Ending the Battle between the Sexes - One Day Workshop
Sunday 28 November, 2010
In this time of quantum change, relationships ain’t what they used to be, and many of us, are both confused and frustrated... and curious and excited.
We can either stay frozen in confusion - either giving up, or moving from one relationship to the next - or utilise them as a crucible for inspired growth and transformation.
In this workshop we'll explore these important questions:
• What is it to be a man or a woman in today's world?
• How can we nurture and empower ourselves and each other as women and men?
• What is the growing edge for women... for men?
• How can we develop a more rich, vibrant and healthy sex life at every stage in our lives?
• How to use relationship as a crucible for spiritual growth
• How can we be more inclusive of the many different forms of relationships emerging?
DETAILS
WHEN: SUNDAY, November 28
TIME: 10:00am till 5:00pm
WHERE: Toxteth Hotel 345 Glebe Point Road, Glebe SYDNEY
(02) 9660 237 Upstairs in the Media room
http://www.toxtethhotel.com.au/ Map http://bit.ly/glebe-toxteth
PRICE: $125 early-bird before Nov 22 - after that date, $150
WHO FOR: Singles, Couples, Moresomes, anyone over 16.
BRING: Notebook and Pens.
BREAKS: Morning and Afternoon tea will be provided.
Lunch: At the pub or there are plenty of eating places in the area
PRESENTER: Frances Amaroux (your Love Coach)
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Ending the Battle of the Sexes
Why do we presume there is a ‘battle between the sexes’?
And if there is one - is it natural, is it necessary,
and could there be ways to end the war???
Much of our attitude to the differences between the sexes
has been shaped by millennia of of a ‘Dominator’ ideology
that clearly defines the roles of men and women
...and therefore how they relate to each other.
The majority of Biological Psychology explains gender differences
as mostly entirely to do with Biology, and survival of the fittest
- with almost no reference to the effect that culture has
on the construction of masculinity and femininity.
The spiraling divorce rate is testament that something is happening
to our ideas of relationships in the 21st century.
And with White Ribbon Day fast approaching, there still seems no end to
domestic violence and child pornography.
Do we just throw up our hands in horror hoping to go back to the good ole days, or take it as a warning signal that its time for a change?
...to explore, and perhaps embrace the new wave of feminism
... the New Egalitarianism.
QUOTE from Daphne Rose Kingma author of "The Future of Love."
"We're all looking for more love. It's that simple. In the end, nothing else really matters to us. In the beginning and in the middle, we're concerned with the forms of our relationships, what they look like, what our parents think of them, how they stack up in the eyes of the world, and whether we're getting our share of the goodies: sexually, emotionally, and financially.
But in the end, we won't care about the forms. The forms will be as multitudinous as the stars and all that will matter is the love that was in them. No one can escape the divine upheaval of love. I haven't; you won't; our neighbors and strangers and family won't either. Love is coming to find us. All of us. Because love is our essence. Love is who we are."
QUOTE FROM Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks
and Chameli and Arjuna Ardagh
"How to bring a fresh start to intimate relating: into joy, celebration and even worship!
Just in the course of one century, we have seen a huge shift in the role of women in society, and the respect paid to feminine energy. Can you believe, it was less than a hundred years ago that women got the right to vote? It was only in the 1970s that Germaine Greer wrote The Female Eunuch. Now, in the first decade of the 21st century, we are seeing another wave of feminine emergence: which many people call "The Goddess Movement." In the 70s, women claimed their rights to be politicians, judges, police, and construction workers — all roles previously reserved for men. Today, women are discovering that they do not need to compete or excel in a world defined by men. We are discovering a feminine spirituality, feminine ecology, and feminine leadership.
The suppression of women over thousands of years has been largely instigated by men. The emergence of the fully awake and empowered woman is happening from her side. Even conscious, awake, and progressive men are having to discover how to respond to the full blossoming and return of feminine power on her own terms.
Beyond the dominating, macho man who suppresses and abuses women, beyond the meek and ashamed man, who cowers to woman's brilliance, there is the emerging conscious man. He can fully acknowledge and even apologize for the imbalance of the last 5000 years, he can see, and feel, and celebrate woman's true beauty and gift, and at the same time, stand strong in his own gift as well.
QUOTE from Beyond Awakening - The Future of Spiritual Practice
"For a very long time, intimate relationship has been viewed and lived, with few exceptions, as an alternative -- and not necessarily an equivalent alternative -- to spiritual life. Now there is not only a significant opportunity for something profoundly liberating to happen in and through intimate relationship, but also a greatly increasing need for it. So intimate relationship has, at its leading edge, become less a prelude to spiritual opening and awakening, and more a crucible/sanctuary for it, modeling a deeply embodied "we"-space into which human culture needs to transition.
In truly intimate relationship, we learn to find freedom not from limitation, but through limitation. And we also learn to become intimate with all that we are, high and low, dark and light. So no matter how unpleasant or uncomfortable a quality in us may be, we choose to relate to it rather than from it. Such intimacy cuts through the us-versus-them mentality and projections that plague our culture.
Relationship then becomes not something to partially participate in, but rather something to fully embody and live, especially as we realize, right to our core, that everything --everything! -- exists through relationship. In the liberating bondage and radical transparency of real intimacy, everything that arises can serve our healing and awakening, both personally and collectively.
And what a wonderfully sobering and illuminating joy it is to enter so deeply into shared living that everything is permitted to awaken us! And to do this not just for ourselves, but for all of us, shifting from "me" to a dynamically inclusive "us" without any homogenizing of our differences..."
