Transformational Dialogues

Presented by Dr. Craig Weinston, D.C.

To transform is to change the condition, nature, or function of...to alter or transmute. It is my wish that these ongoing dialogues serve to bring you a vehicle to make the greatest possible changes that you wish for in yourself.

Tue. July 7, 6 - 6:45 The Kneebone's Connected to the... with Dr. Craig An evening workshop focusing on Knees. Do your knees hurt? Feel unstable? Grind? Does it hurt to go up and down stairs? Have you given up on knee bends? This workshop will discuss various knee conditions from sprains and strains to arthritis and meniscus injuries. Come and learn more about what is wrong, why and what you can do about it. To Register: Call The Chiropractic Zone at 331-5565 or Email drcraig@chirozone.net
Tues. July 14 6- 7:30 EFT - A Panel of Experts including Alina Frank, Dr. Craig Weinston, Virginia Fink and Julie Pigott If you haven't yet heard of, or experienced EFT, then you are missing an amazing opportunity to find a simple and profoundly effective method for making tremendous changes in your life. This technique is endorsed by Drs. Deepak Choprah, Bruce Lipton, Candace Pert and Joseph Mercola. We will be presenting a diverse array of local practitioners discussing the many uses of the Emotional Freedom Techniques for healing physical and emotional challenges. Areas that will be discussed will include the application of EFT for Women's Health Issues, Pain Syndromes, Life Transitions, and working with Children/Parenting issues. Donations will benefit the Whidbey Island Veteran Resource Center. The Panelists Virginia Fink is a Life Coach for people going through life transitions such as changes in personal relationships, jobs, retirement, relocation, health challenges, life direction as well as Personal Performance. She collaborates with clients to eliminate emotional roadblocks to achieving their goals. She teaches clients how to employ self help energy psychology techniques such as EFT Emotional Freedom Technique for rapid, lasting results. Virginia provided psychotherapy service in San Francisco for over thirty years to hundreds of clients. In the past ten years she trained in a wide range of Energy Psychology modalities. This led her to transition into Life Coaching using Energy Psychology tools. Virginia Fink MSW in Social Work, Certified Life Coach, EFT Practitioner,workshop leader 360 221-2406 www.keepitsimplelifecoaching.com Alina Frank, CERT-I is a EFT practitioner and trainer specializing in women's health issues. She has written articles on healing using EFT in domestic and international publications and has been interviewed on several radio shows. As the region's top instructor, Alina has taught over 2000 students and clients around the world how to transform their emotional, physical, and spiritual challenges with the use of meridian energy therapy. She is a moderator on the founder's web forum. Her websites include www.tapyourpower.net, www.eftmentors.com, and www.epworkshops.com. Locally she can be found at her home office 360.221.2120 or at The Chiropractic Zone. Julie Mae Pigott, of Tapping Tunes, works with young children, parents, teachers and childcare providers to share the common language of EFT tapping through music play. Using the universal language of music, children playfully learn to shift challenging emotions and behaviors. Parents, teachers and providers become empowered to support emotional balance before problems arise, as well as intervening during difficult times. Julie first learned about the benefits of EFT tapping from her Naturopathic Doctor 13 years ago. Desperate to understand how to help her 2 and 5 year olds (and herself!) through some extremely challenging days, Julie found peace for her family! Still tapping after all these years, she is delighted to offer this simple yet incredibly effective tool that no parent should be without! Family Balance is just a Tap Away! Julie Mae Pigott: B.A. in Social Work, EFT Practitioner, Parent, Children's Musician, Adult Folk Singer/Songwriter www.TappingTunes.com 360-321-4245 or 360-632-9390 "Dr Craig" has been in the healing arts fields for nearly 25 years, working with clients and patients in a wide array of therapeutic practices including chiropractic, massage therapy, energy medicine and EFT. He has been a teacher, workshop organizer and retreat leader. He is the creator and director of the Transformational Dialogues, a program that brings transformative healing pathways and professionals together to explore multi-dimensional approaches to healing. Together with Alina Frank, he has been an instructor of the Emotional Freedom Techniques in the Seattle and Whidbey Island area. He brings a unique perspective to the world of healing, having worked inside and outside the "medical establishment" and is a passionate speaker and teacher. Craig Weinston, DC The Chiropractic Zone 360- 331- 5565 www.chirozone.net To Register: Call The Chiropractic Zone at 331-5565 or Email drcraig@chirozone.net Donations will support Whidbey Island Veteran Resource Center	Tues. July 28 6 - 7:30 The Inspired Heart: An Artist's Journey of Transformation with Jerry Wennstrom and Marilyn Strong In 1979 at the height of a successful career, artist Jerry Wennstrom had a spiritual epiphany that mandated he surrender all attachments and destroy his life's work of paintings and sculptures. "It was the letting go of everything I thought was most me. It felt like a leap into a most sublime and formless creative expression," he said. He walked out of his Nyack, New York, loft, and for the next 10 years lived with nothing, wandering, seeking, listening and trusting. As experienced speakers and workshop leaders, Jerry and his wife, singer and ceremonialist Marilyn Strong, put on a unique and participatory multimedia/musical event that opens people to thinking about themselves, their lives and their spirituality in a uniquely different way. Hearing Jerry's story often helps others engage the transpersonal and universal aspects of surrender and metaphorical death that are inherent in their own journeys. As part of the presentation, they will show a documentary film that was made about Jerry and his art called "In the Hands of Alchemy," distributed by Sentient Publications and Parabola. Jerry Wennstrom is the author of The Inspired Heart: An Artist’s Journey of Transformation. The meditation tower that he built on their Whidbey Island property, along with his life's story is featured in the book, Holy Personal by Laura Chester. Jerry now has a large, new body of art, travels nationally teaching, lecturing, and presenting his art and the films that were made about his life. He continues to do his art, has published and/or done over 50 articles and media interviews and contributes to a N.Y. consulting firm called Inferential Focus. For more information or to see his interactive sculptures, please visit his web site at www.handsofalchemy.com. Marilyn Strong holds a BA in Religion and Adult Education and an MA in Spirituality and Culture. She has been a skilled creator and facilitator of adult spirituality programs and workshops for twenty-six years. She has twelve years experience as a pregnancy counselor and adoption social worker, is an interfaith minister and a respected ceremonialist and singer. For the past eleven years Marilyn has worked closely with clients to create customized sacred ritual and ceremony to fit their personal needs, such as weddings, memorial services or rites of passage ceremonies. As a certified Death Midwife she also provides advance planning seminars, coaching and education about natural death care, and services to families as a home funeral guide. To Register: Call The Chiropractic Zone at 331-5565 or Email drcraig@chirozone.net Proceeds from this talk will support the Whidbey Institute
	Tues. August 4 6 - 6:45 Elbows and Wrists; From Tennis Elbow to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome with Dr. Craig Suffering from painful gripping of the golf club or tennis racquet? Having hand numbness and weakness? Tonight will be an exploration of the treatment and prevention of overuse arm and hand injuries from sprains, to tendinitis to bursitis and carpal tunnel syndrome. To Register: Call The Chiropractic Zone at 331-5565 or Email drcraig@chirozone.net
Tue. August 11 6 - 7:30 Living with Integrity: Reconnecting Soul and Role with Jeanne Strong In our busy lives and in these trying, uncertain times, it is easy to lose touch with what really matters. We often forget who we are at our very core, and the opportunities to embrace our 'Hidden Wholeness' tend to be few. For many of us in the 'helping professions' the last thing we devote time to is the rekindling of our energies and passions, reconnecting who we are with what we do. In the words of Parker Palmer, educator, prolific writer and senior advisor to the Center for Courage and Renewal: "Self care is never a selfish act - it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others. Anytime we can listen to true self, and give it the care it requires, we do so not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch." Jeanne will engage in dialogue about reconnecting who we are with what we do, embracing what makes us 'come alive', and share the work of the Washington Center for Courage and Renewal. Jeanne Strong, Ph.D. is a life-long educator, who recently retired from an administrative position in a Seattle elementary school. Her work as a facilitator for WA Courage & Renewal brings together many aspects of her personal and professional commitment to nurturing and supporting the lives of those who work with children, their families and their communities. Donations will benefit Seeds for Hope (a local Whidbey Island non-profit for work with children in Uganda.) "The more passionate we are about our work, the more vital it is that we take time to renew our own spirits. Sustaining a life of commitment requires that at times we slow down and reconnect with the sources of energy that fuel our fires. Living with integrity is an act of faith in ourselves and our vision for a better future, essential to being the change we want to see in the world."--Parker J Palmer To Register: Call The Chiropractic Zone at 331-5565 or Email drcraig@chirozone.net Donations will support the Seeds for Hope, a Whidbey Island non-profit for work with children in Uganda	Tue. August 25 6 - 7:30 How Do You Live Your Own Poem? The path of the Poet with Judith Adams The path of the poet is the same as your life or mine. How do you live your own poem? We choose a love and apprentice ourselves to that love. There is no short cut, despite the dialogue that goes on 'for and against'. One day you realize you can't live without it, and you know you will show up because it is your own great affair. As Mary Oliver says, "If Romeo and Juliet had made appointments to meet in the moonlight-swept orchard in all the peril and sweetness of conspiracy, and then more often than not failed to meet - one or the other lagging or afraid or busy elsewhere, there would have been no romance, no passion, none of the drama for which we remember and celebrate them. Writing a poem not so different."... To be a cook, gardener, carpenter, artist, parent, husband, lover, you can't just scribble you have to commit and weather the mundane. Being a poet is not that you are called to respond to inspiration, rather, that you are willing to explore with the heart in realm of words, each influenced in the wake of the other, that at times shock or makes the hairs on the back of your neck standup, but always inching close enough to tell the story. Listen to the presences inside poems let them take you where they will Follow those private hints and never leave the premises. --Rumi Judith Adams is a poet and Waldorf remedial teacher. She has had two children's books published in England by Wynstone's Press and has CDs and books of poetry available. Judith's work has been performed in dance on the east coast and she has taught poetry in high school and done workshops for all ages in schools. It is a particular delight and privilege for Judith to write poetry for people, for special events, birthdays, weddings, graduations, births, or for any stepping stone in life. Judith enjoys speaking poetry and combining her readings with music especially with talented young people. www.judithadamscustompoetry.com To Register: Call The Chiropractic Zone at 331-5565 or Email drcraig@chirozone.net Proceeds from this talk will support The Enso House
Tue. August 18 6 - 6:45 Feet and Ankles; How Are You Standing? with Dr. Craig This evening's workshop will focus on foot and ankle pain, conditions such as plantarfascits, chronic ankle sprains, heel pain and spurs, and more. The focus will be on explanation of problems, treatment and prevention. To Register: Call The Chiropractic Zone at 331-5565 or Email drcraig@chirozone.net