship, reaffirm the commitment we’ve made to our global community at the most organic level: through conscientious eating that promotes balance and healing of ourselves, families, communities, and ultimately, our planet. Engage in a special exploration of how to bring home practices that will best sustain us all, beginning with a trip to the Ubud farmer’s market. Continuing with discussions on biodynamics, honest cuisine, and the long-term impact of the world’s current food production, let’s celebrate food from the oceans, forests, and fields through cooking demonstrations by Balinese Chef and restaurateur Ibu Wayan, German Master Chef Marcel Biró, and American cookbook author Shannon Kring Biró. We’ll conclude with a family-style meal in celebration of earth stewardship. Workshop fee includes shopping excursion, discussions, cooking demonstrations, meal, and recipes.