January 1, 2013 

HealingHeartPower Newsletter

Reclaiming the Power of the Heart
In This Issue
Making the World A Better Place for Children
Accessing the Power of Your Voice: Benefit Concert for Boys to Men New England
Emotional Allergies and ADD
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About Linda
Me and Flora

Linda Marks, MSM, is pioneer in body psychotherapy who has developed, taught and practiced Emotional-Kinesthetic Psychotherapy (EKP) for more than two decades.

Author of LIVING WITH VISION and HEALING THE WAR BETWEEN THE GENDERS, she co-founded the Massachusetts Association of Body Psychotherapists and Counseling Bodyworkers and is the founder of the Boston Area Sexuality and Spirituality Network. She holds degrees from Yale and MIT, and has a vital 16-year-old son.

To find out more about Linda . . .


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Would you like to learn how to do Emotional Kinesthetic Psychotherapy(EKP)?   


If you would like to apprentice in EKP, you may want to consider participating in a half-day EKP workshop or be part of the Community As Healer group.     

 

 

January 18

Integrating Sexuality and Spirituality

at David Sneickus' and Margaret Arndt's home

7 - 10 pm

 

February 2

Community As Healer

workshop

Newton, MA 

1 - 4 pm

 

April 21, 2013

2nd Annual "Voices of Boys and Men" Benefit Concert for Boys to Men New England

Scullers Jazz Club

Boston, MA

 

If you would like to train in EKP, contact Linda

 

If you would like to sponsor a

Healing the Traumatized Heart workshop, a Willingness:  The Key to Successful Relationships workshop or a Community As Healer workshop,

contact LSMHEARTaol.com




 
In addition to attending the concert yourself, you can also sponsor a boy from a local charter school to attend!  Tickets are $75.  See details below.
  
  
Articles in this issue are: "Making the World A Better Place for Children" sharing the work of the Life Is Good Playmakers,  and "Emotional Allergies and ADD" reflecting on the book Scattered by Gabor Mate.
 
The next  Community As Healer workshops is coming up:   Saturday, February 2 from 1 - 4 pm.  
 
All funds raised at these workshops are donated to organizations working to make the world a better place for kids.
 
Integrating Sexuality and Spirituality, will be my next workshop at the home of Margaret Arndt and David Sneickus  at their home in Auburndale.  The workshop will take place  on Friday, January 18 at 7 pm.  Contact msarndt@verizon.net for more information.
  

To help raise the visibility of EKP, I have established a new HealingHeartPower meetup group.  To join our meetup group....

  

Your comments and feedback are always welcome!    

Heartfully,

Linda  

What is EKP?
EKP is Emotional-Kinesthetic Psychotherapy, a heart-centered, body-centered psychotherapy method Linda Marks developed and has taught and practiced for nearly twenty years. Working with the heart, touch with permission, the wisdom of the body and the intuitive guidance of the spirit, EKP creates a special sense of intimacy that deeply touches and transforms most all who participate.

Participants can be "client," witness or helper as an individual group member has a "turn" to do deeper heart-centered, body-centered psychospiritual work in the center. Since the electromagnetic field of the heart extends out 10 - 12 feet from our bodies, as we go deeper and open our hearts, we are all touched.

EKP helps restore our capacity as organs of perception. The skin is our largest organ, and a source of soul deep knowing, perception and expression. When our hearts and hands can work as one, we move beyond defenses safely and respectfully and find freedom, connection and expression.

 

Beige silk and pearls
Linda Marks, MSM

  

Emotional safety is the foundation of EKP.  When we are emotionally safe, we are more aware of feelings, sensations and deeper thoughts in our bodies and hearts.  You will have a chance to listen to and care for your heart as you help create and hold a safe healing space for everyone's heart.  Experience what we mean when we say that in EKP, "when anyone has a turn, everyone has a turn."

 

2nd Annual Benefit Concert for Boys to Men New England:  Accessing the Power of Your Voice
2013 Benefit Concert Flyer
This year's Benefit Concert for Boys to Men New England will take place on Sunday, April 21 from 5 - 7:30 pm at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston.

Our female keynote speaker and headliner is world renowned jazz singer Rebecca Parris.  Our male keynote speaker is Williams College head football coach, Aaron Kelton.  Both Rebecca and Aaron will speak to this year's theme, "Accessing the Power of Your Voice."

Our performers will include returning favorites (father and son duo, Jesse and Jack Gauthier, award winning teen barbershop group G20, and award winning adult barbershop group Sounds of Concord...) and some new and inspirational talents (including five piece family band, the Kid Jazz Band...).

Tickets are $75, available by sending a check payable to Boys to Men New England to BTMNE c/o Linda Marks, 3 Central Avenue, Newton, MA 02460.  Please include your name, e-mail and cell phone number with your check.

You can also support BTMNE by:

1.  Sponsoring a charter school student from Codman Academy, Brooks Academy or Prospect Hill Academy to attend the concert.  (Send in $75 payable to BTMNE and you will sponsor one student to attend).

2.  Making a donation of any amount to BTMNE.

3.  Taking out an ad in our program ($250 for a business card sized ad).
  
Making the World A Better Place for Children

 

"The most threatening health crisis facing children in America today is exposure to adverse childhood experiences."

                       --Journal of Preventive Medicine

 

The first weekend in December, I had the privilege of attending the Life Is Good Playmakers first level training.  The Life Is Good Playmakers Training is part of the Life Is Good Kids Foundation, the non-profit arm of Life Is Good, known for their clever and catchy t-shirts and other products with the famous "Jake" cartoon character image and the words "Life Is Good" imprinted on them.

 

 The Life Is Good Playmakers (LIGP) emerged in 2010 when Project Joy, created by Steve Gross in 1989 to help homeless and impoverished kids, partnered with Life Is Good. LIGP found that the three most adverse childhood experiences are poverty, illness and violence, which includes trauma, neglect and abuse.  Trauma, poverty, violence and illness all greatly compromise a child's spirit, health and future in life.  Play has been found to be the greatest healing force in overcoming these kinds of experiences.  

 

 

 

To read the entire article... 

 

Workshops:  Community As Healer and Integrating Sexuality and SpiritualityFind us on Facebook

Community As Healer

Saturday, February 2 from 1 - 4 pm in Newton

$50 suggested donation will go to Boys to Men New England, the Life Is Good Kids Foundation and other organizations committed to making the world better for children.
Be part of a healing village doing EKP (Emotional-Kinesthetic Psychotherapy) body-centered psychotherapy work in community and see what we mean in EKP when we say, "when anyone has a turn, everyone has a turn."  We will create a space of emotional safety, incorporating a heart meditation, facilitated dialogue, and watching body language and non-verbal cues for the person having a turn.

Learn about the roles of client, witness and helper in EKP as we create a safe container with our collective heart field in 20 minute turns.  No matter what role you play, our goal is for you to feel nourished and supported!

Linda Marks, MSM, is a body psychotherapy coach and mediator who has worked with individuals, couples, families and groups for 27 years in Newton, MA.  Helping people connect, feel heard and understood so they have healthier, happier relationships is at the heart of her work.   Linda is committed to creating a better world for children and serves as Board Co-Chair of Boys to Men New England, serves on the Board of Directors for Ben Speaks, and serves on the Board of Advisors for the Flo Creed Jacobson Foundation.

Integrating Sexuality and Spirituality
Friday, January 18  7 - 10 pm in Newton, MA
  

 For more information or to enroll:   Contact Margaret at msarndt@verizon.net

 

Emotional Allergies and ADD
 
In his book, Scattered, Gabor Mate notes that if we add up all the people in our society who struggle from ADD, depression and other common psychological "problems" in North America, we will discover that more than a third of the population "suffers" from these "conditions."
When the numbers are so large, is there really an epidemic "disease" running through our culture?  Or could it be possible that we we label as "dis-ease" or a "dis-order," might actually be a positive evolutinary trend, contributing to the transformation of our society in a life-sustaining way?
  
Mate postulates that "what is being transmitted genetically is not ADD, but sensitivity."  And sensitivity is actually a very important trait for our evolution and survival as a species.  Mate reflects that it is sensitive people who best express "humanity's creative urges and needs," and who can best interpret the world through their "instinctual responses."

                   To read the entire article

Copyright 2012 Linda Marks  
  
Creating Better Lives for Kids:  Boys to Men, Flo Creed-Jacobson Foundation, BenSpeaks, Life Is Good Kids Foundation
One of my greatest commitments is to support organizations that work to make the world a better place for kids.  Four of the organizations I give time to are Boys to Men New England, the Flo Creed-Jacobson Foundation, BenSpeaks and the Life Is Good Kids Foundation.

In the months ahead, I will share more information about each of these important organizations and the transformational work they are doing.  All proceeds from my Community As Healer workshops are donated to these organizations or others like them.

Boys to Men offers adult-teen mentoring in community, helping teenage boys find their voices and grow into the men they want to be.  We offer a community group that meets regularly, and also help schools develop school-based programs.  Our 2nd Annual "Voices of Boys and Men" Benefit Concert will take place at Scullers Jazz Club on April 21, 2013. To learn more...

My first blog at www.heartspacecafe.com/blog will still be active, but it is built in forum software, which many people find more cumbersome to use than official "blog" software.

In an effort to cultivate more dialogue in more contemporarily relevant ways, my new blog at HealingHeartPower.blogspot.com is user friendly, and even something you can subscribe to.
Please let me know what you think of this new blog.

Heartfully,


Linda Marks


email: lsmheart@aol.com
phone: (617) 965-7846
web: www.HealingHeartPower.com