Previous Presentations
Winter 2011 Events
The Science of Heart Intelligence
Relieve Stress and Strengthen Immunity, plus The Six Heart Virtues.
Please go to my new website for more information on this event.
Date: Friday, December 3, 7 — 9 pm
Summer 2011 Events
My Big Fat Diet
Film & Interview with Drs. Regina Forster and Andreas Schmitz
The film My Big Fat Diet captures the joys and sorrows of a small fishing village off the coast of Vancouver Island, as its inhabitants swear off sugar and junk food for a year. Aware that their obesity and diabetes rates are five times greater than the national average, they defy conventional wisdom and return to the diet of their ancestors.
Following the movie, Dr. Len Worley will interview Drs. Regina Forster and Andreas Schmitz, two longevity doctors from Lexington, KY. Learn about the fat you desperately need to age slowly and obtain peak brain performance and learn how to lose what you don’t want.
Date: Friday, August 26, 2011, 7 pm
Location: Hiromi Tai Chi Studio, 609 E. Market St just off the Downtown Mall, Charlottesville. Must leave shoes inside the door!
[Detailed Directions]
Location: Hiromi Tai Chi Dojo is located at 609 E. Market St off the Downtown Mall, in the Old Michie Building in Charlottesville, Virginia. The building is across from City Hall. There is easy parking at the Market St Parking Garage, which provides two hours free parking to all participants — Get your parking ticket stamped at the meeting.
Walking Directions: Walk out of the parking garage and cross over onto Market St and turn right. Go to the first traffic light, Seventh St, NE, and turn left. Proceed about twenty five feet and see the sign for Hiromi Tai Chi on your left. Reminder! You will be asked to leave your shoes just inside the door, so bring your socks or slippers if you like.
Registration: $10 payable at the door, but pre-registration is required…
[Register for this presentation]When I Hold a Chicken to My Heart
How Gratitude for Animals Has Changed My Life
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When anthropologist-turned-local livestock farmer, Elizabeth Van Deventer, acquired Davis Creek Farm she faced a pivotal question — Who will kill and prepare the chickens for market? Rather than relegate this chore to others, she created a poignant ritual in which she holds each chicken to her breast and gives gratitude before taking its life. The sobering practice, she says, has profoundly reshaped her spiritual connection to the Web of Life.
Drawing from the teachings of her animals, the natural world in which she lives, and her life-long engagement in farming and food, she will discuss how approaching our food with gratitude can be a powerful means to understand and appreciate our unity with all life.
Read more about Elizabeth. See The Hook's article about this event.
Date: Friday, July 29, 2011, 7 pm
Location: CitySpace
100 5th Street, N.E. — on the mezzanine, second floor, level of the Market Street Parking Garage above the downtown mall post office, just a block down from City Hall & the nTelos Wireless Pavillion.
Registration: FREE but seating is limited so advance registration is required…
[Register for this presentation]Mid-Life: A Critical Turning Point for Health
Both women and men face enormous physical challenges at mid-life as hormonal levels drop, leaving many depressed, anxious, sleepless, with more weight than desired, tired, and decreased libido. These changes are familiar to women, but men have their own version of menopause — andropause — testosterone levels fall, starting the weakening process that we associate with aging. But are these disturbing changes inevitable?
The new science of longevity medicine challenges our conventional assumptions about how we age. The use of natural, bio-identical hormones, supper foods and supplements, can dramatically alter the way we age, restoring physical vitality, like no other generation on earth has ever known. Yet, it is not only the body that can be rejuvenated, but the spirit as well. As Carl Jung noted, mid-life is a golden moment to realize life-limiting patterns and imagine what might be. Dreams, dissatisfaction, even failures, if listened to wisely, can lead to dramatic life renewal.
Presenters: Regina Forster, MD, Andreas Schmitz, PhD, Len Worley, PhD
Date: Friday, June 24 7-9 pm
Location: CitySpace
100 5th Street, N.E. — on the mezzanine level of the Market Street Parking Garage just a block down from City Hall & the nTelos Wireless Pavillion.
Registration: FREE but advance registration is required.
Ancient and Modern Approaches for Transforming Crisis: Film, Dreams, Vision Quest
A series of 4 Monday evening events…
[1] The Vision Quest: Transformation in Nature
The Vision Quest is an ancient rite-of-passage which uses the Spirit(s) of Nature to guide individuals through a significant life passage or crisis. In this presentation, you will be introduced to the ingredients that make up a successful quest: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Denise Horton, Ph.D., an experienced Vision Quest guide, will discuss the three stages of the Quest experience — Severance, Threshold, and Re-Incorporation — as a heroic journey that modern men and women can use to link them to the timeless questions of Soul and Self:
Who am I? What are my gifts? Who are my people?
Suggested reading: The Book of the Vision Quest.
NOTE: Registration/Information on VISION QUEST SUMMER 2011, to be held in beautiful Rappahannock County VA, will be discussed.
Date: Monday, May 23, 7-9 pm
Location: 211 W. Main St., above Bozart Gallery on the Downtown Mall
Registration: FREE but advance registration is required.
Seating is limited and first priority is given to those who sign up for all four events.
Presenters: Denise Horton, Ph.D. and Len Worley, Ph.D.
[2] Carved from the Heart: A film
After Stan Marsden lost his son to a cocaine overdose, he was at first incapacitated by grief, but a year later Stan, who is an Alaskan Tsimpsean wood carver, decided to create a totem pole in his son's memory. Before he was done, the pole had become a communal project, with the entire town of Craig taking part. Carved from the Heart intertwines the process of carving and erecting the Healing Heart totem pole with the participants' stories of personal loss, grief, substance abuse, suicide and violence.
This powerful film explores questions of death and dying, family relationships and parenting, domestic violence, and the impact of the war in Vietnam on veterans and their families. It also acknowledges the intergenerational grief growing out of the rapid changes in lifestyle, and the interruptions to the passing on of tradition and knowledge within Alaska Native and American Indian communities like Craig.
Denise Horton, Ph.D., a Harvard-trained traumatologist and shamanic teacher/healer who works with veterans & their families, will lead an engaged discussion of this compelling film.
Date: Monday, June 6, 7-9 pm
Location: 211 W. Main St., above Bozart Gallery on the Downtown Mall
Registration: FREE but advance registration is required.
Seating is limited and first priority is given to those who sign up for all four events.
Presenters: Denise Horton, Ph.D. and Len Worley, Ph.D.
[3] The Frightening Dream as a Friend of the Soul
While 2/3 of our dreams are disturbing, we take little time in our culture to heed their importance, hoping to quickly put their memory out of mind and regard them as "only a dream." Yet, ancient wisdom tells us that our most disturbing encounters in sleep are attempts to wake us up to change limiting attitudes and behavior. Dr. Worley will present A Necessary Betrayal, the true story of a man who had repeated dreams that his wife was leaving him, necessitating a journey back into childhood to find the answer to his dilemma.
Date: Monday, June 20, 7-9 pm
Location: 211 W. Main St., above Bozart Gallery on the Downtown Mall
Registration: FREE but advance registration is required.
Seating is limited and first priority is given to those who sign up for all four events.
Presenters: Denise Horton, Ph.D. and Len Worley, Ph.D.
[4] The Shaman's Way of Changing the Neural Pathway of Fear
Scottish science film maker, Amy Hardie, never gave her dreams any credence. If fact, she rarely remembered her dreams; that is, until her beloved horse appeared one night telling her that he would die. Upon finding him lying dead in the pasture the next morning, she was catapulted to consider the nature of dreaming. A few months later she was told in a dream that she, too, would die before the end of her 48th year. The film we will see, The Edge of Dreaming, is a compelling glimpse into the turmoil this film maker faced in what appeared to be the last year of her life.
Date: Monday, July 11, 7-9 pm
Location: 211 W. Main St., above Bozart Gallery on the Downtown Mall
Registration: FREE but advance registration is required.
Seating is limited and first priority is given to those who sign up for all four events.
Presenters: Denise Horton, Ph.D. and Len Worley, Ph.D.
Winter 2010 Events
Grow a Year Younger!
Beauty, Strength, and the New Anti-Aging Medicine
Beauty is NOT skin deep and strength is more than muscle. Both radiate from vibrant glands, organs, blood vessels, & core self-acceptance. Hear a physician, nutritional chemist, and psychologist share their secrets.
- Learn how the absence of essential foods and nutrients actually prematurely age you.
- Know what Super-Foods and Super-Supplements interact with your genes to stimulate vitality and beauty.
- Discover how you can keep your youth hormones flowing at any age to create smooth skin, toned muscles, strong libido, and radiant energy.
- Learn how Heart Intelligence holds the key to lower stress, a stronger immune system, and effervescence in your countenance.
The Presenters
Regina Forster, MD, specializes in longevity medicine and bioidentical hormone restoration in Lexington, Kentucky.
Andreas Schmitz, Ph.D., is a chemist and nutritional consultant in Lexington, Kentucky.
Len Worley, Ph.D. received his doctorate in counseling psychology and is a professional body worker (Rolfer) in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Dates: Friday, March 18, 7-9 pm
Location: 211 W. Main St., above Bozart Gallery on the Downtown Mall
Registration: FREE but advance registration is required.
The Inevitable Trauma of Being Male
A Discussion for Men and Women
I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression is without question the most penetrating (and hopeful) book I have ever read about men and the women who love them. While women are diagnosed with depression twice as often as men, it is only because, asserts Terrence Real, the author, we fail to perceive how boys and men mask depression and vulnerability through hyper-achievement, addictions, competiveness, and emotional numbing.
Joining me will be Harvard trained trauma therapist, Denise Horton, PhD., along with several men who have participated with me in a five year ritual men's group-see the interview, The Secrets Men Keep [PDF].
Presenters: Len Worley, Ph.D. & Denise Horton, Ph.D.
Date: Wednesday, January 19
Time: 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Location: 211 W. Main St., above Bozart Gallery on the Downtown Mall
Fee: $25 payable at the door but pre-registration required by email.
Denise Horton, Ph.D.
Denise Horton, Ed.M., Ph.D. is a Harvard-trained psychologist, artist, and writer in private practice in Charlottesville VA and Rappahannock County VA. An experienced trauma therapist ("traumatologist") and EMDR clinician, Dr. Horton is a 2006 graduate of the Advanced Trauma Training Program at the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociative Disorders in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Horton is also an experienced wilderness therapist & shamanic practitioner, leading vision quests and rites-of-passage in the Blue Ridge Mountains & the Southwest for 20 years. Trained at Outward Bound and SOLO Wilderness Medicine, she is currently the director of Hawk's Landing Wilderness Therapy in Rappahannock County VA.
Skills for Entering the Dream Temple
An Introduction
This is a three hour sampler that will give you a taste of the forthcoming ten part dream skills training. For our inspiration we will study the dream healing temples scattered throughout ancient Greece. For several hundred years those in need of healing and guidance would enter into sacred temple complexes to incubate a dream that would diagnose and prescribe cures for illnesses. Here dreams were considered to hold precise and purposeful communication for the challenges of one's life.
Our ten part training series will focus on ten essential guiding principles (Ten Trustworthy Friends) that protect against the loss of truth in your dreams. This will be opportunity to experience the potent approach to dreamwork that I have learned over the last 20 years. Far more than an analytic treatment that merely interprets dreams, you will learn to treat the people, places, and things of your dreams as living presences to be encountered. Set aside preconceptions and dream dictionaries; listen respectfully and watch the inherent meaning of dreams jump out at you.
We will meet every 2-3 weeks, for approximately 2-3 hours each time, over the next several months. At one point in this series we will practice an overnight dream temple incubation. You will be introduced to supplements and sleep practices that will intensify the dreaming process and enhance recall.
In this exploration you are sure to meet some of the most interesting people in Charlottesville. Deep friendships will be formed based upon the courageous sharing of intimate truths that dreams inevitably bring. You are certain to find greater depth of meaning to your own dreams, as well as experience the satisfaction of knowing how to open dreams for others.
Presenter: Len Worley, Ph.D.
Date: Saturday, 15 January
Time: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
Location: Private home, North Garden (Charlottesville)
Registration: $75 payable at the door but reservations must be made in advance by calling 434.953.5399 or by email.
Fall 2010 Events
Dear Friends,
I wonder if you would like to join a few others for training in dream worker skills?
I am staying at a beautiful retreat center just outside of Charlottesville, Bridge between the Worlds in Keswick. I would love for you to join me here for a Saturday program in which we will work with dreams while also distilling the guiding principles that open the truth of a dream. I have lots to share from my writings that will clarify the pathways for keeping the truth of a dream active and penetrating to consciousness.
We will begin at 10 and finish at 4, allowing for a lovely lunch and time to walk the land and take in nature. Suggested cost for the day is $125.
Len Worley, Ph.D.
The Art of Opening a Dream
Date: Saturday, November 20, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Location: Bridge between the Worlds, Keswick.
Registration: $125 payable at the door but reservations must be made in advance by calling 953.5399 or lenworley@visionaryquest.org
Summer 2010 Events
Why Dreams Don't Lie
How to Clear Your Mind to Realize the Truth of Your Dreams
In spite of dreams alluring, enchanting, and disturbing us, most people do not gain practical, life-changing meaning from their dreams. This is an unfortunate loss, because every dream contains incisive, intimate information that is useful to protect, guide and grow wisdom in us. What prevents us from recognizing the truth that seeks us in dreams?
William Blake
Most people are not aware that they harbor prejudices and harmful assumptions about dreams. The potent insights of a dream are thus veiled from the mind. Once the mind is clear, however, the truths of a dream will jump out at you, but this requires that you understand how dreams talk. If you learn their language, clarity breaks open like clouds that part and make way for the penetrating light of the sun.
Why Dreams Don't Lie
Date: Monday, August 30, 7 pm
Location: Ananda Community Center for Conscious Living, 218 W. Market St., Suite 2 - two doors up from Vinegar Hill Theatre, Charlottesville.
Registration: $15 payable at the door but reservations must be made in advance by calling 953.5399 or lenworley@visionaryquest.org
Eating Your Way to One-hundred
Super-foods for a bright mind and a vital body
Dr. Andreas Schmitz is a Health Coach
trained by the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New
York City, the biggest Nutrition School in the world. In
addition he has a training and Ph.D. in Chemistry, which he
received from RWTH Aachen University in Germany in 1996.
Andreas
offers his services as Health Coach in his private practice
in Lexington, KY. More information
In our modern Western society the calories our ancestors had to struggle for are now overabundant. Poorly adapted to our modern world of over-nutrition and processed foods, we are quite literary eating ourselves to death. As a result we are facing an obesity epidemic and a plethora of modern health problems including heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other degenerative diseases.
This lecture will show you how you can avoid this modern fate and keep a Bright Mind and a Vital Body by…
- Showing how living centenarians, live, eat, and what they foods you should avoid
- Revealing the power of super-foods and their beneficial effects on your lifespan
- Demonstrating how certain foods interact with your genes
Super-foods
Date: Thursday, July 29, 7-9 pm
Location: 211 W. Main St., Charlottesville, VA. Downtown Mall
Registration: $15 payable at the door but reservations must be made in advance by calling 953.5399 or lenworley@visionaryquest.org
What the Ancient Dream Healing Temples Can Teach Us
Existing for some 1,500 years, over 300 dream sanctuaries operated throughout the Mediterranean world. These unusual healing centers combined sacred architecture, art, healing baths, massage, music, cathartic theatre, food, psychospiritual ritual, and even sports performance to orchestrate a provocative healing environment for the thousands who would pilgrimage to these centers each year.
In these temples special techniques were used to cultivate particular kinds of dreams that were useful to diagnose and cure diseases. Modern western medicine derives its symbol — a staff encircled by a serpent — from these early practices. Even still today, graduating doctors taking the Hippocratic Oath swear to the ancient god, Asclepius, after whom these temples were built.
Symbol of the World Health Association
Len Worley, Ph.D., recently visited the largest and most famous of all healing temples of the ancient world — located outside Athens in Epidaurus, Greece. Hear his surprising discoveries of what caused this healing temple to be highly revered for hundreds of years, and, more importantly, how its ancient practices could radically change the way we go about healing body and mind today.
Dream Sanctuaries
Date: Wednesday, August 11, 7 pm
Location: Ananda Community Center for Conscious Living, 218 W. Market St., Suite 2 - two doors up from Vinegar Hill Theatre, Charlottesville.
Registration: $15 payable at the door but reservations must be made in advance by calling 953.5399 or lenworley@visionaryquest.org
Presenter: Len Worley received his Ph.D. in counseling psychology. He is a certified Rolfer and runs a dream studies program in Charlottesville, VA
Dreaming in Portugal
The One Who Loves You
The Spiritual Significance of Sexual Attraction in Dreams
and Waking Life
Presenter: Len Worley, Ph.D.
Date: Saturday, 12 June
Time: 20h30
Location: Lótus, Queijas
Quinta dos Grilos R. Almada Negreiros 14, Queijas-Oeiras
Info: 966 482 799 Shivani
Fee: 7€
Registration: Maria Joao Frade 926 075 895 or mjoaofrade@hotmail.com
Your Dream is Your Most Trustworthy Friend
Are You Listening?
Presenter: Len Worley, Ph.D.
Date: Wednesday 16 June
Time: 20h30
Location: ESMTC (Escola Superior de Medicina Tradicional Chinesa), Lisboa
Rua Dona Estefânia, 175, Lisboa
Fee: 7€
Registration: Maria Joao Frade 926 075 895 or mjoaofrade@hotmail.com
Dreaming in Sintra — Daylong Retreat
Your Hidden Self Is Revealed in Your Dreams
Dreams are like a mirror, reflecting back intimate details of your personality. If you have the skills to understand these nightly glimpses of yourself you can receive crucial guidance and profound spiritual inspiration. This retreat will introduce essential guiding principles for opening the meaning of your dreams.
Presenter: Len Worley, Ph.D.
Date: Sunday 20 June
Time: 10 to 18h
Location: Ten Chi Dojo, Sintra, Portugal
Honbu Dojo Ten Chi
Rua Moinho do Gato
VÁRZEA DE SINTRA
Coordenadas GPS: - 38°49'18.67"N - 9°23'36.16"W
Fee: 80€
Vegetarian Lunch: 8€
Registration: Maria Joao Frade 926 075 895 or mjoaofrade@hotmail.com
Winter 2009 Events
Jewels from the Red Book
Carl Jung's journal and what it promises us
NEW! Full article online. [Read it Now]
Long awaited and just released in the fall of 2009, Carl Jung's journal, held in secret for 50 years, is now in its 5th printing, even at an initial price tag just under $200. It is currently the second most purchased book on Amazon. Filled with vivid illustrations of Jung's arduous descent into his own unconscious, this is a remarkable testament of one man's courageous quest to develop a new psychology based on his direct experience of dreams and waking fantasies during a chaotic period in Jung's life.
Presenter: Len Worley, Ph.D.
Date: Monday, February 15
Time: 7 pm
Location: 211 W. Main St., above Bozart Gallery on the Downtown Mall
Fee: $15. Pay at door but pre-registration required by email.
Discovering the Fountain of Youth at Mid-Life
Bioidentical hormonal restoration and its effects on memory, libido, weight loss, and emotional resilience.
The recent publication of Suzanne Somers' book, Breakthrough, has created quite a stir in the medical community and even more among people who are not content with the usual course of declining health and vitality in the aging process. Hear the latest research and promises and issues related to the new field of longevity medicine. For both women and men.
Presenter: Regina Forster, MD
Date: Thursday, January 28
Time: 7 pm
Location: 211 W. Main St., above Bozart Gallery on the Downtown Mall
Fee: $15. Pay at door but pre-registration required by email.
Regina Forster, MD.
"I grew up and went to Medical School in Germany. Thereafter I worked in Acute Care Medicine in South Africa for several years before moving to Canada to work in Primary Care. In 1996 I came to the US where I got accepted in the Family Practice Residency Program at the University of KY in Lexington. As Acute Care was my passion for many years, I decided to return to it after the residency and have work in Emergency Medicine since then.
In the past years I found myself unable to perform physically as I had in the past. I experienced more aches and pains, loss of skin tone, muscle strength, endurance and libido. When I came across bioidentical hormone replacement, I knew very quickly I wanted to try this exciting, new therapy on myself.
After replacing my hormones to youthful levels, I felt so much more energetic, my stamina increased and the aches and pains disappeared. This is a very common situation in mid-life. My new passion is to share this most innovative therapy which can slow down the effects of aging, give more stamina, increase the resistance to chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease, and most important increase quality of life."
Neurofeedback
Restoration and Creativity Enhancement
I will hosting a free presentation Monday evening, December 14, 7 pm, by Jessica Eure, on the use of a novel
neurofeedback
process useful to induce calm and retrain the brain towards optimal functioning. Jessica will also make available the HeartMath
technology useful for giving real time feedback on the impact of emotions on the physical heart. I am quite excited to learn
more about these technologies and would like to share news of this with all of you interested in psychospiritual development.
More info
Presenter: Jessica Eure
Date: December 14
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: 211 W. Main St., above Bozart Gallery on the Downtown Mall
Fee: FREE. Please pre-register by email.
Fall 2009 Events
Consciousness Café
Inspiration through Community
Enjoy a meaningful evening with others who share a love of learning. See inspiring films, hear insightful interviews with remarkable personalities, and listen to heart-warming music. All of this, and you can meet new friends, too, as you exchange ideas on topics related to spirituality, psychology, and health. Following each feature presentation we facilitate dialogue through a series of brief, focused discussions around our Conversation Tables. Encouraged by the ideas of Margaret Wheatley in her book, Turning to One Another, she writes, "I believe we can change the world if we start listening to one another again."
The Power of Forgiveness
The feature film The Power of Forgiveness explores recent research into the psychological and physical effects of forgiveness. This includes feature stories on the Amish, the 9/11 tragedy, and peace-building in Northern Ireland, along with interviews with renowned Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, best-selling authors Thomas Moore and Marianne Williamson and others.
Presenter: Len Worley, Ph.D.
Date: January 9
Time: 6:30 - 9 pm
Location: 211 W. Main St., above Bozart Gallery on the Downtown Mall
Fee: $15. Pay at door but pre-registration required by email.
Courage
We will feature the film, Man on Wire, a remarkable documentary of the courage of a young Frenchman who walked on a tightrope between the World Trade Towers in 1974, just as it was nearing its completion. Enjoy guided discussion and meaningful social contact with others who aspire to live out their highest dreams.
Presenter: Len Worley, Ph.D.
Date: November 14
Time: 6:30 - 9 pm
Location: Charlottesville Community Design Center, 100 5th Street, N.E., downtown mall, second floor in the Market Street Parking Garage Complex
Fee: $25. Pay at door but pre-registration required by email.
©2008 Jean-Louis Blondeau / Polaris Images
The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and miss it, but that we aim too low and reach it.
Michelangelo
How to Grow the Wisdom Tree
The Wisdom Tree is an adult fable describing the inherent kindness of Nature to guide, nourish and restore us in times of adversity. Within each human being is a Dreaming Intelligence that seeks to communicate solutions to us in the face of vexing problems, even traumatic events.
Date: Wednesday, October 21
Time: 7 - 9 pm
Location: 211 W. Main St., above Bozart Gallery on the Downtown Mall
Fee: $10
Registration Pre-registration required: email to lenworley@visionaryquest.org
Summer 2009 Events
Jung: the Man behind his Words
An intimate glimpse into the struggles of this heroic figure and how he lived his vulnerabilities.
Date: Friday, July 31
Time: 12:00 Noon
Location: New Dominion Books, 404 E. Main St., Charlottesville, VA
Fee: FREE
Jung in July: Jung in Crisis
In response to our current economic downturn and the consequent emotional challenges that many face, I am dedicating this year's annual Jung in July series to the study of Crisis. The focus of this three part series, starting Thursday, July 16, will look at a most poignant account of Carl Jung's crisis at mid-life, which for him, like us, also coincided with vast cultural shifts, i.e., World War 1.
Jung considered that this tumultuous experience, lasting several years and at times causing him to fear the loss of his sanity, gave him his greatest treasures.
"The years when I was pursuing my inner images were the most important in my life - in them everything essential was decided."
Many discoveries were made during this intense Confrontation with the Unconscious, and we have the benefit of reaping great insights about the methods Jung used to access the flow of wisdom that came to him through this critical life passage.
Please note that pre-registration is required
Dates: 3 consecutive Thursdays: July 16, 23, & 30
Time: 7 - 9 pm
Location: 211 W. Main St., above Bozart Gallery on the Downtown Mall
Fee: 0-$75; pay as you are able to support this work.
Registration Pre-registration required: Leave message with name and phone number at 434-953-5399 or: lenworley@visionaryquest.org.
Preparation: Suggested reading is the chapter entitled Confrontation with the Unconscious from Carl Jung's autobiography “Memories, Dreams, Reflections.”
Spring 2009 Events
Gratitude
Reunion for those who have attended one evening intro of The Body is for Pleasure and the Heart for Wisdom. This evening will focus on the first of The Six Heart Virtues: Gratitude, and we will enjoy the music of cellist Peter Markush.
Date: Monday March 30
Time: 7 pm
Location: 211 W. Main St., Charlottesville, VA. Downtown Mall
Fee: FREE
The Body is for Pleasure and the Heart for Wisdom
This is an introduction to the science and practice of Heart Intelligence, including a presentation on The Six Heart Virtues.
Date: Monday April 6
Time: 7 pm
Location: 211 W. Main St., Charlottesville, VA. Downtown Mall
Fee: FREE
Dealing with Difficult Emotions
For those who have attended one of the introductory evenings, The Body is for Pleasure and the Heart for Wisdom, we will explore how the challenging emotions of anger, depression, anxiety, loneliness, shame, and fear can be understood and negotiated with compassion.
Dates: April 16 - May 21
Time: 7 - 9 pm
Location: 211 W. Main St., Charlottesville, VA. Downtown Mall
Fee: $150
The Origins of the Self-Critical Voice
On the first two Thursdays in April, I will show two important films about the origins of a self-critical voice that is carried by each one of us. These honest and forthright films show how a self-attacking attitude silently contributes to anxiety, depression, and the fear of taking wholesome risks that could lead to life satisfaction. Both of these films are produced by a remarkable group of people in California who have spent years examining the underlying dynamics which are counter to loving relationships and successful living.
I think you will find both of these films quite moving and useful to make yourself keenly aware of how pervasive this underlying negative voice is, and even more what can be done to neutralize its effects.
Film: The Inner Voice of Child Abuse
Parents recall how negative early experiences in their own childhoods have a long lasting effect and how in spite of their desire to love their children well they are aware of an inner tendency to repeat the same mistakes that their parents made. Please note that this group of adults would not be considered stereotypical child abusers by any means. They are successful, engaged parents who are able to articulate with humility and truthfulness their own difficulty in living up to their ideals. This film clearly shows how the origin of a self-critical voice has its roots in childhood and how making this voice apparent can rob it of its power.
Date: Thursday, April 2
Time: 7 pm
Location: 211 W. Main St., Charlottesville, VA. Downtown Mall
Fee: $20; $30 includes presentation on April 9
Film: The Inner Voice in Suicide
This powerful film interviews a woman who made an unsuccessful suicide attempt. She articulates with unusual clarity and compassion the events and inner thinking process that led up to her self-destructive act. Please note that this film is especially helpful to realize how self-destructive tendencies can manifest itself less dramatically, in a withdrawal from life, including the fear of loving fully.
Date: Thursday, April 9
Time: 7 pm
Location: 211 W. Main St., Charlottesville, VA. Downtown Mall
Fee: $20; or included in $30 paid on April 2
LONGEVITY, HEALTH & HAPPINESS
Studies to live long & well
The Body Is for Pleasure and the Heart for Wisdom
An introduction to the science and practice of Heart Intelligence. The heart is far more than a pump. Studies in the area of neurocardiology demonstrate how the heart is actually an organ of knowing, the first brain, and when attended to can attune the various functions of the body, including the workings of the brain, to increased efficiency. Discover how attentive listening to the body and heart focused breathing can increase positive emotions, foster mental clarity, strengthen the immune system, and enhance problem solving capacity. Learn about the Six Heart Virtues, a daily imaginal practice that gives inner composure in the face of challenging stressors.
Dates: Monday, March 9, 7-9 pm. This program is repeated on Monday April 6, also from 7-9 pm. Participants are asked to be present for the full two-hour presentation.
Location: 211 W. Main St., Charlottesville, VA. Downtown Mall
Registration: No fee but seating reservations must be made in advance by leaving a message at 953.5399 or lenworley@visionaryquest.org.
Working with Difficult Emotions
Apply Heart Intelligence to Anger, Sadness, Depression, Anxiety, Loneliness, and Shame.
Dates: Six Thursdays, February 5—March 12, 7 pm.
Location: 211 W. Main St., Charlottesville, VA. Downtown Mall
Registration: $125 (scholarships available) Fee is payable at the door but reservations must be made in advance by leaving a message at 953.5399 or lenworley@visionaryquest.org. For more information on scholarships, contact Len Worley.
What My Mother Taught Me After Her Death
A personal look at how dreams of departed loved ones offer us wisdom for living but also challenges our understanding of whether they are within us or outside of us. The work of life-after-death researcher Raymond Moody, MD will be discussed, along with his creation of the Psychomanteum, a modern day application of ancient mirror-gazing rituals used to seek contact with the departed.
Date: Tuesday, March 17, 7 pm
Location: 211 W. Main St., Charlottesville, VA. Downtown Mall
Registration: $10 payable at the door but reservations must be made in advance by calling 953.5399 or lenworley@visionaryquest.org. $15 without reservations if seating is available.
Cupid's Desire
How sexual attraction and dreams of a lover pull us towards a more evolved self. Learn how to use purposeful breathing and imagery to cooperate with the yearning for the Lover who sparks a recognition of what more we can be. This presentation provides a practical application of Carl Jung's work in alchemy and the sacred inner marriage.
Date: Tuesday, February 17, 7 pm
Location: 211 W. Main St., Charlottesville, VA. Downtown Mall
Registration: $10 payable at the door but reservations must be made in advance by calling 953.5399 or lenworley@visionaryquest.org. $15 without reservations if seating is available.
Dreams of Obama
The significance of presidential presences and other high profile figures in dreams and how to actualize their potential in your own life.
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 7 pm
Location: 211 W. Main St., Charlottesville, VA. Downtown Mall
Registration: $10 payable at the door but reservations must be made in advance by calling 953.5399 or lenworley@visionaryquest.org. $15 without reservations if seating is available.
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| Celebration of Jung's Birth |  |
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| Feature film: Appointment with the Wise Old Dog; Dream Images in a Time of Crisis | ||
| The story of conductor/cellist David Blum (introduced by Yo-Yo Ma), as he faces the end of life and discovers guidance from dreams. | ||
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Date: July 26, 7-8:30 pm Fee: $15 |
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| Jung as Spiritual Friend | ||
| A personal look at Jung the man, using his autobiography, Memories, Dreams & Reflections | ||
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Date: July 5, 12,19, 7-8:30 pm Fee: $45 |
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| The Dream as an Ally in Clinical Practice |
| Two Approaches |
| ...with Phyllis Koch-Sheras, Ph.D. & Len Worley, Ph.D. This is a professional training for psychotherapists. [More information] 4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available. |
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Date: Friday, June 22 Fee: $75 if postmarked by June 15; $85 thereafter. An additional $25 — paid separately — will secure 4 CEUs through Old Dominion University. Registration: Send a check to Len Worley, Ph.D., 211 W. Main St., Charlottesville, VA 22902 Location: 211 W. Main St., downtown mall in Charlottesville, VA |
| Fairytales for Adults | ||
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Seeing one's life myth in the stories of childhood |  |
| Discover the deeper truths in Beauty & the Beast, (on the Transformation of the Negative Masculine) and in Hansel & Gretel (on Overcoming the Negative Feminine). | ||
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Date: June 7, 7-8:30 pm Fee: $15 |
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| Basics of Dreamwork | ||
| Witness and experience the wisdom available in the dream. Essential principles will be discussed and live demonstrations offered. | ||
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Date: June 14, 21, 28; 7 pm Fee: $45 |
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