Can developing a better relationship with your home help create a better you? During this presentation, we will explore how we project our inner selves into our private worlds and examine how healing our personal spaces can heal our lives. We will also consider the ways that the simple tending of our home opens us up to truly magical possibilities. Facilitated by Bethany Ward–who is often referred to as the “Martha Stewart of the Magical Household”–this presentation includes simple tips, philosophy, recipes, folklore, sound, charms, and more. Come to learn how your home is a mirror for deeply understanding yourself. Learn how to transform your dwelling…and your life.

Simply by possessing a rich interior life, humans are inherently spiritual beings and parents/guardians are the primary religious and spiritual educators of their children and youth. As guides, we model our principles and values and set the tone for our children’s moral development. How can we raise moral and ethical children without a reliance on institutions? Explore how simple additions and adjustments in your home can bring a sense spirituality into the life of your family. This is a non-dogmatic interfaith presentation where diverse ideas and expressions are encouraged and respectfully shared.

When your intuition is engaged, life takes on a sense of ease and magical expression. Join us for this engaging, multi-faceted presentation where we will learn how to activate your intuition to help you live a life filled with spiritual vibrancy. We will examine philosophy, religion, metaphysics, and spiritual development theory as we also open ourselves up with fun and engaging community-centered exercises. Enjoy practical application and a keen sense of wonder as you learn to live a whole-hearted existence centered around your own inner guidance.

Henry David Thoreau writes, “go confidently in the direction of your dreams, and live the life you imagine”– but what if you have no idea what direction to take? Join us to uncover who you truly believe yourself to be, develop skills for true personal introspection, how to recognize your goals, pick up some simple tips and tricks to live your best life possible, and maybe discover a new pathway or even a new destination. Come together to help answer the questions, “who am I?”, and, “what do I want most from my life?”.

Rich in symbolism, fairy tales touch our hearts, elicit our inner thoughts and feelings, and lead us to discover deeper truths. Explore the language of fairy tales as they open you up to awe and wonder and provide a sense of meaning and direction for your life. Listen to and reflect on specific tales and examine their inherent meaning, usefulness, and importance in directing a spiritually vibrant life.

The underlying philosophy of unschooling invites us to care for our children in ways that foster deeper intimacy within our family, provide a greater sense of freedom, and embraces the responsibility for the strengthening of our communities. How might we apply that same philosophy to end-of-life? Explore interfaith spiritual and practical death care for families and communities with Death Doula, Bethany Ward, and find out how a continuum of care may truly be expressed throughout the lifespan. (Presented to the Unschooling Community, 2017)

One of the most loving choices we can make for ourselves and our loved ones is to prepare for and plan our own death. Join us in learning what steps you need to take emotionally, spiritually, and practically for the end of life we all face. This presentation will be focused on supportive discussion, practical how-tos, documentation checklists, laws and regulations, and spiritual discourse. Learn about ways to discuss the inevitable process of dying with your children and families. Speaker, Bethany Ward, serves her community as a professional interfaith Spiritual Director and Death Midwife, helping to facilitate for others the intersection of conscious living and conscious dying. She also stewards Foxfield Preserve, a unique conservation burial site in Wilmot, Ohio. Bethany is active in the death acceptance movement, inviting others to consider the dying process as an opening to become more present and loving, an occasion for profound healing, and an opportunity for participating fully in life. May 2018 Date TBD