If you want Paula to lead a workshop or group for your organization, to give a book signing, please contact her to make arrangements. You can email her at paulamreeves@paulamreeves.com

2006

• July 20-23, 2006.   Mosiacs of Mary. The Sophia Institute, Charleston, South Carolina. Paula Reeves, Ph. D. will present the afternoon of July 22:"Do the Energies of the Magadalen Matter?The Dark Feminine and the Psychic Immune System. 
     
    If our culture suffers from anything today it well may be the loss of embodied passion and its companion compassion. The quest for uncovering and recovering the roots of the deep feminine inevitably take us into matter and an uncovering of both the heart and the soul of our quest. What the mind cannot fathom the body already knows. What the culture intellectually resists can sicken us mind, body and soul.

• October 6-8, 2006. Charlotte Jung Society. FATE, DESTINY and SPIRITUALITY: THE HEART of the MATTER. contact Bruce Elliot bce82@bellsouth.com.  Friday evening lecture: Spirituality is neither something we do nor is it something we can learn to do. Spirituality is a state of being; a state of conscious embodied knowing. Join us as we explore the nexus between our beliefs and our known experience, or as the mystics describe it,  through our fate and our destiny. Science is now contributing to the rich alchemistry of what it means to be a spiritual being living and learning within the confines of a human body. How real is soul? Science has begun to point out the very neurons that may answer this question and others that have graced the imagination since humankind first asked--"Is this all there is?". 
  Saturday workshop: 

MINDFUL MIRRORING: MEETING SOUL IN MATTER
"When you don't know what matters most to you,
that will then become the matter with you."

This exploration will be continued the next day evoking the profound wisdom of the heart with Sacred Play. Using movement, journals and a variety of interactive experiences we will learn the many energetic and cellular differences between males and females and how this contributes to Jung's concept of the masculine and the feminine and the conundrum we call relationship. Symptoms and symbols will come alive for us as we explore the multiple languages of soul--of the psyche via our heart's desires and the symbols of our dreaming psyche. Please bring your journal, a hand mirror large enough to see your own eyes, and wear loose comfortable clothing to move in.

Dr. Paula Reeves is a well-known lecturer, author and mythographer in the fields of psychology and spirituality. A therapist in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia, she has led retreats in Spain, Switzerland, Ireland, England, Australia, Canada and the United States. She has presented her work on intuition and the body at the Jung Institut in Kusnacht. A colleague of Marion Woodman's for over fifteen years, she leads retreats with Dr.  Woodman as a member of the BodySoul Rhythms Canadian team. Author of two books, Women's Intuition: Unlocking the Wisdom of the Body and Heart Sense: Unlocking Your Highest Purpose and Deepest Desires, she has an enduring interest in the relationship between spirit and matter leading her to work with the metaphors of both the body and the psyche. She has refined this work as an annual lecturer with Journey into Wholeness for over twenty-two years.  The founder of Spontaneous Contemplative Movement and Mindful Mirroring™ she teaches participants in her retreats and lectures how to listen to the wisdom of the body and follow the directions of the embodied feminine, of soul.
 
Paula's work in applied psychoneuroimunology has led her to combine her knowledge of neurobiology  and the metaphors of symptoms, dream symbols and movement into a rich and deeply meaningful personal psychospiritual experience for each individual.This program will be especially meaningful to anyone working with a chronic illness or symptom. She will use material from her very insightful book Heart Sense to open our relationship with the healing intensions of the heart and the multiple ways the heart "speaks" for the Self. Heart Sense has been used with Cardiac Recovery Groups as a guide for deeper healing. 
 

• January 21-27, 2007. Lighting the Forbidden Lamp: Reclaiming My Soul's Birthright.  Women's retreat with Paula Reeves, Candace Loubert, and Caroline LeBlanc. Kanuga Center, Hendersonville, North Carolina.
  Over the years I have told four great myths as teaching tales: Psyche and Eros, Demeter and Persephone, Inanna, and the Grail Myth from a woman's perspective. these myths are profoundly metaphoric descriptions of the relationship between the personal unconscious, the collective unconscious and the ego. They are as pertinent for modern men and women alike as they were for the cultures they sprang from. Join us and learn to creatively engage in a conversation between body and soul, between dreams and the ego, between your heart and your destiny.

  Contact nonnie@journeyintowholeness.org.  
   

  "Paula's capacity to allow Aphrodite and Eros to have their own voices in this myth has taught me more about my capacity to appreciate the both-and tensions in my life. Candace's deeply intuitive guidance into movement and play as I listen to what matters in my body gives me a sense of focus and assurance.  Before I began attending these retreats I believed every choice was a matter of either-or. And now I know that I do not have to develop a symptom in order to get my own attention"  " No matter how many times I hear Paula tell this myth she always enters it at a different place and from a different perspective that speaks directly to a woman's processes and her struggle with herself and her relationships.  Paula's capacity to weave a myth into a teaching tale is practiced, poetic and memorable."

  
   

• February 26-March 4, 2007. "Am I My Father's Daughter?" Paula Reeves, Marian Dunlea and Candace Loubert with Wendy Willmot. A week long women's retreat at the Dunderry Lodge in Navan County, Ireland not far from the sites of Tara and NewGrange. Annual Women's Retreat in a beautifully refurbished Irish hunting lodge nestled on acres of private grounds, situated in the "bend of the Boyne River". . Contact preeves@mindspring.com.
  This is the sixth year that women from Europe and North America have been gathering  for a week of self exploration as we light the forbidden lamp and weave together both the inner and the outer landscape by listening to the myth of Psyche and Eros through movement, Mindful Mirroring™and BodySoul mapping as we address the issue of our relationship to the literal father and the inner masculine.  
   
• Our Map
  Every woman knows that in order to claim her authentic self she must be willing to light the lamp of intentional consciousness, to look more closely at life and the choices it offers.  In the process we learn that much we have thought of as difficult may have been lessons from the deep feminine, teaching us about our soul's strength: teaching us about Sophia's will and our personal responsibility in choosing to follow Conscious Femininity.
  
  Long before the written word the was already a rich oral tradition of story, meant to teach the listener how to understand the inner world while developing the correct relationship between the ego and the Self.  In this retreat we will hear two stories, contrasting versions of the individuating feminine, each of equal value.  One, by CS Lewis, is the story of regret and the unlived life leading Oural to live a fated existence.  The other, by Erich Neumann, is the story of individuation and courage impelling Psyche to live a life of conscious choices.  Each involves the constant interplay between the difficult choices of unconscious Fate and conscious Destiny.  As we listen to our dreams, our symptoms, our body, and our imagination we will follow the differing paths for each of these women and hear how the fierce call of the feminine, of Aphrodite, summons Psyche and her counterpart Oral to life, ultimately holding each accountable for her choices in relationship to the masculine.  Using dream gathering, ritual, movement, BodySoul Mapping and Mindful Mirroring TM we will invite the deep feminine to teach us how to uncover the twin energies of unconsciousness and conscious individuation required to ignite the spark that will light our forbidden lamp and illumine the path toward a conscious and intentional reunion with the masculine and our unclaimed life.
  
   
• April, 2007 Journey into Wholeness. Kanuga Conference Center, Hendersonville, North Carolina. We will gather to say good-bye to this splendid thirty-years-old community and the Culliphers. Contact nonnie@journeyintowholeness.org.
   
• May 4, 2007. Paula Reeves, Ph.D. and Wendy Patterson MCSW. Ridgeview Institute, Smyrna, Georgia.  A New Ethic: The Influence of the Intrapersonal Tense of your Life. You will cover:
  1) how the past tense, present tense and future tense of our intrapersonal communications affects our ability to be effective therapists and communicators.
  2) Learn Mindful Mirroring™, an experiential tool developed by Dr. Reeves to facilitate personal insight and heal attachment deficits.
  3)Gain clinical and experiential insight into the advances in interpersonal neurobiology and the effects of attachment deficits and trauma as they affect relationship. 5 hours of ethic for all disciplines. To register contact dgay@ridgeviewinstitute.com.