FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH
1-8PM

1-2pm Registration and Networking

Come and mingle with like minds over tea and refreshments.

Note: Pre-registration is required, so please see our registration page!

2-2:30pm
Opening Ceremony & Introductory Remarks

with Melanie Ollenberg and Sarah Hedges, Founders of the Inner Arts Collective

2:30-3:30pm Keynote
Patterns of Conscious Living: Seasons, Psyche and Energy Psychology (Part 1 of 3)

with Tiffany Lazic, Author, Founder of The Hive and Grove (Kitchener), and Instructor at the Transformational Arts College
Description: For thousands of years, peoples across cultures have connected with seasonal cycles. Ancient western agrarian cultures spanning from Turkey to Ireland developed myths, holidays and rituals throughout the year to reflect this connection. Ancient spiritual and shamanic practices utilized knowledge of these patterns to insure individual and tribal health. Echoes of these ancient traditions are the foundations for modern celebrations. Though we no longer depend on the seasonal cycles in the same way, modern people are intimately connected to the earth and the environment through our physicality. Consciously or unconsciously, we respond to our physical location and to the patterns and rhythms of nature. Contemporarily, psychological patterns are enhanced or diminished in relation to the seasonal cycles we experience in our environment.

Patterns of Conscious Living synthesizes traditional themes with archetypal and energy psychology into an effective, applicable practice addressing physical, psychological and energetic health. Identifying the eight key themes that have resonance both in ancient and modern times, this presentation illustrates eight cycle patterns as they relate to emotional blocks, psychological key issues, and the significant stages of psychological development, highlighting the utilization of natural, seasonal rhythms to access, comprehend and facilitate emotional release and psychological balance through energetic and intuitive tools.

3:30-3:45 Break

3:45-5:45pm Workshop
Creating Powerful Containers: How to strengthen your capacity to hold space

with Deborah Brodey, Founder of Radical Self Nourishment Programs and Find Your Voice Programs.. She is a Yoga Teacher, Vocal Sound Healer, Ceremonial Leader, Transformation Guide and a member of the Inner Arts Collective in Toronto, Canada.
Description: As facilitators of healing and transformation, one of the most essential skills across disciplines, is to be able to hold space for others. Yet we often see “giving fatigue” amongst practitioners. There may be a tendency as change makers to focus our attention more on the assisting of others than on nurturing ourselves and cultivating self - compassion for ourselves on an ongoing basis.

In this workshop we will experience a self- care model developed by Deborah Brodey called Radical Self Nourishment, which seeks to nourish change makers while they change the world. The premise is that Nourished Hearts change the world. We nourish our hearts through the practice and embodiment of 5 essential attitudes that come from yoga philosophy. Radical Self Nourishment teaches us how to create powerful containers for ourselves. Once we embody and are able to hold space for ourselves then we are able to be powerful in our capacity to hold space for others.

6-8pm Gala

Through a combination of sound, installations, and honouring ceremony of agents of change in our community, the Gala will be a wonderful way to close the day in celebration and connection.

Melanie Ollenberg and Sarah Hedges (Inner Arts Collective) will be offering dinner as well.

Live Vocal Improvisation to Call the Don River

This will be a live vocal improvised transmission of the voice of the land surrounding the Don River, with Wendalyn Bartley - Writer, Sound Healer, and Composer. This vocalization will be accompanied by a soundtrack of soundscapes made of the Don River environment, which serve the purpose of bringing us virtually in the actual environment. This will be an example of how using the approach of the embodied voice can bring us the wisdom of the earth intelligence and any messages she may have for us collectively at that moment. This will be a Sonic Oracle from the nature spirits and the local environment.

Conscious Business Practice Displays and Installations

Various displays and installations will be set-up throughout the building, to offer tools and tips for conscious business practice and conscious living.

SATURDAY
9am-4:30pm (optional sessions available until 6pm)

8:45-9:30am Registration and Networking

One-on-one 15-20 minute healing arts and coaching consultations available to all registrants (one per registrant, booked in advance at registration.

9:30-10am Community Building & Networking Activity

Melanie Ollenberg will facilitate a community building game to help break the ice, have some fun, and strengthen cohesion - while giving you something you can bring into your work with groups and teams in the future.

10:15-11:45am Concurrent Sessions

A. Enlightened Parenting

with Bethelene Hart
An interactive presentation on being an enlightened parent. The topics covered will include positive behaviour guidance, guiding children to listen to their inner voice and parenting with confidence, using many examples and humour to keep the atmosphere light and fun.

Enlightened Parenting helps parents and families build healthy relationships. Parents will feel encouraged and revitalized by filling their tool kit with inspiring ideas.

B. You are the Manual: Integrating our selves to change the world

With Jenna Smith
‘You are the Manual’ is a life mastery system combining neuroscience, ancient healing practices, modern psychotherapy, and nature.  ‘You are the Manual’ teaches you the ins and outs of our Mind, Body, Heart and Spirit. You will discover your own direct access to your inner tools and intelligence systems. You’ll leave with relevant tips to apply what you learn directly to your life.

Results: less stress or anxiety, increased self confidence, demystify self sabotage, be less hard on yourself, learn how to tame crazy thoughts, how to heal permanently, have increased energy, and feel overall better about yourself and life. When we are centered, we can change the world. When we feel safe, we can show up and make shifts. When we stop fighting what is wrong, we can create what is right.

11:45am-1:15pm Lunch and Health Break

A wide range of local restaurants are available to choose from. In addition, each attendee can use one of the certificates included within their conference package to receive a service from one of a number of onsite sessions (Reflexology, Coaching, Divination, Reiki, etc).

1:15-2:15pm Keynote
The Role of Buddhism and Tibetan Medicine in Today's Understanding of Wellness

with Tsering Dorjee Dekhang, Doctor of Tibetan Medicine, Herbalist and Author.
With the rising popularity of Buddhism in Canada, and the growing number of Tibetans within Toronto, we are in a unique position to better understand the Tibetan perspective of wellness and disease, and opportunities to collaborate in bringing Eastern and Western concepts together. In this presentation, Tsering Dorjee Dekhang will describe some of the basic philosophies of Tibetan Medicine, its benefits and common uses, and how he envisions collaboration with the complementary and alternative care community moving forward.

2-2:45pm Workshop
Patterns of Conscious Living: Seasons, Psyche and Energy Psychology (Part 2)

with Tiffany Lazic, Author, Founder of The Hive and Grove (Kitchener), and Instructor at the Transformational Arts College.

This is a continuation from Part 1 offered on Friday. In this workshop, she will be sharing the specifics of working with the seasons from an energy healing modality perspective.

2:45-3pm Health Break

3-4:30pm Concurrent Workshops

C. DIY Bodycare

with Tracey Tief
Using traditional, local, fairly traded, social enterprise, and/or organic therapeutic ingredients in massage oils, and other bodycare, practitioners can use these with clients, and also offer them for sale, creating another offering for their clients, and additional stream of income for practitioners if they wish, so they are more financially resilient, while creating a practice that is more friendly to people and the planet, using traditional wisdom and healing, and better quality sourced ingredients.

D. Integral Recovery – Applying Integral Theory to Healing from Addictions

with Melissa Armstrong
This workshop will provide an overview of the Integral Theory and the Integral Map, a comprehensive framework for understanding reality, and its application to human development and healing from addictions. Integral Theory proposes that there are two main paths for personal evolution:  waking up (evolving our consciousness) and growing up (completing developmental stages). The workshop will provide an overview of how this holistic framework can be used by people in recovery to grow.

What you will get out of this workshop:
-A short, accessible overview of Integral Theory and a description of how Integral Theory can be applied as a new, holistic model to support people in recovery from addictions

4:30-6pm Individual Consultations

One-on-one 15-20 minute healing arts and coaching consultations available to all registrants (one per registrant, booked in advance at registration).

SUNDAY NOV 19
9-4:30pm (optional sessions available until 6pm)

8:45-9:00am Registration

9:00-9:15am Community Building & Networking Activity

Melanie Ollenberg will facilitate a community building game to help break the ice, have some fun, and strengthen cohesion - while giving you something you can bring into your work with groups and teams in the future..

9:15am-10am Keynote

Creating a Social Enterprise
with Gurbeen Bhasin

This 45 minute talk will focus on how to create a social enterprise. Today, here in Toronto, Aangen has been operating as a self-sustained, non-grant based, not-for-profit since 2000. The heart and the sole purpose of Aangen is to serve the world with love. This talk will address policy and economic issues that are quite prevalent in the healing arts community, and the social enterprise model at Aangen that has clearly been proven to create meaningful change on all levels - individual, organizational, community. It is now time to share that rich history to make systemic changes.

10-10:15 Health Break

10:15-11:45am Concurrent Sessions

Session F: Something More: Designing the life of your wildest dreams
with Annalene Hart

This workshop begin will with a guided meditation to connect with the participants' higher self. Then through poignant questions and simple self-expression, they will reflect on what that "something more." The is as a possibility in their life and how to integrate and implement it consciously in a constructive, creative and practical way into their daily life.

The intention of this workshop is to kindle a desire for the participants to perceive greater possibilities for themselves than perhaps they have ever seriously considered doing before. It's to light a fire of hope that they can make bigger choices for themselves rather than settling for the status quo of a safe and predictable life. There is always the possibility of greater, more expansive horizons for themselves if they dare to allow that to happen.

Session G: Alchemy of the Human Voice
with Wendalyn Bartley

One of the core challenges we face at this critical evolutionary stage is the pathway towards embodiment of the feminine paradigm. One major aspect of this challenge is to transform and heal the cultural wound of the silencing of the female voice. Being grounded in our sovereign voice of authority is, Wendalyn believes, is one way to transform this cultural wound. By accessing the power of sound and vibration through the human voice, we can restore our relationships with ourselves, our communities and also with the earth.

During my presentation she will outline the pathway she has developed towards reclaiming the sovereign voice, and restoring a connection to our inner authority and innate wisdom. These are the three main areas she will address:

1. The nature of sound as vibration and how this can impact the human body, mind and heart at the molecular and cellular level. Vibration is a universal language and is an important component of communication within the natural world including flowers, trees, birds and other life-forms.

2. The capacity of the human voice to access a wide range of sounds, which enables it to be the audible embodiment of the deepest parts of ourselves, our core essence, our soul.

3. Different approaches to embodying the earth’s lifeforce energy through the voice - the essential alchemical journey. This will include the process of connecting to the energy of archetypes such as goddess figures and mythic characters, and to the world of nature - the sentient wisdom of Gaia and the inherent intelligence of the trees and water for example. These are forms of what Wendalyn calls a ‘Sonic Oracle’.

In addition to her opening ceremony to the Don River, Wendalyn will also share with us Sounding Dream Woman: A work she created using recordings made in the Hypogeum of Malta. These recordings form a basic soundtrack over which she will perform the embodied voice of “Sounding Dream Woman”. This mythic character is the name she has given to the famous figurine discovered in the Hypogeum, which is known as “The Sleeping Lady”. Her voice resounds with coded wisdom and is a form of revelation for today’s times.

Session H: A Starting Point for Integral Recovery in Toronto
with Melissa Armstrong

This follows the workshop Integral Recovery – Applying Integral Theory to Healing from Addictions. There is a need in the recovery community for a developmental approach to healing from addiction. Many people attempting recovery or living in recovery plateau or stall. This workshop will be interactive. In order for recovery from addictions to be optimally effective, it should include practices that stimulate healing and growth in all areas of a person’s life. The workshop will ask participants to provide feedback on the  model that the facilitator is developing for Integral Recovery groups in Toronto, so that we may create more spaces and groups in Toronto for people in recovery from alcoholism and addictions to focus on their development.

11:45-1pm LUNCH

1-2pm  Keynote

Topic: Patterns of Conscious Living: Seasons, Psyche and Energy Psychology Part 3
with Tiffany Lazic

For thousands of years, peoples across cultures have connected with seasonal cycles. Ancient western agrarian cultures spanning from Turkey to Ireland developed myths, holidays and rituals throughout the year to reflect this connection. Ancient spiritual and shamanic practices utilized knowledge of these patterns to insure individual and tribal health. Echoes of these ancient traditions are the foundations for modern celebrations. Though we no longer depend on the seasonal cycles in the same way, modern people are intimately connected to the earth and the environment through our physicality. Consciously or unconsciously, we respond to our physical location and to the patterns and rhythms of nature. Contemporarily, psychological patterns are enhanced or diminished in relation to the seasonal cycles we experience in our environment.

Patterns of Conscious Living synthesizes traditional themes with archetypal and energy psychology into an effective, applicable practice addressing physical, psychological and energetic health. Identifying the eight key themes that have resonance both in ancient and modern times, this presentation illustrates eight cycle patterns as they relate to emotional blocks, psychological key issues, and the significant stages of psychological development, highlighting the utilization of natural, seasonal rhythms to access, comprehend and facilitate emotional release and psychological balance through energetic and intuitive tools.
Part 3 of 3: a ritual where participants have the opportunity to experience the movement of the cycle of the seasons within.

2-4pm Conference Synthesis

Facilitated by Melanie Ollenberg and Jennifer Corriero

4-5pm Post-Conference Networking and Healing Arts Sessions

Registrants are welcome to stay and mingle, and receive a 15-20 minute healing arts and coaching consultation (available to all registrants, one per registrant, booked in advance at registration).
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This ancient "Flower of Life" symbol has been chosen for our conference, for its use in cultures around the world, it's representation of the fundamental forms of space and time, and it's visual expression of the connections life weaves through all sentient beings.