NEW YEAR’S EVE HEART CIRCLE (Manifest Studio)

To help men reflect on what’s really important to them as we move into a New Year and probably a new era, and to find deeper community through sharing from our hearts, Manifest invites men and their allies to two FREE community sharing circles:

* NEW YEAR’S EVE HEART CIRCLE
Thursday, 12/31/09, 6-7:30 pm Potluck; 7:30pm – 12:30 am Heart Circle
Share what you’re grateful for from 2009, what you’re willing to let go of from 2009, and what you’re willing to welcome in your life in the New Year.  Hosted by Bart Church
FREE EVENT—Please register so we’ll know how many will be coming.
RSVP:  Register Online

* COMMUNITY VISIONING CIRCLE
Tuesday, 1/5/10, 5-6:30 Potluck, 6:30-8pm Passionate Resolve Circle
Share about the passions you’ll be pursuing in the New Year; we want to hear about the adventures, indulgences, and flights of fancy you’re planning in the new year; we’re sure you can get other people to listen to your boring resolutions about losing weight, getting more exercise, and saving for retirement.
Facilitated by Christophe Leroy, a Sacred Storyteller & Shamanic Energy Healer.
FREE EVENT—Please register so we’ll know how many will be coming.
RSVP:  Register Online for 1/5 Circle

WE’RE BEING CALLED TO REASSESS:  Amidst all the recent financial, environmental, political, and social upheaval, many of us are beginning to sense that the core values and routines of our culture may be changing in some fundamental ways.  We’re all being asked to reassess what is really important to us, what will sustain us in a world that seems to be undergoing some deep & unpredictable changes.

TAKING TIME TO REFLECT, LISTEN, & SHARE:  In these two community events, we want to experiment with a new/old way of learning.  We want to take time to reflect and quiet our minds and hearts.  We want to share what arises in us that seems real and true.  We want to listen carefully and with an expectation that what we hear could reaffirm some barely conscious sense we have of what is happening to us beneath the surface – or that what we hear could shake us to our core, have us learn something quite unexpected about what we’re feeling and what we really want. 

FUN ARISES:  While it may sound as if these gatherings will be heavy and very significant, our experience is that when people eat well, sit quietly and reflect, and then begin to share & listen, a lightness and even joy begins to arise.  You see humans have been breaking bread, reflecting and sharing and listening since we became human.  These activities fulfill a deep longing in our collective unconscious, and they put us and our concerns in perspective.  How can you help but not laugh and forget your drama when you realize you’re not alone in your dreams, fears, frustrations, and odd attachments.

LOGISTICS:  Both events will be at the Manifest Studio (near NE Alberta & 22nd), will be drug, alcohol, and smoke free, open to men of all ages and their allies, and we encourage everyone to bring delicious food & beverages to share (although you can attend the sharing circles even if you can’t attend the potluck).

INFO:  Bart or Christophe 503-223-8822 x1

RSVP:  Register Online for 12/31 Heart Circle