Grandmother's International Drum Festival - July 14 - 17th, 2011
Men are welcome to attend the drumming festival - they are a great needed support for the Grandmothers and the people who attend this festival.
Wilderness Survival Experience
From our indigenous knowledge facilitator you will learn:
Basic Fire Making Techniques
Crude Shelter Making
Edible Wild Plant Identification
You will also have the opportunity for:
Networking
Learn Survival Skills from Indigenous Teachers
Learn about Indigenous plants
Participate in native American sweat lodge ceremony
Example Itinerary:
Day 1: Arrive at Wharncliffe Farm Retreat & Learning Centre by 5:00 p.m. After preliminary introductions with staff facilitators, and First Nations elders, a hot evening meal will be served in the main lodge. After dinner, we will discuss more about the coming survival program experiences, and then the evening is your to relax at the Wilderness Center.
Day 2-3: On these two days we spend our time around the Wilderness Learning Center, or the surrounding landscape, participating in various intercultural sharing and relationship experiences with two North American First Nations Elders, one female, one male. Possible experiences may include various nature or medicine walks, traditional earth and wilderness skills and traditional camp fire gatherings with camaraderie, stories and music. All experiences will introduce you to an important nature and community based way of life, as well as traditional perspectives about relationships.
Day 4: After one final breakfast together, we will part ways until the next time.
Workshop cost: $450.00
For further information contact: Isabelle Meawasige @ 705-842-3793 or
Wilderness Survival Experience weekends
Meet the team
Isabelle Meawasige: (Co-founder, retreat facilitator)
Caroline Recollect: (Co-founder, retreat facilitator)
Blain Commanda: (outdoor adventure guide, retreat facilitator)
Ellie Graham: (steward, retreat facilitator)
E. Jane Mundy: (WWW. maintenance, media producations)
The Shadow Effect Workshop
Designed by Debbie Ford
Facilitated by Sandra Guite
A journey from your darkest thought to your greatest dream.
Cost: $100.00 for supplies & material
Healing Our Relationships
A fathers / daughters retreat - Healing our Relationships
Is a healing retreat to begin the healing of father daughter relationships which lays the foundation for women's relationships with men. This relationship greatly impacts the choices women make in relationships and the quality of these relationships. Heal old wounds and embrace forgiveness so that we can move forward in our lives experiencing and sharing the sacredness of self love.
Facilitators: Isabelle Meawasige & Caroline Recollet
Where: Wharncliffe Retreat & Learning Centre
Healing our Relationship is free and open to men & women - Bring your sleeping bag, pillow, feast bundle, drum, and for women a skirt.
For further information contact Isabelle Meawasige or Ellie Graham at 705-842-3793
Artist in the Barn
 Body Mapping: Journey of Abundance & Prosperity Guest Artist & Facilitator: Sherry Guppy - Journey into the heart of your being and beyond through the creation of a 16 foot painting that begins with a simple traced outline of your body. Revealing our creative spirits, we will paint and journey collectively and individually on an amazing two day retreat exploring our sources of empowerment, strength and hope we bring into the future with Mother Earth in the creation of this visual work of art. Experience the healing energy of moving through our lives with gratitude as we witness and record the beauty of our journeys in a visual language of intimate colour, symbols and personal design all generated by our self knowledge, and dreams.
Register: Please call Isabelle Meawasige or Ellie Graham at 705-842-3793. Please bring your sleeping bag & pillow, tent, kleenex, giveaway gift, tobacco, cloth, & lawn chairs. Please bring a potluck to share.
History of Body Mapping: Body Mapping originated in Africa and was created by and for the women of Africa as a way to tell the stories of African women who were living and dying with HIV Virus. The body maps were a powerful source of empowerment for families and communities. Since this time the technique of body mapping has become very popular and travelled to many countries. It continues to be used as a trans-formative tool for women to record their lives, using the creation of a personal body painting to tell their story. For further information on body mapping go to http://www.catie.ca/bodymaps/gallery.shtml
Leather / cloth dressmaking
Make your traditional leather dress.
Call Isabelle Meawasige or Ellie Graham @ 705-842-3793Please bring your hides / cloth, ribbons, sewing paraphernalia, sleeping bags, food to share (potluck), giveaway, tobacco, lawn chairs. Boot patterns will also be available. Sewing machines on site.
Past Life Regression
Are patterns from your past lives causing you problems today? They could very well be, if you've been found asking these question:
- Why do these same things keep happening in my life?
- Why do I do the same thing s over and over?
- Why am I blocked from taking the actions I need so I can achieve my goals?
Your present life is full of the residual patterns of these past lives, and you remember much more than you think. Living your Past Lives will fill the life you lead today with new insight, fulfillment and happiness.
Registration: $300.00 includes registration, accommodations and meals
To register call Isabelle Measwasige or Ellie Graham @ 705-842-3793
Please bring with you one potluck for feast, giveaway gift, Kleenex, lawn chair, sleeping bag, tobacco, red cloth and personals.
Penny Langlois is a master hypnotherapist from North Bay, Ontario. Working as a therapist for many years, Penny uses her skills and knowledge to help people come to terms with such areas of concern as addictions, eg. smoking, weight loss, etc.
 Adoption Healing Retreat
August 11th - 14th, 2011
Adopting is lifelong process. Loss is a universal experience in adoption for all members of the adoption triangle: birth parents, adopted children and adoptive parents.
If children do not have the facts about their origins, they will create their own realities, from partial truths, perceptions of themselves, and observations of how others react to them. It is time to do the work, to look at and heal ourselves.
Adoption healing explains the pschological process an adopted person goes through in their life, and the effect on him or her. We will participate in simple exercises to help overcome the trauma of adoption. Even in a loving supportive adoptive family, the adoptee has suffered from the trauma of separation from his or her birthmother and family of origin.
An adoption search and reunion is only part of the process necessary for those who were separated from their birth family to heal. This adoption recovery retreat helps in completing the healing process. Unfortunately, those affected by an adoption need to work on their issues through trial and error as there are very few mental health professionals who understand the affect of the adoption experience on the adopted person and birthmother. Adoption healing is not just for adoptees. Birthparents and adoptive parents can learn a great deal about what their child has endured through adoption, and ways in which they can help their child, whether a youngster or adult.
The retreat participants can start arriving on Thursday evening and we will have a bonfire and introductions at that time.
Our work together will begin on Friday, August 12, 2011. This is going to be a full day for teh birth mothers and the adoptees.
August 13, at 10:57 p.m. will be the time of the full moon and it is a powerful time for prayer and mediation for the women. This is the time of woman. This will be an extra long day as we are going to have a feast and full moon ceremony on Saturday night.
August 14, we will work until after lunch and the giveaway. We should be finished our work by 4:00 p.m. Those who want to stay for overnight may choose to do so. They will be welcome.
We are not funded for this program. Donations will be greatly appreciated. This will be a camping weekend so for those hearty enough, bring tents, sleeping bags, water and everyone bring food to share. Grandmothers will be given a bed.
This will be a time to circle, share, recollect, cry, sing, dance, drum, heal and find freedom. Bring your own kleenex, skirts, swimsuits, warm sweaters, journals, pens, your colours for the moon ceremony, a hand made gift for the giveaway, your drum, guitars, rattles and walking shoes. There is plenty of hiking trail to explore.
Your facilitators will be earth honoring wisdom keepers who endeavor to hold the balance of the world with their ceremonies and prayers. We will be working with the tools of the Indigenous Peoples, Sacred Fire, sharing circle, healing circle, drums and the Sacred Pipe. We will work with the Mother Earth, Grandfather Sun, the Father Sky, Grandmother Moon and the Great Spirit.
For more information or to register call or email:
Connie Wolfe 313-532-5611 conniwolfe@hotmail.com
Isabelle Meawasige / Ellie Graham 705-842-3793 imeaswasige@yahoo.ca
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