Workshops & Speakers
Barbara Joye provides a personal model for being a ‘practical mystic’ in the everyday world. In 1988 as an executive in a corporate setting she experienced a spontaneous awakening, opening her to conscious soul contact and ultimately to expression of clairvoyant, clairaudient and clairsentient abilities. As the founder of Acorn Invocations, she is a ‘healer of healers and teacher of teachers’, facilitating others in their own awakenings and soul contact. She provides training and certification in Leadership as Service, is a wisdom teacher, writer, and is certified in Integrative Breathwork and Psychospiritual Integration/The Eupsychia Process by Jacquelyn Small and the Eupsychia Institute. Dedicated to greater global understanding and wellbeing, she travels and works to bring clean water access, increased health, education and economic opportunities to the villages of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.
 
 

Inspiration : Breathing Into Your Muse
Friday: 9:00am - 10:30am
Saturday: 9:00am - 10:30am
Breath is the affirmation of the Presence of Spirit, as Life. With every breath, we have the capacity to bridge our conscious mind to all other realities or layers of consciousness. One only has to breathe deeply and consciously, for even a few moments, to sense the presence of something greater than our minds and egos. By bringing a sense of sacredness and reverence to our breathing, we invite that Something Greater to make itself known: in us, of us, and through us.

This highly experiential workshop will draw on the power of our own breath to link us to higher knowing and inspiration. Against a backdrop of dynamically beautiful music, we will journey inward to access guidance, release barriers to creative thinking and to create space for inspired thinking, clear vision and wellbeing. Through the experience of intentional inspiration, we simultaneously ‘let go’ and ‘bring in’, with every breath we draw and release. Our newly created inner space then becomes a fertile ground waiting for the 'charge' of new thought…authentic Being and true inspiration…carried in on the breath of Spirit.

 

The Acorn Theory: Recognize and Nurture Your Child’s Soul Purpose
Friday: 3:30pm - 5:00pm
In his bestselling book “The Soul’s Code”, James Hillman writes: “…each life is formed by a particular image; an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a particular destiny… just as the mighty oak’s destiny is written in the tiny acorn”. In letting go of the idea that we, as parents, are the ultimate shapers of our child’s destiny, we are able to see our children through ‘fresh eyes’: the eyes of the soul.

In this workshop, we will reflect on the stories of our own lives and the stories of our children… the challenges, the troublesome behaviors, the voices that resist conformation to the family or surroundings. We will consider the expressed sense of calling in others, and the early manifestations of that calling… that foreshadowed ‘things to come’. And we will open to the ‘Something Greater’ in ourselves through meditation and music: inviting expansion of our ideas, acceptance of our children, and ourselves, and making room in our lives for Wonder and Awe. "To be is to be perceived," Hillman reminds us, and the acorn or soul’s imprint, needs to be seen by someone who will value and honor it.