Webinar Series
Webinar series on various topics such as Circle of Life Workshop: Reimagining Exodus, Enneagram as Mirror into the Soul Webinar Series, Journey Into Wholeness Webinar Series, and more, for the purpose of diving deeper into these topics.
Circle Of Life Workshop Webinar Series
Reimagining Exodus
The Exodus Journey as Archetype of our Personal Journey Celebrating the Hope of SpringTime, Passover & Easter Led by Rabbi David Zaslow with a presentation from Guest Speaker, Matthew Fox.
The biblical Exodus is the most influential freedom story ever told. It has served as an inspiration for Puritans, American revolutionaries, abolitionists, Mormons, the modern Civil Rights movement, and agents of change the world over. In Jewish tradition, the Exodus is also applied to every person’s life journey with its struggles, liberations, and revelations. In this virtual ‘retreat’ discover how Exodus is the foundational story that links Judaism and Christianity together and look at ways that each of us can free ourselves from the “egypts” and “pharaohs” in our own lives— an ideal way to heal and celebrate hopeful possibilities during these challenging times.
Included in this 2-day online event:
- Three 1.5 hour teaching sessions led by our featured presenters
- Exercises for personal insight, growth, and transformation
- Interfaith lessons for healing the divisions in today’s world
To register for this webinar, please visit our Events page.
Enneagram as Mirror Into the Soul Webinar Series
The Enneagram has deep roots in spiritual wisdom and practice. This webinar series will explore several profound and insightful aspects of the nine Ennea-Styles which are often unexplored in introductory courses. Here is an opportunity to see more deeply into the soul through the wisdom and mirror of the Enneagram…
- Discovering how your “Soul Child” can be a compass for spiritual and emotional healing
- Experiencing how the Divine Idea for each Ennea-style offers a ‘map’ for transformation
- Exploring the spiritual practices which best support each soul’s journey towards wholeness
- Deepening in the art of spiritual discernment for ourselves and others
This webinar series offers teachings that will help you dig deeper into the soulful dimensions of your Ennea-Style. Materials will complement and deepen, but not repeat, the teachings found in The Spirit of the Enneagram Program and the Contemplative Retreat.
All webinars are from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm PST followed by an optional one hour moderated forum discussion.
Cost: $75 per webinar / $150 for all three webinars (a $75 savings). Journaling exercises, readings, videos, and online discussion groups will be available to support and expand each webinar topic. To order please call 1-541-383-4179 or email us at info@sacredartofliving.org
To register for this webinar, please visit our Events page.
Journey Into Wholeness Webinar Series
Consciously Guiding Your Inner Pathway Towards Peace and Well-Being
Three Online Workshop Series Presented by Dean Sharpe, MD, and Marlis Beier, MD
Too often we wander through life without clear vision or direction. We may have had a clarity of purpose but are pulled-off course. We react to the “tyranny of now” without looking towards what will bring us peace and well-being. The webinar series “Journey into Wholeness” provides the opportunity to pause and consciously examine what is most important within our own lives. Are we following what we know to be important and ethically sound? How are we building our relationships? Deep down, who are we and how can we let our best selves emerge? If we don’t take the time, these “soul-sized” questions can get buried in the day-to-day noise. Presenters Dean Sharpe, MD, and Marlis Beier, MD, have spent years teaching these topics in their Soul of Wellness Course at the Sacred Art of Living Center. Hear their insights and best practices as they guide you on your journey into wholeness.
Each three-week program includes:
- A live three-hour webinar to kick off each series (which will be recorded and downloadable)
- A wealth of materials sent to your email each week for three weeks.
- A one-year membership to the Soul & Science Website
- Best Practice suggestions
- Personal journaling exercises
- Articles, videos, and books to help support your studies
- Handouts and community resources
“Journey into Wholeness” is designed to help the following groups:
Anyone consciously searching for personal growth
You may feel lost in your journey of peace and well-being, or you may feel secure in your direction. No matter what, we all can use support, inspiration, and meaningful information along the way. “Journey into Wholeness” offers a wide range of established wisdom by current experts in the field of wellness and interpersonal connection. It is a blend of science, philosophy, and spirituality, offering real-world practices to guide you along the way.
Counseling professionals
Helping clients and families navigate emotional well-being can pose many challenges. The “Journey into Wholeness” webinar series provides a wealth of materials that can support the treatment plans you have in place and add to your clinical “toolbox”.
To register for this webinar, please visit our Events page.
Setting Your Compass
Discovering your guiding values, sacred questions, and developing personal empowerment.
Owning Personal Accountability
Avoiding Victimhood
Using the Awareness Wheel
Identifying “What are my Values?”
Choosing Your Path
Moving forward with your soul-gifts, a clear direction, and employing healthy boundaries.
Understanding Attachment Models
Spiritual Inquiry
Living Beyond “Personality”
Enneagram as a tool of self-discovery
Traveling in Connection
Building meaningful connection with your family, friends, and community.
Finding Meaningful Connection
Embracing Community
Dangers of Disconnection
Inter-personal Gaps
Presenters
Dean Sharpe MD, MHA
Dean Sharpe trained as a general surgeon and worked in private practice from 1980 to 2002. He shifted focus, obtained a Master’s Degree in Health Administration, becoming Vice President of Medical Affairs at St. Charles Medical Center for twelve years, sharing this position with his surgical practice from 1994-2002. Informatics and computerized medical records came and he facilitated the change at St. Charles from 2004 to 2006. As the Vice President of Medical Affairs and VP Clinical Informatics, relationship and change facilitation was the major role of the job.
His love has always been as facilitator and educator, so starting in 1992, he helped design and facilitate “People Centered Teams”, an organizational development and personal growth seminar, both at St. Charles and nationally, impacting the lives of over 5000 participants. He helped design and taught two levels of Death and Dying workshops at St. Charles in the 90’s with the goal that caregivers would become more comfortable with their own mortality as well as their patients. His belief as physician has always included the role of facilitating the relationship between patient and illness since this healthy relationship allows healing, regardless of physical cure. The vision and mission of the Sacred Art of Living and Dying Center and the SALAD seminars are a natural extension of Dean’s previous interests and work. He is married to Marlis Beier, and has two daughters and two grandsons. He lives in Bend, Oregon and enjoys cooking, skiing, hiking, gardening, and being with his family.
Marlis Beier, M.D.
Marlis Beier started her professional career in Obstetrics and Gynecology and practiced for seventeen years. She found gratification in both the clinical challenges and accompanying those facing life transitions around sexuality, motherhood, loss and medical crisis. During that time, her desire to prevent unwanted teen pregnancy led to presentations, making an educational video and teaching in schools as well as founding a mentoring teen theater group.
Life and identity shifted when exacerbation of multiple sclerosis ended her private practice. Finding meaning in her own losses and change stimulated learning storytelling, spiritual work, dream tending and writing. An ordained Maggid (Jewish storytelling and teacher), she speaks at faith communities as well as to secular groups. Her focus changed from accompanying those giving birth to those facing the end of life. Her volunteer work includes hospice, interfaith networking and Volunteers in Medicine (caring for indigent patients). Seminars at the Sacred Art of Living Center motivated her to begin teaching dream tending, facilitating end of life review (a personal Vidui) and acting as a spiritual director. Facilitating material and ritual at the Sacred Art of Living and Dying programs comes naturally from her practicing personal, family and community ritual in Judaism, fitting in with her love of stories.
Her greatest love is her family, including husband Dean Sharpe, M.D., two daughters, Marissa and Anneliese, and grandsons Thielsen and Sawyer. The saga of Anneliese’s health challenges since age one inspired her to become a better doctor, mother and companion to any one facing illness or challenge.
Journey Into Wholeness FAQs
I can’t get online during the webinar times. Can I still sign up?
Yes, you can still participate. The webinar will be recorded and can be viewed at your convenience. All registered individuals will receive the downloadable video on the Monday after the recording, as well as the weekly study materials.
Can I get continuing education credits for this workshop?
Yes, you can receive 2.75 continuing education credits per webinar through the California Board of Registered Nursing and National Association of Social Workers – Oregon Chapter. To receive credit, you must indicate a need for CE credit one week before the event and be present for the live webinars.
Is there a group rate?
Yes, there is a rate for groups of five or more. Contact SALC for more information.
Can I “share” my registration with my spouse? We can use the same computer screen.
We will allow up to two individuals per computer screen. We won’t allow the webinar to be shown to a whole group under a single registration. Please call SALC if your group would like to participate. There will be one CEU certificate available per registration.
Will there be homework?
No, there are no assignments with the weekly materials. We do include discussion questions, journaling exercises, and best practices, but these are for personal study. None of the activities are required or submitted to SALC.
Do I have to log onto your website to get the weekly materials?
You will receive an email with all your weekly materials included. We will also have a page on the Soul & Science website that provides these same materials. You can decide which method of access you prefer.
Can I sign up for just one course, or do I have to sign up for all three?
You can sign up for an individual course, but you receive a savings of $75 if you sign up for all three at once.
Who is the target audience for the webinar series?
Journey into Wholeness is geared towards anyone seeking personal well-being, as well as those in the counseling professions.
The Alchemy Of Grief Webinar Series
Transformative Power of Love
Three Online Workshop Series Presented by Richard Groves & the Sacred Art of Living Center.
Among life’s most painful experiences is losing someone we love. Grief silences the soul. It shakes our solid ground and turns it into unstable footing with no clear path ahead. When grieving, we also face questions which contain healing and transformative potential:
- Who am I without my loved one?
- How will I function under the weight of grief?
- Where can I find a sense of wholeness?
Richard Groves will explore this important topic in three five-week online courses. His teachings are shaped by forty-years of experience in the field of end-of-life care and his new book “Alchemy of Grief” (co-authored with his late wife, Mary). This series is supported with video instruction by grief experts Tom Golden, MSW, and Wendy Howard, PhD. Each series begins with a live three-hour webinar presented by Richard Groves. There will be an opportunity to explore the many facets of grief through lecture, discuss topics in small groups, and ask Richard one-on-one questions. Over a five week period, you will receive our resource packet – filled with readings, journaling questions, book suggestions, and relevant videos by Wendy Howard and Tom Golden. All participants will be encouraged to look at their relationship with grieving, since we all experience loss. Grief has the power to deeply transform your life. “The Alchemy of Grief” teaches how to use that transformation for growth and healing.
To register for this webinar, please visit our Events page.
Each Five Week Program Includes
- A live three-hour webinar to kick off the series (which will be recorded and downloadable)
- A wealth of materials sent to your email each week for five weeks.
- Instructional videos by Richard Groves, Tom Golden, and Wendy Howard created for the Soul & Science website
- Best Practice suggestions
- Personal journaling exercises
- Articles, videos, and books to help support your studies
- Handouts and community resources
- Free subscriptions to key Soul & Science Series
- Preview sections of Richard Groves’ new book “Alchemy of Grief”
This series is created in honor of the 10th Anniversary of Mary Groves’ passing.
March 6, 1939 – February 2, 2009
“The Alchemy of Grief” is Designed to Help the Following Groups
Those Living with Loss
Often, those living with grief feel alone. The loss of a loved one leaves a hole in the fabric of their lives, and it can be very hard to reach out for help or discuss difficult emotions. This web series provide a place to explore painful feelings, discuss them in a safe place, and carry out best practices to find strength and peace.
Healthcare Professionals
Helping patients and families navigate grief can be a difficult task, especially if you haven’t received training in this area. “The Alchemy of Grief” webinar series will not only teach you lessons, tools, and best practice, but also provide videos, articles, and community resources that can be shared with those in need. Continuing education credit (2.75 hrs.) will be available through California Board of Registered Nursing and National Association of Social Workers- Oregon Chapter.
Individuals Dedicated to Supporting Friends and Loved Ones Experiencing Grief
When a loved one is suffering, it is very natural to want to help. Too often we turn to clichéd sayings and retreat into uncertainty. This webinar series will dive into ways we can talk about grief, understand what your loved one is feeling, and offer deeply encouraging support.
Details About the Individual Three Workshops
Facing Grief
Confronting painful emotions when facing a significant loss
Exploring the five essential Do’s & Don’ts of grief for survivors
Facing the prospective loss of a loved one who is still living
Transforming Grief
Reconciling with our grief vs. expecting to get over our losses
Experiencing spiritual practices that support healing and wellness
Looking forward to life, love and hope that can be enriched by loss
Living with Grief
Learning how healthy grieving is where the healing begins
Supporting wellness for the bereaved with practical strategies for living
Exploring creative good grief rituals for individuals and families
Alchemy of Grief Program
This course is shaped by Richard Groves’ book “Alchemy of Grief”. Authored by Richard, it includes materials and writings by his wife, Mary Groves, who passed away in 2009. By this means, he has been able to co-author “Alchemy of Grief” with Mary and bring her voice and blend their thoughts on the subject of Loss and Transformation.
Alchemy of Grief Table of Contents
Introduction: A Biography and Survivor’s Manual
Chapter One: Grief is not an emotion but – A state of being
Chapter Two: The alchemy of suffering –A great change
Chapter Three: Suffering is not the last word– A fire that heals
Chapter Four: Love is our legacy – A life beyond hope
The Alchemy of Grief FAQs
I can’t get online during the webinar times. Can I still sign up?
Yes, you can still participate. The webinar will be recorded and can be viewed at your convenience. All registered individuals will receive the downloadable video on the Monday after the recording, as well as the weekly study materials.
Can I get continuing education credits for this workshop?
Yes, you can receive 2.75 continuing education credits per webinar through the California Board of Registered Nursing and National Association of Social Workers – Oregon Chapter. To receive credit, you must indicate a need for CE credit one week before the event and be present for the live webinars.
Is there a group rate?
Yes, there is a rate for groups of five or more. Contact SALC for more information.
Can I “share” my registration with my spouse? We can use the same computer screen.
We will allow up to two individuals per computer screen. We won’t allow the webinar to be shown to a whole group under a single registration. Please call SALC if your group would like to participate. There will be one CEU certificate available per registration.
Will there be homework?
No, there are no assignments with the weekly materials. We do include discussion questions, journaling exercises, and best practices, but these are for personal study. None of the activities are required or submitted to SALC.
Do I have to log onto your website to get the weekly materials?
You will receive an email with all your weekly materials included. We will also have a page on the Soul & Science website that provides these same materials. You can decide which method of access you prefer.
Can I sign up for just one course, or do I have to sign up for all three?
You can sign up for an individual course, but you receive a savings of $75 if you sign up for all three at once.
Who is the target audience for the webinar series?
The Alchemy of Grief is geared towards those living with loss, healthcare professionals, and individuals dedicated to supporting friends and loved ones experiencing grief.
Is this grief counseling?
The Alchemy of Grief will give information and best practices to help process and transform loss but is not meant to take the place of professional grief counseling.