The Art of Desiring workshops teach you how to tap in to your deepest desires and to become skilled in the art of desiring and fulfilling. For many of us, desires have become associated with danger and disapproval. The Art of Desiring draws on Dr. Helgoe’s experience in rehabilitating desire with clients, and shows you how to restore desires to a place of honor, to hold and protect desires from danger, and how to allow the power of desiring to lead you to fulfillment. By the time you leave, you will be pulsing with excitement about what’s ahead! It’s the people who know how to want that get, and The Art of Desiring will help you thrive in your work, relationships, and in your life as a whole.
For more information, call 304-552-5907 or email laurie@wakingdesire.com
Eve and the Art of Desiring
Eve was hungry. She was curious.
Eve wanted to know the mind of God.
Eve was not satisfied, even with Paradise.
Can you relate?
As women, we embody the desiring spirit of the First Woman, yet we often see this as a problem rather than a blessing. Our views of Eve—as the original sinner, the evil temptress, spoiler—directly impact how we view ourselves and our desires. In these seminars and workshops, Dr. Helgoe challenges these internalized views and offers back to us what has been banished: The desiring spirit of the Creator, revealed in the form of Eve. Participants begin to see the story of Eve in a whole new light, to reconnect with the mother of humanity, and to liberate her power within each of us. The workshop provides a lush "garden" of images to help participants identify and begin to fulfill their unique hungers. For a sample format of a 2.5-hour workshop, see below.
For more information or to book Dr. Helgoe, contact her at laurie@wakingdesire.com or 304-552-5907.
Eve and the Art of Desiring : Sample Workshop Format
- Eve, Again (45 minutes). Dr. Helgoe sheds new light on what we’ve heard about Eve and her desire. Laurie discusses how society’s misunderstanding and misuse of the myth has negatively impacted us as women, then presents a new way of understanding Eve and her desiring spirit. Participants meditate as Laurie brings us back to the Garden and tells the story again. We then discuss how to free our hidden desires and to wield them in ways that are life giving rather than damaging.
- Creating Paradise (one hour). Laurie helps participants create their own “desire collage” by selecting colors and images from a variety of magazines and visual materials. In choosing and arranging what naturally attracts each of us, we tune into our own desires. This is a great time for lively group discussion and sharing.
- Sharing Paradise (45 minutes). Participants reveal their collages and discoveries, and the group brainstorms about how each of us can fulfill the desires we have discovered.
