NEW BIOGRAPHY WORKSHOP

For the Individual:
If you are seeking the personal truth of your life, The Inner Life is designed for you. The Inner Life explores and reveals, consciously and creatively, your individual expression of the archetypal patterns, phases and passages of human development living in, behind and beyond your personal memories and dramas. It moves you beyond your stories to the reality of your unfolding I, a being learning the lessons of love and freedom.

The Group Dynamic:
The Inner Life biography work is done in groups of twelve individuals. The social beauty of shared biography work creates a mood of warmth, inspiration and compassion. Many times one personŐs sharing will awaken lost memories or feelings in another leading to new perspectives and fuller understanding.

The Focus of Reflection and Exploration

The seven-year cycles:
Our unique and mysterious lives unfold in 7 year cycles. Each cycle has a particular set of tasks, gifts, needs and challenges creating a template for the stories of our lives. Learn these templates and see how they fit your memories and illuminate the meaning of the events and relationships of your life.

Major and Minor Themes:
Play, Work, Schooling, Humor, Religion, Money, Health, Travel, Nature, Romance, Failures, Music, Body Image and so many more: these are all aspects of our lives that impact our sense of who we are, the emotions we feel and the way we express ourselves in the world. Exploring our biographical stories around these themes can reveal profound insights about our lives, our attitudes and our choices.

The Benefits
The Inner Life biography work offers numerous benefits. Through active participation you will

• form healing perspectives for self-knowledge and wholeness
  
• penetrate the deeper purpose of your life challenges
  
• understand the impact of relationships and environments on our inner life
  
• recognize the great significance of minor moments
  
• reconcile the painful lessons, confusing contradictions and puzzling paradoxes in our lives.

• establish emotional liberation and social responsibility
• speak your memories in a self-compassionate voice free of the chaos of emotional triggers.
• listen to the memories of others with the same objective compassion and interest.
• find a growing awareness of the individuality living in all human beings

• energize and focus your creative forces
• grasp the direction of your unfolding destiny
• honor your complex journey.
• discover your resources
• manage and regulate your weaknesses and shadow gestures

Lisa Boisvert MacKensie

Process:
The Inner Life participation occurs as a teleseminar and takes place via conference calls and supplemented with materials streaming over the web so you both see and hear the presentations. The teleseminars are recorded and available for future review. Although is is very beneficial to attend all 9 sessions, I understand it is sometimes unavoidable to miss a session, the recordings mean you do not miss the presentations and the sharing. All the interactive sharing is confidential.

Each 90 minute session includes a 30 minute presentation and 60 minutes for interactive sharing by the twelve participants.

Materials and Homework:
There are extensive and helpful handouts emailed each week along with a set of 12-15 questions to contemplate and write about. I recommend you plan on devoting 3-4hours each week to receive full benefit from the course.

Small Groups:
Beginning the fourth week the group will be divided into small groups of 3 and required to have an additional phone meeting to deepen the work. These calls will last 30-45 minutes and arranged at a time that suits all three. You will be given specific questions to address in these small groups.

Consultation:
Every participant will have a private 20-minute consultation with Lynn. If a participant desires additional consultation with Lynn there is a discounted rate of $25 for each 20 minutes.

THE HEALING OVERVIEW introduces you to the study of your life. The first of three parts of The Inner Life, its goal is to provide you with new ways to understand yourself based on the unfolding of your life.

I call it a HEALING OVERVIEW as it brings a dynamic wholeness to your self-perception, offering creative insights to the process between birth and adulthood. You find and integrate a healthy, nourishing comfort with the course of your life, the joys and the sufferings.

Each session focuses on a seven year phase of specific development or a constant life theme.
1. Introduction to Biography Work
2. Birth to change of teeth 0-7
3. Change of teeth to puberty 7-14
4. Puberty to adulthood 14-21
5. Mother and home
6. Father and world
7. Friendships
8. Work and Play
9. Money and closure

Tuesdays, Noon-1:30PM Eastern, 5PM GMT and 9AM Pacific
Tuesdays, 8-9:30PM Eastern, 5PM Pacific
Mar 9, 16, 23, 30 Apr 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, May 4, 11

Saturdays, Noon - 1:30PM Eastern, 9AM Pacific
March 13, 20, 27, April 3, 10, 17, 24, May 1, 7

The Inner Life biography programs can be taken at the same time as The Inner Year programs. The combined programs are mutually enhancing.

Lynn Jericho
counselor, adult educator and writer

To learn more about Lynn and read her biography,
please go to Lynn's website.

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