COMPONENTS FOR CONNECTIONS WORKSHOPS IN TUCSON, ARIZONA

EXPERIENTIAL TECHNIQUES
An approach that uses psychodrama and other tools—such as role-playing and empty chair—to help you access your inner reality. Psychodrama is one of the most effective tools because it uses all your senses in the learning process. Insight achieved by “talk” therapies can enhance learning on a cognitive level, but insight without experience cannot change behavior. Using experiential techniques you are able to bring your inner reality outside where it can be seen, talked to, felt, touched, heard, reframed, and completed. In a safe place, you can feel your fears, name your traumas, find your voice, and speak your truth. You will start to understand the things you do, so that you can then awaken, transform and heal.


SWEAT LODGE CEREMONY
A Native American ritual used to purify your spirit, mind, emotions, and body to experience a closer connection to Great Spirit. Fully clothed, you sit on the earth inside a small, hut-like structure made from willow branches covered with canvas. Outside, a fire heats stones that are brought into the sweat lodge four times during the ceremony. Generally, the ceremony takes place in the evening under the stars, in the silhouette of saguaro cactus, with the sounds of coyote relatives in the distance. This four-hour ceremony of prayer, singing, and thoughtful expression to one another can be an unforgettable, loving, and healing experience.


MEDITATION
You will practice sitting in silence; journeying inward to experience the voices of your own mind. Your mind is very powerful; your thoughts help to bring about your reality. You do not see reality as it is. You see reality as you are. If you are seeking peace, you will need to learn how to gain control of your mind.