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Four Girls Become Young Women Through Sacred Fire’s Initiation

Posted by Around the Fire Editor | Aug 19, 2019 | August 2019, Hot News |

The Sacred Fire Lifeways Women’s Initiation Council is proud to announce that four young women were initiated into adulthood on July 13, 2019.

We wish to acknowledge the learning and hard work that they accomplished and to introduce them: Calista from Ontario (CANADA); Dale from New York (USA); Emma from North Carolina (USA); and Myisha from Massachusetts (USA)

We also wish to acknowledge our outstanding staff of 10 women and four men who supported the week-long ritual: Amber Van Cleave, Andrea Jacobson, Angela Ocone, Jane Jackson, Jen Collins, Katarina Diss, Katie Troy, Leah Watterson, Sherry Morgan, Wendy Kaas, Adam Laufer, Colin Lenhart, Eduardo Deneke, and Gary Weidner. It takes a village to do this work and hold the space for transformation to occur. Thanks to Paige Schlake, Heidi Griswold, Cassandra Starks, and Laurie Perla of the Grand Junction community. And thanks to those who supported this work through your donations and community fires.

Sacred Emergence: Initiation into Adulthood for Young Women is offered in the summertime. Are you or someone you know age 16-24? Applications are accepted year-round.

Deanna Jenné, Jessica De la O, and Lisa Lichtig
Lifeways Women’s Initiation Council

Passing on Wisdom: Sharing Lessons Learned

Posted by Around the Fire Editor | Aug 19, 2019 | August 2019, Export, Youth and Elders |

Kyle Steele interviews Patrick Hanaway

In a recent conversation, young adult Kyle Steele sought counsel from Asheville NC (USA) Sacred Fire Firekeeper, Patrick Hanaway. The two spoke about many things, including how the courage to learn from mistakes helps to foster wisdom, and how this wisdom can be passed on to future generations.

Kyle: Patrick, what is the most important thing that you have learned at your age?

Patrick: The most important thing that I’ve learned is that everything is in relationship and connection. And when I say that, I don’t just mean between us as human beings; I mean us as human beings in relationship to all of the other-than-human beings also. Everything that is here: this beautiful tree, the air, the frogs that we hear in the background, the air, the weather, everything…we are meant to be in conscious relationship to it. We are, in fact, intimately connected to the world and it is so easy to forget that. I think that we know this when we are really young and then it gets taught out of us, and we forget by the time we are 2 or 3 years old. And yet this kind of relationship holds the seeds of our healing as humans.

A really beneficial time for men to be together

Posted by Bill Sutton | Jul 20, 2019 |

This Lifeways program has evolved into a really beneficial time for men to be together. I appreciate time we had together to be in a community group albeit for a short time. There was time to experience support, a rather deep sharing, and a very unusual learning from the teachings of Grandfather Fire through the perspective and experience of Don David Wiley.

I was in the Scotland event and i found i really liked Scotland—it was a bonus that it was a beautiful place and i felt welcomed and much at home there.

Our group was from merry old England, the country of Wales, the Emerald Isle, and of course the USA where i am from. This international flavor was eclipsed by the commonality of of what it is to be human. It was refreshing to experience the willingness of men to work together.

Becoming an Adult in Today’s World

Posted by Around the Fire Editor | Jul 15, 2019 | Early July 2019, Export, Youth and Elders |

An interview with Sacred Fire attendee Olivia Woodford.

We asked Olivia Woodford to share some words of wisdom about the human journey, as it relates in particular to finding purpose and direction in life. In this interview, Olivia also speaks to her relationship with the Sacred Fire community, and how this helps her stay on the path of Heart.

Olivia, can you share with our readers, what is your compass in life?
I think my compass in life is, “Do I feel good?” And feeling good doesn’t necessarily mean being happy or even necessarily being relaxed, but I can feel when I am aligned. When I’m aligned, it’s like everything begins to move, or I feel like I am getting carried or being held, and so when I am aligned, I feel I am moving in relationship with life. And so I look for that alignment.

Lifecycle Living: The Next Phase of Becoming

Posted by Jen Collins | Jun 13, 2019 | Hot News, June 2019 |

By Jen Collins, Assistant Director, Lifeways

Over the past two years, Sacred Fire Community Lifeways has brought 12 Life Cycle Living presentations to the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. Thank you to all who have attended and contributed so many thoughtful ideas infused with energy and heart! What you have given us is rich and full of life.

Soon our team will use all this juicy data to sift, sort, debate and dream into a 5-YEAR plan for new Lifeways offerings! If you came to a Life Cycle Living presentation, you know that re-discovering this experiential way of living in alignment with the cycles of nature and human life can be an exciting journey of learning.

We will update you on how our meetings go and how we intend to see this vision through for generations to come. Wish us luck and good planning!!

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Four Girls Become Young Women Through Sacred Fire’s Initiation

Passing on Wisdom: Sharing Lessons Learned

A really beneficial time for men to be together

Becoming an Adult in Today’s World

Lifecycle Living: The Next Phase of Becoming

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