ANTN's
18th Annual Conference
One Source, Many Threads: Weaving
the Sacred Tapestery of Life
April 12-16, 2010 - Phoenix, Arizona
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Monday, 12th
Special
Ministers’ Session 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Alan Cohen - Magnificent
Models of Ministry
Ministers connect during a heart-filled session that begins with an integration
process of our beloved
ANTN family. Inspirational teacher, Alan Cohen, will then introduce us
to ministers and mentors who have impacted
him most profoundly on his spiritual journey.
Special
Practitioners’ Session 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Rev. Dr. Rick Moss -
Moving Beyond Limitations: Awakening to the Sacred Self
Explore a different form of treatment. Experience and identify limiting
beliefs, retained emotions and life patterns and release them to reveal
our Divine and Perfect Self.
Evening
General Session 7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
ANTN Opening Ceremony
Alan Cohen - Living the Spirit in the Midst of Life
True spirituality does not require escaping life, but diving into it.
Alan Cohen will show you why life is a holy journey and how to weave Spirit
into your daily adventures.
Tuesday, 13th
Morning
Actiities, 7:15 - 8:00 a.m.
Each morning, enjoy your choice of yoga, QiGong, Greeting the Sun ceremony,
meditation or a self-guided labyrinth walk.
Morning
General Session 9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Rev. Jean Sweet - Cultivating Abundance: The Organic
Truth!
ANTN’s first Farmer Minister shares the principles of organic gardening
- which happen to be the perfect spiritual guidelines for growing your
vision and your life.
Afternoon Concurrent Sessions 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Rev.
Van Austin - Expect the Best
Experience a progressive unfolding of consciousness with four keys to
explore and realize the best in yourself and in others. This “best”
— and nothing else — is the truth of every person’s
being.
Rev.
Dr. Michele Whittington - Conscious Money Management
In the Parable of the Talents, Jesus offers a profound prosperity teaching
-- Those who manage their money wisely will receive more. Those who don't,
won't! In this workshop, you will receive a tool for managing your money
wisely while creating a shift in your abundance consciousness.
Rev.
Scott deSnoo - Expose Yourself
Humility often makes us reluctant to tell others who we really are. This
workshop explores graceful ways of revealing our gifts to the world.
Annual General Meeting 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Evening General Session 7:00
- 9:00 p.m.
Rev.
Dr. Janette Freeman - Stand in Your Divine Authority
to Create - From Image to Form
We were created to participate in the Divine Creation, but many times
get lost in the created. It’s time to remember, choose, and create
that which WILL become form.
Wednesday, 14th
Morning General Session Wednesday, 9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Arizona
InterFaith Movement - Many Paths, One God
In this informative and interactive session, we will hear from leaders
of faith traditions from around the world, remembering that the fabric
of love and peace is woven with threads of understanding.
Afternoon Concurrent Workshops - Block 1 1:30 - 3:00
p.m.
Rev.
Arpad Petrass - Becoming Awake in Your Financial
Affairs
Stop “Hoping and Wishing” for abundance and move into the
school of “Doing and Being” abundance. Discover what your
blocks to Prosperity and Success really are. Allow Spirit to weave your
own tapestry for success.
Rev.
Abigail Albert - Interfaith Relationships for Peace,
Harmony and Understanding
Explore compassionate ways to connect with people of all faith traditions
in order to build strong, supportive, cooperative relationships that go
beyond tolerance to friendship.
Rev.
Dr. Nick Angotti & Rev. Irene Danon - Healing
Heart Wounds
Experience the reverends’ combined intentions for healing and action
in a new and controversial approach to forgiveness. Come open your hearts
to the acceptance of your true nature and discover a process by which
you realize a deeper sense of who you are.
Afternoon Concurrent Workshops - Block 2 3:15 - 4:45
Rev.
Lisa Stewart-deSnoo - The Mystical Path of Heart
Healing
Learn specific tools to open your heart and connect with your essential
self. As you move towards self-realization, you will connect more deeply
with others and become a better leader. A consciousness of worthiness
can only be attained by leaving behind self-deception. Life is meant to
be fun, juicy, joyful and meaningful.
Rev.
Jean Sweet - Create Your Own Traditional Tibetan
Prayer Flags
Learn the history of Prayer Flags and have fun making your own flag (materials
provided). Experience deep meditation and meaningful dialogue as you explore
this ancient tradition.
Sweat
Lodge (pre-registration required)
The Inner Heart
Beginning with a Medicine Pipe Ceremony, we enter the Sweat Lodge to connect
with the deepest part of our being -- our inner heart. You will emerge
from this sacred experience reborn, rejuvenated and realigned.
We spend no more than one hour in the sweat lodge, fasting is not required and you may leave the sweat whenever you’d like. To participate in this activity, you must pre-register.
Evening General Session 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Sally
Kempton - The Heart of the Heart – Living an
Awakened Life
This contemplative and interactive session offers transformative teachings
and energy practices which brings esoteric teachings into a living, felt
experience that both grounds the teachings in daily reality and allows
them to expand your heart and mind.
Late Evening Workshop 9:30 - 10:30 p.m.
Dr.
Robert Dee McDonald - Forgiving the Unforgivable:
Re-Weaving Threads of the Heart
Ernest Holmes said, “Nothing is more important than that we learn
how to forgive both ourselves and others.” Learn how to gently forgive
in the twinkling of an eye. This session is open to everyone and especially
ideal for practitioner work.
Thursday, 15th
Morning General Activity and Workshop 9:30 - 11:45 a.m.
Threads
of Connection
We gather together this morning to strengthen the threads of connection
that weave us together followed by an empowering workshop with Dr. Marc
Gafni entitled The Tantra of Practical Enlightenment. In this workshop,
we will experience together, in heart, body and mind how the five faces
of eros each open a different door to the radical fulfillment of our destiny,
obligation and pleasure as spiritual beings of the human kind.
Afternoon Concurrent Workshops 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Rev.
Dr. Bernardo Monserrat - Spiritual Coaching: A Tool
to Heal Wounds of the Heart
Spiritual Coaching affirms that clients are Spiritual beings with an inner
Wisdom capable of healing the condition that afflicts them. Come learn
techniques to support clients in a new way of facing themselves and the
world in which they live.
Dr.
Gary Richmond - Enhancing the Sacred: Inner Healing
and Consciousness
This workshop includes skits evoking metaphors speaking directly to the
subconscious, visualizations countering miss-beliefs and embracing one’s
divine truth.
Rev.
Susan Boatright - Ethics for New Thought Centers
Learn what every spiritual leader, board member, practitioner and congregant
should know about ethics in their church or center.
Emerson
Graduation/ANTN Banquet ~ The Tapestry of Celebration
and Joy 4:00 - 9:00 p.m.
After being transported to Creative Living Fellowship, we will celebrate our Emerson Theological Institute graduates and then experience an evening of delicious food, playful entertainment and our ever-popular auction and raffle fundraiser.
Friday, 16th
Morning General Session 9:30 - 12:00 a.m.
Dr.
Marc Gafni - New Evolutionary Spirituality
Everyday enlightenment becomes a powerful possibility in our lives. Learn
five core constructs of enlightenment and how each expresses the liberated
consciousness necessary to live your life in evolutionary integrity, radical
aliveness and profound joy.
Closing
Ceremony: Weaving the Sacred Tapestry of Life
As our conference concludes, we connect a final time to recognize the
One Source and affirm our intention to weave each of our unique threads
into the sacred tapestry of life. Be sure to stay for this powerful and
inspiring closing session.
