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Workshop Title / Short Description |
Artemis Passionfire
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Way of The Amazon Warrior:
Self-Defense Workshop
Self defense workshop includes martial arts and self-defense techniques
for empowerment of mind, body and soul, and to get in touch with your Amazon
Spirit and Inner Strength. This workshop is for all womyn, Maidens, Mothers,
Crones and others, to learn protection on physical, psychic and spiritual
levels.
This workshop is required to go onto the Amazon Ritual: Rite of Passage,
unless you have completed the Amazon training in the past. WBW Only. I
welcome new folks and all the previous Amazon attendees to come to the
workshops! Your energy is needed and welcomed!
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Artemis Passionfire
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Way of the Amazon Warrior
II
We empower ourselves physically by practicing various self defense
movements which include basic blocks, kicks, punches, restraining holds
and summoning of physical power. (Mostly covered in first workshop, with
some emphasis in second)
We empower ourselves sexually by fully owning our own bodies, valuing
our right to protect ourselves physically, mentally and spiritually, and
owning our desires, the source of our Wild Womon nature.
We empower ourselves spiritually by invoking Goddess and our Amazon
ancestors, past, present and future, by dancing, drumming, and raising
power! Together, we weave Amazon Sisterhood!
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Candy T.
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Signs and Symbols
From the arcane to the zodiacal - find out the origins and significations
of many mysterious markings! Fun and informative. |
Candy T.
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Goddess Boxes
Honor the Goddess with your creativity! Cut out, decorate, and assemble
your own "Goddess Box". Perfect for acorns, magic beans, chinese cookie
fortunes and other magickal things. |
Core Committee
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Report with question and
answer Discussion
What has the core been doing all year? How are the finances? What is
happening for next year? |
Cynthia L.
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Creating a
Quilt Square for the EF Memory Quilt
Again this year we are inviting each Elderflower participant to create
a Memory Quilt. It will be a very simple quilt this year so no worries.
There is no art experience required. Just come, make your mark and I will
do all the work to weave you into the fabric that we call Elderflower.
Then next year come back to Elderflower and put in for the raffle to win
the quilt to take home for the year. We hope that each year the previous
quilts will be brought back to be hung in the dining hall during the festival.
We will raffle the quit from 2005 off this year during the talent show
on Friday night. |
Deb D. aka Bear
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Create your
own Reality
How do we create our own reality? You really are goddess. We are co-creatrix.
Become more aware of your beingness in the world. What stands in the way
of your joy? Come Explore. |
Deborah Bender
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Priestesses in Community:
A Discussion
Who are your community? What do you do for them and what do they do
for you? Do you have connections with other priestesses? Where do you look
for advice, collaborators, role models? Are you a mentor? What is changing
for you? What would you like to make different? Bring personal answers
or other questions to this wide-ranging discussion of priesteses and our
communities. Open to priestesses and aspirants.
The facilitator, Deborah Bender, is a witch and priestess who has been
active in the Women's Spirituality, Neopagan and Wiccan communities of
Northern California since 1973.
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Diane W.
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Beginning Meditation
and Self Healing for Women
In this workshop, women will learn some meditation basics: grounding,
centering, running energy, and using their own female creative energy for
self-healing. Diane will guide participants through a one-hour meditation,
with the workshop set at amusement and self-healing.
Diane is an artist, project manager, and psychic in the San Francisco
Bay Area. She has seen energy most of her life, and recently completed
a one-year intensive clairvoyant training program in order to find her
own clarity around this experience. Spiritually, Diane draws from many
traditions, and aligns most closely with Wicce.
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Donna L.
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Gourd Art Workshop
Donna will host her extremely popular Gourd Art Workshop. Donna will
supply cut and cleaned (dry) gourds and teach women how to dye their gourd
and apply other embellishments such as beads, feathers, etc. to create
original works of art. Several women have discovered artistic talent they
never knew that possessed through their first gourd-art project. |
Eva M.
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Enjoying Safe Sex for Women
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Glenda G.
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Introduction to Herbal Medicine
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Jules Stept
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What the Bleep
is the Saturday night Ritual about?
This workshop will be given twice. Jules will talk about the format
for Saturday night's ritual so that everybody (who wishes) will feel comfortable
with participating. We will cover the dynamics of ritual circle, the natural
wheel of the year that we will create, how to bring your energy into the
magical circle and feel comfortable about that. As Magickal Matriarch she
will also talk about how we will call the Goddesses, how we will raise
the healing magical energy, bless the Earth, and about how much have fun
we will have. We will learn the chants used in the ritual. Women who attend
will make an Earth Treasure map. |
Leona R.
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Becoming a Green and Juicy
Crone
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Lisa Y.
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Tarot for Self Development
Explore the Tarot symbols in a new depth - by becoming part of the
tarot deck! Through private and shared visualization, we'll learn how to
tell ourselves stories with the Tarot, and we'll speak with and then become
the smbols that mean the most to us. Basic familiarity with the Tarot is
recommended. Opportunities for writing, art, and sharing. Bring a notebook/something
to write on and with, and your desk if you have one. |
Lisa Y.
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Redicovering
your Lost Selves
We'll use writing, art discussion and play to explore who we really
are, uncovering lost childhood dreams, fantasy "alter egos", symbols that
stand for our ideals and more....Bring pen or pencil, and paper or notebook;
art supplies will be available. |
Marni T.
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Brain Exchange
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Muriel S.
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Make Your own wearable Art!
Bring a T-Shirt or other simple garment (which must contain cotton)
to decorate with forest designs. Using Leaves, and other natural printables.
Paints anad bushes provided. You can make a simple design quickly, or spend
2 -3 hours for a larger or more intricate design. |
Naomi T.
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Shamanic Journey Circle
Shamans are the healers, psychologists, and storykeepers of their communities.
Within the context of a sacred circle, we will journey to the sound of
the drum. You can find your power animal (your helping animal spirit) or
teacher, and familiarize yourself with the landscape of the Lower, Middle
and Upper worlds of non-ordinary reality. The sound of the drum induces
a special state of conciousness, which allows each particpant to travel
to non-ordinary reality where you can access information unavailable to
you in "normal," waking reality. This is an experiential workshop. There
will be time to share our journeys. Bring a frame drum, or rattle and a
journal or notebook to record your journey. We meet at night, so bring
a blanket for warmth. Naomi has been leading this drumming circle at Elderflower
since 1993. She leads a monthly shamanic circle for women in San Francisco. |
Naomi T.
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Increasing Diversity - a
discussion
The Womenspirit Community is getting older. What can we do bring in
younger women and help Elderflower feel more welcoming for all women? I
especially want to focus the discussion on age and cultural diversity.
Should we lower the age of girls allowed at the festival? Women of color
come to the festival, but they frequently don't come back. Lets discuss
ideas to broaden the diversity of our community. |
Narumon
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My Experience
as a Buddhist Nun
Narumon, who is newcomer to Elderflower) will give a talk about her
childhood experience as a Buddhist Nun. She grew up in Thailand and spent
a time in her youth in a Buddhist Monestary. Women who are interested can
receive an inside view of a spiritual experience that most of us are unfamiliar
with. |
Rachel Watcher
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Techniques and Tools To Create
a Compatible Working Group - for Priestesses
Many small groups fail because of lack of compatibility of their members.
I will share evaluation techniques, testing tools and an understanding
of group dynamics and leadership forms which will help prevent problems.
This workshop will be presented in an academic form with handouts.
Rachael Watcher is an initiated elder in the Gardinerian and NROOGD
Traditions and have started and mentored several successful covens some,
of which are still practicing today. I am an elder in the Heathen traditions
as well. I am a professional educator.
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Rachel Watcher
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Discussion of the Earth Religion
practitioners’ and Pagans’ place in today’s National and International
Interfaith Movement and organizations Personal experiences in working
with the indigenous peoples in the US, Central and South American indigenous
traditions and how their participation has changed the face of interfaith.
Also a brief description of what remains to be accomplished among indigenous
peoples and interfaith today.
Rachael Watcher is an Interfaith Representative for the Covenant of
the Goddess to the National Association of Interfaith Networks, the United
Religions Initiative and the Parliament of World’s Religions. She has served
as both a representative and translator for the indigenous peoples of South
and Central America in many of these events. She has recently returned
from an interfaith and world peace conference in Vancouver Canada. |
Sierra Carlysdaughter
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How to Make
a Corn-doll Goddess You've seen Sierra's Corn Goddesses, now learn
how to make them for yourself! This will be a basic introduction to making
cornhusk Goddesses in which participants will be guided in the construction
of a cornhusk Goddess suitable for use and display on your own altar. Previous
art experience is not needed!
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Sierra Carlysdaughter
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"Formed in
Strength and Beauty": Breast Casting Women's breasts. Often the
subject of patriarchal pornography yet deemed "obscene" if uncovered in
public in order to feed an infant. When you look in the mirror at your
bare breasts what feelings come up? Do you accept and love your breasts
as they are, "Formed in Strength and Beauty?" or do you see only imperfection?
Are you tired of patriarchy claiming, controlling and using women's breasts
for it's own purposes? Are you ready to finally find and celebrate the
innate beauty and sacredness of every woman's breasts? If so, come join
Sierra in this multi-sessioned workshop to reclaim, honor and celebrate
your breasts as both beautiful and sacred.
In this series of two workshops participants will learn about the history
of patriarchal obsession with women's breasts. We will explore our own
experiences of our breasts and, as a means of reclaiming and honoring them,
will make plaster casts, then a breast-bust of plaster that, once dry,
can be decorated and (hopefully) will be displayed at the festival on Sunday
in honor and celebration of the sacred act of reclaiming our breasts. Women
should bring a bath towel to the sessions in order to make a holder for
the breast cast for drying.
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Spring Friedlander
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CoHousing,
building a village in the City . I live in mini-cohousing and have
been involved in several groups that have bid on properties in the East
Bay. A group is recruiting to build 32 condominium units In the Temescal
area of North Oakland. Discussion.
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Spring Friedlander
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Having a Service
Business
I have had a small house remodeling business since 1980 and would like
to share our solutions to dealing with clients, jobs and administrative
tasks. |
Spring Friedlander
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Bi-sexual support
group
I have been an “out” bisexual since the early 1970's. Do come explore
the topics of sexual orientation and gender identity. Let’s talk about
current personal and political issues. |
Spring Friedlander
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The Clean Money
and Fair Elections Act The Clean Money and Fair Elections Act is
on the Ca. Nov. Ballot as Proposition 89! It would make elected officials
answerable to voters instead of special interests and lobbyists. This initiative
has a chance of passing. Lets discuss it.
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Stacey M.
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Mother's Rites of Passage
I - Making Your Crown Only for women interested in being Crowned
at Elderflower (participating in Mother's rites of passage). This workshop
is in preparation for the Mother Crowning Ritual. It is for those women
who wish to honor the Mother phase of her spiritual life. Materials to
bring: Fresh or dry flowers and foliage; Floral tape and floral wire; Ribbons;
Trinkets for adorning your crown
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Stacey M.
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Mother's Rites
of Passage II - Mother Crowning Ritual This ritual is for women
who participated in Mother's Rites of Passage I, and their supporters.
This is the ritual for women who wish to honor entering or being in the
mother phase of her spiritual life. Women who wish to be crowned must attend
Part I of Mother's Rites of Passage.
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Susan D.
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Croning Ritual Preparation
for New Crones What does becoming a crone mean to you? For many
of us, this is a atime to learn respct for our own needs, and to practice
saying NO to others' requests. For others, it is the time when a new initiative
of service begins to emerge. For you, it is ... (you fill in the blank).
Guidaance will be provided for new crones (and current crones, if interested)
in preparation for the Croning Ritual. All new crones are encouraged to
attend.
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Susan D.
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Croning Ritual - Crones only
Enjoy a Rite of Passage into Cronehood and a celebration of our power
and wisdom nad freedom as older women. If you are already a crone, this
ritual will affirm your identity and empower you at an even deeper level.
Ewar your crone finery, and bring your crone staff. If you don't have a
crone staff, you can easily find a temporary one in the woods at Elderflower
after you arrive. And if you want, bring something to put on our crone
altar. We will convene in front of the dining hall promptly 5
minutes before the sceduled workshop time begins and walk to the
Fire Circle together. |
Susan D.
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Discussion
regarding Raising the Age for Croning
There are many ways to define "Crone": one who haas stopped bleeding;
a womana past her second Saturn Return (around age 56); one who feels she
is a grandmother. These days when hysterectomies at a young age a common,
as are hormones that continue the bleeding, the definiition gets more coplex.
So instead of examining each on a case by case basis, the current Elderflower
practice is this: any
woman over 50 who so chooses, is a crone.
Some Crones are currently discussing the idea of raising the age for
Croning to 56. This is the earliest age for a second Saturn Return, and
is considered to be the middle of the menopausal years. If you are a current
crone, or a woman approaching 50 and are interested in joining the discussion,
please come to this gathering. |
Vicki S.
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Goddess Songs
with verses Heretic Heart, The Witch Song (Who Were the Witches),
Girl’s Night Out, Through All the World Below... Vicki will bring some
longer songs this year. Join us as we go around the circle and everyone
gets a chance to share or request a song, or pass. If you love singing
songs to the Goddess, bring your favorites or learn some new ones! Water
bottles, recorders, and sheet music recommended.
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Willow Polson
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Post-Peak-Oil Discussion
This is a lecture/discussion workshop. The first part will discuss the
concept of Peak Oil: What it is, how it will affect the world in the near
future, and why “alternative” fuels won’t solve the problem. The second
part is centered on the solution of Relocalization, which means to bring
society and community back to a more sustainable, self-sufficient, local
level.
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Willow Polson
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Beginning Beadwork with Willow
All materials are provided in this introductory class to beadwork. You’ll
be working with size 11/0 seed beads, beading needles & waxed thread
to create a pair of peyote-stitch fringed earrings. Bring your reading
glasses or magnifier if you need to, these beads are tiny! If you have
them, please also bring embroidery or small sewing scissors and a small
piece of beeswax (but they’re not required).
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