Classes

 

 

 One participant wrote: “The class has been a gift. It has helped me personally, and I so think I will be able to help others as they struggle with death.”

        FUTURE CLASSES FALL 2007 – WINTER 2008:

Milwaukee Area: Weekend of November 2-3  Contact Linda@lindabergh.org

St. Cloud Area: Weekend of November 9-10  Contact Linda@lindabergh.org

TWIN CITIES Friday and Saturday 9-3 Feb 1-2 2008 Cost $90
Location Twin Cities TBA Sponsor: Novalis Institute Faculty: Linda Bergh Marianne Dietzel, and Kim Pilgrim         Contact Linda Bergh at linda@lindabergh.org if you are interested.

How can we prepare ourselves to meet the transition of death - our own or that of a loved one? We live in a time when many of us are caring for aging parents, or for someone with a terminal illness. Presenters will share insights and guide experiences around conscious dying, care of the body, and the three-day vigil. The format will include presentations, self reflection and writing, group sharing and discussion Participants will come away information of the choices available, and an empowered sense of being present for self and others in thes threshold experiences.

“Beholding the Threshold” Transforming Grief Friday Evening and Saturday 9-3 March 2008 TBA Cost $90
We don’t ask for loss, but what do we do when it greets us? Through challenging and life changing experiences, we can actually come to meet life in an even more present way. Bereavement is a process, and has stages, and through adding consciousness and presence to that process we can arrive at the other side of the shore in new ways. Presenters will share their experiences of meeting loss and grief and finding an opening to transformation. Presenters
Linda Bergh holds a MA in psychology and in counseling. She has been a teacher and psychologist with adults and children for most of her adult life. She has been working out of Anthroposophy for thirty years, and is currently the core teacher for the Novalis Institute in the Twin Cities. She also self-published “She Would Draw Flowers” after the death of her daughter. She has been engaged actively in understanding the threshold of death since that time. She serves as a resource for the community, and is available for support and consultations.

Marianne Dietzel has a BA from Earlham College and completed Waldorf Teacher Training. She was a preschool/Kindergarten teacher for many years. After her daughter Nina died in a car accident in 1996, she learned to play the lyre and became certified as a Music Practitioner with the Music for Healing and Transition Program. Since 2002 she has worked for Hospice as a Volunteer Coordinator and is now a Bereavement. Coordinator. She is available for lyre playing for persons at the threshold and their families.

Kim Pilgrim has a MS in counseling. She has been a stay at home mother, substitute and coverage teacher in her children’s Waldorf school and is now a CranialSacral therapist. Her interest in threshold work comes from the positive experiences she has shared with Marianne and Linda in the deaths of their loved ones and from her mother’s own crossing when she was twentyone. She has been particularly supportive of the process of individuals opening to their own inner understanding of this threshold