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Workshops & Events

Woman, Earth & Spirit Announces

Outlandish

Women Build Our Own Houses

 & Adobe Workshops

575-421-2533   

PO Box 130, Serafina NM 87569

JaeHaggard@gmail.com

 

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      This wonderful broad-based Workshop is a unique opportunity for hands-on construction instruction in a woman's context.  In a warm, fun and personalized context, we will look at basic construction steps from site selection through foundation, walls, doors & windows, water a& electric, insulation and roof. 

     Your Workshop, course materials, instruction, hands-on-learning, bed, meals plus use of the land & facilities are all included in your Workshop registration.

     Also included and prioritized are a range of opportunities to promote Personal Growth, Connection, Creativity & Healing plus ample  unscheduled time. 

     Part of what makes this and all Woman, Earth & Spirit Workshops so special is the rane of activities to encourage Connection, Creativity and Healing Healing that are as important to a Full experience as acutal building time. 

     To insure this well-rounded full experience, scheduling is some flexible and allows ample opportunity for fun, hiking, connecting, creating, and healing.  There is opportunity for quiet, meditaion, yoga, individual or group activities, singing, games, drumming, videos, hot tubs, laughter & more.  Ahhhh..... 

     While basic concepts, skills and tools are important, what women lack more than anything is Self-Confidence and Confidence in Self. 

     Our intent is for every woman to return home a bigger Self, enthused and ith the confidence to actually start building.    

    Our priority is that you can be here 

 &that you leave expanded.

 

Our Inspiring Sessions  

     Oh what incredible fun-- come and build with a wondrous group of other women.  Put your hands to the wood and clay and learn by doing. 

     These Construction & Adobe Workshops are facilitated by Jae Haggard who has built houses or other structures for women in a range of designs in several states since 1974. 

     Included in each Outlandish Workshop is a reviw of basic construction principles, safety and tool use.    YOU CAN Build a House!  

    We figure about 4-5 hours of a spectrum of hands-on construction & instruction 6-7 of your 10 days here.  That leaves lots of opportunity for other activities and Connecting. 

     We  plan to plaster and add a roofed deck to the 14x16 adobe cabin we built during the Workshops last year, do some final finsh work on the 12x20 shed we rennovated into a sweet cabin during the 2008 sessions, complete a frame addition on one of our adobe GuestHouses, a erect the post & beam frame and roof for our next adobe cabin.    Learn by Doing  

     NcNaturally the basic rhythm of each day incoludes great meals, relaxation, hot tubs, hikes, singing, games, conversation and more.  A most womderful spectrum of activities & personal time.  

      

 We consider a full-spectrum blend is key
to the ideal Workshop experience.
  Connection, Personal Growth,
Creativity, Wholeness / Healing We

 
Gift yourSelf a plentitude of time

To immerse,

Listen to yourSelf

 Enjoy this amazing land

To Connect, Create & Heal

 

Workshop Goals

Each woman returns home empowered and with

  • A Feeling ofBig Self and with the Self-confidence to plan & build our own simple structures or homes. With the Confidence in Self to Listen to and trust our Intuition.  
  • Basic understanding & skills to actually start & to problem solve during construction
  • A sense of the delight & satisfaction of building
  • Expanded skills for building / working cooperatively with other women
  • Resources for further information & skill development
  • Expanded personal development, new friends, a greater sense of Wholeness
  • And, in general, feeling refreshed, appreciated, inspired & energized

 

Jae -- I invite You to Join Us

     Over the last 30 years, by myself and with others I have designed and built well over a dozen houses and other buildings for women in five states.  These structures range from our four beautiful passive solar adobe houses at Outland to cordwoor to frame to post & beam to a pair of amazing 3-living-spaces-in-each-building houses. (See photos)

     Like so many things in a patriarchal society, construction is often mystified and is usually done the way men would do it, in ways appropriate for them but not for us as women.

     Every one of us can build if we most imp0ortantly just have the self-confidence, and then the opportunity, and finally a few basic concepts, tools and skills.

     I built my first house with a cheap circular saw, jig saw and drill. All I had ever built before was a bookshelf and I had no tool or building experience. I built because I needed a home-- true story.

     I have learned by observing, asking questions, researching and mostly by just pulling together my courage and doing it. Yet, I can design, plan, organize and build, as well as do plumbing and electric-- and do it all rather well. Every one of us can do the same.

     It is my intent to pass on some of the confidence I have gained as well as some of the hints, tricks, skills and general knowledge that I have picked up over these three decades.

     It is my intent that each woman goes home from this Workshop with an excitement, anticipation and confidence about herself and about building.

     I want us to leave the Workshop Experience feeling bigger in ourSelves and in our abilities. I want us to go home feeling less alone and less fearful, more prepared for any eventuality. I want us to go home more Connected to ourSelves with more sense of our Role in this Life.  I want us to return home feeling our Wholeness and with the creativity that flows when we feel our Bigness and Wholeness.

 

 

I Invite You 

To join us on this amazing Land

To expand your skills & confidence

To participate in activities that bring out

your biggest most authentic Self

To experience an invigorating combination of

Learning, Respite, Inspiration, Connection & Healing

 

Heal

    I believe that we are each intrinsically Whole. Our Healing comes from inside as we realign with our Wholeness. From and with Spirit, if you will.

     I believe that we live in a fear-based culture. When we fear we cannot Love or Connect or Create or Expand. Our fears remove us from our awareness of our intrinsic Wholeness.

     We have internalized fears on countless levels. Our fears learned in a society that too often dislikes or diminishes us as women. Fears of not being enough or not being right in a society that too often points out our perceived failings. Our fears of scarcity, there not being enough for everyone, learned in a culture that emphasizes competition and that defines who has access to what. Fears that if people know who we really are, they will not like us.

     We live afraid of what might happen, what danger lies waiting for us, what disease will strike. We fear we might fail.

     When we fear, we cannot love, cannot expand, cannot connect. When we fear, we get smaller-- contracting, we remove ourselves from our innate Connection with ourSelves, the Earth and each other.

     Healing is realigning ourSelves with our intrinsic Wholeness.

     A primary goal here at Outland is to provide an environment and activities to help draw every one of us into our Wholeness. Let's get BIG! 

     Our intent is that you leave here more Connected to the Earth, others and to yourSelf-- with a deeper understanding / Knowing of what you are in this life to do. With a more immediate recognition of the difference that you can and indeed DO make in this world.

    In order to build or do anything else fully and well, it is essential that we feel as close to our 'best' as possible, that we feel big, open, well, energized, confident and Whole.

     Our priority in this Workshop, as in every Woman, Earth & Spirit event, is an experience that motivates and expands us all on every level-- skills, personal development, creativity, friendship, Healing, and spiritually. 

    

     One of the special offerings at the New Mexico Women's GuestHouse, Retreat & Healing Center is the opportunity to focus on Healing on an amazing Land that in Herself draws us into Harmony, in an environment that encourages us into Wholeness. Therein lies true Healing.

     At the same time there is support to address specific dis-ease as you focus on Self-Healing.

     Sometimes it is helpful to have help. Here there is opportunity for Assisted-Healing working with a wondrous Healer who lives here on the land or with other Healers who are here periodically.

     We invite you to work with the several wondrous Healers who will be here through the Spring and Summer. They are available during free time and other hours every day for consultations and treatments. You will make consultation, treatment and payment arrangements with each Healer directly.

     Our Resident Healer, Dr. Karin Schaufele has been a Health Care Provider since 1986 and is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine trained and highly skilled in an impressively broad range of modalities-- Eastern, Alternative, Energetic, Western as well as Ritual and Ceremony. She is particularly gifted in her ability to address Our Wholeness physically, emotionally and spiritually.

     She is currently offering her work in Europe and will likely be here some part of the Workshop Season to work with you.  Karin directly. To learn more, click to visit Karin's website. Make appointment and payment arrangements with her when you arrive.

httpp://EarthBodyWisdom.com  575-421-2533

 

     Healing is about Wholeness-- physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Healing is being able to accept love fully, to love wholly.

     We encourage you to use this Workshop opportunity to move more into yourSelf, into Wellness, into Wholeness.

 

For You

During your stay

 

  • 1000- acre wildlife refuge with full use of Land, extensive Library, Hottub
  • Workshop with how-to & hands-on instruction. Course materials, & consultation
  • Scrumptious nourishing meals
  • Time & activities to promote Personal Growth, Creative Expression, Connection & Healing
  • Opportunity to be more your biggest, most authentic Self, to feel your Wholeness
  • Hike, Hottub, lie on a rock & listen to the Land and yourSelf
  • Connect with & celebrate yourSelf & other women
  • Expand your sense of possibilities

 

Limited Space. The New Mexico Women's GuestHouse, Retreat & Healing Center where this workshop is happening has four GuestRooms with beds and cots plus a loft. In addition, we have a large adobe cabin with a giant loft. We also have tent space-- use ours or bring your own.  Beds will be assigned according to physical need, length of stay, earliness of enrollment and willingness to share a bed.

 

Prices &

Registration

 

Sliding Scale Cost Per Woman

Includes course materials, instruction, consultation, bed, meals,  a range of activities & use of our wondrous Land/facilities


 

Cost Notes    

  • I must have your Workshop deposit to reserve your space. $250 per session.  

           

  • Your Workshop deposit is not refundable if we cannot fill your spot with another woman.  If you must cancel, we will make every effort to find a replacement. If your slot is filled, we will refund your deposit minus a $100 fee. 

 

  • If for any reason the Workshop is cancelled your deposit will be refunded promptly in full

 

  • Please choose a price in the sliding scale that reflects your income, assets, access to employment and other relevant factors. Any amount extra you can offer helps us maintain this incredible land and helps make it possible for more women to have access to this marvelous land and to Workshops. Amounts over the minimum can be tax-deductible if you like.

 

  • If you cannot afford even the bottom of our sliding scale,. choose an amount you can afford and talk with Jae.  We will try to find the resources to make sure you can attend.  How many reduced-rate positions are available depends on contributions from other women.

 

Enjoy ~ Activities

     We want this to be a full-spectrum experience to expand skills, encourage personal growth, improve cooperative tools, inspire creativity, and promote health and wholeness.

     Walk or sit with the Land and creatures. Soak in the hottub. Browse the incredible library of 1000s of books by women.

     Listen to your Inner Voice and let your wisdom and creativity flow.

     Build new friendships.

     Focus on your Healing.

    

 

Outland & the New Mexico Women's GuestHouse, Retreat & Healing Center

 

      Located at Outland, a 1000-acre high desert Wildlife Refuge in northern New Mexico, the New Mexico Women's GuestHouse, Retreat & Healing Center offers a rare opportunity to immerse yourself in the wonder and wildness of nature.

     The nearest neighbor is 1-1/2miles away and the land is surrounded by state trust land and national forest. We don't have light or sound pollution nor vehicles, barking dogs or outside voices.

     We do have an abundance of wildlife, indigenous plants, expansive views, incredible peace, howling coyotes, moon majik, red clay mesas, awesome arroyos, and wonderful women.

    Browse through this (rather endless, laugh) information as well as the rest of our WebHome to get a sense of the wonderful time we are having at the Workshop.

 

 

Land Values

Please Note

     This is Woman's Space. Our construction is nontoxic & green. We use natural home care & body care products. We have unscented body care products available for your use.

     Please leave illegal drugs, weapons, alcohol, s/m display or practice, cigarettes  and perfumed products at home. 

     We are sorry that we cannot generally accommodate animal companions or children. 

     The land and activities encourage us into our biggest, wisest, most authentic Selves. We love sharing this incredible land with other women. We would love to share this land with you.

 

 

Food

      We will share meals and cooking tasks in our spacious Main House Kitchen. In addition, each GuestHouse has a fully equipped kitchenette.

     There will always be vegan & vegetarian options, with some meat meals as well. 

     As much as possible we use only organic, unprocessed and local ingredients. If poultry or other animal products are used, they are natural and free range.  Dairy products are always organic.

     We prepare our own breakfasts from a range of foods on hand.        Lunches are generally on-site picnics  and oh isn't there just something right about days with picnics-- smile!  Suppers area a range of delicious hot meals with and fresh salads.  

           

     Fruits and snack veggies / foods are available throughout the day.

     Our pure water is wonderful-- from our 604' well-- and our air is clean!

 

 

Take this link: Building Workshop Registration Form

 

Call Jae at 575.421.2533 with any questions.

 

Check our NMWomensRetreat.org WebHome regularly 

for updated information.

 

We Much Look Forward to Your Visit--

 

Join Us for the

Fun & Inspiration!

 

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