October 17-18 2009 Shelter 8, Lower City Park, Iowa City, IA

Do you yearn for healthy community?
Do you desire spiritual connection through ritual?
Would you like to step into excellence as a leader or ritualist?

Three offerings over the course of a weekend. You can attend one, two, or all three events, depending on your interest. The weekend as a whole will offer tools for personal and spiritual growth, leadership, skill-building in ritual, and bringing those tools into environmental stewardship and community building. What would skills would you like to develop as a leader, community builder, ritualist, activist?

• Saturday -- Day-long intensive focused on ritual arts and becoming a more professional ritualist.
• Saturday evening – An open public ritual to celebrate the season and build community.
• Sunday -- Day-long intensive with tools and skills for Pagan community building and leadership.

The Art of Ritual
Saturday, October 17, 10am-6pm

Would you like to facilitate more potent rituals?

This workshop offers tools for the beginner and the experienced ritualist. Through presentations, discussions, and experiential exercises, we will explore the art ofritual facilitation.

Experienced ritual artists will learn methods to process what's working, and what's not working, in their rituals. New ritualists will learn how to support a group ritual and basic tools for planning their own ceremonies.

These tools will help you facilitate effective, transformative rites.Participants can choose to take a ritual role in the evening's open ritual to practice skills learned in the class.

Open Ritual: Kindling the Clan Fire
Saturday, October 17, 7:30pm

As the winds grow colder, the tribe draws in toward the clan-fire for warmth. What is the fire at the center of community? How do we serve it, and how does it feed us?

We will work with Hestia, of the hearth-fire, Hecate, who guides us to the crossroads with her lantern, and Haphaestus, whose forge-fire transforms pain into beauty deep beneath the earth.

What is your individual flame? What is the path you must walk—your hero's journey—to find the gifts and shadows within yourself? Will you risk stepping into the Underworld to discover the deepest part of your Self? Will you risk transformation by stepping into your own personal power and excellence?

Together, we unite our individual fire with that of the clan fire through the forge oftransformation and the alchemy of inclusive, ecstatic community ritual. Join us to sing, dance and drum the fire within! Will you become the hero of your own journey?

Pagan Leadership: Tools for Building Healthy Community
Sunday, October 18, 10am-6pm

How do you build the kind of community you want to be in? This experiential workshop will offer magical and mundane tools of leadership that can help you grow healthy, sustainable communities. Whether you are currently a leader, would like to step into building community, or are looking to better support your group, this intensive will help you explore personal, community, and ecological sustainability.

Empower yourself as a leader, community builder, and servant of the tribe. In the forge of transformation, will you risk growth by shedding that which no longer serves? Will you step into your leader self who can help to build sustainable Pagan communities?

For questions about the workshops please contact ShaunaAura@gmail.com
For registration, travel, and other questions please contact ipan@ipan.org

Admission: Sliding scale is $5-$25 per person/per day, based on your ability to pay, and includes lunch served on site.
Location: Shelter 8, Lower City Park, Iowa City, IA
Directions: At the bottom of the info page are directions, and if you are interested in forming ride-shares please contact ipan@ipan.org
More info: More details, directions, and registration available at http://www.ipan.org/events/OctoberSpeaker2009.htm

Will you step into healthy Pagan community?