Clearing the Air™ Workshops
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Medicine Keepers
Medicine Keepers (only) Gatherings
Medicine Keepers are an integral part of Clearing the Air™ Between Women & Men (CTA). The mystery of the medicine circle and bounty of the feast bring a magical quality to the day – a beautiful ending to a day of facing our death. However, I feel that the most amazing contribution the MK’s make is to the opening up of the people who are going through CTA. Suddenly when confronted with a group of people who understand what they have gone through, who can relate to deep, open-hearted non-sexual intimacy, who are loving, vulnerable and powerful, the CTA participants get that intimacy is what we make it. We can be this open, this vulnerable, this honest with whomever we choose, not just a group of people who shared a workshop. The Medicine Keepers offer the invitation to look at the world differently, to reenter reality from a new perspective. The Medicine Keepers can be the safe transition back to the Real World.Over the course of the years the role Medicine Keepers have played in CTA has gone through many changes. We need to work out a structure that is safe, encouraging, and welcoming for everyone. We would like to explore what being a Medicine Keeper involves. With a clear understanding of our intentions, duties and agreements, I think we can all reach a place where we are working as a cohesive team. So, we invite people who have attended CTA to gather together and hash out what we think would assist the participants of CTA in opening up to a new understanding of intimacy. Let's explore how we can welcome these 12 travelers into a safe, and supportive environment, and also find a way to offer playful, compassionate interaction.
We called in BIG energy when we took on Father Wound, Mother Wound and Gender Reconciliation. We invited in all the festering Family of Origin sores, and the unresolved tensions, shame, frustrations, sexual awakening and worthiness struggles of adolescence. As a community we can work out these issues, we can address them in a safe place, so we don’t keep acting them out from our wounded place. We have confronted our wounds in the workshops and in the Community. And there is more to look at. Send us feedback; anything you'd want to consider, ritual ideas, what you'd like, miss, or wish to drop from the Medicine Keepers portion of CTA. Please E-mail or snail mail your written material to the following address. MK Gathering, HOW Workshops, PO Box 60894, Palo Alto, CA 94306.
A number of years ago a group of Midwestern CTA graduates set up quarterly support group meetings that helped expand the transformational work we had each done in CTA. We held the groups in the Chicago area. Folks flew in from Minnesota and Michigan. The group met for a couple of years. I personally found the group to be stimulating, challenging and encouraging. It was a safe and sacred space. Part of the safety I believe came from the foundation we had in support group protocol. Most of us were veterans of Woman Within and New Warrior groups, and had been meeting for years on a weekly basis within that model. So we had a certain “understanding” of group dynamics, projections and how to assist each other in process work, without getting in the way or trying to control another person’s work.
It is our hope that as a community we can establish circles of support for each other so that we can assist in the reentry of recent graduates of CTA, and can continue to help each other to live in our truth and freedom.
Forgiveness is like the fragrance a flower gives after it's been stepped on. - Anonymous
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