Programs/Workshops
*Ongoing Programs
Community Living Program
Come to live in community for a time. Discover yourself and your unique gifts and talents. Transform deeply and organically in a supportive community. Find what is uniquely yours to do in the world.
The Village - an unschooling learning community
A home school “unschool” learning community where youth, ages 5-18 come to learn what they want, when they want, and how they want. Students share in decision making through consensus and practice democracy as they form and shape their community.
*Classes and Workshops
Starwalkers offers many classes and workshops throughout the year. To register for any of the workshops listed, please download and complete a registration form.
We strive to be family friendly and include children in our programs. We can provide childcare if needed for an additional cost.
Customized Group Retreats
Starwalkers can plan retreats for your particular group, whether it be friends, families, organizations, spiritual groups, or discussion groups. Retreats are held in a wooded rural setting in a private home with sleeping arrangements in the home or in tents. The group prepares and eats meals together with an emphasis on local, organic ingredients.
Upcoming Workshops
Creating a Culture of Peace (February 8-10, 2008)
What would you do if someone entered you house with a gun? Is spray-painting a billboard an expression of violence? How should you act toward a person that’s really difficult to get along with? Why isn’t anybody doing anything about social justice? Isn’t the movement to end the war in Iraq a lost cause?
The Power of Being Single (March 7-9, 2008)
A workshop especially for singles! Learn what is possible, rather than what is missing, because you are single. Discover how to build relationships to satisfy those human needs that a spouse or partner and children would otherwise provide. Understand yourself and your unique direction in life. This workshop welcomes people of all ages, genders, and sexual orientations.
Reiki Hands-on Healing (May 3-4, 2008)
Reiki is a Japanese form of energy healing where ki, or universal life force energy, is projected through our hands to provide relaxation and healing for our highest good. In this two-day workshop you will learn about energy healing, hand positions for self healing and for healing others, Reiki history, symbols, and methods for distance healing. You will be attuned to the energy of Reiki, and will be presented with a certificate for the First and Second Degrees (Levels) of this healing system.
Transformation Vacation (June 16-22, 2008)
A week to re-awaken ourselves to nature, the land, and a sense of place in the world. Come to live in a community - where meals are prepared and shared together, dreams are explored, nature is experienced, art is created, and spirits are renewed. Participants will also have the option of learning about Community Supported Agriculture at the nearby Valley Creek Community Farm. Come and enjoy a week of the best of Starwalkers, and a synthesis of many of our past workshops and retreats!
Lover and Beloved - A workshop for couples (Sept. 19-21, 2008)
One of the most powerful and passionate ways we awaken the inner Beloved is by falling in love. For this special retreat, we invite couples who have a strong and loving relationship to explore the soul’s Beloved in your partner and in your own heart. Learn to see your loved one with new eyes. Identify and move past obstacles that hold you back from following the invitation of your Inner Beloved and discover how to support your partner in his or her own quest for meaning, passion, and joy.
Exploring Shamanism (Oct. 24-26, 2008)
The practice of shamanic journeying is an ancient method of accessing spiritual wisdom by developing a means of communication with helping spirits and animal allies. These tools can be used for personal growth as well as healing of the self and others. If you are cureious about shamanism and would like to have the opportunity to learn this ancient meditative practice, join us for a wonderful weekend of journeying and exploration!
Past Workshops
Experiencing Starwalkers
An introduction to the transformational work of Starwalkers. Come to meet the teachers, take walks in nature, explore your dreams, experience holistic healing, and acquaint yourself with our living and working sites, as well as the Northfield community. A great introduction for those interested in becoming a part of the Starwalkers community.
Awakening Quest
A three-day meditative “vision quest” nature encounter workshop. Learn about the teachings of Brian Swimme. Immerse yourself in experiences that will help you understand your gifts and draw them forth so that you can participate in a new destiny for the planet Earth.
Finding your Soul Image
Soul Image is that image that represents the deepest layers of our psyche, those layers forgotten, repressed, hidden, rejected. In this three-day workshop, participants use dreams, mining memories, guided imagining or forms of creative expression to identify each person’s Soul Image.
Gateways to Transformation
An individualized eight hour mentoring retreat, Gateways to Transformation begins with a participant completing the Gateways Inventory. Completing the inventory and the dialogue with the mentor is, as the name of the program suggests, a gateway. The program is the beginning of the participant’s quest for personal transformation leading to change in the wider world. Ideally, Gateways will lead to more work in the Starwalkers program, fostering more fundamental and lasting change.
Turning Point
How do we create lasting change in our lives - deeply, organically, and at the very cellular and enrgetic levels or our being? Within Turning Point, we identify patterns of harmony and dissonance in our lives, as well as tools within us for change. An overview of energy healing and Reiki rounds out the final day of this workshop.
Crossing the Threshhold
A “rite of passage” retreat for young adults ages 17-20, this four day workshop will offer challenges to bring out your gifts and offer them in service to other human beings and to the earth. Through journaling, art, dream work, convening with nature, games, and ritual, we will come to begin to know what our futures may hold, to answer the questions, “What are my gifts? What am I to do to offer my uniqueness in this world?”
Your Life’s Direction
Search for a vision of who you are and how you can serve the world. In this three-day workshop, you will make a map depicting where you have been, where you are now, and your purpose and direction for the future. You will be offered challenges to bring out your gifts and offer them in service to other human beings and to the earth, as you begin to identify what your role is in helping to preserve life on the planet.
Legacy
A program in three sessions for elders. By reflecting on our lives and sharing our stories, we come to understand our unique gifts. How do we reap the harvest of our lives? Determine what you would like to pass on: how can that happen, to whom can you entrust your legacy?
