December 2009 Newsletter

¬ December 2009 News 

Please note:  Our new email address is:  info@americanhealingarts.org

Please add this to your address book.  During our email transition the old ahaa@earthlink.net will still work until the end of the year. 

Visit our About Us, Resources, and Monthly Events pages for additional information and links. Contact Us via our website or call (410) 956-0055.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 

Wishing you a happy holiday season!   

We would like to take this opportunity to gratefully appreciate all who offered of financial support contributions and volunteer efforts this year in furtherance of our non-profit educational programs.  Your donations, membership and volunteer support are vital for the continuance of our non-profit programs.  We offer a reminder that your donations as well as memberships as new or renewing members can be made at any time during the year.  For your convenience you can donate on our website's Homepage and join or renew your Membership using our Pay Pal buttons.   

We would like to recognize the volunteer support of:  Alice Yeager (AHAA Founder and President), William Hueble (webmaster), Sharon Howle, Veena Datta, Judith Newman, Brigitte Rochereau, James Dempsey, Faith Hagerty, Terri Nyman, Crystal Stanley, Kerry O'Brien, Beth O'Brien, Emily Parks, Lisa Parks, Donna Olser, Karen Guay, Yulio Gononal, Irene Okes, Leslie Allen, Jennifer Calub, Annie Owen, Yoshiaki Kato, Bill Pearson, Tony Glass and Jon Urlich.    

Also our presenters for our Speakers Programs, Workshops and Global Teleconference Presentions; 

Dr.  Norman Shealy, Dr. Bernie Siegel, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Jon Mundy PhD, Anita Pathik-Law, Joe Mancini PhD,  Jerome Zazzera, Pamela Silberman, Alice Yeager and Judith Newman. 

NOTE:  We are taking a holiday season break in December from our monthly programs with the exception of our A Course in Miracles study group meetings.  Please mark your 2010 calendars for our upcoming programs including a social pot-luck and other events described below under our Monthly Programs and Special Events.   

ANNOUNCEMENTS  

HOSTING OPPORTUNITIES

We are seeking more opportunities to create outreach activities to extend our programs in diverse locations.  We have in the past offered our programs at practioner offices, bookstores, restaurants and host home locations for our meetings, social pot-lucks and workshops.  If you are interested in hosting one of our programs please let us know by emailing or calling us at (410) 956-0055. 

EMPLOYMENT POSITION

Part-time paid position available for seniors, disabled or veterans age 55 or older through a federally funded program working for our AHAA non-profit organization.  Please Contact Us for details. 

YOUTH PROGRAMS

See our Peace Nouvella Players™ youth and adult programs described our website and below under AHAA's Peace Programs 

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Please Contact Us about the following volunteer opportunities: Education, Events, Fundraising, Grants, Membership, Newsletter, Publicity, Sponsorship, and Website. Please visit our website for an overview description of our needs at: Volunteer Opportunities and specific position descriptions on the Volunteer Center for Anne Arundel County website at: http://www.1-800-volunteer.org/1800Vol/anne-arundel-county/OpenAboutOrganizationAction.do?organizationId=741 

MEMBERSHIP

Our calendar year membership is $36 prorated quarterly for General public and Professional memberships. Benefactor donations beyond the yearly January-December membership amount are greatly appreciated. 

See our Membership page at www.americanhealingarts.org/membership 

SPEAKER PROGRAMS AND WORKSHOPS

2010 Preview 

We are excited to offer a number programs with nationally known authors including physicist Dale Graff on Saturday April 17, 2010 presenting about his investigative work in remote viewing as former director of the Stargate goverment program working with psychics in the military.  Dale has written two books since retiring from that program. See http://www.dalegraff.com/books.htm   He  has recently been reciving media attention about the project following the opening a new movie as a comedy spoof about it starring George Cloney, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey. Our May 15, 2010 program will be a two part workshop presentation by noted author, researcher and lecturer P.M.H. Atwater along with her husband Terry Atwater.  P.M.H. Atwater is know for her numerous research books about near-death experiences and more recently indigio children. See http://www.cinemind.com/atwater/  Terry Atwater is an A Course in Miracles study group leader in the Charlottesville, Virgina area.  

We are in the process of lining up additional 2010 Speakers and Workshop Presenters.  Please call (410) 956-0055 if you are interested in being a speaker or workshop presenter.  

Our Facebook page link is now on our AHAA homepage or it can be accessed directly at:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/American-Healing-Art-Alliance-Inc/223771260251

Please be sure to add you name to our non-profit's "fan" list if you are a Facebook member.  We appreciate all efforts to let others know about our programs through their various social networking websites. This web link also includes a discussion page for comments about our Inner Peace Treaty™ global peace project and The Science of Peace documentary produced by actor, teacher and director LeVar Burton.  Offer your comments on our Facebook Discussion pages are at: http://www.facebook.com/board.php?uid=223771260251

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

NOTE: Confirmed attendance for all programs at least 24 hours in advance.  Email or call (410) 956-0055 with your phone number and how many attending. 

Speakers Programs and Workshop

Educational programs provided by AHAA professional members and guest speakers. Please Contact Us if you are interested in being a speaker or offering a workshop as part of our educational programs.  

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

LOCATION  Annapolis Lymphedema and Therapy Center, 2001 Tidewater Colony Drive, Suite 102, Annapolis, Md 21401,  (ALTC is at the intersection of Bestgate Rd. and Tidewater Colony Drive) 

Call (410) 956-0055 to confirm attendance by the day before each program.

Thursday,  January 7    *Note this is an alternate date/day of the week for January 

SPEAKER  Jon Urlich, Improv group leader

PROGRAM TITLE:  Improvisation as an Art and Healing Art 

DESCRIPTION: Come join our Peace Nouvella Players™ team of performers lead by actor and improvisational leader Jon Urlich.  Jon has performed in small theater productions of The Laramie Project, Hello Dolly, Oklahoma! and Ten Little Indians and done improv work with the Baltimore Improv Group.  He will assist us with a presentation about how to use improvisation to identify areas ripe for healing in your life through spontaneous happiness. What we often laugh about can also be a reflection of our deepest longings.  As we crave relief from the news of the day we can become the insight for sore eyes when we let our creative expression guide the way. Come explore your talent for making moles hills out of mountains and vice versa as we spontaneously explore the storytelling aspect of our lives.  Be open to discover your funny bone and inventive mind allowed to freely express itself in the moment. Audience only participants welcome as well to cheer, laugh and clap hands.   

WORKSHOP

PRESENTER:  Jon Urlich, & members of The Peace Nouvella Players™     

DATE/TIME: Sunday, January 17, 2009, 12:30 P.M. to 3:30P.M 

COST:  $25.00  

REGISTRATION: Flyer/Registration (See December updates and January newsletter) 

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:  This follow-up workshop to our January 7th Speaker's Program on Improvisation as an art and healing art will be presented by our Peace Nouvella Players™ team of performers.  Come explore the use of improvisation for insight, humor, creative expression and healing.  Be prepared to laugh, shout, clap and slap stick if you like with our inspired group of in-the-moment players.   

Meditation/Healing Exchange

DATE/TIME  Monthly on the Second Tuesday, 7:00-8:30pm as as a two 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, prayer and inner guidance for peace.  

HEARTS  7:30- 8:30pm  HEaling ARTS gatherings to give, receive or exchange healing. Practitioners, healing arts students as well as anyone interested in the healing arts are welcome. Emphasis is placed on subtle energy and bodywork.

Media Night                               

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. 

Movies/Videos/Television/Music/Art/Theater/Book/Web:

These are discussions open to all as an 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. For additional information and links to these and other related organizations please visit our AHAA  About Us, Resources, and Monthly Events web pages. 

January 19

TOPIC:  The Lost Symbol - continued discussion

Continued discussion for those who have read Dan Brown's new book The Lost Symbol and its relationship to the noetics sciences research as lead by Marilyn Schlitz President/CEO of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS). The noetic sciences as a multidisciplinary approach seeks to understand the role that consciousness plays in the physical world, and how understanding consciousness can lead to creative new solutions to age old problems. Through years of research the noetic sciences have gained increasing acceptance as a field of scientific study.  The purpose of their studies is to bridge an understanding of intuition, breakthrough insights and inner knowing as expressed through reason and logic.  Our discussion will include the use of symbols for interpreting intuitive insights and heightened states of conscious awareness.  This includes Dan Brown's the use throughout The Lost Symbol book of symbolic references to these heightened states of consciousness in architectural structures and artwork used in our currency and in numerous historical buildings throughout our nation's capital. 

Related Link:  http://www.noetic.org/about/godeeper.cfm  

You Tube Introductory Video about IONS at:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Acgvjw2s5k

A Course in Miracles

DATE/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 meetings are monthly as a healing circle, miracles sharing and self-study support of the book A Course in Miracles.  With nearly 2,000 study groups around the world and translations into 17 different languages thus far this remarkable course of study published by the Foundation for Inner Peace has helped millions find more inner peace and experience miracles in their lives. Visit www.acim.org and http://www.facim.org/  for additional information about ACIM self-study. Marianne Williamson also has a weekly radio show about ACIM principles on Oprah's website at www.oprah.com.  The Miracle Distribution Catalog is at http://miraclecenter.org/. Kenneth Wapnik PhD's You Tube videos can be watched at http://www.youtube.com/user/FndtnACIM 

Peace Programs              

AHAA sponsors regional and international educational programs. 

Our international programs include the Inner Peace Treaty™ and Peace Pulse™ expanding thought projects and the Peace Nouvella Players™ performing and creative arts ensemble, as part of a comprehensive educational program called Peace Nouvella™.  We encourage individuals and groups to actively participate in our educational programs to co-create greater inner and outer peace in the world. 

PEACE NOUVELLA PLAYERS™ - Ensemble Training

The Peace Nouvella Players™  is part of an international educational peacebuilding program called Peace Nouvella™.  Study to become part of the Peace Nouvella Players™ includes; inner peacebuilding performance skills, meditative practices, journaling, art, music, dance, theater and storytelling as forms of creative arts expression.  The training also includes an introduction to the Inner Peace Treaty™ journaling project and the Peace Pulse™ subtle energy peacebuilding practice.  Our program is open to youth and adults to participate in our diverse troupe of visual artists, writers, poets, storytellers, musicians, dancers, filmmakers and theater performers.  This includes directors, stage managers, crew and assistants as part of our support team. 

The Peace Nouvella Players™ presentations are designed to provide entertaining inspirational performances and educational programs for theaters, schools, conferences, organizations, faith communities and special events.  Our innovative productions are intended to serve the greater community and 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.   We encourage individuals as well as groups to actively participate in our programs.  On-going auditions, resume and portfolio reviews are held for anyone interested in participating in our educational programs to become part of our ensemble.   Queries, resumes and portfolio samples can be submitted to:  ahaainc@earthlink.net or call (410) 956-0055. 

News Announcements  

The deadline for newsletter submissions is the 20th of each month.  

Please email us if you are interested in having information about your practice and/or event included under Member, Community, National and/or International News.  Click here for Submission Guidelines and Advertising Rates or visit our website at:  http://www.americanhealingarts.org/newsletters/publications-guidelines.

MEMBER NEWS

Members are encouraged to send information about your practice and/or event to be included in our member news. See our news Submission Guidelines page on our website. 

COMMUNITY NEWS

Practitioners are sought to participate in a regional healing arts and sciences center designed to offer a variety of resources to the community.  They would include: shared practitioner space, healing arts educational programs, and a creative and performing arts center dedicated to peace and healing. Please contact AHAA if you are interested at (410) 956-0055.  

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS

The Institute of Noetic Sciences produces a quarterly magazine and e-newsletter for members with weekly telecasts sponsored by their Shift in Action program. As the regional AHAA-IONS study   group we recommend participating in these weekly Shift in Action teleconference events.  For more information visit their main website at www.noetic.org and their teleconference website at:www.shiftinaction.com 

RESOURCES GUIDE

Our website includes a Resources Guide with links to other related organizations and a  Professional Directory with information about events, professional services and products.  Please contact us for advertising rates if you are interested in being included in our monthly Email News Announcements and/or on-line Resources Guide. 

AHAA is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit educational public charity. 

All of our programs are free and open to the general public and healing arts professionals. Our international Peace Nouvella™ educational programs include the Peace Pulse™ and Inner Peace Treaty™  collective thought projects and Peace Nouvella Players™ presentations.  We appreciate all donations, memberships, and volunteer efforts in support of our regional, national and international programs.  Donations can be offered at our events and on-line via our website at www.americanhealingarts.org. 

CONTACT INFORMATION: 

Alice Yeager, Founder and President

American Healing Arts Alliance, Inc.

Peace Point

3157 Rolling Rd.

Edgewater, MD 21037

410-956-0055 (Phone)

410-956-1118 (Fax)

www.americanhealingarts.org

If you no longer wish to continue receiving this newsletter please reply maintaining the complete subject line with the words unsubscribe in the message area.