Programs

Growing Up White in a Multicultural World

A forum where we can safely learn about whiteness and how to understand and talk about race.

June 22, 2019
9 am – 4 pm

We are living in a time when white supremacy and racism are mentioned in the news daily. The divide between white America and Americans of colors seems deeper and more complex then ever before. Comments and responses to the divide seem only to deepen it. I know on a daily basis I wonder, “can’t we get this right?”

Well…we are going to try. We are at least going to start.

We, Marilyn Dam-Rabolt and Lisa Decatorsmith, are inviting 15 white women to gather and start the conversation about being white and talking about race. We are fortunate to have two women of color, Mariana Castro PhD and Ngoc-Diep Nguyen PhD, both of whom are educators at University of Wisconsin, Madison, devoted to multicultural education and social justice, willing to facilitate our learning and understanding of the issues that arise around our whiteness and race in America.

The forum will be held as a Women’s Circle where each woman will have a chance to explore her own mind and feelings in a safe and well boundaried community. We will work towards bearing witness to the overt and subtle ways that issues of race and dominating whiteness continue to emerge in our daily lives. Our focus will be finding steps that each of us can take as a commitment to personal and societal transformation.

Please feel free to call (847-830-17630) or email me with any questions you might have.

Women’s Sanctuary Circle

A Peace Movement: In Us, Between Us And Among Us

You are invited to join a group of women who crave change and hunger for growth.

You are invited to join the Women’s Sanctuary Circle, doing the work of understanding the process of our own individual development while deepening and supporting community life. The ability to be both self-differentiated and relational is the fundamental strength of feminine leadership.

In participating you are taking on the challenge of learning to understand and care about others while remaining true to yourself.

This work is powerful and strong in it’s ability to bring healing to emotional scars, mental distortions, unskillful relationships and the issues of grief and loss in our individual and collective lives. Learning to utilize emotional management, intuition, accurate empathy, active listening, accountability language and lens as well as skills in developing functional boundaries will be part of our process.

The mission of  Sanctuary Circle is to facilitate bringing each of us to our full competence and female authority in our personal lives and our work in the world.

Whether you are new to this kind of work, already deeply committed, or somewhere in between, you are welcome.

We will learn together to step into our leadership with clarity, wisdom and confidence.

We are the ones who will help to change the patterns and paradigms for the future.

We are who we have been waiting for…

What you will gain:

• Increased self-awareness and strategies for living more consciously.
• Mind, body and spirit practices that support living from your core.
• Experience with your power and competence and with conflict, healthy competition and collaboration.
• A community of self accountable women to support you.
• The experience of shared leadership and awareness of your own leadership gifts and traps.
• Increased personal presence and the ability to speak and be heard.

What to expect:

• A design of experiences that ignite our spirits and balance our lives. Our journey will include astrology, music and movement, journaling, art, other imaginal work and whatever  doors open to us.  There will be offerings of experiential learning opportunities and other provocative media to integrate into process.
• We will study together the current and ancient teachings about ourselves and this lens.
• To build a foundation for each of us to continue our soul’s journey.

The details:

Joining Sanctuary Circle is a sacred commitment. Each woman’s presence adds to the riches and the collective force of the whole.

• We will meet on Tuesday evenings from 6pm – 9pm twice a month for five months, starting on January 9, 2018 and ending May 22, 2018.
• All sessions will be held in my home studio at 112 Marryat Rd., Trout Valley, IL 60013
• The cost is $75/session and can be paid by check, cash or credit card. A $75.00 deposit is requested to hold your spot as space is limited. The fee will go toward your first session in January.
• Once the commitment is made you are responsible of payment of all scheduled sessions.

I believe that by joining Sanctuary Circle you are stepping into a powerful container of support and moving toward changing your life. If this invitation speaks to you please respond by December 7, 2017.

Please feel free to call (847-830-17630) or email me with any questions you might have.

– Carl Jung

Round Table Leadership Project

In collaboration with colleagues who are active in the promotion and work of Women’s Leadership, Marilyn has developed a forum in which she facilitates, promotes and hosts contemporary women leaders who have taken the risk to step up in this time of the world’s great need. This forum includes workshops and seminars as well as one day speaking engagements.

Middle Way Circle

The Challenge of Understanding and Caring about Others while remaining true to ourselves. Circles of Women are focused on growth and support in a well boundaried climate of trust and accountability. Self-awareness and self-knowledge help us to recognize signs of imbalance in our bodies and our lives. Self-management skills increase our ability to be in our authority and power as women and human beings. Our work is to find our voices and to speak them as contemporary women, connected to the wisdom of the ages. The world needs what women can do.

You are invited to join a Circle of Women, doing the work of understanding the process of our own individual development while deepening and supporting community life. The ability to be both self-differentiated and relational is the fundamental strength of feminine leadership.

Joining a Circle of Women is a sacred commitment. Each woman’s presence adds to the riches and collective force of the whole.