Community Seminar:

End of Life Transitions -- July 19 (Monday), 7PM, Sunrise View Convalescent Center, 2520 Madison Street Everett, WA (425) 353-4040

Are you and your loved ones prepared emotionally and spiritually for the most important day (moment) of your life? Join us for an inspirational evening of conversation around the topic of end-of-life care and spiritual readiness. Rev. Maria Hoaglund has visited Sunrise View over the years to visit her patients. She is impressed by the loving, compassionate care that the residents of Sunrise receive from the cheerful and upbeat staff!

Maria has written several books. And she has a passion for sharing the holistic healing and relaxation tools that can assist people to relax at the end of life. Come and hear about the many ideas and resources that Maria has to share from her many years of experience in her field. (Books and Soul Baskets/Bundles will be available for purchase at end of program.)


Grief Seminar:

The Transforming Power of Grief -- August 23 (Monday), 1:30 - 3 PM

Franke Tobey Jones (Continuing Care Retirement Community), 5340 North Bristol Street, Tacoma, WA (253) 752-6621

It has been said that if all the women of the world could cry at once, we would have peace in an instant. If you have lost a loved one, you know what a challenge and opportunity it can be to let go. What can grief teach us? How can we help one another move through this process? What are some ways to ease the pain and let go with grace and ease? Come join us for a creative discussion about grief and it's "cousin" death -- with the Rev. Maria Hoaglund.

Teleconference:

NEW! Tele-conference on "Making Friends with Death": June 21 (Mon.), noon - 1PM. Dial-in number: (641) 715-3200. Access code: 135721#. Anyone curious about death, grief, and the afterlife is invited to join us for this 1-hour seminar. We will touch on how the divine feminine rising in our society is helping us make friends with the shadow sides of life, including death.

Workshops:

Making Friends with the Last Adventure of Life

It has been said that if all the women of the world could cry at once, the world could have peace in an instant! If everyone who needs to cry could cry, we could create more peace-full communities. Come and join us for an exploration of the power of grief and death ("letting go" of all kinds) in our lives. Maria Dancing Heart, author of The Last Adventure of Life, will lead us through an exploration of how to help ourselves and others better express the unshed tears and "pent up" losses in our lives. Together, we will renew our spirits as we share our stories and healing tools around the "final transition" and the grief & letting go process. A powerful process of transformation is now marking our entire world. We will create an interactive time to move deeper into issues around transformation, grief, and death.

"The Last Adventure of Life: Bringing Death Back to Life"

March 18, 2010, Dinner Program at the Center for Education, Stanford Hospital & Clinics
Standford, CA

In this engaging seminar, you will hear inspirational stories, anecdotes, and gleanings from a spiritual and bereavement counselor's many years of experience with hospice. In these times when it feels like we're moving through major transitions of one kind or another, we can learn a great deal from what death teaches us. We will reflect together on how we might better prepare for death as we explore different cultures and traditions and how they approach death and grief as well.

In this course you will also learn some simple "tricks" for relaxation and healing from some of the many and varied complementary and integrative modalities. If you can relax enough, you can maneuver through any change, even the biggest change of your life!

To register by phone, call: (650) 723-6366, option 2

To see more online, go to: www.cecenter.stanfordhospital.com, then click on Winter Catalog, see course details on p.8.

CEUs Now Available

1 CEU is awarded for each 10 hours of workshop time.

Bridge to Dreams, in partnership with The Heritage Institute (THI) awards continuing education units (CEUs) to professionals required to maintain their professional licenses. THI, PO Box 860, Clinton WA 98236, has been reviewed and approved as an Authorized Provider of CEUs by the International Association of Continuing Education & Training (IACET), 8405 Greensboro Drive Suite 800, McLean VA 22102. THI awards one (1) CEU for each ten (10) hours of work successfully completed. CEUs from IACET are accepted by most state licensing departments, departments of education, school districts and professional associations. Please check with your state or professional office prior to taking courses to determine their policy on IACET CEUs.

IACET website: www.iacet.org
THI website: www.hol.edu

For more information please contact Maria.