WOTY

WomanSpirit Rising Presents

Kim Duckett, Ph. D., Pr.

In a one day workshop

***Saturday September 8th, 2007***
9 am - 4:00 pm
on

The Wheel of the Year:
A Spiritual Psychology for Women

An educational and experiential overview utilizing lecture,
ritual, activities and exercises, art and print-based materials.

Women:
Want to know more about honoring the
earth-based holydays such as
Summer Solstice, Autumn Equinox,
Samhain, and Winter Solstice?

Are you curious about the history of and
ancient psychology of these traditions
and want to learn more?

This workshop is for those who are interested in:

Goddess Spirituality
Women’s Spirituality
Women’s Circles
Women’s Rituals
Women’s Blood Mysteries
Earth-based European traditions
Wicca
Dianic Wicca
Women’s Psychology and Development
The Wheel, the Pagan holydays
Women’s Mystery School
Priestessing as a Spiritual Path
Female Shamanism
Wiccan tenets as therapeutic tools

Come hear this unique teaching on the spiritual and
psychological significance of the
Wheel of the Year
by scholar and beloved teacher,
Kim Duckett

Saturday September 8th, 2007
9-4pm
(Bring your own lunch, snacks will be provided)

Location: Spirit House

Share: $60-75 sliding scale
Deposit of $35 due by August 20th
(non-refundable)
Remainder due by September 1st

Pre-registration required

Kim Duckett, Ph.D., Pr.
Bio

Kim Duckett currently teaches
Women’s Studies at Warren Wilson College
in Asheville, NC. She has been teaching
Women’s Studies in university settings
for over 25 years. She has also been an
activist for women since 1974 when she
co-founded the Asheville Rape Crisis
Center, now known as Our Voice.

Kim received her Ph.D. from The Union
Institute in Women’s Studies and
Transpersonal and Spiritual Psychology,
with an emphasis in Women’s Psychology
and Goddess and Women’s Spirituality
and Ritual. She is an ordained clergy in
Goddess and Dianic Wiccan traditions.

Most recently, as one who studies and
teaches psychology, Dr. Duckett’s
work has crystallized as one of
creating a place/structure/process for
women to acknowledge, retrieve, name,
release, honor, and heal old pain and
anger, as individuals and collectively,
and to do so in ways that honor and
celebrate women and women’s ways
of knowing and being. She does this in
Circle and calls the foundational
process of her work Ritual, an ancient
long-buried psychology that is
reemerging today. In her classes, her
pastoral counseling practice,and
large community ritual settings,
Kim practices, teaches, and
shares Circle and Ritual in support
of psychospiritual healing,
integration, and empowerment
of women and womankind.

Dr. Duckett is founder and director of
WHISPER, an Asheville based
non-profit organization now in its
14th year, which offers classes,
events, performances, and rituals
that explore and honor women’s
spirituality. She is also the
founder and lead faculty of
A Year and A Day
Sacred Mystery School for Women
(founded in 1997 and formerly known as
WHISPER’s Sacred Mystery School for Women)
one of just a few formal curriculum
Mystery School programs specifically
for women in the country. Kim’s expertise
in Women’s Studies and her theories
regarding the pagan Wheel of the Year as
an ancient indigenous spiritual psychology
is the basis of much of the learnings
offered through WHISPER and
the Mystery School.

Kim has this to say about her work
regarding the Wheel:

For the last few years much of my work
has focused on European
earth-based shamanic and magical
traditions. The centrality of the
Wheel of the Year, or the Wheel of Life
(the cycle of the eight Pagan holydays)
in these traditions has become a beloved
tool in my personal spiritual practice.
I have also discovered, along with my
sisters who have followed the Wheel
together as a community for many years
now, that the Wheel is not simply a
teaching or illustrative tool about the
seasons, or planting, or a backdrop for t
he agricultural myths of antiquity. I
have come to see it as a “psychology”
and a spiritual Path and teach it as such.

This workshop utilizes Circle, Ritual,
lecture, video, and many other learning
forms to share this unique teaching
on the spiritual and psychological
significance of the Wheel of the Year
and it’s relationship to women’s lives.