Additional Events & Adventures
Happy 2011!
Most of the events on this page, with the exception of special adventures, are being held in or near Lascelles, QC, 30 minutes from Ottawa, Ontario, in the beautiful Gatineau Hills. As happened last year, a busy schedule away from home is limiting the local workshops offered this summer. More information will be added as dates get confirmed.
For the adventurers: : Riding in the Okavango Delta has been pushed back another couple of years while we wait for the economy to brighten up. So too for the trip to the Arctic. Sigh.
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Click on the items below to see descriptions of each event.
May 7 and May 7-8, 2011 – 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 2011 schedule of TTouch with companion animals. You will find information about these workshops here.
July 23 and July 23-24, 2011 – 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 2011 schedule of TTouch with companion animals. You will find information about these workshops here.
August 12 and August 13-14, 2011 – Animal Communication Workshops
Lauren McCall's Friday evening session in Ottawa, Losing a Loved Animal, is open to all. Registration is limited for her always popular annual weekend workshop Making the Connection. Register early to confirm your space. More information below.
October 29-30, 2011 – 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 2011 schedule of TTouch with companion animals. You will find information about these workshops here.
Future Adventures – plan ahead!
201? Adventure - Africa!
Another riding safari is in the works for late May, 2013. The 2008 Africa Adventure was a super trip, with a fascinating group of wonderful people, resulting in great memories and a multitude of photographs . . . read more.
201? Adventure – Arctic Watch Lodge
Cunningham Inlet on Somerset Island, Nunavut.
Costs and workshop logistic details can be found here.
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No further TTouch for You events are scheduled in Canada for this calendar year. If you want to be kept up to date on planned events, you can sign up for updates of this or any other page.
Find out more about TTouch for You.
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.
No further events with Bella Halsted are scheduled for this calendar year. Bella will be teaching her annual "By the Sea" workshop in Manchester, Massachusetts - for more information contact Bella at bella@crocker.com. If you want to be kept up to date on planned events, you can sign up for updates of this or any other page.
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.
See Workshop Reviews to see what past participants have experienced.
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."
Two Animal Communication Workshops
August 12 and August 13-14, 2011
Ottawa, ON and Lascelles, QC (Ottawa Area)
Animal Communication Workshops with Lauren McCall - Is this for real? See Workshop Content and more information 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 and an intriguing history to her current international animal communication and TTouch practice. Her academic credentials include a BA in Diplomacy and World Affairs from Occidental College in California (Barack Obama was there the same time) and an MA in International Relations from the University of Sussex in England. From there she moved to Malaysia to run an international printing company, act as consultant for Chase Manhattan Bank, and as Client Service Director for an advertising agency – and learned to speak Malay! Following that was marketing specialist work in England with an educational trust and a publishing company. The pivotal chapter in Lauren’s life story, which led to her current work, features her father’s beautiful Malamute, Roo. We’ll let her tell that story herself, when you meet her.
Lauren now travels and teaches both animal communication and TTouch, and has an international client base that includes the US, Europe and Japan. She is the creator of the multi-media in-home learning program, "Animal Communication: Making the Connection" and author of "The Eternal Gift, Coping with the grief of losing a beloved animal", best-seller in Japan and now available in English.
She lives in Newberg, Oregon with her partner, a dog, 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.
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.
August 12, 2011
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 13-14, 2011
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
Another Okavango Delta trip is in the works for late May of 2011. The trip in 2008 was a great success, and we intend to go again. The report below gives a bit of a taste.
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 2011. I hope you will join us!
Contact: Edie Jane 819-459-2110 or ediejane@listeningtowhispers.com
201?
Cunningham Inlet on Somerset Island, Nunavut
201? Arctic Adventure! Arctic Watch Lodge
I still intend to put together a trip to this wonderful northern safari camp – on the edge of the Northwest Passage. 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.
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