Cultural Mentoring Calls

Welcome, Cultural Creatives! It’s time for a big shift in human consciousness – and you are the ones who are making this happen.

Are you ever just amazed by the choices that our current leaders make? Maybe even appalled? To name a few, nuclear power, GMO’s, war. What are they thinking? How did we get to this place where doing things “cheaply” is more important than the health of the people and the planet that sustains us?

We are all a part of this disconnect in big ways and small, but the important thing is that you are aware that something just isn’t right and you care enough to make changes. The fact that you are here reading this now means you know deep inside that there is another possibility for you living in harmony with all of your relations, that’s available now!

Since the beginning of human history we have lived together in community. It wasn’t until cheap fossil fuels became available that we began living socially isolated lives. Escalating climate change, nuclear disaster and peak oil all point to the need for us to change our unsustainable disconnected way of living. We have the tools and technology to solve nearly any and all of our problems. So, what is the KEY missing ingredient to our current situation?

We must relearn the art of community building, compassionate communication and living together peacefully in order to make the shift to a regenerative future for all.

Jon Young, master storyteller, author, mentor, tracker, has been gathering universal cultural elements from communities who live close to the earth for over 30 years. Not only have they been gathered, but over one hundred communities worldwide have been utilizing these elements to become more healthy and in balance with the natural world and each other.

Join us for the Village Talk Cultural Mentoring Calls to:

• Feel more supported in you dreams and concerns for our world and our people.
• Be inspired and filled with hope as you learn how to utilize valuable tools and lessons from communities that are already making the shift.
• Get familiar with structures and processes for healing grief and opening up dormant creativity.
• Tap into the cycles of nature and successful patterns of our indigenous ancestors as guidance for solutions in every day challenges and the challenges of our times.
• Learn to recognize and help facilitate natural stages of growth in yourself and others.
• Become grounded in the art of peacemaking and deepen your ability to deeply  listen.
• Restore the simple, timeless, and essential community tools of festivals, ceremony and ritual to your life.
• Embody the shear joy of being alive at such a wild time for human kind and the planet.

“It takes a Village to grow a Village.”

Weaving a healthy community into being cannot be done alone by one’s self. Not only would it be physically impossible, but it would be completely draining and ineffective.

Are you willing to finally put to rest the paradigm of “go it alone” and quit re-inventing the wheel? Are you willing to grant yourself the permission to harvest from the natural flow of nature and those who have been jump-starting communities for decades?

What you get by joining the Village Talk Cultural Mentoring Calls:

• Three months of weekly 1.5 hr calls with Jon Young and some of the best trackers, naturalists, and mentors from around the world. (12 calls = $1080 Value)

• Recordings of each call to listen to at any time in the future.
• Small group breakout conversations on each call.

• Weekly exercises to weave the power of the call back into your every-day life.
• Access to our exclusive Nature Mentoring Ning Network for rich discussions and live chat during the call. ($90 Value)

• Access to special downloads of recordings of Jon Young and other visionary mentors. ($200 value)
• First notice and special offers on new programs, products, and happenings at the 8 Shields Institute. (Could lead to savings of $500+)
• A weekly commitment that connects you to your power, nature as source, and an extended community that supports you. (Priceless)

 

Cultural Mentoring Thursday Calls total value = Upwards of $1300

 

Instead, you can get access to all of the above for only $360. AND if it’s helpful to you, we have a payment plan option that divides the cost into 3 automatic payments of $120 over the 3 months.

 

REGISTER HERE:

West Coast Friendly Call Time

Cultural Mentoring – Th – 7-8:30PM PST

East Coast Friendly Call Time

Cultural Mentoring – Th – 4-5:30PM EST

Europe Friendly Call Time

Cultural Mentoring – Th Night 19:00 UK + Ireland; 20:00 Germany

NOTE: You do not have to be from that region to join any particular call. For a free time-zone calculating software visit: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
Custom call chart with local time zone translations coming soon.

Program Logistics

2012 Dates:

Winter quarter:
Thursdays, January 9 to March 29

Spring quarter:
Thursdays, April 5 to June 28 (no call on June 21st)

Summer quarter:
Thursdays, July 5 to Sept 20

Fall quarter:
Thursdays, Sept 27 to Dec 20 (no call Nov 22nd)

Recordings:
If you have to miss a call or want to review them, recordings of each call are available as an MP3 download. That said, this program is focused on live participation and we recommend you make as many calls as possible.

Technology Requirements:

As Nature Mentoring Community Online is a distance-learning program, participants are responsible for being able to call a US telephone number for 1.5 hrs. each week and have regular access to the Internet (for both checking emails and participating in the live web chat during the call). These costs are not covered by NMCO tuition.

Skype is a great long-distance plan alternative with affordable domestic and international plans. Visit www.skype.com for more info. If you plan to use Skype or another VOIP, please invest in a headset to ensure a clear call for everyone. NOTE: Participants report having trouble dialing in using Google Voice (seems to work through Firefox but not Google Chrome, and varies day to day).

Questions:
Please email villagetalk@8shields.org for questions and more info.

By joining the series, each participant recognizes these principles as the basis of our interactive process and agrees to work from this model during interactions with other community members. This creates a positive, safe space for supportive communication.