Topics and Presenters at SpiritKeepers for July and August 2010 SpiritKeepers meets Sunday mornings (except for the first Sunday of each month) from 10:00 am – noon. On the first Sunday, we encourage you to find other forms of spiritual nourishment and to bring it back and share it with the fellowship.  Our location: The West Boulder Senior Center at the NE corner of 9th & Arapahoe, Boulder July 11 – No SpiritKeepers this Sunday – The West Boulder Senior Center is closed this day for maintenance July 18 – Compassionate Communication for Couples … and Kids with Paul Sterling. Everyone knows that when your communication starts to break down… so does your relationship! Most relationship problems are really just communication problems. The challenge for most lovers… and parents, is they don’t know how to turn it around… how to communicate in a way that brings back the love, intimacy, trust, and open honest communication. Discover what you can do today to start BEING the change you want in your relationship. It’s like getting a compassionate communication toolbox for couples. Paul Sterling is a relationship coach, author and public speaker. The Magic Relationship Method he teaches is based on the principles of Nonviolent Communication. He will talk about a new Relationship Paradigm of Powerful Vulnerability and you will experience Courageous Intimacy, Fearless–Loving Listening and Compassionate Conversations. To find out more about the Magic Relationship Method http://www.MagicRelationshipMethod.net July 25 – Exploration of Growth and Change with Sandra Gaskill. Would you like to explore what encourages, supports and facilitates personal growth and internal change? Or what holds you in the old, familiar, often painful habits? Would you like to understand what helps other people sustain the changes they've worked so hard to manifest? How do life circumstances, unconditional love, abandonment, trauma, past lives, etc. impact ability to grow. We will look at times we've been able to change and at the annoying habits of mind and behavior that hold us back. This is an on-going exploration for me in my personal and professional lives. Come share with the group what motivates and blocks you, what helps you to sustain growth in some areas, but not in others. Sandra Gaskill is a body-centered psychotherapist, shamanic practitioner, and nature photographer. August 8 – The Transformational Power of Voice with Kristina Sophia. Join us on this supportive, self-empowering journey as we connect to the divine through sound and singing. Enliven, energize and awaken your body, mind and soul. Through this guided process we raise our vibrational frequencies and are able to see clearly the course of action that is most appropriate for us now at this point in our lives. Kristina, an internationally recognized singer, and musical ambassador, has performed world-wide with her husband Cameron Powers, including a performance in Cairo for 60,000 Egyptians, and performances on the streets of Baghdad to protest the US invasion. She is co-creator of Musical Missions of Peace 501c3 and has led sound healing and vocal workshops for the past 15 years. August 15 – Empowering Children with the Tools for Peace with Tajali Tolan. Children' Global Peace Project is an International Peace program for students K-12. Using multicultural arts, heart centered practice and Non Violent Communication tools students learn to move beyond prejudice and assumption to realize their potential, their connection to each other, and the global human family. This morning Tajali, the Director of CGPP will share tools for peace through dance, song and her first hand experiences. Tajali Tolan, LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist working with families for over 20 years. She is an ordained minister leading Children’s Universal Worship Services and Certified Dance Leader of DUP. August 22 – Have As Many Maps As You Can – Hold Them All Lightly with Matthew Middendorf. A map is a paradigm for looking at reality. Some examples of a map would be: any religion, Quantum Physics, a psychotherapy technique, even a map of planet earth. We will discuss how maps help us to see reality and how they sometimes obscure reality, and why that is. We will explore why some maps that we perceive as erroneous make us upset or reactive. We will explore a point of view proposed by Ken Wilber called Integral Thinking. Matthew majored in physics in college and was an electronics engineer in a previous life. Currently his favorite hobbies are songwriting, spirituality and nature. Matthew will sing a couple of his songs to humorously illustrate his topic. August 29 – Bring Your Soul to Work! with Kurt Walberg. Often the tension between soul and role creates dissonance and dissatisfaction with both who one "is" and what one "does." This can be particularly so in the service professions - teaching, nursing, lawyering and ministering - where situational / institutional demands can overtake the initial inspiration for choosing that work. How to bridge that gap and live divided no more? Processes drawn from Quaker practices and using poetry as metaphor can create a safe place for one's inner guide to speak. Join Kado! in a presentation drawn from the "Courage to Lead" seminars. Kado! - Kurt Walberg’s journey to wholeness involves peace dancing, practicing law, men’s work, hiking and skiing. The "Courage to Lead" seminars are based on Parker Palmer’s work, including "A Hidden Wholeness." Are you interested in being a guest speaker at SpiritKeepers Interfaith Fellowship gatherings? Presenting can be a rich and rewarding experience. Please submit your ideas in a short, focused paragraph (80 words or less) to Timothy Dobson at PO Box 368, Boulder, CO 80306 and include a bit about your background. Embrace this opportunity to share your wisdom and passion with the community!