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Speaking and Listening From the Heart: Teen Talking Circle Facilitator's Training:
Thursday, November 08, 2007 at 4:00 PM - Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 2:00 PM (PT)
Bainbridge Island, WA
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The greatest gift we can give another is the gift of ourselves - our presence, acceptance, and willingness to sit with each other in circle, speak and listen from our hears, treat each other and ourselves with compassion, and trust the process of circle. This seemingly small act is healing for everyone involved. It brings forth powerful energies, amplifies our ability to feel our hearts, be spacious with others, see our lives more clearly, hear our own inner wisdom, discover our own answers, and make healthy choices that free us to offer our unique yet interconnected Selves to the world. Through this remarkable process we discover that we are not alone but are in fact inextricably linked within the sacred web of life.
Imagine facilitating a circle for teens. Imagine giving them a safe space to tell the truth without fear of judgment, criticism, or rejection. A place where they can take down their "tough guises," share their deepest feelings, work through conflicts, expose their fears, share their hearts, and discover that people still accept and love them. How might this change their lives? How might this change the world? You can be part of making this happen.
The Teen Talking Circle Facilitator Training is a deeply experiential workshop for adults who are interested in knowing what it's like to be in as well as start a Teen Talking Circle. You don't need prior experience just a desire to do it, the courage to do your own work, an open mind and open heart, the wisdom to know you're ready and the willingness to try.
In this training you will learn the history of TTC from those who have been doing teen circles for years, including teens currently in circle. Whether you want to facilitate a 1-day, 10-week, 9-month, or yearlong circle; whether you want it to be topic centric, mixed gender, or done in the TTC sacred circle style, this training will teach you the basics.
You'll learn by doing. Through experiencing circle you’ll see how to create a successful one. You’ll learn how to attract participants, find a co-facilitator, call a circle, and then once you’re in it you’ll learn how to set agreements and intentions, co-create safe space, do "check-ins,” and lead useful processes and important exercises.
Facilitating a Teen Talking Circles takes a desire and commitment to be there for others. It also takes the courage to commit to your own unfolding process. In this training you learn the art and practice of Compassionate Listening(SM), one of the most important communication skills used in our circles.
After the training and for as long as you are a member of TTC, you will have access to those of us in the home office, as well as facilitators around the world through our interactive website, blogs, and conference calls. We are here to help you be as successful as possible.
Teen Talking Circles started in 1993 as the Daughters Sisters Project, under the fiscal umbrella of Context Institute, now the Positive Futures Network. As the Project grew to include more young men, our name changed. Today, there are TTC circles growing worldwide, and branch representatives in Boulder, Colorado; Seattle, Washington; Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; Lopez Island, Washington; Yelapa, Mexico, Culver, Indiana, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and soon in Lagos, Nigeria -- with more starting each year. Join our cooperative movement for healthy relationships. For a more information on circles and facilitators in your area, see:www.teentalkingcircles.org or contact our home office:info@teentalkingcircles.org
Speaking and Listening from the Heart is led by Linda Wolf, founder and executive director of The Teen Talking Circle Project, and co-author of Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun: Young Women and Mentors on the Transition to Womanhood and, Global Uprising: Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century -- Stories from a New Generation of Activists. She will be assisted by co-facilitators and teens from the Bainbridge Island circles.
All fees include a non-refundable deposit of $250 and confirm your space in the workshop. Meals, materials are included. We prefer people to make their own lodging reservations, but we can offer bedrooms in our home to people with budgetary constraints on a first come first serve basis. if possible we encourage you to reserve a room at Island Country Inn on Bainbridge Island. To contact them, call their office at 206-842-6861.
Linda is a certified facilitator of Compassionate Listening. Compassionate Listening is a service mark of the Compassionate Listening Project. For more information about Compassionate Listening, contact compassionatelistening.org.
If you would like to order copies of our books go to: http://ttcpbooks.mollyguard.com
Addendum: If you sign up online, a service fee will be added. Feel free to call us or mail a check if you would like to avoid this fee.
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Thursday, November 08, 2007 at 4:00 PM
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Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 2:00 PM (PT)
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Teen Talking Circles
PO Box 4492
Rollingbay, WA 98061
206-842-3000
"We have learned so much about facilitating healthy and significant dialogue among and with teens from the work of Teen Talking Circles that it has become ingrained in our structure. Students now insist on there being time each week for "circle," both for girls and boys. Kudos to all those on staff at TTC for dedicating your lives to improving the wellbeing of children and those that care about them. Well done!"
Andy Smallman, Director, Puget Sound Community School, Seattle
Past Training Participants include representatives from the following:
Addictions Counseling Center for the Squamish Nation
American Association of University Women Poughkeepsie Branch
American Association of University Women Wappiger Falls
Antioch University
Asian Counseling & Referral Service
Aspen Youth Center
Associated Ministries
Auburn AmeriCorp Team
Auburn’s Neigthborhood Program
Barber Hill Wellness
Bethany House
Binder Riha Associates
Bitberg High School
Boys & Girls Club of Fond du Lac
Brandon University
Bremerton Kitsap County Health District
Bush School, Seattle Washington
Canadian Forces Halifax Class Patrol Frigate HMCS
Canadian Red Cross
Casa de la Imagination
Catalyst Mediation Services
Centre for Research & Education/ Violence Against Women & Children
Center for Women & Democracy - University of Washington
Centerheart
CenterPoint
Chico Peace and Justice Center
Children's Literacy Project/Treehouse Tutoring Corps
Circle Yoga
Client List
Community Coalition of Eastern Santa Cruz
Community Outreach Programs in Addictions, Toronto
Counseling for Life
Counseling Psychology Center, Monmouth University
Creative Crossings
Creative Possibilities
Crisis Clinic of Washington State
Culver Girls Academy
Culver Military School
Dads and Daughters
Denise DuPree Acupuncture Clinic
Earth Girls National Building
East Cherry YWCA, Washington
eco-brain: Green Books for Green Living
Edmonton Film Festival
Fairview Junior High School
Feminist Women's Health Center
First Presbyterian Church
Florence City Board of Education
Fond du Lac Health Department
Fond du Lac School District
Fond du Lack Family Resoure Center
Gather the Women, Canada
GI Jane of Illinois
Girls Coalition of Greater Boston
Girlphyite
Girls EnCircle
Girls Outdoors
GRuB (Garden-Raised Bounty
Guiding Lights Weekend
Harpeth Hall School
Healing Circles Program Coordinator Hospice Care Online
Indianapolis Peace Institute
Kewaskum High School
Kim's World
Kodiak Area Native Association
Lafayette college
Lake Washington Tech Academy
Lake Washington Girls Middle School
Leelenau County Juvenile Justice Department
LTBB of Otawa Indians
Lifeways, Inc
Lutheran Evangelical Church of Denmark
Marysville YMCA, Washington
Media Island International
Mental Health Counseling at Antioch, Seattle WA.
Miami Valley Juvenile Rehabilitation Center
Missouri State CDR
National Defence and the Canadian Forces
New Moon Foundation
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
Northwest Girl's Coalition
Nurture a Chlld
Oregon Youth Authority
Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth
Operation Respect
Passages Northwest
Peace by Peace
Peace Corps
PeaceFirst
Pearls for Teen Girls
Pep Girlz Program
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains
Planned Parenthood Marmonte, Reno, Nevada
Puget Sound Community School
Red Moon Yoga
Renton Area Youth and Family Services
Renton Teen Health Center
Rite of Passage Journeys
Robinson Community Learning Center Prevention Program
RTI International - Crime, Justice and Behavior Unit
Santa Barbara Family Therapy Institute
Safe.Smart. Strong.
St Croix Valley Restorative Justice
Saint Mary’s College
Setrawa/India
Seventh-Generation
Shambhali Trust/Jodhpur, India
Sister Made International Services’ Office
Space Between
Spirited Youth
The Fun House
The Karuna School
The Way of It: Personal Coaching
Travers City Juvenile Justice Department
United Way of King County
UW-Milwaukee - Office of Student Life
University of Toronto
University Universalist Church
Untamed Imagination
US Department of Women’s Health
Voices and Choices
Volunteers of America, Mentoring Children of Promise
Washington Ethical Society
Washington National Guard Family Programs
West Seattle Teen Health Center
Wildwood Elementary School
Women in Support of Education
Women’s Center at the University of Wisconsi
YES/Bhutan
YES Summit/Mexico
YMCA Seattle Washington
YWCA of Jamestown New York
YWCA Pathways for Women
YWCA-Washington Advantage
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