Understanding Your 7 Year Cycles- a Biography Workshop with Karen Apana

"When we have a child, we have a choice to repeat the childhood we had, or you have the opportunity to make a conscious change.” -- Karen Apana , PhD

Understanding Your Child’s Seven-Year Cycles in Relation to Your Seven-Year Cycles

In this Biography workshop we learn that there are archetypal patterns to our human development. We discover that each seven-year cycle gives birth to spiritual gifts and resources, often proceeded by a crisis. We will do exercises to explore our childhood and adult experiences, remembering significant events of our lives such as births, deaths, divorces, accidents, illnesses, geographical shifts, career changes and more. Through this transformative life review, we can unearth emerging life themes that can illuminate our life’s purpose and future direction. We will come to understand our current seven-year cycle and reflect on our children’s seven-year cycle to see how they are interacting or conflicting. You will learn about the temperaments of your child and yourself, as well as an intuitive art process that can help in making decisions and clarifying your questions.

This Biography workshop will have new material, so it can be taken by those who have already experienced a Biography workshop before.

Please bring a notebook for journal writing and your lunch.

Tea and snacks will be provided.

Dr. Karen Nani Apana has been teaching Biography work for over 30 years and currently has a private practice of Biography Counseling in San Francisco. Dr. Apana mentors and consults with Waldorf Schools in the Bay Area and abroad. She taught in the Rudolf Steiner College Teacher Training Program for 20 years. She is retired from the San Francisco Waldorf High School, where she taught art and was the high school mentor for over 16 years. Dr. Apana runs study groups and has been a student of Anthroposophy for over 40 years

• 10 a.m. - Noon - Workshop Morning Session - Biography Work (includes a tea break)
• Noon - 12:45 p.m. - Lunch (Please bring your own)
• 12:45 p.m. - 1:00 pm. - Morning Session Reflections
• 1:00p.m. - 2 p.m. - Workshop Afternoon Session - Learn the intuitive art process by working with a life question or something out of your biography you would like to understand better.
• 2 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. - Break
• 2 :15 p.m. - 3 p.m. - Closing Reflections

• $65 per individual (plus fees) / $110 per couple (plus fees) << Space is limited!

Biography work is a tool to develop an understanding of individual development and transformation over 7-year cycles. In this workshop, attendees will learn about the 7-year cycles and participate in exercises to begin to understand one's personal biography within the 7-year cycle framework.

Host or Publisher Golden Bridges School