Workshop Description
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PARTICIPANTS
Minimum 30, Maximum none
ROOM LAYOUT
Chairs in Semi-circle, Carpet, Table Upfront, Black or White Board
AUDIO/VISUALS
Overhead Projector, Screen, Lapel Microphone
SESSIONS
Reconsidering the Phenomenon, Telling the Story, What Happens with Children,
A Challenge to the Audience, Empathic Experiences
BOOKS ON HAND
Beyond the Light (Atwater), Children of the New Millennium (Atwater), The Complete
Idiots Guide to Near-Death Experiences (Atwater), Blessing in Disguise (Rommer)
PRESENTER
P.M.H.Atwater, L.H.D., Ph.D. (Hon.)
P. O. Box 7691
Charlottesville, VA 22906-7691
(434) 974-7945
HYPERLINKS
"atwater@cinemind.com"
http://www.pmhatwater.com
FIVE SESSIONS - each 1 -hour in length with breaks in-between, designed for a two-day weekend, or to begin on a Friday night and end with the final session on Sunday.
1. RECONSIDERING THE PHENOMENON: (Lecture, Overheads) Fact and fantasy setting the record straight. A new model, Saigon- features of genuine experiences. Four types sample cases. Pleasant and unpleasant episodes surprising examples. The typical pattern of physiological and psychological aftereffects, and how people generally respond. The near-death-like experience/transformations.
2. TELLING THE STORY: People in the audience are invited to tell their own story, or relay a story they know about another. Relatives and friends of experiencers are also urged to share what happened to them and what they witnessed as they dealt with the individual.
3. WHAT HAPPENS WITH CHILDREN: (Lecture, Overheads) Looking at childrens episodes through their eyes. The youngest hellish case yet found; childrens drawings, past/future siblings. Greeters and the three distinctive types of light. Aftereffects more impactual with kids: creative intuitives, genius, learning reversals, alcoholism, suicide, distancing from family/school. Historical figures implication.
4. A CHALLENGE TO THE AUDIENCE: (Q&A, Dialogue, Debate, Sharings) Open microphone to ask questions, talk about the downside. If time, will broach such topics as: depressions and confusion afterwards, the Need Factor and what that implies, the horror in China, the difference between psychotic breakdowns and spiritual breakthroughs, etc.
5. EMPATHIC EXPERIENCES/SHARINGS: (Guided Visualization, Stories) Using the pattern of near-death scenarios as a guided visualization to confront ones own issues about death, and as an empathic way to assist in the dying process. Step-by-step directions and suggestions. Stories from the edge. Participants are invited to share photos, drawings, poetry, art work, that depict aspects of their experience.
BRIEF RESUME OF PRESENTER
P.M.H.Atwater, L.H.D., Ph.D. (Hon.) is one of the original researchers of the near-death phenomenon, having begun her work in 1978. Today, her contribution to the field of near-death studies is widely considered on par with that of Raymond Moody, Jr., M.D. and Kenneth Ring, Ph.D. Her research base is one of the largest. Experiencers attending meetings of the International Associa- tion For Near-Death Studies (IANDS) have named her books, Coming Back to Life and Beyond the Light, as the bibles of the near-death experience. With the publication of Future Memory, she has expanded her work into areas of brain development that call for a reconsideration of what is presently known about transformations of consciousness in general, and the near-death phenomenon in particular. Children of the New Millennium is her most provocative work yet; The Complete Idiots Guide to Near-Death Experiences (with David Morgan), a veritable ency- clopedia of the near-death experience, its implications and aftereffects, including both positive and negative aspects. At present, she is finishing a book about death that she promised the soul of her granddaughter she would write, after her sudden passing. The accompanying CD, As You Die, is designed to enable the dying to make the transition through death without fear. Two-term Board Member of IANDS, she was Second Vice-President before retiring her post.
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