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last few years that Yvonne has chosen to facilitate workshops
that use art to delve into the psyche. As she says,
“I’m interested in using art to do serious work, not just to
make pretty pictures.”
Yvonne continues, “ I’m really seeing from my own life,
my friend’s lives, my clients’ lives, everything we choose
to do unless we’re aware of our choices, aware of our
history, we’re going to make the decisions that are bred
into us unconsciously. Someone has to help you make
those connections for you and usually it’s a shrink. You
can prepare yourself and maybe even help yourself in
a lot of ways without a shrink, but I think it’s good to
have one. Instead of teaching history in school, they
ought to make you learn your own history. This is one
of the reasons why I’ve created the Life Chart and am
facilitating this workshop.”
Yvonne firmly believes the more cognizant we become
of our own patterns and behaviors as they relate
to our personal and family histories, the more we’re at
choice to make different, perhaps even better decisions
for ourselves.
Making “the right choices” for ourselves and our
lives is serious work. Truth. Health. Happiness.
Wisdom. Love. These things are part of the
ever-evolving, self-discovery process called life.
It’s been, and continues to be, an eye-opening
journey for Yvonne. It’s a journey we’re all on and
it’s one she’d like to help people explore more of
through a fun and serious side of art-making; the
art of knowing our own personal histories.
CREATING YOUR LIFE CHART:
Exploring the Mysteries in
Your Life History
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Fred’s Farm– 201 S. Valley Rd. Naselle, WA
The ART & PSYCHE workshop led by Yvonne Edwards,
Ph.D. will include CREATING a LIFE CHART as PART of
a PERSONAL LIFE REVIEW in full color. In this workshop
you will discover patterns, life-altering experiences, and
other mysteries embedded in your family history through
drawing a GENOGRAM. The day will be spent in the
tomato greenhouse located in a historic dairy farm barn
on the Naselle River.
In the afternoon, you will assemble the first five years of
your LIFE CHART, using guided imagery, painting, and
collage. You will create at least 5 categories that can be
repeated for each year of your life. You will bring copies
of photos of yourself, your family members, pets, neighborhood
and homes you lived in, places you visited,
teachers, etc. that were part of your life through age 5.
All other art materials will be provided, and you do not
need to have any art experience. Workshop Fee: $100;
Lunch and Farm dinner is optional and has a separate
cost paid directly to Chef Fred Johnson.
Saturday, 8/20/11
10am Your Genogram
1pm Farm Lunch
2pm Assembling Your Life Chart
5pm Painting and Collage
Registration is required by August 15. California
MFT’s may accrue 7 CEUs. For questions, please call
Dr. Edwards at 503 338 7202.
Biodynamics and Economic Botany
In July, my wife Nancy and I celebrated
our 20th anniversary by taking a trip to the
Applegate Valley in southern Oregon. Wine
was the theme. We passed through many of
Oregon’s AVAs (American Viticultural Areas)
on the way, concentrating on the Chehalem
Mountains south of Hillsboro, Dundee Hills
west of Carlton, Umpqua Valley near Roseburg,
and finally the Applegate Valley (or
Southern Oregon) west of Ashland, where
we stayed at the wonderful Applegate River
Lodge.
One of our first stops on the trip was
at Cooper Mountain Vineyards. Given that
we had enough
time for only a
few stops, out
of almost 200
wineries between
here and Eugene
(our first night’s
layover), I chose
Cooper Mountain
because their
blurb on our
winery map said
they had “certified
organic and biodynamic
fruit”. I was
curious as to what
“biodynamic”
meant. Life forces
in wine?
Well, as a
matter of fact,
or at least assertion,
that’s what
biodynamics is all
about. Devised
by philosopher Rudolf Steiner in the 1920s,
biodynamics uses various “preparations” to
enhance the health of the soil and plants.
Also important is when these enhancers
are applied, so that astronomical forces are
taken into account. Even waterfalls are employed
to enhance the oxygen content in the
water used on the plants in a biodynamic
vineyard or farm.
In the tasting room at Cooper Mountain,
there were displays of the biodynamic preparations
and their beneficial effects. Passing
by the cow dung in cow horn preparation
(BD #500, and the big one), I honed in
on four of the plant preparations that are
sprayed on the grapes at prescribed times
of the year. Yes, weeds they are. Horsetail,
dandelion, stinging nettle and yarrow.
That’s BD #508, #506, #504 and #502,
respectively. Not officially invasive species
in Oregon or Washington, these plants are
nonetheless considered noxious weeds by
many, and countless resources are used
and marketed to remove them from gardens
and fields.
But as we’ve seen with other species
mentioned in this column, there are
by bob
goldberg
beneficial aspects to these weeds that are
often overlooked in our zeal to destroy them.
Horsetail, for instance, is used in biodynamic
agriculture to help prevent or control
disease. Yarrow has compounds that help
sequester beneficial trace elements. Stinging
nettle contains nutrients that grapes
need. And dandelion “stimulates the relation
between silica and potassium so that the
silica can attract cosmic forces to the soil,”
according to the Cooper Mountain display.
Of course, beneficial uses of these
plants have been known for centuries, and
many weeds have traditionally been used
as medicines
and cosmetics,
not to mention
foods, as well as
industrial products
such as dyes. In
fact, my Masters
thesis dealt with
the utilization
of an invasive
weed from South
Africa, the broafleafed
cotton
bush (Asclepias
rotundifolia), that
had naturalized in
South Australia,
where I carried
out the research
in the 1980s.
Back then, the
first wave of
“biomass” research
was going
on as the OPEC oil embargoes of the 70s
raised the price of oil enough to think about
alternatives for fuel and chemical products
such as polymers. Like today, the government
gave credit for fuels that were derived
from “renewable” sources, and therefore
the race was on to utilize plants that would
not detract from the food supply. Arid-land
weeds like the broad-leafed cotton bush
were prime candidates.
The field investigating the uses of plants
to man is called economic botany. And a
fascinating field it is. You can find out more
about economic botany from the Society
for Economic Botany website at http://www.
econbot.org/. Learn more about biodynamics
by visiting the Demeter USA site (the
certifying company, at demeter-usa.org;
their vision is “to heal the planet through
agriculture”), or the Biodynamic Farming &
Gardening Association (headquartered in
Junction City) website at www.biodynamics.
com.
Oh, and if you’re wondering, the wine
from Cooper Mountain tasted pretty good,
and no, Australia doesn’t get any fuel or
chemicals from the cotton bush. I tried.
Horsetails make wine.
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