Programs

Fall Session 2024:

Living out the Transformation

Future Perspectives for
A New Century:
The Re-Emergence of
The Divine for honoring
both Men and Women



Special attention will be given to the attendees' experiences, insights, and aspirations in this five-week course to navigate The Sophia Century.

The first two weeks will offer summaries of previous course content as well as some newly relevant content of scholarly papers, followed by dedicated and introspective journaling with reflective sharing.  Reflections will be followed by three weeks of group dialogue to collaboratively create together newly redemptive and healthy paths for both men and women.  

As I affirm what Anne Baring and Jules Cashford signified in their The Myth of the Goddess,

"The terms 'feminine' and 'masculine', 'female' and 'male' have been given so many different nuances of meaning down the ages and have been the repository of so much unconscious projection that they are now utterly ambiguous until a context is provided. . . ."  They emphasize, as I complement, "we intend the terms 'feminine' and masculine' to refer to a way of being or a mode of consciousness available to both men and women."  (page 284).

Handouts will be provided.  One early preparatory reading is an article  by Robert Powell:  sophia_and_the_rose_of_the_world.pdf (sophiafoundation.org) where he notes:

"The future age of Sophia will be an age of the flourishing of community, brotherhood and sisterhood, called in The Revelation to John ‘Philadelphia’. ‘Delphos’ means the womb, ‘adelphi’ means springing from the same womb, i.e. brothers and sisters come from the same womb. ‘Philadelphia’ – that is the love that exists between brothers and sisters coming from the same womb. In a more extended sense, ‘Philadelphia’ is the community of brotherly and sisterly love."  (page 6).

Additionally, we will reflect upon and answer a variety of questions, such as those posited in the recent scholarship on the Divine Feminine at (20) Goddess Thealogy: An International Journal for the Study of the Divine Feminine Vol 1 No. 1.1 (A4) December 2011 | Patricia 'Iolana, PhD and Bobbie Grennier - Academia.edu.  

"We comprehend thealogy in the following way: thealogy is concerned with the beliefs, wisdom, embodied practices, questions, and values as they relate to any religious or spiritual practice, indigenous or contemporary, that upholds the principle of an ontological Sacred Feminine. Thealogy, at its core, tries to make sense of the relationship between the Sacred Feminine/Goddess(es) and all life forms in the cosmos grounded in a feminist or post- feminist episteme. Thealogy draws attention to various ultimate questions including but not limited to the following:  

Who are we in relation to the Divine Feminine? 

How are we to be/become?

Why are we here? 

Where are we going? 

What is the purpose of my life, and

How do I live my life in such a way that is authentic to God/dess witness?" 

(page 9, "Thealogy: Mapping a Fluid and Expanding Field" by Patricia ‘Iolana and Angela Hope)

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Dates and Times:  September 28th to October 26th - 5 Saturdays, 1:00 to 2:30 pm EST
 

Time Zones:

Alberta, Canada |  Saturday at 11 AM

California  |  Saturday at 10 AM
London |  Saturday at 6 PM
New York  |  Saturday at 1 PM

Cost:  $ 80 + $ 5.30 tax = $ 85.30 for 7.5 hours of facilitation.
Regular Registration due by Wednesday, September 25th.
 
15% Discount to $ 68.00 + $ 3.98 tax = $ 71.98 for early enrollment by Saturday, September 14, 2024.


FREE one-hour group support for sharing your thoughts or questions scheduled by Zoom.  Date/Time TBA depending on participants' best open schedule.















Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed!
If you are not absolutely satisfied with any of the three Sophia Century courses — please submit your Refund Request to my email at services@reneesophia.com on or before your third session for each course in 2024.  I will respectfully consider your request and issue qualifying customers a refund according to the percentage of time and/or reasons you had selected not to continue attendance. 

Without any reason(s) given for refunds after attending: 

(1) the first course, 90% of your fully paid amount will be refunded; or

(2) the second course, 80% of your fully paid amount will be refunded; or

(3) the third course, 70% of your fully paid amount will be refunded. 

If you have a qualified and good reason to quit, as indicated due to a default or fault of my own, or your unhappiness with my course, I will happily refund you 100%, the full amount that you had paid!  I guarantee you will feel accommodated with a genuinely positive experience.  

Thank you for your time and consideration, and I look forward to meeting with you.