Lecture: Clearing the Air Between Men and Women
By Gordon Clay and Shauna Wilson Mora
$5.00 - 20.00 Suggested donation, everyone welcome, no one turned away
Presentation Description:
Join Shauna and Gordon for an introductory evening. In this energetic presentation we will move through various emotions, patterns, and belief systems which may block greater intimacy with ourselves and with others.
If we are to survive and thrive as a society and community, men and women need to honor and appreciate each other's power, shadows and dreams. By clearing our energy of old hurts, we can reach a level of deep, authentic, open-hearted, non-sexual intimacy and feel safe on a cellular level. With this sense of trust we can choose to join with the other sex from a place of grounded joy. When we let go of control and allow ourselves to set relationships straight we clear the air and realize that we are each a unique thread from the same tapestry called life.
Presenters' Biographies:
Gordon Clay has been a leader in the Men's Movement since 1976 and has been designing workshops for almost 30 years. He is especially known for developing a movement and breath work system for the safe and healthy expression of anger and rage in a non-violent way. He specializes in appropriate emotional release to integrate the un-conscious mind and body.
These gifts have been used for over 20 years in his Healing the Father Wound and Clearing the Air intensive workshops. (clearingtheair.net) Gordon has been co-chair of the National Organization for Men against Sexism, is a prostrate cancer survivor and has made numerous television and radio appearances including Oprah and Hour magazine. Initiated in 1990 as a New Warrior, Gordon has staffed 13 trainings and two inside Folsom Prison which helped direct his work toward ending men's isolation. The Menstuff magazine that he started in 1982 and converted in 1996 has become the largest web site in the world on men¹s issues, with over 100,000 hits a day. For fun, over the last seven years, he uses his skills as Papa DJ at Burning Man and elsewhere.
Shauna Wilson Mora has been a group leader for over twenty years. As a brilliant psychodrama facilitator she has designed seminars for men and women to heal deeply ingrained inner wounds. Shauna was certified as a leader for Woman Within International and has facilitated women's weekends and Empowerment Circles from coast to coast. She has been co-leading the Clearing the Air series with Gordon Clay for nearly a decade. (clearingtheair.net) Shauna is known for her spectacular ability to assist organizations and individuals in identifying and realizing their goals. As a Mediator for the City of Palo Alto, California, she currently serves as the Chair of the Human Relations Commission and is also the Manager of Facilitation Programs for the Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center.
Praise for Gordon and Shauna:
Bill Kauth says "The brilliant, progressive risk structure of Gordon and Shauna's work sets the stage for heart opened learning in a short time. Last year, I did the entire series and heartily recommend them."
Renee Riley-Adams says "Through working with Gordon I was able to loosen my grip on the Ultimate Father Fantasy and anchor forgiveness and freedom in my body. Letting go of my unhealthy views of the masculine allowed me to embrace my husband and father, and to better understand other men. I am also able to more fully appreciate and accept my own masculine and feminine."
Dennis Mead-Shikaly says "Our wounds anchor deeply into our thought forms and our emotions. But most significantly, they take residence in the body. Gordon's work centers around moving the stagnant energy out of the body better than any I have ever experienced. I finally cleared my "father" out of my body, once and for all."
Websites:
http://www.clearingtheair.net and
http://www.menstuf.org
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