2013 Fall Conference
Singing in Sacred Circle
October 18-20
DeKoven Retreat Center -- 600 - 21st Street, Racine, WI 53403
The weekend of October 18-20 we gathered for our annual Women's Connection Fall Conference at the DeKoven Center in Racine Wisconsin. The Center is within walking distance of Lake Michigan. The lodging, dining hall and most of the workshops are all located in the same comfortable building. Our opening and closing ceremonies, keynote address, several workshops and our vendor area took place a short, well-lit walk across the beautiful quad.
The Keynote speaker was Shelley Graff - feminist singer, songwriter, guitarist and Singing in Sacred Circle facilitator.
We are fortunate to have Shelley Graff among us. She is generous of heart and skill -- infused with love for the promise that comes when women sing together. - Carolyn McDade
In the fall of the year we join together and connect to gather inner warmth for the winter to come. We CONNECT with other like minded women, see old friends and make new ones. This was our 31st Fall retreat.
2013 Spring Conference
55th Annual Spring Conference
June 7-9, 2013
Pilgrim Park Retreat Center, Princeton, IL
The Fabulous Face of the Divine Feminine
Embracing the Goddess Within
Teressena Bakens is a spiritual midwife helping people heal and transform through shamanic ceremony. Her path of shamanic study began with Ojibwe Grandmother, Woman of the Four Skies and Oneida Grandmother, Bright Day Star Woman, who shared their Native American wisdom with her. Teressena passes on the wisdom shared with her by conducting women's circles, shamanic ceremony, and facilitating workshops. She is also a full-mesa carrier in a Peruvian lineage of shaman and a graduate of the Healing the Light Body School. Over the past 13 years, she and her husband, Martien, have studied and received initiations with Mayan and Olmec elders. Together they facilitate sacred journeys to the Mayan lands. She is also the guardian of the crystal skull, Opheleah.
Teressena is a visionary artist and published author. She has been a keynote speaker and presenter at several conferences and symposiums in the United States and abroad. Teressena is a mother and grandmother and resides with her husband in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
2012 Fall Conference
Connecting with the Wisdom of the Ancients
October 19-21
DeKoven Retreat Center -- 600 - 21st Street, Racine, WI 53403
This year we met at a great new Retreat location - the DeKoven Center in Racine Wisconsin. The Center is within walking distance of Lake Michigan. The lodging and dining hall were in Taylor Hall. Most of the workshops were in Taylor Hall, too. Our opening and closing ceremonies, keynote, several workshops, and our vendor area were in the Assembly Hall in East Building - a short, well-lit walk across the quad from Taylor Hall.
The Keynote speaker was Geri Schrab who spoke on "Accessing Ancient Wisdom through Rock Art." Her ideas stem from the knowledge that a woman's body is a macrocosm of Mother Earth's body and that respect for the Earth and respect for woman goes hand in hand.
Geri Schrab is a artist who has traveled throughout North America to explore ancient sacred sites. She states "The focus of my art-work is the study of petroglyphs and pictographs which are images pecked, carved and painted on rock surfaces by the ancient indigenous people of North America. I have found although the style and execution of the original rock art images may vary from area to area, there is an underlying unity. This ancient unity echoes our common heart and essential connection to Mother Earth."
In the year 2012, we thought about renewal and honoring our past and what it can teach us.
In the fall of the year we join together and connect to gather inner warmth for the winter to come. Want to CONNECT with other like minded women? See old friends and make new ones. Join us
