Workshops

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS:

Family Constellations Weekend in New Orleans, LA

January 30-31, 2010

10 AM – 4:30 PM

For information and registration contact Kelly Nezat: soullab1@gmail.com

Family Constellations Saturday in Chicago

4519 N Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625 ...

(between Wilson and Sunnyside, 2 blocks west of Lincoln in the Lincoln Square area on the north side of the city).

February 20, 2010

10 AM – 3:30 PM

Cost: $100

Contact Danuta: (708) 837-4335 or danuta@healerspirit.com

Family Constellations mini-workshop during the Shamanism weekend at Crow's Nest

Dowagiac, Michigan

June 25-27, 2010

For information and registration contact Mikkal: shamanicar@aol.com

Shamanism: Journeying for Healing and Insight

Holistic Resolutions Center for Healing

Medical Arts Building, 715 Lake St, Ste 200, Oak Park, IL

September 5, 2010

10am-4pm

Cost: $100

Bring your drum or rattle if you have one.

. For information contact Danuta: (708) 837-4335 or danuta@healerspirit.com

Moving with the Spirit-Mind: Family System Constellations

Holistic Resolutions Center for Healing

Medical Arts Building, 715 Lake St, Ste 200, Oak Park, IL

September 18-19, 2010

10am-4pm both days

Cost: $225 both days, $125 single day
Early bird special:
$195 both days, $110 single day if paid in full by September 10

. For information contact Danuta: (708) 837-4335 or danuta@healerspirit.com

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Our ancestors are our behavioral and emotional genetics. The unresolved issues and traumas of those that came before us live within us and feel like our own, and we blindly repeat the patterns. Until we clear these systemic influences we cannot live our own destiny.

Moving with the Spirit-Mind is the advanced approach to Family Constellation work that helps resolve the familial issues by opening the field for the system to find a new balance. The representatives are moved by a holotropic force that effortlessly manifests a solution to the tensions and entanglements in the person's family. As the unconscious entanglements with others in our family system are resolved we more clearly experience the love of those who came before us and we come to fully receive from and find our true place in our lineage.

About the facilitator: Danuta Jirik, Ph.D. is a holistic/shamanic healer. As a systemic facilitator, she is certified by Hellinger Sciencia and by Hellinger Institute of Western PA. She blends her shamanic training with the constellation work in a unique and powerful way, holding a safe space in partnership with the compassionate helping spirits.

"Danuta is astonishing, keen, sees beneath things,very alert and thorough and protective. She works her own way and within shamanic principles. It is true that a lot of stuff can get stirred up which for me is the value of having shamanic protection, intention, and strong spirit guides to find the best route for ‘what wants to happen now’. Like any field, the practitioner, the facilitator, the person not the practice, matters."

- Barnaby Ruhe, Ph.D.

Recent events and the comments from participants:

FINDING PEACE - Spiritual Retreat

Location: GilChrist Center, Three Rivers, MI

November 13-15, 2009

Comments:

"Filled with peacefulness. Located in an extraordinary land filled with positive and sacred energy. I feel a new and profound awakening to the land and to my ancestors, an amazing gratitude for what they meant in my life. Danuta is a soft, well educated teacher, whose vision and depth of the inner self and the knowledge of all she has been given, makes her a delightful person to welcome into one's life. I love the workshop, the cabins, the paths; the cooperation in bringing and sharing the food was superb! Yes, I would love to take another seminar with Danuta." -A. Monterosso

"I feel this was the right timing and the right experience for where I'm on my spiritual journey. It was confirmation that I am on the right path and your leadership aided in that." - Bill Kadlec

"Dear Danuta, thank you for a wonderful and enchanting retreat here at Gilchrist. It has filled my spirit with love connections to continue my life journey with the assurance that 'Everything will be okay wherever life takes me'" - V. Velasquez

"Walking the Labyrinth in the middle of November was amazing. Wonderful location, very serene, very helpful staff. Would do it again at a moment's notice. Leaving with a much greater sense of self and connection with parents. Thanks." A. Pearce

"The activities were simple enough- teh Labyrinth, the dreamcatchers and building shrines (for the ancestors) - yet they were deep reaching. The location and facilities were as remarkable as the 50F warm weather. Thank you for teaching me how to find what I thought I did not have access to. Peace, Blessings and Love, Donna"

"Loved the serene setting and accomodations. We liked the mix of activities- the meditation followed by hiking around the beautiful grounds. Loved walking the Labyrinth. We loved Danuta's insights and pauses to let things settle inside. We liked the pace of it - having time for reflection. We especially enjoyed the family meditation and drums going into it. We love your gentle guidance that lets us find our own pace and is so non-judgmental. We feel enriched for having come here. Thanks! Love, Becky and Lynn"

HEALING RELATIONSHIPS - THE FAMILY CONSTELLATION APPROACH

When we turn to therapy or self-help to heal/have a relationship, we are usually looking for a way to "fix" our problem. Common solutions might entail improving communication skills or changing some specific behaviors. When you step into the the work of Bert Hellinger, you are entering the realm of uncommon solutions. Hellinger’s approach - family constellations and the underlying observations from which they take shape - taps into the deepest dynamics of a relationship. People begin to see just how unseen forces, including non-present family members and those of past generations, and the choices that were made long ago, affect their current connections with others at many different levels.

A constellation is a multidimensional process that typically moves through two stages. In the first, hidden-yet compelling-influences on the family are revealed. In the second phase, healing movements and statements are discovered-and then tested within the constellation. The "soul-level adjustment" that takes place, whether great or small, expands the partners’ options in creating solution.

The new insights into the ways we can support love- and the ways that love can support us- change us at a deep level and open up new possibilities for our relationships to manifest harmony and true love. (text from "Supporting Love. How Love Works in Couple Relationships", ed. by Johannes Neuhauser)

.COMMENTS on the Family Constellations Work:

"If you have never done Family Constellation work, it is a powerful healing method. It deals with healing the family dynamics, including patterns from generations back, and can create tremendous transformation. I have experienced this myself! I highly recommend this workshop, and I recommend Danuta as a teacher/leader." - Joan Forrest Mage

"The workshop was wonderful for me--it's still sinking in! I've tried not to think about it too much because then I would over-analyze it! I know for sure that watching some of the other constellations helped me have much more compassion for my father and the challenges he faced with me. (.....) I think you're a wonderful healer and would like to work with you again!" - J.L., Chicago

"Dear Danuta, since we met last I feel I have grown in many positive ways. The constellations and bioenergy you did for me have deeply altered the way I perceive life. I feel liberated and like I am going through a lot of spiritual growth spurt. I want to thank you again for helping me understand my place both within and without my family. I also send you my love." - E. Koosed, NYC

"Danuta, I wanted to thank you for the class. It was deeply moving. I did as you suggested and let it all settle into me. I've had a good side effect: I noticed the day after when I was at the health club that I stood up from my seat without using my hands. I'd been unable to do that for about a year and a half. It feels quite miraculous! My heart felt thanks. You are gifted at what you do (...) I feel I am on the right path with you." ' R. Marquardt, Chicago

SHAMANIC FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS in Manhattan:

The unresolved problems of our ancestors become our problems and the problems of our children. The unconscious family patterns, rooted in family history, determine how we think of ourselves, how we choose to live, how we relate to others and how much happiness we allow ourselves. They may manifest as failed relationships, addictions, emotional pain, illness, lack of success or depression. The Systemic Constellation Work allows us to bring to light and resolve the destructive family legacy and reconnect with deepest inner resources, restoring the healthy flow of love and strength. We can then be free to follow our own soul's destiny. As you participate in your own or someone else's constellation, you will experience deep movements of the spirit-mind that bring together what has been separated, include what has been excluded, and restore wholeness. These movements arise from the "knowing field" and are guided by divine love. You will learn to listen to and trust and move with the inner promptings of the great soul, and be in service of healing for each other and for the ancestors and for the world. I hope you'll join me in this spiritual adventure. - Danuta

Location: New York West Village, 55 Bethune St., corner of Washington St.

Comments from the Manhattan workshop:

"I've brought the solution from the constellation home with me. I certainly feel as if I'm traveling light, bringing to my parents a brightness rather than the baggage of my illness. I was relieved to see neither tears nor worry in their eyes for the first time in a while. I'm letting things simply happen without analyzing as you said, I know changes take place and time without even knowing. That is what I honored most about your circle constellation, a respect for time and patience. As well as a balance of spoken words and silence, one that was filled with so much energy. You let things happen without forcing them and it was a powerful experience for all of us. The group dynamic allowed me some breathing room, and expansion of my family constellation. I thank you for this experience and I wish you the best in spreading it to others, Sincerely, M."

"Hi Danuta, Thanks for the great experience! Certainly, something happened that day and keeps changing. I just want to embrace the "unknown", trying to be open and let the universe do the rest. You are a kind an warm guide. Blessings to you!"

"I was visiting my friend in NYC when she brought me to attend Danuta's Shamanic Constellation workshop. I was nervous and skeptical before the workshop byt the healing that happened for me towards my mother was 100% real and life changing. Danuta is very loving, intuitive, guided by the spirit and has divine guides helping her. There is nothing to be scared of. I highly recommend that everybody should attend her workshop and come with a humble heart and open mind."

"I am amazed at how influential and overwhelming and beautiful the family constellations workshop was. I am feeling better now - I had a hard time post-constellations for a week or so. - I wasn't expecting such an experience but I am glad I did it. To dig through one's past in order to change the present is a powerful experience (...) I am grateful that I was in company of such loving giving people while doing such hard personal work, and also to have participated in constellations of others.

You are a loving, trusting guide, and I thank you for that."

"Danuta is astonishing, keen, sees beneath things. very alert and thourough and protective. She works her own way and within shamanic principles. It is true that a lot of stuff can get stirred up. which for me is the value of having shamanic protection intention and strong spirit guides to find the best route for "what wants to happen now". like any field, the practitiner, the facilitator, the person not the practice, matters."

Barnaby Ruhe, Ph.D.

Note: Not everyone gets to have their own constellation during the workshop, but everyone will experience some shifting. Just observing or participating in another's constellation are opportunities for profound new understanding and can move one's soul enough to start a process of the healing change. For the most part, the issues that are played out are universal and affect everyone present.

How it works: In the workshop, the person having her constellation states the issue and chooses other workshop participants to represent her and the members of her family system. The representatives are placed in the room in a spacial relationship to one another, a reflection of the client's inner image of the system (hence the name "constellation"). While occupying the position of a particular member of the system they are able to quite accurately report on the feelings of the people they represent. They feel, for example, pulled towards others or repelled by them, thus revealing the hidden dynamics and tensions within the system that relate to the issue in question. Working with this constellation involves helping the initial image to shift in the direction of resolution and results in leaving the client with a new image of his family system and his place in it. The soul forces can now flow through this new, balanced inner image and create an improved experience that reflects its harmony.

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THE SHAMANIC JOURNEY at the Columbia College, Chicago

SHAMANS are known as the technicians of the sacred, able to move freely between the everyday world and the non-ordinary reality. The ancient methodology for moving into an altered state and accessing the inner worlds in order to gain wisdom and healing through connecting with compassionate spiritual beings is very natural and can be easily learned. There, in the sacred inner worlds, you will get to meet your Totem Animal, a helpful spirit in the shape of an animal, that is your personal spirit guide and your guardian and friend. There, the lanscape of the soul is laid out for exploration; there, the intuitive, the dynamic and the creative side of our brain is put to good use.

In this one-day workshop you will learn how to enter into an altered state while listening to monotonous drumming, to travel into the dream-like spirit world and meet your helping spirits or power animals. You will learn your personal journeying style and find and connect with your own spirit helpers. You will have an opportunity to journey for answers to your burning questions and to gain healing insight into the issues of your life.

We will have time to drum together, to share, ask questions, and learn how to apply these spiritual skills in ordinary life.

.Please dress comfortably and bring a journal, a blanket, bandana to cover your eyes for the journey meditation, and a sack lunch.

Bring a flat drum or a rattle if you have one.

About the instructor: Danuta Jirik, Ph.D. has worked as a spiritual healer since 1994. She experienced the shamanic awakening around the year 2000. Since then, she has studied with Michael Harner and Alicia Gates (Advanced Shamanism and Shamanic Healing 2-week intensive with Foundation for Shamanic Studies), with Myron Eshowsky (Foundation for Shamanic Studies and Pathways for Peace) and Larry Kessler (Hawaiian Shamanism), and Tom Cowan (Celtic Shamanism). She has a shamanic and energy healing practice in Oak Park. She has facilitated many shamanic journeys and healings for her clients, and has taught shamanic journeying and healing in a number of workshops in the Chicago and New York areas.