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Marilyn Stoner
is a psychotherapist in private practice. She was the co-chair of the Festival of Faiths in 2008. She co-facilitates with Mark Steiner groups through Cultivating Connections in The Work That Reconnects founded by Joanna Macy, Brian Swimme's Evolutionary Cosmology studies, and the Awakening the Dreamer Workshops. She has also worked with the Hosparus Bereavement Center to provide expressive therapy groups for adults, and is working with Louisville's Compassionate Community. Marilyn delights in participating in small group gatherings with our awesome ever widening compassionate community.



Doug Van Houten
is a body, heart & soul guide, student of Hakomi, apprentice to the honeybee, visual artist, wild ceremonialist, activist and guide for Animas Valley Institute (www.animas.org). In this work he draws on the wisdom of indigenous cultures, the natural world, depth-psychology, eco-psychology, dreams, poetry, and many cross cultural soul-encounter practices such as vision fasting, council, trance rhythms and conversations with the sacred Other. Doug's Great Work lives in support of others uncovering their own unique gifts and in so doing transforming their own lives in service to the Great Turning transformation of our times.


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Mark Steiner
has presented classes, workshops, lectures, etc. on Environmental Spirituality, Creation Spirituality, and the Universe Story since 1991. He serves as director of Cultivating Connections a grassroots not-for-profit dedicated to "Nurturing and Celebrating Our Connections with Each Other and with Our World". Mark is an official facilitator of the Work that Reconnects (as articulated by Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy) and the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium. He regularly presents at a wide variety of area houses of worship and community groups.
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Cultivating Connections affirms and explores the connections between environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment, and the role we each are called to play in bringing forth a vibrant Earth Community, by offering workshops, study groups, retreats, conferences, sacred celebrations and other programs around the themes of environmental spirituality, personal empowerment, and the new cosmology.
Reclaiming a Soul-Infused Life:
A Journey Exploring Individual and Community Wholeness 

with Marilyn Stoner & Doug Van Houten 

Friday, February 28, 6 pm thru Noon Sunday, March 2, 2014
Camp Kavanaugh, Crestwood, Kentucky
Cost: sliding scale $175 - $225

YOU MUST PRE-REGISTER space is limited

You are invited to join a circle of concerned hearts to call pieces of our soul life back home. As we engage in the process of weaving our lives back into wholeness, our time together will include:
  • Expressing our grief over losses to our individual and community wholeness
  • Opening up to our stories of loss, hope and joy
  • The use of the creative processes of art, music and movement
  • Focused time alone in nature
  • Soulcentric dreamwork and guided imagery
  • Council, ritual and celebration


WE LONG TO RESTORE the lost aspects of our soul life. Soul loss can be felt as a diminishment in meaning, connection, vitality, joy, intuition, imagination, power, feeling, vision and community. Because of the ceaseless demands and frantic pace of contemporary culture, we often find that we have little time for self-reflection, healing, wholing and encounters with our true self - our soul life.  This leaves us feeling that something essential is missing from our lives.

Often when we hear soul speak it does so in a kind of a lament for those exquisite things lost. Availing ourselves to these soul-sent missives can guide us to the larger Self that awaits. That Self, and its full magnificence, is what this world -- a world in great peril and possibility -- longs for.

How to Register or for more information:
Call or email Marilyn or Doug at:
marilynstoner@fastmail.fm (502) 456-1502
doug@dougvanhouten.com (502) 472-6563


Blessed be the longing that brought you here
and quickens your soul with wonder.

may you have the courage to listen to
     the voice of desire
that disturbs you when you have settled
     for something safe.

may you have the wisdom to enter generously
     into your own unease
to discover the new direction your longing
     wants you to take....

Blessing, by John O'Donohue



Change Your Story,  
Change your Life
Finding the Mythic  
in Our Own Unique Stories

A Workshop facilitated by
Mark Steiner and Marilyn Stoner

Saturday, January 25, 10 am - 5 pm
Clifton Universalist Unitarian Church
(2231 Payne Street just off Frankfort Ave)

Register now.

If you keep telling the same sad small story, you will keep living the same sad small life. ~Jean Houston
 
This workshop examines the connections between the stories we tell and who we are, between the stories we tell and what is possible in our lives and in the larger world.

Participation Limited. Register via our website.
Suggested Donation $25 - $75 (Sliding Scale)
or mail a check to:
Cultivating Connections
318 Primrose Drive
Louisville, Ky 40207
502-897-2721
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502-897-2721