Primal Voice:
IPA e-News                                                                        Issue 9 April 2005

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International Primal Association:
Supporting Growth and Healing through Deep Feeling Process

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"The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, our perceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But some day the body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth."

~ Alice Miller ~

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This Issue:

1. Emotional Release Process
2. Emotional Release Workshop
3. Media Matters: Promoting Psychological Well-Being on a Global Scale
4. Member News
5. New Local Primal Group
6. Primal Integration Center of Michigan Intensives
7. Inquiry into Psychiatry 2005
8. Spring Board Meeting
9. IPA Spring Retreat 2005 at Kirkridge
10. IPA Summer Convention 2005
11. Wisdom House - Info Bit #3: Meals
12. Initial Training in Primal Integration
13. Primal Groups
14. Deadline for next issue

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1. The Emotional Release Process
Instructor: Chris Wright MA, LPC

Takoma Park Chapel
8120 Fenton Street
Silver Spring, Maryland
Sunday, April 10th 2005, 1-4 PM

Learn the process of emotional healing and what tangible benefits are available to you for clearing current pressures and tension, as well as for healing your past and finding inner Peace. It is important to be comfortable processing these feelings naturally, instead of holding or suppressing them inside. Whether the tension is from current pressures and conflicts or from unresolved feelings in our past, learning how to process them effectively is an important part of our Spiritual growth.

For any questions, please feel free to contact Joe Dunn at 301-897-9611.

Suggested donation: Members $20 / Friends $25

Visit www.takomachapel.org.
Telephone: (301) 587-7200
Free parking is adjacent to the Chapel.

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2. The Emotional Release Workshop
Instructor: Chris Wright, MA, LPC

Takoma Park Chapel
8120 Fenton Street
Silver Spring, Maryland
Saturday, April 23rd 2005, 10?5 PM

In this one-day workshop, you will learn how to process your feelings to resolution. Whenever you are stressed-out, upset, depressed, or off your Center, you will be able to open up and process what's churning inside. This naturally restores your inner Peace and vitality. You will also learn how to regress to past unresolved feelings and heal the original imprints and traumas at their source. This facilitates and accelerates your Spiritual healing and growth journey. This is a safe, experiential workshop where you go at your own pace in learning how to relax into, and process, your feelings.

Chris Wright teaches emotional release processing around the country.

For any questions, please feel free to contact Joe Dunn at 301-897-9611.

Suggested Donation: Members $75 / Friends $100

Visit www.takomachapel.org.
Telephone: 301-587-7200
Free parking is adjacent to the Chapel.

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3. Media Matters: Promoting Psychological Well-Being on a Global Scale

The Church Center
777 UN Plaza (44th Street between 1st & 2nd Ave.)
Room 10H - 10th Floor
Thursday, April 14, 2005, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

The NGO Committee on Mental Health (Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations (CONGO) in Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council), co-sponsoring with the CCC/UN, presents a special program that will explore the application and best practices for using news media and newer information and communication technology (ICT), such as the Internet, for supporting mental health and psychological well-being and promoting resilience in the wake of violence, war, disaster, and illness.

Moderator:

Elizabeth Carll, PhD UN Representative, International Society For Traumatic Stress Studies; Convenor, Working Group on Media/ICT, NGO Committee on Mental Health; Licensed Psychologist, Private Practice/Organizational Consulting, Long Island, NY

Panel Participants:

H.E. Khunying Laxanachantorn Laohaphan - Keynote Speaker, Ambassador and Permanent Representative Mission of Thailand to the United Nations

Dhiman Deb Chowdhury - Founder & President Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM)

Jamie Talan - Health and Science Reporter Newsday

Richard Alderslade, MD - Discussant Senior External Relations Officer for Health Policy World Health Organization

Group Discussion - Audience Q & A
Program Planning Committee of Media/ICT Working Group:

Elizabeth Carll, PhD - NGO CMH, ISTSS, CCC/UN;
Daniel Miller, PhD - NGO CMH, ASP;
Linda Misek-Falkoff, PhD JD - NGO CMH, CCC/UN, PWPI;
Jan Wetzel, PhD - NGO CMH, IASSW.

For more information Contact Dr. Carll at
631-754-2424 or email
ecarll@optonline.net <mailto:ecarll@optonline,net>

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4. Member News

News items for Terry Larimore, Michele Festa and Patricia Poulin have been added to the web site.

http://www.primals.org/membernews.html#larimore
http://www.primals.org/membernews.html#festa
http://www.primals.org/membernews.html#poulin

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5. New Local Primal Group

Esta Powell, an IPA member from Columbus Ohio, has started a peer primal group. The group meets weekly for 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Commitment to attend the weekly sessions and some deep feeling experience are required, in order to participate. For more information, contact Esta at estule@yahoo.com or at 614-893-3527.

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6. Primal Integration Center of Michigan Intensives

Farmington Hills, Michigan
April 1-2, 2005
May 27-30, 2005
June 24-25, 2005
July 22-23, 2005

Regular weekend intensives are led by Barbara Bryan and staff. The May marathon will be led by Barbara Bryan, Sam Turton, Bob Holmes, and Bill Russell.

For fees and other information visit
http://www.primals.org/membernews.html#barb

To register or make enquiries email Barbara Bryan at babryan@twmi.rr.com, or phone her at 248-478-5559.

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7. Inquiry into Psychiatry 2005

City Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
April 2nd and 3rd & April 9th and 10th, 2005

Inquiry into Psychiatry 2005 is a set of public hearings about psychiatry, each set lasting two days. The first set is on psychiatric drugs; the second set is on electroshock. The sponsor CAPA is an independent organization comprised of psychiatric survivors, professionals, and students who are committed to monitoring psychiatry. The public hearings will be presided by a five-person panel including university professors, social service workers, researchers and others who have shown leadership in this area.

Individuals living in Canada who have direct experience of psychiatric drugs and/or electroshocks are invited to give their testimony. The culmination of the hearings will be two reports that will be presented at the Toronto Board of Health and other governmental agencies.

For more information or to schedule a time to testify, contact Patricia Anik Poulin at ppoulin@oise.utoronto.ca

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8. Spring Board Meeting

Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
Saturday, April 30 - Sunday, May 1 2005

Contact Jim Pullaro at 413-448-2719 or
vicepresident@primals.org

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9. IPA Spring Retreat 2005 at Kirkridge

Kirkridge Retreat Center
Bangor, PA
Thursday May 12 thru Sunday May 15

For additional information, see
http://www.primals.org/activities.html#retreat

For enquiries, call or email Bob Holmes
1-877-258-9315 (toll free)
link.2.holmes@sympatico.ca

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10. 33rd International Primal Association Annual Convention - Holding and Integrating: Keeping the Primal Process Within the Healing Window

Wisdom House Retreat Center,
Litchfield, Connecticut
Monday August 22 - Sunday August 28, 2005

The summer convention is a week full of opportunities to learn about and explore deep healing processes, to gather with peers, to be witnessed, to discuss with practitioners, to grow and to have fun.

This year, one of the highlights of the formal activities scheduled is a panel presentation on the theme of the convention. Following the keynote address delivered by Dr. Michael Irving (http://www.irvingstudios.com), conventioners will have the opportunity to hear selected panelists discuss their perspectives on safety in regressive and deep healing processes. This will be both a theoretical and experiential presentation, and there will be time for participants to share their experience and ask questions of the panelists.

More information about the program will be available in the brochure that will be mailed in May, as well as on the IPA website:
http://www.primals.org/convention.html

You can also reach the co-chairs at
convention@primals.org

We look forward to seeing you in August!

Jim Pullaro and Patricia Anik Poulin

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11. Wisdom House - Info Bit #3: Meals

Accommodation fees will include 3 meals per day, plus the use of the coffee and tea station. Meals are wholesome, varied and include both meat and vegetarian dishes. Special diet items are available for an additional charge. Breakfast time is 8:00am, lunch is at 12:00pm and dinner is at 5:30pm.

The Center can also provide snacks. For a sample of meal and snack menus, check out http://www.wisdomhouse.org/fs.asp.

We are requested to refrain from bringing our own food.

Visit Wisdom House at

http://www.wisdomhouse.org

more information next month...

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12. Initial Training in Primal Integration

238 Kathleen Street
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
October 2-8, 2005

Training leaders are Barbara Bryan and Sam Turton.

For information and registration visit
http://www.primalworks.com/training.html
http://www.primals.org/membernews.html#training

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13. Primal Groups

Barbara Bryan's home,
Farmington Hills (Detroit), Michigan
Thursdays from 7:00 - 9:30 pm
Some primal experience required
Email babryan@twmi.rr.com or call 248-478-5559
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Bill Whitesell's home,
McLean, Virginia
No charge to participate
Email wmwhitesell@yahoo.com or call 703-734-1405
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Esko and Marja Rintala's home
Helsinki, Finland

Esko and Marja have conducted weekend primal groups in their home since 1981. Participation is limited to 7, with groups starting Friday evening and continuing on Saturday. Both experienced primallers and first timers may attend.

For more information, contact
esko.rintala@pp.inet.fi
or phone 358-9-611184

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14. Deadline for next issue - Friday April 29, 2005

IPA Members! Email enews@primals.org with the dates of your upcoming intensives, workshops, seminars, retreats, gatherings or any other primal-related news items and they will be included in the next issue of Primal Voice.

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