Loving to Feel: The True Connection
August
24 - August 30, 2009
Concord Retreat
Yellow Spring, WV
www.concordretreat.com
Convention Brochure
The final details are now being worked out with a new and expansive Convention site, Concord Retreat Center. The new venue was chosen, since it offers exclusive use and has it’s own pool, plenty of space for meetings, comfortable sleeping, food variety, and is on better roads and a bit closer than last year for almost everyone. It is in Yellow Spring, WV, west of Winchester, VA. Check it out at www.concordretreat.com. The back-up location Virden Center of U of DE in Lewes, DE, two and one half miles from the Atlantic Ocean, so we will certainly find ourselves in lovely surroundings to do our primal work and enhance our knowledge of deep feeling, emotional release techniques!
We love to feel joy, excitement, passion and enthusiasm. But we must be willing to feel the darker emotions of rage, shame, fear and sadness in order to release them and make room for the lighter emotions. We will deepen the true connection: to our innate real loving selves through exploring anger, fear, sexuality, life stages and pain—mixed with humor in vulnerable, safe ways.
Several keynote speakers are anxious to join us: so we are choosing this year from two established authors, Shirley Ward, the William Emerson of Ireland who travels the world with her pre- and peri-natal work; and John Lee whose groups explore ritual, romance and releasing emotions; and/or a composite including a panel of sex therapists on topics ranging from the joys of relationship to addictions. We are planning to invite a Holotropic Breathwork facilitator for a substantial program, as well as provide the favorite forums for personal work in Mat Tracks, Peer Groups, Men’s and Women’s Groups, and the many topics that our members offer for presentations, lectures, and workshops.
Look for the Call to Presenters with your membership mailing coming out mid-November. You will also have an opportunity to complete a Membership Questionnaire concerning future sites, best dates, and range of activities most desired at IPA events. Perhaps there will even be a Super Early Bird Special so that we can pack this spacious location with ever more people seeking to avail themselves of opportunities to primal, release emotions and create joy, love and peace outside and within.
Co-chairs are Barbara Bryan of the Primal Integration Center of Michigan, veteran primal therapist and trainer of primal educators and facilitators and our longest-serving IPA President, and Denise Kline, J.D. and IPA’s current Vice-President. To submit proposals or make suggestions, contact Barbara at babryan@twmi.rr.com; website www.primalcenter.com; 23011 Middlebelt Road; Farmington Hills, MI 48336; (248)478-5559 and/or Denise at messagearts@aol.com; 301 S. Mont Valla Ave.; Hagerstown, MD 21740; (301)791-9237.
We look forward to truly connecting with you, feeling, loving and enjoying a peaceful environment and fun-filled week as we process through our internal struggles, learn new techniques, explore life stages, and deepen our experiences together.
Click here for 2009 Call to Presenters-Word Format
(For filling out online and e-mailing your submission—right-click the link and save the file, fill it out using Word, and e-mail it as an attachment)
Click here for 2009 Call to Presenters-PDF Format
(For printing and mailing you
submission via the Post Office—right-click the link and save the file, print it, fill it out using a pen/pencil, stick it in an envelope, apply stamp, and mail)
