Janette
Brown, MA, LMFT
(info-link)
The
following courses and workshops were originally
offered through the University of Washington:
UW
Continuing Education
(Spectrum): Paradox of Life, Love &
Death: process of change.
Experimental College: Transforming
Personal
History: evolving
through family issues
DreamWise:
using
group process in dream
interpretation (current
quarterly offering)
PARADOX
OF
LIFE, LOVE & DEATH:
the process of change
This course written by
Janette and co-developed with Dr. Ben Joshua Jaffee of the UW School of
Social
Work was offered through Continuing Education before it was
re-developed by Dr.
Jaffee into the grief course for M.A. social work students.
Our
attitudes toward life, and any fears of death, love, or change, mirror
how we
feel about the world. This class, about the body-mind
connection, looks at our
perceived experiences, and how we deal with change. We will look at the
seeming
polar opposites of physiological death and the intimacy of
falling in love,
noting their similarities in inviting us to surrender control for a
heightened
ability for oneness.
3 or 6-hour class
TRANSFORMING
PERSONAL HISTORY
An UW Experimental College
workshop for a decade, this popular class focused on our relational
patterns,
in love, work and family. The process uses a classic tool of Family
Therapy to
focus on identifying family patterns as they extend to non-family life.
Family
history powerfully affects personal experience and relationships in
present
time: how we interpret life depends on our assumptions and
reactions to past
events. The boldness that marks intimacy, self acceptance and free
expression
increases with the willingness to relook at difficult figures
or episodes in
our lives and integrate new views of events, others and ourselves into
our
current reality. This kind of exercise strengthens both our
humanness and our
deepest capacity for caring. The workshop looks at graphing family
history,
identifying patterns that have and do keep us limited in
responding to those
around us.
3 or 6-hour workshop
DREAMWISE
A UW Experimental College workshop
on dream interpretation, this material outlines a process designed by
Rev.
Jeremy Taylor, used effectively by many groups around the world. Though
the
instructor studied her own dreams with a Jungian analyst and with a
feminist
art therapist for a period of years, she presents here a lay
alternative that
deepens intuition and insight at the same time it enriches our
relationships.
Dreams,
a long-recognized source of intuition and knowing, are a key to
integrating
body, mind and spirit, that link us to the trans-temporal
world __ a timeless
and ever-relevant source of meaning.
This
workshop introduces a non-analytical group-process
that brings us closer to a dreamÕs multiple possible
meanings, while honoring
the dreamerÕs intuition as the greatest source of expertise. Currently
offered
quarterly.
3-hour quarterly class
/6-hour workshop / 2-day retreat
IMAGES
FROM
SULAMITH WULFING:
Artist for Our Times
Love,
courage, evolution, multiplicity .... all of these come through
SulamithÕs art.
The images are mystical, yet they ground us in personal
experiences we have
known and lived ourselves. Producing her art in HitlerÕs Germany, the
artist
knew times when freedom, generosity and the Common Good were
challenged. Many
were disempowered; yet Sulamith and those like her had a Knowing that
comes so
powerfully to the conscious mind. This presentation is a
sharing of both WildingÕs
art and her inspiration on both the personal and transpersonal planes.
3-hour participatory
presentation
ESTEEM:
The
Class
Who
nurtures women as well as other women? Though self-care is a gift
always worth
giving, this is a particularly good time for it. Come and
join others in
sharing our selves and our own wisdom. There will be quotes by famous
women
whoÕve inspired us, on the walls. Whichever quote draws you,
there will be
others there. What do we see? What are their questions? What are our
own? These
and four little exercises for re-finding and expressing
ourselves will be
shared. Bring your self and a sense of humor for some fun and
relaxation in a
class that is just for you.
3-hour workshop
Instruction Fees: For classes offered through
Continuing Education or
Experimental College, the sponsoring school sets fees.
Private
class rates are $50 per hour, capped at $185.