Community Fire

A Profound Opportunity for Connection & Transformation!

Join us around the fire! This is a safe place for people from all backgrounds and traditions (or no tradition) to come together, connect, and share what is important in your life. As we do so, we find that worries and anxieties drop away. Challenges become less burdensome. We feel lighter with a new sense of possibility for our lives. There is room for more gratitude, joy, and meaning. These are the gifts of sacred fire!

Background:

Humans have been gathering around the fire for at least 800,000 years. Our earliest ancestors did so for light, warmth, and protection, but they also recognized Fire as a spiritual presence that helped them feel connected to each other and the great mysterious world around them. Fire was the orginal center: The place where people gathered to share stories about their daily lives and also the great sacred stories about how to live in a good way.

Today, Fire is associated with 'heart' or that capacity we have to feel connected to our emotions, each other, and the world around us.

Your Host:

The event is facilitated by a trained and initiated Firekeeper who has been holding events like this for almost 20 years. Your host is one of five dozen Firekeepers in six countries (the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Colombia, the U.K. and Australia) under the auspices of the organization Sacred Fire.

Info: Jessica De la O worked in higher education administration for many years before earning a Master's degree and then a Ph.D. in education from the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 1998. She went on to serve youth community organizations and developed and launched a rite of passage program for adolescent girls. She and Larry began holding informal fire gatherings in Santa Barbara in 1999 and they were formally trained and initiated as Firekeepers in 2005. They offered community fires in Sebastopol, CA and Bend, OR before moving to Carrollton eight years ago. Jessica is a certified Plant Spirit Medicine practitioner and offers healing sessions in Carrollton. She serves as the Plant Spirit Medicine Administrator for the Blue Deer Center based in Margaretville, NY and is on the Joint Council for Initiation into Adulthood for Sacred Fire.

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