Spiritual Transformation Through the Dancing Heart

Ubud, Bali

Discover and Dance Your Heart' s Song
September 23 – September 30, 2008

Come join Dr. Deborah McGill and Masankho Banda on the Holy Island of Bali as our collective energies co-create positive alchemy to change You, Me and Us as we send out the ripple effects that will ignite our Spirits to spread the energy out to the collective universe.

Drum with the resonance of the Universe, allow your Heart’s Song to emerge, and interconnect with other like-minded people in a dynamic way as we fulfill our Soul’s desire for Planetary Healing. We invite you to join us as we ignite our Minds, Bodies, and Spirit with Peace and Compassion, Joy and Love. From a multi-sensory energetic awareness, we will practice tools to active the Soul’s Song needed to transform ourselves and our extended communities. Along with our workshop, we will visit the Water and Stone Temples and explore the arts such as world-class painters, wood and stone carvers and mask makers.

We will use and experience:       

·        Dance

·        Drumming

·        Role Play

·        Interplay

·        Guided Meditation

·        Find Peace Within and help activate Global Renewal

·        Connect to your Heart’s Intuitive Wisdom

·        Move and weave your Personal Story from the inside out

·        Discover your Soul’s Passionate Freedom

·        Understand the Power of Diversity

·        Find Personal Vision that extends to Global Consciousness

Registration:

$1600 includes Retreat, Accommodations and Transfers to and from airport.

To register please send a check made out to Masankho Banda, PMB 101, 1185 Solano Avenue, Albany, CA 94706 or visit www.ucandanc.org  or www.globalheartwisdom.com to pay using Paypal. For more information call Deborah at (949) 291.7912 or Masankho at (510) 773.7328.

Deborah’s Bio   Dr. Deborah McGill’s life work and passion is in co-creating experiential workshops and facilitating Spiritual awareness. Using multi-sensory techniques, Deborah will help you discover your passion by learning practical tools for creating freedom in your life. She is a Certified Intergenerational Specialist in Psychology and helps others discover that their history is not their destiny.

Dissatisfied with traditional counseling approaches, Deborah developed through personal experience and education, a specialized process to assist others through transformation. Deborah uniquely integrates Psychology and Spirituality in a powerful and energetic way. Her workshops combine intergenerational beliefs and values, sensory techniques and creativity for quantum jumps into wholeness.

Dr. McGill’s work appeals to those seeking greater awareness of mind and body connections.  Deborah earned her BA in Behavioral Sciences with a minor in Psychology in 1977 from La Verne University in California. She worked as an elementary school teacher for 7 years before she went back to school and attained her M.Ed. from Azusa Pacific University. Deborah went into the administrative aspect of education and worked as a school principal until 1994.  

Dr. McGill left her career as an educator and went on to earn her second Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from Azusa Pacific University in California. With her deep passion for the phenomenological aspects of human intimacy, she continues her studies and completed her doctorate in 2000.    

In 2004 Deborah traveled to her spiritual home land of Ireland for a Spiritual Pilgrimage. The experience transformed her inner world and when she returned home, she left her traditional practice and began working with the whole of the person (body, mind, spirit). She began her quest for Global Heart Wisdom. In 2005, Deborah traveled to Bali, Indonesia for The Quest for Global Healing Conference with Desmond Tutu. Traveling through Bali Deborah found her heart and spirit expand as she integrated the energies of a beautiful land where something special, almost magical happened. Bali is a tropical paradise where ancient traditions have continued for centuries – an island like few places on earth, an intense concentration of color, music, history, myth, and spiritual practice. Deborah committed to herself and others that she would bring people back to meet the remarkable people of beauty, peace, and compassion who live their lives with deep respect for each other, their community, ancestors and a conscious awareness of balance in their Lives.

“Be the change you want to see in the world!” Gandhi

Masankho’s Bio  Masankho Banda was born in Malawi, Central Africa. Growing up in Malawi, he learned about peace, diversity and community building from his elders in the village. Masankho spent many hours in the village listening to stories and watching the dancers and the drummers. He realized as a child that drums and dance had the power to bring communities together and heal any divisions.

Masankho moved to the United States in 1987 as a Political refugee. His father spent twelve years (1980 to 1992) as a political prisoner under the brutal and harsh dictatorship of the founding President of Malawi. Seeing the injustices that his Father and Mother suffered under the brutal dictatorship Masankho was inspired to work for peace and justice. He realized that it was his job and task to fulfill the dream that his grandmother had for him.

Masankho earned his BA in Theater with minor in Dance from the College of Wooster in Ohio and then his MA in Culture and Spirituality from Holy Names University in Oakland. From 1991 to this day Masankho has worked all over the world to bring about Peace and Justice using his talents as a performing artist.

Masankho is able to reach intergenerational audiences of all cultures everywhere his work takes him. His work has taken him to Sierra Leone (working with child soldiers), to Croatia (volunteering in refugee camps with children and teenagers), working with African Youth Peace activists in South Africa. He has also visited 47 of the 50 US states working with various organizations, schools and churches to share his message of peace, diversity and justice.

Masankho has worked alongside Nobel Peace Laureates (e.g. Bishop Desmond Tutu, Rigorberta Menchu, Jody Williams), World Leaders, Healers, Entertainers and people who love peace and justice from all over the world. He brings his traditional Malawian learning and creativity together with his western education to effectively advocate for change. He is particularly passionate about working for change for the children of the world who suffer due to injustice and violence in their communities and countries.

Masankho is the co-founder of the Institute for PeaceBuilding (IPB) (A project of Pathways To Peace), founder of UcanDanc’ African Healing Arts, a member of Wing It! Performance Ensemble and a Certified InterPlay Leader. He also is adjunct Professor at John F Kennedy University and Holy Names University in the Bay Area. For his work around the world Masankho was awarded the Unsung Hero of Compassion by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 2001.