If the gift of spiritual healing is rising in you, or you recognize it and feel moved to nurture the gift in another, this week is to learn more about that gift and how it can be expressed in the body, the heart and the group. How do we open ourselves to the capacity to feel pain, to bring it to the divine presence and allow ourselves to enter into healing?
Leader: Elaine Emily and Moira Darling
Elaine Emily
Cost : $695 single room, $635 shared room
Aim: To introduce and practise Quaker spiritual healing, with opportunities for people to recognise and develop their healing gifts
Synopsis: This is an experiential course for those involved in healing within a Meeting or other group of people.
The course will include:
- Connecting with your own experience/s of being wounded and of receiving healing and identifying sources of trauma and wounding: physical, psychological, spiritual or social/emotional pain or injury
- History of Quaker ministry and witness in healing including George Fox’s miracles, the Hospice movement, recent Fellowship of Healing programs
- The Body as Healer: the use of ‘Focusing” to bring clarity, the Quaker use of Light Groups, and the neuropsychological benefits of meditation, mindfulness and prayer
- The Heart as Healer: focusing on our relationships and the gift of compassion
- The Group as Healer: the Quaker community as a force for love and healing, and ways to heal groups that have been wounded
- The Presence as Healer: how do we open ourselves to the capacity to feel pain, to bring it to the divine presence and allow ourselves to enter into healing
- Experiential exercises will include: journaling of experiences, small group sharing, psycho-drama of biblical and other healing stories, focusing and light group experiences, writing poetry and prayer, healing ‘massage’ and touch, learning self-calming techniques and imagery to change our neural pathways and improve healing, supportive group processes and debriefing.
Source Materials:
- Ambler, R., 202. Light to Live By. An Exploration in Quaker Spirituality. Quaker Books
- Birkel, M.L., 2004. Silence and Witness. The Quaker Tradition. Darton, Longman & Todd. 164pp.
- Cadbury, H.J., (editor) 2000. George Fox’s Book of Miracles. Quakers Uniting in Publications 146pp.
- Gendlin, E., 1981. Focusing. Bantam Books.
- Hanson, R. & Richard Mendius, R., 2009. Buddha’s Brain: the Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom. New Harbinger Publications.
- Quaker Faith & Practice, 1999. Britain Yearly Meeting 671pp.
