A Journey Inward
Awakening Bealtaine
Embracing Our Authentic Power - A Celebration of Granuaile - Pirate Queen of the Irish Seas
Sunday May 5th, 2024
9:00 am - 12:00 pm PST (Pacific Standard Time)
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm IST (Irish Standard Time)
You are invited to join me for a 3-hour live online workshop experience - Deepening the Senses – A Journey Inward – Awakening Bealtaine on Sunday 5th May 2024 at 9 am (PST) and 5 pm (IST).
This workshop is open to Ireland, USA, and Internationally.
In ancient times, Bealtaine celebrated the end of the dark half of the year and the coming of the light half. It is the midpoint between the Spring equinox and the Summer solstice. The name derives from the old Irish phrase “Bel Taine”, meaning “bright fire”. In May, we will be crossing the threshold of equinox and solstice, moving into the sun's power. Fire at Bealtaine represented the ritual of sacrifice and renewal.
This is the time of year that is the peak of Spring and the first hint of Summer. Nature is abundant with growth, and everything is vibrant. The life force (eros) is coming back into the earth. So often in our lives, we must sacrifice our old habits and limiting beliefs that no longer serve us and allow ourselves to blossom into the strength and grounded fullness of our authentic selves.
This workshop celebrates Gráinne Mhaol, known in the Irish Language or Grace O’Malley/Granuaile in English. She is one of Ireland’s foremost heroines living in the 16th century. She was a renowned seafarer and pirate who took to the high seas at age 11, a woman living an unconventional life, authentic to herself.
What will this workshop look like?
A presentation will draw on understandings from Depth Psychology, Psychotherapy, Philosophy, Literature and Poetry using images and music that evoke and stir the senses and imagination. Through gentle embodiment practices, there will be opportunities to resource and support you to connect to your body to enhance that learning experience. Trauma is held in the body, and we need to return to the body to heal it.
A Q and A section will allow you to ask questions and share your insights and reflections.
This workshop will take you on a journey into the inner world and soul self, invoking the spirit and wisdom of ancient Ireland, of the pirate queen Granuaile and her authentic warrior energy, Gaelic stories, myths, poetry, folklore, and the ancient Irish landscape. This aims to help you find your inner ground and light the way for you on this journey inward.
When we listen to myths, we step into a timeless world, out of the rational concrete, into the symbolic life. This is the world of soul, the world of metaphor and imagination. This makes us more receptive to our inner environment, life's energies, and the archetypal patterns living through us. This workshop is cultivated with great care to create an experience for you to engage your heart, mind, body and soul self.
During this workshop…
…deepen our understanding of our self-abandonment wound, building a foundation of insight to support change and growth.
…deepen our understanding of how the wounded masculine and feminine are so damaging to us and how the divine masculine and feminine can be cultivated in our lives to support our authentic growth and presence.
…we will explore the affirmative energy of anger as an emotion and how we need to build a healthy relationship with anger to assert healthy boundaries.
…we will explore authentic power in our lives and how we are not connected to that sense of self when operating out of that wounding.
…we will explore how we can build relationships with the warrior energy/ archetype to embrace our life’s purpose from a place of authentic embodied and empowered presence.
How will this workshop help me?
This workshop will explore how patterns of self-abandonment are showing up in your own life and guide you to channel the anger into a process for healthy boundaries. It will create a foundation of self-awareness and provide you with ways to support and resource you to begin healing this wound. It will look more closely at the masculine and feminine principles and how we must embrace and cultivate that inner marriage between those two energies. We will explore how to engage the affirmative, assertive, healthy expression of anger when establishing our separateness and boundary. This workshop will explore ways you can begin to support yourself to find your separate, grounded, solid, authentic power in yourself.
Workshop Agenda
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We are arriving into the body and setting out our intentions for our morning together. At this point in the morning, you will be invited to light a candle to set your intention for your work.
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This workshop will take you on a journey into the inner world and soul self, invoking the spirit and wisdom of ancient Ireland, its stories, myths, poetry, folklore and ancient landscape. This aims to help you find your inner ground and light the way for you on this healing journey inward.
When we listen to myths, we step into a timeless world, out of the rational concrete into the symbolic life. This is the world of soul, the world of metaphor and imagination. This makes us more receptive to our inner environment and the energies of life and the archetypal patterns living through us. This workshop is cultivated with great care to create an experience for you to engage your heart, mind, body and soul self.
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There will be a presentation that draws on understandings from depth psychotherapy, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, literature and poetry using images and music that evoke and stir the senses and imagination. There will be opportunity through gentle embodiment practices, to resource and support you to connect to your body to enhance that learning experience. Trauma is held in the body, and we need to return to the body to heal it.
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At the end there will be time for answering any questions you may have, to share reflections and to help deepen the experience for you and the other participants.
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This workshop is grounded in:
Depth psychotherapy research, theories and practices, somatic psychotherapy, psychology and neuroscience, Celtic mythology, ancient Gaelic wisdom in folklore and stories, the medium of poetry, art images, symbol and metaphor.
This workshop is ideal for you if:
… you recognize yourself in the description of the self-abandonment wound and need to make changes in your life to heal this wound.
… you are struggling with your sense of self of your self-worth and self-esteem.
… you want to explore your relationship with anger, how rage and anger emerge when we are connected to this wound, and how the healthy expression of anger is essential in healing the wound of self-abandonment.
… you are passionate and curious about deepening a connection to your soul self – to experience the fullness of that in your body and the world around you.
… you are curious about Granuaile in ancient Gaelic culture and her story of empowerment and authenticity.
… you are curious and want to connect to a deeper inner world and landscape of a collective psyche and soul – through the ancient Gaelic Celtic culture, mythology and landscape.
By the end of the workshop you will:
Be able to recognize and identify how the self-abandonment wound is interrupting you from connecting fully to yourself and others.
Be able to recognize more and more your relationship with the divine masculine and Feminine and how to cultivate the ‘inner marriage’ between them.
Begin to understand how anger as an emotion is healthy when expressed healthily and you will have very practical tools and skills for how to support your expression of anger to create assertive boundaries.
Experience curiosity and a spark of recognition and connection to your soul self.
Experience the wisdom and the wonder of ancient Gaelic culture and tradition and the legendary and iconic Granuaile, and how this wisdom can resource and support us today to deepen into the body and soul self.
Embracing Our Authentic Power - A Celebration of Gráinne Mhaol (or Grace O’Malley) – “Pirate Queen” of the Irish Seas.
Sunday, May 5th, 2024
9:00 am - 12:00 pm PST (Pacific Standard Time)
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm IST (Irish Standard Time)
Gráinne Mhaol is one of Ireland’s foremost heroines of the 16th century. She was a renowned seafarer and pirate who took to the high seas at age 11, a woman living an unconventional life, authentic to herself. We will explore how to embrace our inner power, wisdom, and intuition and how to cultivate a relationship in support of ‘the inner marriage’ of the masculine and feminine within. We will explore the affirmative energy of the fierce warrior within, build a healthy relationship with anger and begin to assert healthy boundaries.
Learn more about the workshop here.
What’s Included?
3-Hour LIVE Zoom Workshop
Welcome Email and Follow-Up Email
Access to the Recorded Workshop (available 2-3 days after)
Companion E-Book to continue your personal development after the workshop
CPD Certificate for Irish Professionals (3 hours)
This workshop is open to Ireland, USA, and Internationally. Discount codes are available for past participants and current therapy clients; contact Eileen for more information.
About the host
Eileen Sullivan
I grew up in Connemara which is a wild and rugged on the Atlantic in the west of Ireland. I grew up in a small Gaelic (Irish) speaking community where Gaelic is still spoken today in the homes of people living there. Gaelic is an ancient language. Its traces, in written form, reach back to Ogham inscriptions on stone from the 4 th Century AD.
Gaelic is my first language. I did not speak any English until I started attending school at five years old. The region where I grew up was a major center for the work of the Irish folklore commission recording endangered folklore, mythology, sean-nos (old-style) songs, and oral literature. My own development, my soul self, has been greatly influenced by that physical landscape, and by being immersed in those ancient songs, stories, customs, myths, legends, and music since I was a child.
This is at the heart of these workshops and retreats. My desire is to share with you the experience of that ancient Celtic culture and spirit and, as a Psychotherapist, to connect you to how that can support and nourish your own personal journey to the soul self.
I hold a Master’s degree in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy, a Master’s degree in Social Work, a Degree in Social Science, a Diploma in Jungian Psychology, and a Diploma in Reflexive Supervision. These workshops have been honed and developed over a period of seven years. I am really delighted to be able to share them with you.
FAQs
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Live on Sunday, 5th May 2024
Start and finish times:
9 am – 12 pm (PST) Los Angeles, CA, USA / Vancouver, BC, Canada
11 am – 2 pm (CST) Chicago, IL, USA / Regina, SK, Canada
12 pm – 3 pm (EST) New York, NY USA / Toronto, ON, Canada
5 pm – 8 pm (Irish ST) Ireland and UK
6 pm – 9 pm (CEST) Amsterdam / Berlin / Paris / Madrid
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To register and book your place, follow this link. You will receive a welcoming letter via email 2-3 days prior to the day, which will give you more information and suggestions on what to have with you on the day to create a supportive space in your own home to embrace and enjoy this experience fully.
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No refunds and no exchanges. You will receive a workshop recording if you cannot make it LIVE.