Dear HSPs,
Finally, I'm pleased to let you know the agenda for the 12th HSP Gathering Retreat to be held
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· Agenda - HSP Gathering Retreat,
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Currently, we have HSPs registered from
You can still take advantage of an earlier registration deadline of
I hope to see you again, or meet you for the first time in June. Please email me with questions or concerns.
Best HSP wishes,
Jacquelyn
The Agenda
Welcome !
The Annual West Coast Gathering Retreat
for Highly Sensitive People
Check in; Make a name tag; get acquainted with your surroundings; Sign up for a volunteer task; Consider writing out a HSP question to be answered during our Gathering. You are also invited to bring personal items to share at the HSP Networking Table.
9:15- 9:30 am Group Meditation (optional of course)
We all have unique temperaments that determine how we react to the environment, situations, and the people around us. Understanding your temperament can help you appreciate how you relate to others. This workshop will examine the nine temperament traits and help you understand your temperament and the temperaments of those close to you. The interaction of temperaments helps determine family dynamics and interpersonal relationships. You will learn how to work with temperament to create a "good fit" with your environment and the people important in your life.
About Jan Kristal, MA
Jan is the author of The Temperament Perspective: Working with Children’s Behavioral Styles published in 2005. She worked with the Kaiser Permanente Temperament Program in the pediatrics department for over 15 years consulting with families and physicians at Kaiser medical facilities in
Besides learning how you can create and facilitate your own
Just what is a
The actual format of peace circles involves 6-10 people who make a six week, 1.5 hour commitment. It involves a simple, yet powerful process which provides a guideline for exploring questions around your own personal relationship to an inner and outer evolvement of peace by answering four simple, yet profound, open-ended questions:
(1) I feel peaceful when _________________.
(2) Peace for me would be ________________. (Used to reframe a troubling situation when you didn't feel peaceful.)
(3) How I made peace this week was ___________.
(4) In the name of peace I will _____________. (An action you will take in the week to come.)
Guidelines:
When people gather in circles magic happens. We listen with our hearts to one another. We respect one another’s experience and opinion. We are witnesses for one another, without judgment. We allow the place of not–knowing and trust to guide our inquiry. We share our authentic expression. We honor confidentiality.
These circles have proven to be an anchor for transformation in participant’s lives. With deep and compassionate listening and honest sharing of personal experience, wisdom – and peace - usually follows.
Circles of Ten is a grassroots peace group that started in Boulder, Colorado in 2002 by Sarah Hartzell, visionary and founder, and is now spreading nationally and internationally. Their mission is to promote personal, interpersonal and worldwide peace - (activities that many HSPs are already doing in the daily lives or wish they were.) They hope to increase a worldwide culture of peace by gathering in circles to identify what peace means to individuals, and to translate that vision into acts of courageous peacemaking in personal lives, communities and the world. (I see this as one avenue for the HSP "empowered priestly advisor.") For more information see: www.peacecircles.net
It is great fun talking with Elaine on a personal level and learning how this internationally famous HSP lives her life on a daily basis - including the latest on her two new books, and her life in
Dr. Elaine Aron
Love and power, or “ranking and linking,” are what social animals do all day--they are being affectionate or deciding where each should be in the hierarchy of who gets the good things first. For a variety of reasons, however, humans in particular can distort how they see love and power in each other. Sometime we see power when it is not there and ourselves as inferior when we are not. Sometimes we feel superior and find it hard to respect someone we would like to love. No one seems good enough. And sometimes we just refuse to see power at all. We want everything to be all about love.
We will talk about these three distortions and why HSPs are more affected by each of them. Further, by developing our ability to see through these distortions, we can use our sensitivity to bring more love into the world while being realistic about power.
About Dr. Elaine Aron
As we know, Elaine Aron, Ph.D. is a research psychologist and author of The Highly Sensitive Person, The Highly Sensitive Person’s Workbook, The Highly Sensitive Person in Love, and The Highly Sensitive Child. She holds a master’s degree in clinical psychology from
Noon Group Picture at the dining hall - Please be prompt & bring your camera if you want
Jacquelyn Strickland, LPC
For many people, it can be uncomfortable to share one’s truest thoughts and feelings with others. It can be difficult to even know or differentiate between what one is thinking, feeling, or needing. However, for HSPs the need to be in authentic and 'right' relationship is paramount. Through examples, practice exercises, and guidance, we will explore the four challenges facing all relationships, and incorporate those with Angeles Arrien's four concrete steps for living a heart-centered life: (1) show up and be present; (2) pay attention to what has heart and meaning; (3) tell the truth without blame or judgment; and (4) be open and not attached to the outcome.
About Jacquelyn Strickland
Jacquelyn is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Coach and workshop leader based in
This has always been a very unique night at the HSP Gathering Retreats and no retreat would be complete without this special time. It is a time for you - our dear creative HSPs - to shine. Please consider sharing your own creative talent which might include poetry, art, music, song, dance, monologue, photography -- or whatever you would like to share. Some of us may be doing art collages, knitting, watercolors, or drawing during this night as well….so feel free to bring your favorite creative activity.
"What's Different and What Are You Taking With You?"
1:30 -2:30 pm Swimming, Canoeing, Relaxing in Turtle Pond OR Sea Kayaking on Tomales Bay for those who can stay later that day (Let Jacquelyn know of your interest in this optional activity.)
Other 2007 HSP Gathering Retreats
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A Gentle Reminder * The HSP Quiet Zones
We have designated the sleeping rooms for napping, journaling, puttering, meditating, organizing, writing, and reflecting. Please do socialize - very quietly in your room (with consent of your roommate), or preferably in the group areas on walks and at meal times.
Meal Times:
All meals will be served as follows (unless otherwise indicated):
Breakfast:
Lunch:
Dinner: -
Note:
We will have access to our own refrigerator, so bring your own snacks if you like.
Lunch time discussion topics:
This year we will be designating lunch time discussion topics. Each topic will have a designated table and facilitator assigned to it. A few suggested topics might include: (1) Focusing on Needs, Not Approval; (2) Making a Life, Not Just a Living; (3) The Priestly Advisor Role: Irony, Natural or Difficult? (4) Work; (5) Spirituality; or (6) Relationships. Your interests and suggestions will determine the topics.
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