Workshops
IMAGO conducts
workshops to educate adults about sustainability. Specialized workshops
are offered to professional social workers and counselors for continuing
education credit. Workshops we have conducted in the past include
the following topics:
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the Enneagram
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financial independence
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Spiritual Eldering
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spirituality in
the workplace
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mediation &
conflict resolution
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despair & empowerment
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the labyrinth as
a spiritual tool
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Earth/Spirit oriented
backpacking weekends
Upcoming
Workshops:
Fall/Winter
2000
Art in Nature/Nature in Art
Presented by Sharon Wilson and Dennis Coskie
Friday, October 20
9:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.
700 Enright Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
Please call 921-5124 for registration information.
Art in Nature/Nature in Art, a behavioral
wellness program, combines the benefits of art and ecopsychology. The program
is an interactive introduction to art ideas and techniques to facilitate
an exploration of our personal place in the web of life.
Producing a sense of ease instead of dis-ease
through the process of connection to all around us is a philosophy that
is gaining acceptance throughout the healthcare community. Modern
psychiatry has ignored the most primal part of our soul: our ecological
unconscious. This workshop will assist us in learning fundamental modalities
for getting in touch with the natural world and our subconscious thoughts
and feelings. No experience required. Much of the workshop
will be outdoors.
Sharon Wilson is a Certified
Psychiatric, Mental Health Registered Nurse who has had a psychodynamic
therapy practice working with people of all ages. Educated in holistic
studies at the Union Institute and in art at the Rochester Institute of
Technology, she continues her art studies through the Cincinnati Art Museum
Academy. Working in the medium of watercolor, Sharon’s work has been
exhibited in New York, Florida and locally.
Dennis Coskie is a care
manager for Creative Connections through LightHouse Youth Services, providing
services to youth with severe emotional and behavioral problems.
He has been the director of adolescent services at a day treatment program,
using art therapy to help children focus on underlying emotional issues.
Dennis attended graduate school at the University of Rochester with a concentration
in psychology. As a fine arts photographer, Dennis studied
art at Columbia College in Chicago, IL. As the owner and Director
of the Pinnacle Gallery in Rochester, NY. , Dennis juried many art exhibitions.
His work has been exhibited in Texas, Illinois, New York, Wisconsin and
locally.
Finding Spirituality and Meaning
In Our Work and Lives
Presented by Mark Steiner
Friday, November 10
9:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.
Price Hill (exact location and
directions provided with registration confirmation)
Please call 921-5124 for registration information.
This workshop will explore how we and our
clients might enrich our personal lives by gaining a greater appreciation
for the wonders of creation. By looking at the knowledge we have gained
about our world, from the atom to the galaxy, we will see the interconnect-edness
of our work and lives and understand spirituality in a new and exciting
way. We will acknowledge the deeply connected nature of our world and identify
the individual and collective human role in its unfolding story.
This workshop will include presentations, reflection, sharing, creativity,
celebration, drama and high play. We will honor and celebrate our creativity
and our great potential.
Mark Steiner is a businessman
from Louisville, Kentucky who takes spirituality and meaning seriously
in his work and life. He has presented lectures, workshops, and classes
on the topics of spirituality, work, cosmology, customer service, and self-awareness.
In addition, he has worked as a regional Connector for the Creation Spirituality
movement since 1991. He and his partner Catherine Browning have spent
the last few years presenting their workshops on Spirituality and the New
Cosmology across the United States.
The Natural Step to Sustainability
Presented by Diane DePuydt & Isabelle
Healy
Friday, December 8
9:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.
Price Hill (exact location and
directions provided with registration confirmation)
Please call 921-5124 for registration information.
We need a new way of looking at how we interact
with our environment, as individuals, businesses, and communities. The
Natural Step (TNS), begun in Sweden and now in the United States, offers
a straightforward guide for living sustainability. This workshop, in presenting
the principles of TNS, will develop and share a common framework comprised
of easily understood, scientifically-based principles that can serve as
a compass to guide society toward a just and sustainable future.
Diane DePuydt, Ph.D.
is executive director of EarthConnection, a center for learning and reflection
about sustainable living practice. She gives talks and workshops about
sustainable living throughout greater Cincinnati. Along with Isabelle
Healy, she has been involved in introducing The Natural Step into the Cincinnati
community.
Isabelle Healy is an
organizational consultant specializing in group development, process design,
organizational transformation and facilitation of retreats, conferences
and strategic decision-making.
Along with Diane Depuydt, she has been involved
in introducing The Natural Step into the Cincinnati community.