Cycle III Activities Provide some form of regular counseling/support/therapy to individuals or to a group. Create opportunities for others to learn counseling/support/therapy skills.

Regular Counseling/Support/Therapy While in Cella I have continued what was already a well-established routine of peer counseling (both personal and paraprofessional). During my Cella tenure, I have provided counseling/support/therapy to many individuals and to two groups, inside the Cella program and outside. I am often (and in some cases, frequently) called on for

• dream interpretation
• Saturn Return (astrology) charting, education and relevant growth and transformation work
• card readings
• relationship counseling
• health counseling
• "crisis of faith" counseling
• family counseling (including job and financial counseling)
• death & dying counseling
• Goddess Community (formal) and feminist choir (informal) conflict transformation
• facilitation of rites of passage for growth and healing

For several years I did palm reading at fun(d)raisers and Goddess events, but I've moved on to reading cards, which works better as a divination and counseling tool for me and my clients both.

In addition, I have done peer counseling with Cella students that can be boiled down to "how to survive Cella" and "how to thrive in the Cella Training Program." I've counseled other RCGI members and non-member participants about "how to live well within RCGI and organized Goddess Religion." If you'd like more specifics about either of these, click here.

Create Opportunities for Others to Learn These Skills I organized a well-attended astrology teaching weekend (taught by Bellezza) for Central Wisconsin Goddess Women. In the Animal Familiars class I taught at the Hallows Gathering, I included an animal card drawing for each participant. Many used the information and experiences the class gave them for deepening their connections with Goddess, with the world, and with their deep selves. I have also taught the following skills to Cella students and others, in several venues:

• conflict transformation (Priestess Gathering)
• conflict transformation as part of consensus decision-making (Cella Weekend)
• conflict transformation skills (Matrilocal Circle Advising Council, with several Cella students on it)
• conflict transformation skills (Earth Conclave, a 2-day intensive)
• active listening skills (Matrilocal Circle Advising Council)
• astrology (chart) interpretation
• card reading counseling skills
• psychic skills