A 2021 ELDERSOUL VIRTUAL OFFERING

a Women’s Journey of Sacred Fire

with Carol Kortsch

 five monthly virtual Circles of Trust

Saturdays – Jan 23, Feb 20, March 20, April 17, May 29,

TIME: 8-10.30 am PST, 9-11.30 MST, 11-1.30 pm EST

(you are encouraged to attend all five circles as possible)

The five virtual conversations from January until May are an invitation to join other women in a safe and challenging Circle of Trust community. To learn together and from each other how to age into wisdom as keepers of sacred fire, for our own soul journeys and for the communities to which we are called.

  •   For those wild souls who have been taught by Mother Nature about your true essence and identity as a relational way of belonging in Earth community and yearn for another human learning cohort.

  • Offering a community circle to continue to gather the threads of your psychospiritual journey that yearns for voice and action during this paradoxical pandemic season of isolation and promise.

  • Calling women who continue to be prepared by Mystery to offer your soul gifts back into the world in creative new ways as you grow older through the seasons of life.

This can be considered an ‘eldersoul’ journey because it began on the day you were born and with intention will continue to the moment you die. The word ‘Elder’ has held countless meanings for global cultures, religious traditions, and local communities throughout the ages. This extended journey into ‘eldersoul’ is mostly a profound underworld journey; it is personal and unique and is not time-bound thus it cannot be planned or organized. Our purpose will be to inspire and support one another to go deeper as a community of solitudes, living into the following questions and everything that each one of us brings to the circle.

  • What if this present global experience is a source of profound creative renewal personally and collectively in this moment in history? What is this dance of darkness and light teaching you?

  •   How might this descent into the darkness of the pandemic be an experience of initiation into wiser ways of being fire in the world – of becoming true sages, living as that ‘elder-within’?

  •   How might we more intentionally connect with Nature’s wisdom, co-creating in our specific place, in our local watershed, to pass on that lifestyle to the next generations of all-beings?

  •   How do we join the invitation of traumatic loss, of chaotic cultural change, of human developmental aging, as portals for descent into darker and fiercer aspects of soul?

Ø  What does it mean for each of us now, in this tumultuous season of change to commit our lives to grow into authentic eldership, into beings who embody sacred fire?

Together over the next months we will experience our lives as ‘sagers’ – ones who come full of longing to learn nature’s wisdom at the threshold of this new, yet ancient experience of soulful, conscious human psychospiritual growth.  Between virtual meetings, you will be invited to learn from your local watershed through specific experiential practices on the land that will inspire our eco-centric selves. Please plan on abundant personal time between monthly sessions to wander and imagine – to awaken and teach your wild soul within.

Through deep listening and seeing capacities, we will further cultivate our capacities for empathy, compassion, and sensitivity in large group and small group format. There will be opportunities for more in-depth Clearness Circles to work through personal questions and dilemmas that face us.

Based on the work of Parker Palmer we will be committed together to provide a safe and challenging container for the shy yet resilient soul to emerge. We base our group work on the principles and practices of Courage & Renewal  and the solitary time in nature with the ways of SoulCraft – Animas Valley. 

ELDERSOUL 2021 APPLICATION

THANKS FOR REGISTERING. PLEASE FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW

(easiest to cut and paste the following into another doc)

Which programs are you registering for?

  • 5 Virtual Circles 2021 Jan 23, Feb 20, March 20, April 17, May 29

  • June17-20, 2021  ElderCouncil Weekend at Rocky Mountain Eco-Dharma Retreat Center

Your Name______________________________________________________________________________________

Address____________________________________________________________________________________

Email______________________________________________________

Preferred phone______________________________________________

THANK YOU FOR TAKING TIME TO SPEAK A LITTLE MORE ABOUT YOURSELF

please write a couple of paragraphs with these questions in mind:

  • Why do you want to attend this program? How have you been led to apply?

  • What is your relationship to soulfully growing older?

  • Can you give us a brief history of the way your soul has guided you through major transitions in your life?

  • Is there anything else important that would be helpful to know about you?

 

Thank you! I’ll get back to you with more information after I receive your registration

COST – pay by Venmo (ckortsch@gmail.com) or by check to 1624 Yellow Pine, Boulder CO 80304

Virtual Circles – suggested donation $125 for 5 circles (you are encouraged to attend all five circles, and donate for the value you receive)

ElderCouncil – sliding scale $300 - $525 (if you can pay full amount it ensures others can come at scholarship level and to                                                        hold your place for the weekend intensive please send non-refundable registration fee $50)