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I Will not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming
Purpose and Passion
I will not live
in fear
Of falling or catching on fire.
I choose to inhabit my days’
To allow my living to open me
To make me less afraid
More accessible
To loosen my heart
Until it becomes a wing
A torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance to live
So that which came to me as
Seed goes to the next as blossom
And that which came to me as blossom, goes on to fruit.
• Dawna Markova |
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| This Program is an
educational program, not a treatment program.
Participants must be under the care of a physician, able to care for
themselves, able to participate in the daily program, and sufficiently
medically stable to spend a week in a rural retreat setting. |
Brief Program Description
Week One:
Jeanne Achterberg Cancer Aftercare Program: Rekindling the Spirit
Day One: Introduction to
Spiritual Unfolding
Bring passion, meaning and beauty back into your life.
Day Two:
Awakening
• Timeless Moment--an Epiphany
• Dark Night
• Initiation
• Veils are Lifted
• Need for Radical Authenticity
• Release what no longer serves
Day Three:
Discovery
Questions
• Who am I?
• Where is my power?
• What is the medicine I need?
• What is my beauty?
• Who are my teachers?
• Who are my friends
Day Four: Healing
• Trusting
• Opening
• Emerging from Fire
• Finding Community
• Nourishing the Soul
Day Five: Creativity
• Teaching, mentoring, modeling
• New Vocation
• Expanded avocations
• Leaving “software” for next generation
• Scribes, healers, teachers, artists, warriors
• Faith, hope, charity
Week Two:
Cancer-The
Journey
Beyond, with
Karin Cooke and Lew Whitney
Days Six to
twelve:
Integration of new tools/ideas
Self-care
techniques;
mental, emotional, physical, spiritual
Body/Mind
Techniques
• Meditation
• Imagery
• Relaxation
• Inner Wisdom or Advisor
• Managing depression and anxiety
• Increasing self-appreciation
• Lightness of being -Humor and play
• Reentry into a productive life
• Introduction to Hawaiian Healing Practices
• Ho’oponopono—Contemporary uses of a traditional Hawaiian
problem
solving process
• Hula
• Traditional healing practices
• Healing with the Sun (Sand/ Salt water detox.)
Utilization of Nature’s
Healing
Resources
• Sea, sand, and Sky
• Air and warmth
• Sun and stars
• Good food, good friends
Treatments for
detoxification
from stress, the environment, and side effects of
medical treatments
• Salt scrubs
• Ocean bathing
• Yoga stretching
• Qi gong
• Nutritionally conscious meals
• Exercise
• Elective Consultations with Experts on the Big Island,
such as…
• Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Naturopathic Medicine
• Herbology
Participation
in carefully,
professionally led groups will cover
important issues such as …
• Using the diagnosis as an event to redesign a life
• Personal healing rituals and practices
• Building your social network
• Letting go of life-negating patterns
• Power of gratitude
• Embracing self-esteem
• Living an authentic life- What is it for me?
• Relationships - Food for life
• Illness as messenger
• Finding passion- What has heart and meaning
• Living in the now
Transformative change takes time. Recommended length of the
program is two weeks. Seven full days would be a minimum
requirement, with arrivals at least one full day ahead of the
first day for jet lag issues.
Emphasis is placed on providing information which can be self-help or
"take home," rather than on issues requiring ongoing professional care.
• Register •
Sample day…Week One
===--AM--===
7:00 - 8:00
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Yoga stretching; walk
around the retreat grounds |
8:00 - 9:00
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Qigong meditation;
Quiet
time |
| 9:00 -10:00 |
Breakfast |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Rest |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Group Session.
For
schedule of topics, see Brief Program Description, Week One section |
===--PM--===
12:30 - 1:30
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Lunch |
| 1:30 - 2:30 |
Private time, for
use of
self-help tools for relaxation/meditation.
Instructions will be given in the morning sessions. This is
intended
to be a time of experimentation on a number of self-help strategies to
see what works for the individual and what doesn’t feel effective. |
| 2:30 - 4:00 |
Introduction of
Expressive
Therapy:
Example topics:
Movement/Dance, writing, painting or drawing, making prayer arrows,
flower arrangements, etc |
4:00 - 6:00
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Bodywork and/or
Consultation with the Experts onTraditional Chinese Medicine, yoga,
nutrition, etc. |
6:00
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Dinner |
7:00 - 8:30
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Group
Session—Bringing closure to the day. Homework
And Dream work. Music and guided imagery. |
Sample
day…Week Two
===--AM--===
7:00 - 8:00
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Yoga stretching; walk
around the retreat grounds |
8:00 - 9:00
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Qigong meditation;
Quiet
time |
| 9:00 -10:00 |
Breakfast |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Unstructured time,
for
Rest, walking as one or with your new friends, writing, journaling. |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Group Session.
For
menu of topics, see Brief Program Description, Week Two section |
===--PM--===
12:30 - 1:30
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Lunch |
1:30 - 2:30
|
Private time, for
use of
self-help tools for relaxation/meditation.
Instructions will be given in the morning sessions. This is
intended
to be a time of experimentation on a number of self-help strategies to
see what works for the individual and what doesn’t feel
effective.
Integration of newly learned tools and ideas. |
| 2:30 - 4:00 |
Expressive Therapy:
Example topics:
Movement/Dance, writing or journaling, painting or drawing, making
prayer arrows, flower arrangements, etc |
4:00 - 6:00
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Bodywork
and/or Consultation with the Experts on
Traditional Chinese Medicine, yoga, nutrition, etc. |
6:00
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Dinner |
7:00 - 8:30
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Group
Session—Bringing
closure to the day. Homework
And Dream work. Music and guided imagery. |
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