A Way of Council

100 North 3rd Street,Carbondale CO 81623

29 July, 2021

Description

Join Colleen & Thompson Bishop weekly as they hold space for community, connection & conversation around the Fire Circle at True Nature. A Way of CouncilWeekly Community Gathering | Thursdays | 7 PM Located at the Fire Circle in the Peace Garden at True Nature Council is a unifying and compelling way and practice of communicating which cultivates empathic and transparent connection. It is both a compass and a guide that grounds an interweaving of voices – spoken and unspoken. The practice of Council and the Wisdom of the Circle are rooted in our ancestral, human lineage. Pan culturally many indigenous and/or earth-based communities gathered in the form of a circle as ritual for communicating together, such as telling stories, seeking collective truth, visioning & revelations, seeking understanding, decision making, and problem-solving. Today, Council is found & practiced within cultures all around the world and brought into a variety of contexts in diverse communities, relationships, and educational settings helping to nurture the roots of authentic connection, meaningful dialogue, healthy individuation, and reciprocal interdependence. The fee for this offering is by donation, and donations are accepted through True Nature Healing Arts. Suggested donation is $18 - $30. This offering is facilitated by Alchemy of Prana’s co-founders, Thompson Bishop and Colleen Bishop. Thompson (Tbird) Bishop grew up in the hills of East Tennessee and the mountains of Colorado. From an early age, Tbird began his study of music and a deep connection to the natural world. Trained in classical piano and voice, he received double undergraduate degrees in Music and Recording Arts. Deeply touched by the ecological struggles of the earth in human hands, Tbird returned to graduate studies in Animal Policy and Advocacy and then into Transpersonal Ecopsychology (MA) at Naropa University. In 2017, he co-founded Alchemy of Prana—an ecopsychological nonprofit fostering the liberation of reciprocal consciousness between the human and more-than-human world. Trained in Council at the Ojai Foundation and as a Vision Fast Guide with the School of Lost Borders, Tbird is currently a Ph.D. student at the California Institute for Integral Studies in Integral and Transpersonal Psychology with a Somatic Psychology emphasis. Tbird has a deep affinity for the Ragged Mountains and the Crystal Valley, and now finds sanctuary and home with his soulmate Colleen and their loving fury-kins just outside of Redstone, CO. Tbird loves trail running, hiking, mountain biking, skiing, yoga, and all things contemplative. He is an active part of multiple nonprofit and foundation boards, a freelance acoustic ecology researcher, project manager, photographer, and currently finalizing his fourth studio album entitled, Songs of Earth and Mountain. Colleen Bishop was raised in Philadelphia, PA. Her ecological identity was first birthed through the ocean and sand along the eastern coast of the USA. She began a career path in Elementary Education before hearing the call to nature. After living closer to the eastern coast in her mid-twenties, she eventually found herself in Landstuhl, Germany for 2 years, in which she discovered an affinity and profound loving connection with the Black Forest. In some ways, the connection began the path toward contacting wholeness the natural world, which eventually carried her to the "crazy wisdom" that Chogyam Trungpa founded Naropa University on and where she met and committed to deep loving with her beloved, and now husband, Thompson Bishop. Together, they now call home a majestic crystalline river valley within the Great Mysteriousing of the Western Slope Region of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. Colleen is a doctoral student of Integral and Transpersonal Psychology with an emphasis in Somatic Psychology at CIIS. She is also a graduate alumni of Naropa University and holds a MA in Transpersonal Ecopsychology as well as a yoga teacher certification. She serves as co-director for Alchemy of Prana--a nature-based nonprofit organization fostering the liberation of deep consciousness and relationship with the natural world. Colleen is also an ultra trail runner, yoga instructor, and a trained wilderness rite of passage guide, in which she serves as a bridge for the meeting of flesh and spirit to help guide human beings through transitions and rites of passages using the vision fast model through the School of Lost Borders. Her work in the world interweaves a deep dive into understanding the relationships between psyche, body, nature, service, and spirit in a ceremonial & heart based way that give voice to the myriad of ways we practice consciously navigating surrender (severance), the unseen liminal space (threshold) and birth (initiation) again and again. Her vibrant presence and soft voice speaks to the fierce loving she embodies. True Nature Healing Arts is a sanctuary in the heart of the Rockies featuring a Luxury Spa, Yoga, Organic Cafe, Boutique, Events & Peace Garden with Labyrinth & Reflexology Path.