Leaders Guild E-Newsletter |
May 2011
May 2011
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Kamae Amrapali Miller
Dancing Leading by Tansen O'Donohoe
Our Community Coordinator
We welcome Sky Májida Roshay as the DUP International Community Coordinator. Sky's new position replaces the former "MTG Secretariat" role. In addition to maintaining the Leaders Guild data base, Sky is contacting Leaders we have lost touch with, helping mentors update their mentee records, assisting Darvesha with Leaders Guild business, helping members take advantage of our website, and more. Sky brings much experience to this role, including her many years working for DUP North America and also scribing for the International board.
A mentor and long-time leader of the Dances, Sky is an organizer of the Canyonlands retreat and is a great networker for events in the western U.S.
If your having difficulty logging into our website, need assistance with your leader records or need to contact a leader in some other part of the world, Sky can help.
Thanks Sky for coming into this new post! Click here to contact Sky.
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Revised Leaders Guidelines now online!
The revisions reflect feedback and suggestions we have received from you over the past year, and are all in the nature of greater clarity -- there are no major policy changes. Click here to see a list of the main changes.
As a sample of our editing, I especially invite you to read the new Welcome Letter which presents a beautiful and potent overview of our work as Leaders. Note that the Mentoring Path is now a separate document from the newly renamed Leaders Guild Guidelines.
We believe you will find the new versions are simpler, clearer, and easier to use. They appear in the drop down menus under "Leaders Guild". I encourage you to download a fresh copy and make them your constant companion as you travel the path of the Dance work.
Much love, Darvesha
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Kamae Amrapali Ashera Miller November 25 1943 - March 30 2011
Saadi Shakur Neil Douglas-Klotz, her life-partner for decades, said of her, "The spread of the Walks--in their depth--internationally was largely due to Kamae. She caused people to fall in love with them." Kamae was also a staunch advocate of social and community justice. Her long-time friend and colleague, Mariam Baker, wrote: "Politically she was an activist devoted to the healing of our human family and prayed daily for all of us. Her attention remained constant for the betterment of the lives of women and children in need." She was known for her quick wit and earthy honesty.
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Dance Leading and the Elements of Mastery By Tansen Philip O'Donohoe
It is just over a year now since the Guidance Council presented the Elements of Mastery to dance leaders. It is of great interest to me personally how people may have since incorporated these Elements of Mastery into their work with the dances. Perhaps it will be of interest for you to hear some of the ways that this dance leader has both consciously and unconsciously worked to uncover the gifts offered especially through breath, sound and heart that combine to produce a finely tuned human instrument for the dances.
In 1988 I began to lead the dances and since 1992, when as Saadi commented I took the "shock therapy route", I have done so as my main occupation. It has been a most joyful journey and a great way to live. One acknowledges one's blessings every day. The dances were a sudden awakening. I knew right away that they were going to be my life's work and that I was prepared to do whatever it took to become a dance leader similar to two great masters of our art that I had met around this time, Saadi Neil Douglas Klotz and Amida Harvey. The decision to do this was one thing; the reality of bridging the gap between where I stood when I first began to lead and how Saadi and Amida worked was indeed considerable and would clearly take time and effort to overcome. |
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New! at www.DancesofUniversalPeace.org!
264 Dance write-ups and audio files now in the Dance Resource Library, including Dances and recordings from DUP Volume IV.
Mentors in Training now listed on their own page. Our MTs are now participating in the Mentors Guild e-group. See our friends around the world who have been invited to take the Mentoring Path.
Our Leaders Guild Directory!
The Foundation Dances and Walks Manual (FDWM) The Foundation Dances and Walks
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