Additional Events & Adventures
Happy 2009!
Most events on this page, with the exception of special adventures, are being held in Lascelles, QC, 30 minutes from Ottawa in the beautiful Gatineau Hills. A busy schedule away from home for 2009 is limiting the workshops I can offer this summer, but the favourites are (mostly) still there! There are others on the back burner for the autumn . . .
Click on the items below to see descriptions of each event.
2008 Adventure – May 18-28, 2008 – Report on Africa
It was a super trip, with a fascinating group of wonderful people, resulting in great memories and a multitude of photographs . . .
April 25/26, 2009 – One-day or Weekend Workshops with Companion Animals
This is part of a longer six-day Practitioner Certification Training, and we are offering the possibility of coming for a shorter time to those looking for help with their pet or who want to learn basic TTouch techniques. General information about workshops is available on the TTouch Calendar, where you will also find the full 2009 schedule of TTouch with companion animals. You will find information about these workshops here.
May 2, 2009 – Tellington TTouch Demonstration
Two-hour morning demonstration on Telliington TTouch for Companion Animals to benefit MSPCA. More information here.
May 2-3, 2009– Weekend Workshop with Companion Animals
This is part of a five-day Tellington TTouch Training being held at MSPCA, and we are offering the possibility of coming for a shorter time to those looking for help with their pet, or who want to learn basic TTouch techniques. More information here.
May 16, 2009– Tellington TTouch for Humans
TTouch for You! Over the years of working with animals and practicing TTouch techniques on each other, people of all ages are discovering a sense of well-being and renewal using TTouch. It is easy to learn and gives relief from everyday physical and emotional issues such as headaches, backache, neck pain, depression, and sensitivity to touch. More information below.
June 19-21, 2009– Paint! Write! Workshop with Bella Halsted
This is a weekend retreat for writers and artists – and also for those who wish they were one or the other or both but at present feel like neither! More information below.
2009 Adventure – July, 2009 – Arctic Watch Lodge
Cunningham Inlet on Somerset Island, Nunavut.
July 18-20/23, 2009 – TTEAM Training with Horses
Three- or six-day clinic with horses, learning TTEAM (The Tellington Method with horses) to enhance the mutual understanding you have with your horse, and improve his/her health and performance. Visit TTEAM Workshops for general information. Details here.
August 7/8-9, 2009 – Animal Communication Workshops
Lauren McCall's weekend workshop is always very popular, and the registration is limited. Register early to confirm your space. More information below.
Costs and workshop logistic details can be found here.
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May 16, 2009
Lascelles, QC - Ottawa Area
One-day TTouch for Humans workshop with Edie Jane
We will be exploring basic TTouches, and the varying effects of working with elastic bandages to increase awareness and bring a sense of security – to the person or a limb. Sound intriguing? It is. Find out more about TTouch for You.
Logistical Information: Costs and Details
Contact: Edie Jane 819-459-2110 or ediejane@listeningtowhispers.com
TTouch for You
TTouch is gaining acceptance in the human healthcare system. Nurses, massage therapists, physical therapists, physicians and occupational therapists are successfully integrating these techniques into their practices. For example, nurses use TTouch for post-fracture swelling, labor pain, wound care, and the management of edema, pain and anxiety. Massage Therapists and Physical Therapists find TTouch effective in cases of chronic pain and Fibromyalgia. In addition to the clinical applications, many healthcare professionals experience much needed relaxation and stress-relief for themselves.
Outside the clinical setting, teachers are using these techniques in the classroom to address behavioral issues and to facilitate problem-solving and positive growth and development in their students. In your personal life, TTouch can be a means to enhance relationships beyond the constraints of language. Parents are finding new channels to connect with their children. Spouses are deepening their relationships and discovering new ways to nurture one another in a non-sexual context. Friends come to new levels of understanding and appreciation.
TTouch for You is easy to learn, requires no special equipment and it works! Over the past 20 years, hundreds of cases show TTouch to be a simple and effective means to relieve a vast range of common and uncommon health issues - from a simple headache to a life-threatening emergency.
June 19-21, 2009
Lascelles, QC - Ottawa Area
Paint! Write!: Creativity and Change with Bella Halsted
Bella writes: "In this new era of promise and change, where do we go for a fresh take in our personal lives? Our weekend in the Gatineau Hills seeks to provide renewal, inspiration, and new direction through creative work, using both painting and writing. Whether you are an experienced painter or writer or a newcomer to either or both, you are welcome to join us for the weekend in a lovely country setting, in an easy, flexible rhythm of work, play, eat, sleep.
With brush and pen, sketchpad and journal, we will take on our surroundings together and alone, responding to the light as it shifts and shapes what we see and how we see it. You will work with some basics that painters need to know about color, value, stroke of paint, stick or pencil, and how to shape a blank page. You will play with some forms of poetry and narrative, and be encouraged to keep an ongoing journal, both visual and written.
By Sunday's end, you will have discovered again that all forms of creativity meet, support, and enhance each other. Most of all, you will discover that you have looked with new eyes at the familiar and that this has changed you--you come home refreshed and ready to go."
This workshop is suitable for both experienced and inexperienced writers and/or artists, and is designed as a live-in retreat, with comfortable housing and delicious food in the Gatineau Hills. The structure of both time and space will allow for solitude and companionship, as you wish.
See Workshop Reviews to see what past participants have experienced.
Logistical Information: Costs and Details
Contact: Edie Jane 819-459-2110 or ediejane@listeningtowhispers.com
Bella Halsted
is an artist and published writer who continues to grapple with the light in all its forms, inside and out. At seventy, she looks back on a career as teacher of basic writing, literature, and ESL to college, adult, and international student populations in New York City and Amherst Massachusetts. Since 1985, she has led a creative writing workshop for adults and is herself a published writer of poetry and fiction. Recently, she has resuscitated a first novel, and is working on this and a collection of stories. Twice a year (since 1990) she organizes and leads workshops at weekend retreats by the ocean, for painters and writers. She has sketched and painted all her life, with informal and formal instruction. Over the past eight years, she has attended art classes at the University of Massachusetts, with a particular interest in painting the interior/exterior landscape with human figure in oils, watercolor, and pastel. She works in a studio in Amherst and shows her work in local galleries. This past year, she has found delight and challenge in giving weekly after-school art lessons to a small group of children.
Workshop Reviews
· "Bella is a warm and engaging teacher with a deep well of artistic knowledge and accomplishment. Her approach combines structure to help connect inner and outer experience in the creative moment; openness to all kinds of people and styles; and a non-critical focus on the passages of any given work that move, are original or incisive.
She challenges, for her literary and painterly standards are high, but always with an eye to each person's unique expressivity. She has a great sense of play and spontaneity, and encourages participants to stretch a bit and try new things, not just through exercises and suggestions, but by her own example.
In Bella's workshops, everyone has a great time, being accepted, being taken seriously, and being encouraged to develop their work, in the now and in the future."
— Pamela Pezzati Raskin, Clinical Psychologist by profession, writer by avocation, and long-time attendee of Bella's workshops.
· And from a participant new to the writing/painting experience:
"Bella is relaxed in teaching style and nurturing to all participants, whether they have considerable experience, or are completely new to the creative process. She makes one feel like a fellow traveler, helping people express their joy and grief through their current project, and also through group reflections on the day's work. I came away from the weekend feeling refreshed and more in harmony with the world around me."
July, 2009
Cunningham Inlet on Somerset Island, Nunavut
2009 Arctic Adventure! Arctic Watch Lodge
I am sorry to report that this trip may not be possible this July - unless we can gather some more adventurers. If you think you may be interested, please contact Edie Jane. Read on – it’s very exciting!
The core of the trip is a weeklong visit to Arctic Watch Lodge, at the top of Somerset Island on the North West Passage.
Arctic Watch Lodge is run by Canadian Arctic Holidays, headed by our hosts, Richard Weber and Jose Auclair, both experienced Arctic explorers. Richard has recently been in the news as a member of the three-man expedition to the South Pole. The Arctic Watch website gives a lot of information about what to expect, birds to beluga.
The cost from Yellowknife – from which point on all expenses are covered – is USD$7200.00. As was true of the Africa trip, it’s a once in a lifetime experience!
Contact: Edie Jane 819-459-2110 or ediejane@listeningtowhispers.com
Two Animal Communication Workshops
August 7 and August 8-9, 2009
Ottawa, ON and Lascelles, QC (Ottawa Area)
Animal Communication Workshops with Lauren McCall - Is this for real? See workshop topics and dates below.
Logistical Information: Costs and Details
Contact: Edie Jane 819-459-2110 or ediejane@listeningtowhispers.com
Lauren McCall brings a life-long love of animals to her animal communication and TTouch practice. She is a TTouch Practitioner/Clinician and has practiced and taught animal communication for several years. She is also the creator of the multi-media in-home learning program, "Animal Communication: Making the Connection." Lauren travels and teaches both animal communication and TTouch, and has an international client base that includes the US, Europe and Japan. She lives in Newberg, Oregon with her partner, 2 dogs, a cat, a very sweet rabbit, and 2 guinea pigs. Visit Lauren’s website, Integrated Animal to learn more about her.
Is this for real? Lauren's response: The short answer is 'yes'. As odd as it may sound I can 'talk' to your animal. Communicators can get pictures, words, feelings, see colors or hear sounds. I normally get words and have dialogues with animals. I was not born with any special psychic abilities or with a Dr. Doolittle complex. I have, however, always found it easy to establish a rapport with most animals on some level and I have learned how to enhance that telepathically. It can be a fun and very rewarding way to deepen your relationship with and understanding of your animal.
August 7, 2009
Ottawa, ON
Losing a Loved Animal: Evening Workshop with Lauren McCall
This workshop is an introduction to how animals view the end of life's cycle and life after death. Drawing on her work as a professional animal communicator, Lauren will discuss experiences that animals have related to her about the transition process, leaving loved ones behind, the purpose of their journey in life and reincarnation. Though spiritual in nature, this workshop is not based on any religious belief, rather the animals' point of view. This workshop is suited to anyone who loves animals and has experienced or is about to experience the loss of a beloved animal companion.
Logistical Information: Costs and Details
Contact: Edie Jane 819-459-2110 or ediejane@listeningtowhispers.com
August 8-9, 2009
Lascelles, QC - Ottawa Area
Making the Connection: Weekend Workshop with Lauren McCall
Join Lauren McCall for an exciting adventure in learning the basics of animal communication. This fun and interactive workshop consists of two full days
working in a small group. Learn more about Workshop Content.
Logistical Information: Costs and Details
Contact: Edie Jane 819-459-2110 or ediejane@listeningtowhispers.com
Workshop Content
During the workshop you will:
· Be guided through a series of exercises that will help you discover your own innate ability to communicate with animals
· Deepen your relationship with animals
· Hear what the animals are saying through words, images, or feelings
· Learn to communicate with animals at a distance and one-on-one
· Identify your specific modality(ies) of telepathic communication
· Practice proven techniques that will help you learn how to listen to what animals are telling you
Enjoy a unique and rewarding experience that could change your life! Sign up early! This will be a small group workshop so that Lauren can give
individual support and attention in a positive and relaxed learning environment.
Another Okavango Delta trip is in the works for late May of 2010. The trip in 2008 was a great success, and we intend to go again. The report below gives a bit of a taste.
May 18-28, 2008
2008 Africa Adventure! It was a super trip, with a fascinating group of wonderful people, resulting in great memories and a multitude of photographs - the one above taken by Sue Hanley from the stoep (porch) of her tent!
A great surprise to me was how much noise animals make when moving through water. Though this photograph gives a sense of peace and quiet, the sound is that of a mighty waterfall. It was very exciting to be woken by such noise in the middle of a pitchy black night at the fly camp. I extricated myself from my mosquito net to see what I could see (nothing!), while one of the night guards flashed a light out over the water to urge whatever was out there to keep moving away from us.
The Okavango Delta was every bit as fascinating as such a unique environment can be – and a great surprise for those who expect to watch African wildlife spread out on grassy plains. We saw lots of animals, and were especially glad of the birding expertise in our party. I did get to teach a few Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons, but had to compete for attention with elephants - such as those above - and antelope. Not easy!
The Johannesburg part of the trip went well with visits to local wildlife parks, the Apartheid Museum, the Cultural Centre and the Cradle of Humankind. There’s a lot to do in Johannesburg, and for many the highlight was a day trip to the Pilanesberg Reserve. I now have many more ideas for 2010. I hope you will join us!