August 2008 Newsletter

American Healing Arts Alliance Inc.    

AHAA is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit educational public charity. We appreciate all donations, member, and volunteer efforts toward furthering our programs.  For details about our programs, membership and volunteer opportunities please visit our website at  www.americanhealingarts.org  

August 2008 News

Please mark your calendars for the following events. Call AHAA at (410) 956-0055 for information and to confirm attendance in advance of all AHAA sponsored programs

Summer Pot Luck Gathering

Saturday August 9, 1-4pm. 

Come join us for an afternoon of great connections, creative culinary delights in a peace inspiring setting. This social time is for anyone who has attended our AHAA events as well as new comers to Peace Point.

Location: Peace Point, 3157 Rolling Rd. Edgewater, MD 21037

RSVP at (410) 956-0055 by Friday August 8th with pot-luck item and numbers attending.   

Peace Nouvella Players™

Casting Call and Creative Submissions:  On-going auditions, resume and portfolio reviews are being held for our  Peace Nouvella Players™ performing and creative arts ensemble. We invite talent of all ages and crew to join our diverse troupe of visual artists, writers, poets, storytellers, musicians, dancers, filmmakers and theater performers as cast and crew.  Our goal is to offer on-going innovative productions that serve the greater community and to provide leadership in the use of the creative arts for healing. This includes encouraging others to recognize the role artists play in finding creative solutions for the challenges we face individually and globally in our rapidly changing times.  

Call (410) 956-0055 for all audition, interview and portfolio review appointments.

Send queries, resumes and portfolio samples can be sent in advance to:  ahaainc@earthlink.net. 

Please visit our new  Peace Nouvella Players™ website page for further information.

Speakers Program

September 2, 2008

SPEAKER  Ann Bracken M. ED., CPT  (certified in poetry therapy)

TITLE Write for Your Life© Journaling Program (see details below)

Media Night

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Our AHAA-IONS study group for The Institute of Noetic Sciences programs has partnered with Earth Cinema Circle to help educate people about the need for global environmental sustainability. This adds to our selection of programs that we explore at our monthly MEDIA NIGHT including those offered IONS itself and the Spiritual Cinema Circle. Please visit the Earth Cinema Circle website to let us know what topics you may be interested in discussing at our monthly MEDIA NIGHT.

AHAA MONTHLY PROGRAMS 

1st Tuesday  SPEAKERS PROGRAM

2nd Tuesday  MEDITATION AND HEALING EXCHANGE

3rd Tuesday  MEDIA NIGHT

4th Tuesday and 2nd Sunday  A COURSE IN MIRACLES

SPEAKERS PROGRAM

DAY/TIME  Monthly on the First Tuesday,  7:00-8:30pm  

Educational programs provided by AHAA professional members and guest speakers. 

LOCATION Call (410) 956-0055 for location and for directions. 

September 2, 2008

SPEAKER  Ann Bracken M. ED., CPT  (certified in poetry therapy)

TITLE Write for Your Life© Journaling Program

DESCRIPTION Ann Bracken, educator, writer, and poetry therapist will share with us ways to use the transformative power of the arts for successful change!  Learn fresh ways to use the power and magic that come from writing and apply them to your own life. Tap into the wisdom source you so readily offer to others and use it for yourself.  Her program Write for Your Life© offers a multi-faceted approach that combines tried-and true journaling activities with some improv and poetry to help you uncover and rewrite parts of your story that are recurring trouble-spots. As an expressive arts consultant and writer, Ann will guide us through several exercises using specific journaling tools.  Some of the benefits people experience from journaling include: breaking through recurring blocks, accessing deeper layers of meaning, analyzing troubling situation from multiple perspectives, and achieving goals more quickly and effortlessly.  Ann  owns The Possibility Project, an expressive arts consulting practice that uses the arts (journaling, poetry, visual art, and improv) for helping people move from ideas to action and achieve positive results.  For more information visit her website at www.possibilityproject.com.  She invites any email inquiries in advance of her presentation at  anniebluepoet@comcast.net  or call her at 888-266-3875.

MEDITATION/HEALING EXCHANGE                                                                                                                   DAY/TIME  Monthly on the Second Tuesday, 7:00-8:30pm as 2 part event

LOCATION Peace Point, Edgewater, Md.  21037.  Call (410) 956-0055 to confirm and for directions

PEACE DOVE MEDITATIONS  7:00-7:30pm, Meditation, Inner guidance and prayer gathering for inner peace

HEARTS  7:30- 8:30pm,  HEaling ARTS Exchanges,  All are welcome to these HEaling ARTS experiential gatherings to receive and/or  exchange healing. Emphasis is placed on subtle energy and bodywork.

MEDIA NIGHT  Movies/Videos/Television/Music/Art/Theater/Book/Web

DATE/TIME  Monthly on the Third Tuesday, 7:00-8:30pm 

LOCATION Peace Point , Edgewater, Md.  21037.  Call (410) 956-0055 to confirm and for directions. 

Come join in our exploration of a variety of healing arts and sciences topic accessed through various media including videos, movies, music, books, theater, art, news media and the web.    

August 19

TOPIC: Earth Cinema Circle

With actor Ed Begley Jr. as its spokesperson, the Earth Cinema Circle (ECC) is the only DVD film club exclusively devoted to expanding environmental consciousness and is doing so in a way that entertains, informs, and sometimes inspires. Recent films have ranged from a 26-minute lesson in eco-literacy by David Suzuki to the life-cycle of to-go coffee cups and why corn truly is "king." Join us for a discussion of the programs produced by the Earth Cinema Circle. Their programs honor the commitment of many to save our natural wildlands and wildlife, along with the quality of our air, water and planetary survival of the millions of species of plants, animals and our own human species.

A  COURSE IN MIRACLES

DAY/TIME  Monthly on the Fourth Tuesday, 7:00pm-8:30pm and Second Sunday, 3:00pm-4:30pm

LOCATION  Peace Point , Edgewater, Md.  21037.  Call (410) 956-0055 to confirm and for directions.

Study group meets monthly on the fourth Tuesday as a healing circle, miracles sharing and self study support of the A Course in Miracles book.  

AHAA'S INTERNATIONAL PEACEBUILDING PROGRAM

The American Healing Arts Alliance Inc. as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit educational public charity has been sponsoring regional events and educational programs since 1996.   Our educational programs and event presentations include the Inner Peace Treaty™ and Peace Pulse™ expanding thought projects and  Peace Nouvella Players™ performing arts ensemble as part of a comprehensive healing arts and creative arts program called Peace Nouvella™.  We encourage individuals and groups to actively participate in our programs to co-create greater inner and outer peace and healing in the world.  

RESOURCES GUIDE

Our website includes a Professional Directory for professionals and organizations to advertise their practice, events, services and products.  Please contact us for advertising rates if you are interested in being included in our on-line Resources Guide and/or our monthly Email Newsletter Member, Community, National and International News. 

ADVERTISING

Please email us if you are interested in having information about your practice and/or event included under Member, Community and/or National and International News.  For submission guidelines and advertising rates  please visit our website at:  http://www.americanhealingarts.org/newsletters/publications-guidelines.

MEMBERSHIP 

Membership is $35 a year prorated quarterly for General and Professional memberships. Benefactor donations beyond the yearly dues are greatly appreciated. For Membership information  and forms call (410) 956-0055 or visit our website.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Please contact us directly if you can offer planning committee assistance in any of the following areas: volunteer and membership recruitment, event planning and coordination, fundraising, grant writing and sponsorship,  educational and entertainment program development, publicity and promotions and administrative support.  Please visit our website for details about our programs and volunteer opportunities at: Volunteer Opportunities  or call AHAA at (410) 956-0055 . 

MEMBER NEWS

Below is a list of courses offered this Fall by AHAA President Alice Yeager. For further information call (410) 956-1117 or email alice@spiritcreativeservices.com

ANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE

REGISTRATION: Online at www.aacc.edu or call (410) 777-2241

THE BODY AS COMMUNICATOR - An Introduction 

Saturday, October 25, 2008,  9:30 am- 1:15pm, Arnold Campus

INTRODUCTION TO HANDS HEALING TECHNIQUES  

Thursdays, Nov. 6 - Dec. 4, 2008, 7:0pm-9:00pm,  CAT South 

PEACE POINT, Edgewater, Maryland , For information call (410) 956-1117 

REGISTRATION FORM:  http://www.spiritcreativeservices.com/contact.htm#reg

PEACE NOUVELLA™ - Introductory class 

Sunday, October 5, 1:00 - 4:30pm 

INTRODUCTION TO THE HEALING ARTS AND SCIENCES

Wednesdays, October 1-29,  1:30pm - 3:30pm

MEDITATION - Creating More Inner Peace and Health 

Mondays and Wednesdays,  October 6-27 and Oct 8-29,  noon-1:00pm or 6:00-7:00pm 

(Call to schedule additional individual or group sessions)

NATURE AS HEALER,  A Co-creative Journey

Saturday November 15,  9:30am- 4:00pm

INTUITION, CREATIVITY AND INNER GUIDANCE

Saturday,  December 6,  1:00pm- 4:30pm

COMMUNITY NEWS

Please contact us if you have a news announcement.   See this website page for details: 

http://www.americanhealingarts.org/newsletters/publications-guidelines/

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Be sure to visit the IONS websites shown below to subscribe to their quarterly magazine and also get their enewsletter about weekly telecasts sponsored by their Shift in Action program.   As the regional AHAA-IONS educational  group we recommend participating in these weekly Shift in Action teleconference events.  For more information also visit the teleconference website at:     http://www.shiftinaction.com/  

The American Healing Arts Alliance Inc. is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit educational public charity. As an educational alliance we represent health conscious organizations, educators, professional practitioners, students and individuals interested in the healing arts and sciences.  We appreciate all donations, memberships, and volunteer efforts toward furthering our programs.  For details about our programs, membership and volunteer opportunities please visit our website at   www.americanhealingarts.org  

FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:

American Healing Arts Alliance, Inc.

Peace Point

3157 Rolling Rd.

Edgewater, MD 21037

410-956-0055 (Phone)

410-956-1118 (Fax)

www.americanhealingarts.org