HealingPlay on Mother’s Day - Celebrating Our Connection with Mothers

The May workshop (May 12th) for HealingPlay falls exactly on the morning of Mother’s Day! Hence this month’s facilitated journey will explore our connection and “gifts” from our mother(s) and the lineage of women from which we come.

This workshop focuses on recognizing and celebrating exactly where we are with our own mother(s). It is an invitation to pause, to reflect, to feel and heal, and to receive whatever we have been able to receive from our mother(s) in a creative and community setting.

“When we reject our mother, all the elements associated with being mothered – safety, security, comfort, nurturance – can feel missing in our lives. No matter how much we have, it can feel like we never have enough.” – Mark Wolynn

“When you work on healing the bond with the mother, all your relationships begin to flow including partner, job, money, success, abundance, health” - Amore Mio (roughly translated)

When approaching healing and honouring our bond with our mother, Healingplay offers an embodied and experiential approach, sustained by awareness, playfulness and connection in a community setting. Exercises in the workshop include*:
- Warm-up celebration dance
- Embodied play based on attachment theory
- Peer support circle (including space for grief)
- Family constellation exercises in small groups (which supports the flow of love in families)
- Creative/art expression inspired by our connection with mothers (open-ended with a few mediums to choose from)
- Celebrating and integrating the difficulties and gifts we had received in our connection with mother(s)

*exercises may shift depending on the need and the flow of the group.

For this workshop, there is a parent and adult children discount (see below for details).

Things to bring aside from your awesome self:
- Highly RECOMMEND bringing a photo of your mom (either a printed photo or on your phone)
- Dress comfortably and appropriately for potential messiness of watercolour.
- water, a warm layer

I hope to see you on May 12th, 930am-noon at Evolved Movement Arts to celebrate Mother's Day together!

Warmly,
Dan J.

===Workshop Details==
The workshop is on Sunday, May 12th, From 930am-noon (2.5 hours).
Doors open around 915am.
**Note, opening circle starts at 930am**.

Address: 4005, 9th SE (Bay 9), Calgary, 2nd floor
(You can also find the place by googling Evolved movement arts)

Sliding scale / pay what you can: $30 to 45*
Event-specific discount: $25 for each parent or adult sons/daughters that you bring with you that are open to this kind of workshop. If you are bringing someone, you can pay by cash at the door.

Please register and confirm your spot by e-transfer to [email protected].

==What is the HealingPlay Workshop?==

HealingPlay Workshops host various facilitated experiential journeys that support you in having moment-to-moment exploration with yourself, with each other, and with the group to find your authentic expressions and ground in Presence and your essence. The journeys can take a variety of elements, but at their core, they focus on building connection and community, integrating mindfulness to support therapeutic processing and deconditioning, and always involving celebration and some enjoyment of movements.

These Sunday workshops typically occur monthly (currently the second Sunday of each month), except in summer (no workshop in July and August). The invitation is for you to be just as you are, to renew through play, and to be supported in reconnecting with your essence and gifts. You are invited to gain insight from these experiential journeys while sharing and learning from dyads/triads/groups. And when you go back to your daily lives, you can take the tools, learnings, and renewed confidence and share with the world what no one else can share!

==Who is Dan, the facilitator?==

My vision (with HealingPlay) is to create a place of joy, authenticity, meditation, and supporting people to experience for themselves the vast themes of life and come to their understandings and expressions. I have been deeply engaged in my own spiritual and healing journey since 2015, and these workshops are my creative offerings that synthesized my various inspirations, including Osho-inspired meditations and healing, clinical counselling, playfulness, dance and movement, systematic work, Taoist, and other meditative influences.

I have a master’s degree in counselling and waiting for the Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) designation. I have had training and experiences leading meditations inspired by Osho. I also enjoy taking a systemic approach to healing and growth and have completed my level 1 training in family constellation with Svagito.

Photo source: from: https://ourfamilylifestyle.com/why-i-dont-celebrate.../

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