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Where Eros Meets Taboo
Santa Cruz, CA
November 1st-2nd, 2008
Facilitated by Deborah Allen

Paris Women's Intutive Leadership Conference
Paris, France
March 7-9th, 2009
Facilitated by Deborah Allen, with guest artist Joan MacIntosh

Cost: 350 euro (non-refundable deposit of 100 euro)
Housing: We are trying to gather you together and either rent some apartments or small boutique hotels.
The sooner we know that you are coming, the better we can get great housing. Our retreat site is in the Marais district, and French American colleague (and Snowlion graduate) Nell Singer is helping to host us in “her” city.

PLEASE LET US KNOW  that you are coming and we will get information to you immediately about hotels, deposits, travel, etc.

Dear Women...old students, colleagues and friends in Europe,

I am beyond thrilled to announce a three-day circle of women in Paris, March 7th, 8th and 9th (Saturday, Sunday, Monday) 2009.

The overarching theme of the time together is intuitive leadership and the contribution of women leaders - US.

As group leaders, what do we have to offer from the very core of Self?

How do we continue to strengthen the muscles of the deep soul, allowing us to facilitate others as they journey into the mystery of transpersonal space?  

What practices support us? What keeps us alive and on our edge so that our leadership stays newly born?

What structures are needed to make a circle a "call to holiness" and not just a conversation?

How do we consistently create Vessica, the coming together into the most tender and transformative space?

My dream is that we would meet twice (although this is NOT a pre-requisite for coming), and that each of you would commit to create a small (or large) circle in your own community (if you are not already doing this).

Then we could meet again anywhere from six months to a year later and deepen the experience and really support your confidence and the future of women's circles of this kind.

It would fulfill a huge dream of mine to see all of you calling your own circles and helping the women's community continue to heal and take leadership.  I would also dearly love to mix women from Europe and the US.

Bringing Joan MacIntosh with me:

It is my deep joy to be bringing my friend and colleague Joan MacIntosh with me.  Joan and I met our first day of Barbara Brennan's and have been soul friends ever since.  When I began to feel "the call" to our circle in Paris, I knew Joan should come.  One of her gifts, as an actor and healer, is helping people embody their deepest understandings of the Mysteries, especially as expressed through poetry, movement, and voice.

When I listen to the sound of Paris in my heart, I know that women's leadership truly demands that we continue to cultivate fullness in our bodies, that we become the food we are offering to the world, luscious and overflowing with soul.  This is Joan.  Come meet her.

Joan is a wonderful healer, and has been teaching acting and working with people in classes and workshops in creativity and self-expression for 40 years, as long as she’s been acting, herself

Because I am proud of her, I am adding some of her bio below and a few photos to introduce her to you.

Joan MacIntosh, celebrated actress in American Theatre, has been performing leading roles on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in Resident theatres for over 40 years. She recently finished playing Acaste in The Misanthrope at the New York Theatre Workshop, directed by legendary Ivo van Hove with whom she has
worked in past productions of Alice in Bed and More Stately Mansions. She has appeared in such plays as Orpheus Descending, and Our Town on Broadway, Macbeth, All's Well that Ends Well, A Bright Room Called Day, Cymbeline, Julius Caesar, and Three Acts of Recognition at the New York Shakespeare Festival, Endgame at the Manhattan Theatre Club, and Abe Lincoln in Illinois at Lincoln Center. She has acted regionally with A.C.T., Yale Rep, the Guthrie Theatre, and the A.R.T. She has won an OBIE Award for Dionysus in '69¸and Commune, and in 1998 for Sustained Excellence of Performance. OBIES for Dionysus in 69, Commune, The Tooth of Crime, More Stately Mansions, and then the Sustained Excellence of Performance. 2007 Elliot Norton Award for Brittanicus. Drama Desk Award for Request Concert. Herald Angel Award (Edinburgh Festival) for Distinguished Performance at the Festival that year, in 1998. (All the awards, including the OBIES were for Distinguished Performance.) And then, Joan is a Fox Fellow, using the grant to study singing with Chloe Goodchild, and has won a J.D. Rockefeller III grant to travel and study theater in Southeast Asia; a USIA grant for leading workshops in Southeast Asia, India, and Japan, and an USIA grant for leading workshops in South Africa. She won a Spencer Cherashore Fellowship to write and perform "O Beloved! A Presence."