[Adta] Creativity/Personal Growth Workshop in Greece

[Phyllis K. Jeswald]

	In
the Footsteps of Pan


		...
exploring the roots of creativity


...a workshop for personal growth on the island of
Tinos, Greece using dreams, sandplay, movement, music, and the active
imagination. 


	


led by Priscilla Rodgers, Dennis McCarthy, Julie Rose and flutist
Steve Gorn 




				 May 25- June4, 2007




Pan... is the most
elusive of the Greek gods and
perhaps the most important in light of today’s world
situation, where a deeper connection to the earth and our own creative
roots is desperately needed. Pan is the the unpredictable, the
unscheduled, the missing state of our consciousness. He is life at its
deepest. Like the wind over tall grass or sunlight over water, he is
the essence of the instinctual life, free from imprisoning judgment.
It is said that the sound of his flute brought panic if one resisted
it and great joy if one surrendered to it. 


	Through dreams, dance, music, sandplay, art and the active
imagination we will anticipate the unexpected and use the myth of
Pan,as well as the other rich myths indigenous to Tinos island, in an
improvisational format. 


	Each day begins with dream groups, followed by sandplay on the nearby
beach. Each evening we will use a variety of active imagination
techniques to explore and express the instinctual. Afternoons are free
for exploring the lovely and wild island of Tinos. 


	


	Tinos is one of the most traditional and untouristed of the Greek
islands, where the mythic roots are
still quiet visible. In ancient times it was the site of a Snake
Goddess cult, a healing center to Poseidon, and the home of  Boreas,
the wind God. In recent times a healing icon of the Virgin was
unearthed there, attracting  thousands of pilgrims each year.  	


 	We will spend a total of three nights in Athens and six on Tinos. On
Tinos we will be staying at the Porto Raphael Hotel, a warm, family
run place set on a bluff overlooking the blue Aegean Sea and serving
the best food in Greece. 




Cost= $2950. incl. R/T airfare from NYC, all hotel costs w/breakfast 


(dbl.occ), all transports in Greece and workshop costs. The cost is
$2250. if traveling on one’s own to Greece.


To register please send a $500. deposit to Dennis at PO Box
4073,Kingston, NY 12402 or call 845-331-1029. E-mail at
symbol at ulster.net. Deadline for registration is 12/1/06.






the workshop leaders:






Steve Gorn-  whose flute playing is featured in the 2004 Academy Award
winning documentary film “Born into Brothels”, has performed Indian
Classical Music and new American Music on the bansuri bamboo flute,
soprano saxophone and clarinet in concerts and festivals throughout
the world. Well known to audiences in India and the west, he has been
praised by critics and leading Indian musicians as one of the few
westerners recognized to have captured the subtlety and beauty of
Indian music.Inspired by the Sanskrit proverb, “the universe hangs on
sound”, Steve’s teaching explores music as a voice of the soul, a
bridge to the mythic world, and a yoga capable of synchronizing our
realtionship to society and nature. Pan, krishna, the pied piper and
Kokopelli - all are the call of the mythic flute.  




Dennis McCarthy-  is a psychotherapist who works w/children and
adults. specializing in sandplay and dream work. He trained initially
as a dancer and weaves the body and its innate urge to move into all
of his work. He created and has lead this Greek island workshop series
for many years with the goal of exploring the overlap between mythic
story and personal process in the setting where the myths arose. He
has been traveling to Greece regularly for over twenty-five years. 




Priscilla Rodgers- is a Jungian analyst in New York City and
Millerton, New York. She was a  founding member of the Jungian
Psychoanalytic Association and  taught for many years at the C.G.Jung
Foundation and the JTA. She began her career as an artist and an art
therapist, and is deovted to the making of art and music. She was a
moutain climber for many years and remains an avid outdoor enthusiast.
She is particularly interested in the power of the improvisational
moment and its ability to generate Soul through image. 






Julie
Rose- has taught many ways
of moving to many kinds of people  over the last thirty
five years. She toured internationally as a dancer with Kei Takei's
Moving Earth dance company, performed and recorded with composer
Pauline Oliveros for many years, and is cofounder of Cormorant Dance
Foundation which instigates and presents outdoor site specific
performances. She has been a student and teacher of yoga and  T'ai Chi
for  over thirty years and has her second degree black belt in Tang
Soo Do. She currenlty teaches for the Vanaver Caravan Dance Institute
and has private practices in psychotherapy and homeopathy in Accord,
New York.




for a
brochure or more info.contact Dennis@ symbol@ ulster.net or at
845-331-1029