Living Love Workshop : 2001-07

The Skinny

• What: Living Love Workshop.
• When: 2001-07-01 to 2001-07-08.
• Where: Heron House on Quadra Island British Columbia, Canada.
• Cost: $150 CAD ($100 US), includes accommodation but not food.

Introduction

What’s New?

• I was able to find 8 new clickers. I have two of my own. That leaves us two short if no one else brings one.
• Any further email should go to geneva@mindprod.com. I’m heading off for Victoria.
• Notes on the Anacortes ferry.
• One last minute registrant, Stacy Hashim from South Africa. She has been listening to Ken’s tapes and found out about the workshop just Thursday.
• Don Becker is giving Geneva and I a ride up from Victoria. We will be going up a day early, Saturday, so that we will be there ready to greet you whenever you arrive. Don is coming to Sydney on the 2 PM Anacortes ferry. We will be visiting my friend Joyce Cousins Saturday evening, 642 Elkhorn Rd. which is Dogwood and just off 4th. Right beside Cari High School in Campbell River. Phone (250) 850-1139 or the cell (250) 203-2153.
• I still don’t have bios from Angela, Wendi, Stacy or Dina. Don’t be shy. It does not have to be long or embarrassingly revealing.
• Helen Pirrie’s living love biography is now available, as is Casey Griffin and Craig Brown’s.
• You might want to check out the living love glossary.
• Geneva’s bio went out by email. Please don’t post it anywhere.
• Check what to bring section for latest weather forecast.
• New section below on Workshop vs Training.
• Dina Sines is coming by car from Seattle. She will be staying at a nearby campground.
• If anyone is going up by car, I would be really nice if they could take up the binders. It is going to be very awkward trying to carry them and my own stuff on the bus. The 11 binders are ready to go now, with 50 printed and 50 blank lined sheets each. Here are the colours I randomly assigned: no deep inner meaning. If you have a strong preference for something else please let me know now or trade with someone once you get there. Andrew : red, Angela : red, Casey : blue, Craig : blue, Dina : grey, Don : blue, Geneva : green, Helen : red, Joy : green, Roedy : green, Wendi : green.
• Slightly updated bio for me, Roedy.
• 
  I, Roedy, have a professional massage table and the concomitant equipment. You are welcome to use it, or to request a massage from me in any spare moments. However, it looks like there will be no way to transport it there unless someone rents or drives a car from Vancouver. We will have a hot tub to relax in though.
• Everyone who said they were coming is now officially registered. Thanks everyone for getting your cheques in so quickly. We are now full. If anyone else shows up I can’t guarantee accommodation.
• Joy Huntley’s living love biography is now available.
• Andrew and Helen will be coming in from England late. They arrive at Campbell River at 9.40 PM on the Tuesday July 3 and hope to catch the 10.30 PM ferry to Quadra Island.
• Andy Manninger writes that he won’t be able to make it, as did Mercedes (Marilyn Seldon). Lynn Martin writes: It’s not that I changed my mind and don’t want to come. It’s that I kept having problems and though I’ve managed to earn a little money, it’s too little and too late for getting the van repaired and getting myself up to British Columbia. I’m really sorry. It has been in my mind every week and I would have loved to have come. Gemma sends her regrets. "I cannot manage to come to Canada. I am really sorry to miss it but financially it is impossible our Dollar is so low etc. I will be there in my heart. Love to you all Gemma" Ack! Money! of all the wretched reasons not to be able to come.
• Andrew Pirrie’s living love biography is now available.
• Joy will be flying into Vancouver on June 28 and staying at Angela’s.
• I bought the ring binders, pads and pens enough for 11 people. I will do a printout of The Living Love Methods and give that to you when you arrive. Please read it ahead of time though.
• I now have permission to squeeze in up to 10 at extra cost. If we go beyond that we would need to get a second place. It is a bit late to do that now.
• If you want private accommodation, the boathouse is still available for $55 Canadian per couple a night. You must reserve very soon though. (I should have been clear that I intended this to mean this was extra cost to the couple, not to the workshop as a whole.)
• I have not heard from Anne Ogborn. I guess she is not coming.
• Casey Griffin and Craig Brown are coming. Craig was a carpenter when the LLC (Living Love Centre) in Coos Bay was being built-out and stayed up there, hammering, for a month — then went back for his 3rd and 4th trainings a year later.
• Joy Writes Yes, I already plan to attend the Living Love workshop, where ever and when ever it is. The only thing that would prevent it would be a downturn in my health. And, yes, I shall facilitate something, some process or, perhaps, a revival of the Great Gambinis!?!? Now I am going to enjoy your website.
• Deborah Ham wrote to say there is going to be Living Love Reunion to be held in the 2002-08 in the USA. She has not worked out the details. When she is ready she will post them and I’ll let you know.

Workshop Vs Training

1. The emphasis will be on using the methods right then and there at the workshop to uplevel your addictions. If you learn something you can use on your own later so much the better. The emphasis is on doing it now rather than learning how to do it later.
2. We are all co-leaders. Everyone coming, even the rank novices, knows more about at least one addiction than everyone else. We are here to share our experiences.
3. At a traditional training, the iron clad rule is "work only on your own head. Don’t give advice, either about what methods to use, how to use the methods, or how to solve life problems". We will be relaxing that slightly. If someone shares about having an addiction, we want anyone who has it, or who has upleveled it to share how it was for them, what worked, what didn’t. You can give advice freely about which method to try or how to use a method. Unless asked, please refrain from giving other sorts of advice. We want to keep the focus on reprograming addictions.
4. You are here to work on the addictions that matter, the ones that give you the most trouble, the ten biggies. They may appear to others to be silly or trivial. Be clear before you come what is actually causing you the most pain, not which is merely the most dramatic and should be causing you the most pain in other people’s eyes. The Quadra Island paradise and the company of others may make those addictions seem remote and unimportant. Great. This is a perfect time to nail them while you have some perspective. The cramped living may bring up familiar addictions. Great. This too is a perfect time to nail them when you have all the support around to examine the problem as your addiction rather than someone else’s fault.
5. This workshop has an unusually high percentage of couples. It can be a temptation to just hang out with your partner the whole time. The more you can expose yourself to the other participants, the more you will learn that will help you free yourself. The person most unlike you at the workshop is the one who probably holds the keys to your freedom. Don’t waste this chance to get to know everyone on as deep a level as you dare. Dealing with addictions involving your partner are more difficult, since it is hard not to appear to be dumping on your partner. Disclosing information your partner does not want disclosed can cause problems too. Revealing information your partner did not previously know can also be dicey. You will just have to use your discretion. It can be a bit rocky, but in the long run, it is best to err on the side of openness.
6. Honesty is the best policy, especially at a workshop. Keep paramount the seventh pathway: I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keep me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people. No one is going to bawl you out for feeling how you feel. Now is the time to let some light and air into the darker parts of your mind.

What Will It be Like?

• It was held 2001-07-01 Sunday to July 8 Sunday. You should aim to arrive by July 1 Sunday 2:00 to 5:00 PM and leave by July 8 Sunday 10:00 AM.
• When you register, please email me:
  1. A few paragraphs about yourself and your addictions. You can already read about me, Don Becker, Andy Manninger, Andrew Pirrie, Joy Huntley, Helen Pirrie or Casey Griffin and Craig Brown. You might model your essay one of these.
  2. Please enclose a picture, paper or jpg. This way the other participants will know a little about you even before the workshop starts and it will help in the expected chaos of finding each other and the precise place to go.
  3. Please include your phone number, mailing address, latest email so I can contact you for last minute emergencies.
  Please make cheques payable to Canadian Mind Products. The cost is either $150 Canadian or $100 American. Please mail them to to arrive in time to clear before the workshop starts. Send them to:

  Roedy Green
  Canadian Mind Products
  Precise address withdrawn due to too many death threats.
  Victoria, BC
  Canada

  telephone: (250) 361-9093

• Who’s coming? twelve people have registered: Roedy Green, Geneva Hagen and Dr. Angela Wensley and her partner Wendi Kaiser are coming from Canada. Andrew and Helen Pirrie are coming from England. Casey Griffin and Craig Brown are coming from California. Don Becker is coming from Portland and Dr. Joy Huntley is coming from Athens Ohio in the USA. Dina Sines is coming from Seattle in the USA. Click on the names to see pictures. Stacy Hashim is coming from South Africa via Portland.
• We are holding the workshop near Heron House on Quadra Island British Columbia, Canada.

  

• How do you get there? You are heading for Heron House, 646 Maple Road, Heriot Bay, Quadra Island, BC, Canada. Drive or fly to Vancouver, BC, Canada. Take the Greyhound Bus or drive to the Horseshoe Bay ferry and take it to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. It is about a six hour trip, so start early. Don’t panic, prices at the Greyhound Site are in Canadian dollars. They are not as high as they appear and include the ferry. Unfortunately there is a transit strike in Vancouver that will probably still be on by the time you get here. This means you won’t be able to use cheaper public transport to get you to the Horseshoe Bay ferry. You might also fly into Victoria on Vancouver Island and get the bus from there.

  We were originally planning to stay at Heron House itself, a quaint vine-covered cottage at 646 Maple Road. Then the owner leased it out long term to someone else and arranged for a bigger, but more conventional house two doors right. The water view from both is mesmerising.

  If you are driving from the United States you might take the Anacortes ferry to Sydney on Vancouver Island, then drive north to Campbell River. Anacortes is near Mount Vernon north of Seattle, south of Bellingham. It is a scenic trip through the American gulf islands. Most of the ferries do not go all the way to Canada. The 8:20 AM ferry arrives at 10:25 AM. The other Sydney sailing is at 2:00 PM and it takes an hour longer arriving at 5:05 PM. If you miss the Anacortes ferry, you can drive through to Vancouver and take the Horseshoe Bay ferry. You need to make reservations two days in advance, or get there in plenty of time to ensure you will make your sailing.

  To get from Vancouver to Victoria, you must use Pacific Coach Lines. Normally you would go more directly via Nanaimo using Greyhound.

  If you arrive before Sunday it will be up to you to find accommodation in Vancouver, Victoria, Campbell River or Quadra Island. See accommodation. We don’t have possession of the place until then.

  Campbell River is a one and a half hour drive or bus ride north of Nanaimo. Take a 10-minute ferry ride from Campbell River to Quathiaski Cove on Quadra Island. Its a 10-minute drive to Heriot Bay (left when you get off the ferry. You can go via the front road (West Road) or the back road (Heriot Bay Road)). When you get to Heriot Bay, turn sharp right up the hill just past the Cortes ferry line-up. Go immediately left onto Maple Road. Its the fifth drive on the left, #646. Follow the short path down to the ocean to Heron House. We are staying in the bigger house two down. Look for a sign. You cannot see the main house from the parking lot. If you get lost, just ask somebody. Quadra is a very friendly place. Even the teenagers are friendly.

  The phone number of the house where we will be staying is (250) 285-2383. You can use Angela Wensley’s cellphone number (604) 644-1582 or Wendi Kaiser’s (604) 813-3952 to use in case you get lost. That will be a long distance call though. It would probably be easiest to take a taxi (250) 285-3598 from the ferry to Heron House. In an emergency you could leave a message with Joyce Cousins, one of my friends on Quadra, (250) 285-2308. You can also try email messages to 

  Please try to avoid phoning or emailing the Inrigs who run Heron house. Let your inquiries go through me so we don’t seem to be pestering them. However, in an emergency you can contact them toll free (877) 777-8133, local (250) 285-3874, or snail mail: Linda or Hughie Inrig, POB (Post Office Box) 236, 646 Maple Road, Quadra Island, BC, V0P 1H0.

  Relax, enjoying the scenic ride there and avoiding panic using the methods if anything goes wrong on the way. The moment you leave your door is the start of the workshop. Not to worry. It is illegal to starve to death in Canada. It is about the safest country on earth for tourists.

• The cost is $150 CAD ($100 US) each. That includes accommodation, stationery and tissues but not food. This will be the least expensive Living Love workshop ever. It will be non-profit. No trainers will be paid. If it goes into the red, it is my job to pay the bills. If it goes into the black, the profits will be donated to charity.
• This is largely an excuse for a reunion. I am aching to hug all the folks I have not seen since Ken’s funeral. We will schedule free time for exploring our surroundings and having one-on-one chats, though probably not as much as they did at KKC (Ken Keyes College).
• I, Roedy Green, will be leading it. Even though I am not an official Living Love trainer, I do have Ken’s blessing. He asked me to be head trainer in Oregon a few years before he died. I’ve been using the methods since 1976. I’m hoping some of the other folks coming will be willing to lead at least one process. I’d like to encourage you, yes you, to take a shot at presenting too, even if you are fairly inexperienced. One of the presentations I most vividly remember was Deborah Hamm’s first public presentation on Centres of Consciousness at Cornucopia. She later went on to become on of the most loved and respected of all the trainers. Though I have a good technical understanding of the methods, I have not had as much success with them as many others. I tend hang on to my addictions with ferocious intensity. As a result, I have trouble with clinical, often suicidal, depression. This is the main reason I turned down Ken’s offer to teach these professionally. I have health problems related to HIV (Human Immuno-deficiency Virus) and my main concern is that I will have sufficient energy for this workshop.
• It will be quite structured, with lots of processes, probably a little more challenging than the ones favoured in the later days at KKC, though I want to make it accessible to the complete beginner.

  The goal is to keep everyone involved all the time with questions, contributing, sharing and processes. I find juicy examples from real life tend to stick in the mind hundreds of times better than dry generalisations and are much easier to understand.

  I will strongly encourage you to work on real issues from your life and to share the details with the other workshop participants. There will be a fair bit of acting out painful scenes from your life done with humour. It will be designed for newcomer and old-timer alike. I will gently press you to get to the point by asking you specific questions. I won’t let you ramble on and on the way they did in the later days of KKC. Most people don’t find me intimidating because I have a sort of child-like way of prying your deepest secrets out of you and because there is almost no chance I would reject you based on what you said. I am pretty well unshockable. The plan is for an intense experience that makes an immediate, noticeable difference in your life.

  Unlike traditional workshops, a major theme will be accepting help from other participants to get rid of your own major addictions, not just learning techniques to use on your own. Others can help you in three ways:

  1. If they are as, or more addicted, than you in some area, perhaps you can see how they are caught, where it is harder to be more objective with yourself. This gives you new insight on how you have pinned yourself.
  2. If they are less addicted than you are, you can ask how they view situations, how they talk to themselves. You can practice modelling them, learning how they see the situation through the cornucopia filter.
  3. Help you understand how other people involved in your tense situations might be thinking.
  This may be the last living love workshop ever. I want us to use it to make major progress on life biggies right during the workshop. We will be attacking your biggies from many different angles all week.
• There will be novices and old timers alike attending. To the novice Living Lover, it is highly debatable whether it would be a Good Thing™ to get rid of most of one’s addictions. Until he/she decides firmly that it is, he/she is not going to use the methods with much enthusiasm. The best place to hash out these reservations is at this workshop.
• We will continue with the traditions such as morning thoughts, hugs, singing and dancing to the Living Love songs and oming before meals.
• As is traditional, I will ask you to leave if you consume alcohol or use illegal drugs at the workshop or if you show up drunk or stoned. Please go for a walk well away from the house if you smoke tobacco. If you smoke in a restaurant, the proprietor may ask you to leave. Smoking in public buildings is illegal in some parts of BC.
• 
  You can soak in the hot tub. Our model is Angela Wensley.
• There will be a classic mass consciousness-focusing session with lots of yelling.
• We won’t be doing any nude processes. On the other hand, since there are so many people staying is such cramped quarters, you won’t get much privacy. If you need a private room, speak now to reserve the boathouse.
• There will be a pot bellied stove where you can burn your nastiest addiction.
• My favourite Living Love method is centres of consciousness, so I will give it extra emphasis. I like to teach it with playful theatre. I like to play with all seven centres, including cosmic consciousness. Usually cosmic consciousness is mentioned only in an embarrassed footnote. I like to keep it up front and center. Treating it with too much reverence and awe keeps you out of it. Everyone is using all seven centres all the time to some degree. I just want to turn up the volume a little on the higher four centers, love, cornucopia, conscious awareness and cosmic consciousness.
• We will be doing an appreciation process to help with resentments against parents, living or dead. See the essay on the Greatest Gift.
• I encourage old timers to bring whatever Living Love materials they have to share with the newcomers.
• You might use it is a start of BC holiday. Folks might get together after the workshop to explore some of BC’s scenic wonders. The weekend following the workshop is the Vancouver Folk Festival.

• Book referral for Handbook to Higher Consciousness

  	recommend book⇒Handbook to Higher Consciousness
  	by	Ken Keyes Jr.	978-0-9600688-8-3	paperback
  	birth	1921-01-19 1995-12-20 age:74	978-0-9600688-9-0	hardcover
  	publisher	Love Line	978-0-940687-13-4	audio
  	published	1984-08-01
  Ken’s classic. This is by far his best selling book. You can read part of it online.
  Online bookstores carrying Handbook to Higher Consciousness abe books anz abe books.ca abe books.de amazon.ca amazon.de Chapters Indigo amazon.es Chapters Indigo eBooks iberlibro.com abe books.com abe books.fr amazon.com amazon.fr Barnes & Noble abe books.it Nook at Barnes & Noble amazon.it Kobo junglee.com Google play abe books.co.uk O’Reilly Safari amazon.co.uk Powells other stores
  Greyed out stores probably do not have the item in stock. Try looking for it with a bookfinder.

  Handbook to Higher Consciousnessis required reading. I would also like you to read the constantly evolving Summary of the Living Love Methods available online before you come. The more of Ken’s Books you read the better.
• Give everyone at least one hug a day.
• The Thunderbird workshop logo is also the logo of Tsa Kwa Luten Lodge. Thunderbird is most powerful supernatural spirit in Northwest Coast Native mythology and personifies 'chief'. Thunderbird lived high in the mountains and fished for killer whales when he was hungry. He is often depicted with his talons clenched into the back of a killer whale, lifting it from the ocean and soaring through the sky much like an eagle would prey upon salmon. The flapping of his wings caused the roar of thunder and lightning flashed from his eyes when he blinked. Those poor little addictions don’t stand a chance!

Schedule

The schedule alternates between intellectual and physical days. It gradually builds the emotional intensity.

Processes

• Dr. Joy Huntley, choice process and forgiveness.
• Roedy Green, centers of consciousness, pinpointing the addiction, consciousness focusing.
• Geneva Hagen, nightly unifier.
• Dr. Angela Wensley, the wisdom principles.

What To Bring

• sleeping bag and pillow. (turned out was provided)
• toothbrush and personal hygiene stuff, facecloth, sunscreen. We will be using well water, so we must conserve it. Bathroom time will be a precious commodity.
• bathing suit. There is a warm lagoon nearby.
• towel.
• summer clothes. It will likely be shorts and T-shirt type weather, but it can be cool in the evening, so bring a coat that could handle a drizzle too. As of Thursday, it was partly cloudy on Quadra with 16 °C (61 ° F), unseasonably cool. The weather forecast calls for mixed sun and clouds.
• A recent copy of this webpage containing instructions and phone numbers in case you get lost.
• Your clicker (a thing you hold in your hand that counts once for each time you squeeze a button).
• plate, bowl, cup, knife, fork, spoon. (turned out was provided)
• Passport or two pieces of photo id.

What Will Be Provided

• probably bed and bedding for a few people.
• paper, pens, binder.
• A paper copy of the web pages summarising the living love methods.
• plastic cups, forks, knives, spoons.
• Kleenex.

What To Do Before you Come

1. Review the methods.
2. Review the photos and living love biographies of the other partipants.
3. Register.
4. Send in your photo.
5. Send in you living love biography.
6. Plan your trip including air and bus connections and overnight stays. Follow the links links for ferry and bus schedules and fares.
7. Pack lightly. There will not be much room.

Miscellaneous

• Everything on Quadra is accessible with a 10 minute car trip. There is no public transport, though there are taxis. Many islanders travel by bicycle, inline skates or hitchhiking. My friend Jack Mar at Island Cycle rents bikes.
• We can eat in restaurants or buy food at one of the two markets and cook for ourselves, or prepare food in small groups. Heron house has a kitchen with a dishwasher. You are officially responsible for your own food, though people will probably informally shop together for group meals.

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