"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung
Seven Feathers: The Wheel of Relationships and Growth
Seven Feathers principles and practices were received and developed in ritual, meditation, and vision. They form a system of individual inner to outer development and taking responsibility in relationships and choices. The first four "feathers" form the core: Self, Family, Elders, Leadership; then, Standing Up, Mending, and Encouragement. The Seven Feathers Society was created in 2010 to assist the mission and fulfill the vision of creating a healthier society through integrating science, spirituality, and philosophy.
SELF is the foundation. First, "Know Thyself." Thoughts, speech, actions create your character and even determine your destiny. Self-examination improves rational self talk. The first feather is about taking responsibility to ensure you have a positive self concept, respecting and valuing your self, willing to take on challenges whether you know the road ahead or not. Spirit, Nature, Ancestors, and Archetypes are the omnipresent, yet often overlooked, allies throughout your journey.
FAMILY is the hub of close relationships. Parents provide the blueprint for success or deviation from the course of life. In order to mature, you need to examine and possibly edit or substitute the messages you've received from parents, siblings, and other childhood influences. Much of your self talk and self concept comes from early family dynamics. These often form your shadows, or hidden parts of self. Clarifying and accepting these can help unlock hidden talents and bring them home to Self.
ELDERS & YOUTH There is a natural alliance between youth and elders that is useful to rekindle when you are in important transitions within the cycles of life, death, and rebirth. Elders help to nurture your gifts and to help you to see yourselves as capable creators of your life. They show the way of harmony with earth, the divine, and humanity. Youth rekindle the fire and purpose of elders in return by the connection to here and now, to the urgency of being, learning, yearning, and connecting.
LEADERSHIP involves a rite of passage from inner terrain of psyche to outer territory of family, community, and inter-generational healing. Leadership is the art of taking full responsibility for your conditions, and facing the most difficult aspects of personal wounding, family dynamics, and historical trauma. The leader says, "With me, my family system, my culture, is honored, respected, loved and cared for, accepted, and encouraged to heal, right now."
Standing Up, Mending, and Encouragement are also explored in Seven Feathers as a development of self, family, society.
Seven Feathers: The Wheel of Relationships and Growth
Seven Feathers principles and practices were received and developed in ritual, meditation, and vision. They form a system of individual inner to outer development and taking responsibility in relationships and choices. The first four "feathers" form the core: Self, Family, Elders, Leadership; then, Standing Up, Mending, and Encouragement. The Seven Feathers Society was created in 2010 to assist the mission and fulfill the vision of creating a healthier society through integrating science, spirituality, and philosophy.
SELF is the foundation. First, "Know Thyself." Thoughts, speech, actions create your character and even determine your destiny. Self-examination improves rational self talk. The first feather is about taking responsibility to ensure you have a positive self concept, respecting and valuing your self, willing to take on challenges whether you know the road ahead or not. Spirit, Nature, Ancestors, and Archetypes are the omnipresent, yet often overlooked, allies throughout your journey.
FAMILY is the hub of close relationships. Parents provide the blueprint for success or deviation from the course of life. In order to mature, you need to examine and possibly edit or substitute the messages you've received from parents, siblings, and other childhood influences. Much of your self talk and self concept comes from early family dynamics. These often form your shadows, or hidden parts of self. Clarifying and accepting these can help unlock hidden talents and bring them home to Self.
ELDERS & YOUTH There is a natural alliance between youth and elders that is useful to rekindle when you are in important transitions within the cycles of life, death, and rebirth. Elders help to nurture your gifts and to help you to see yourselves as capable creators of your life. They show the way of harmony with earth, the divine, and humanity. Youth rekindle the fire and purpose of elders in return by the connection to here and now, to the urgency of being, learning, yearning, and connecting.
LEADERSHIP involves a rite of passage from inner terrain of psyche to outer territory of family, community, and inter-generational healing. Leadership is the art of taking full responsibility for your conditions, and facing the most difficult aspects of personal wounding, family dynamics, and historical trauma. The leader says, "With me, my family system, my culture, is honored, respected, loved and cared for, accepted, and encouraged to heal, right now."
Standing Up, Mending, and Encouragement are also explored in Seven Feathers as a development of self, family, society.
Meet the Founder and Executive Director, "Warrior Dan" Gorbunow, AMT
"In the Seven Feathers program, Dan exhibits a natural, yet masterful ability to lead healing circles that integrates all traditions." - A.P.
Dan is trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Taoist practice and martial arts, skilled in Eastern bodywork, experienced as a storyteller and drummer, experienced as a youth initiation facilitator and mentor program leader. He is dedicated to bridging traditions and facilitating personal, family, and community healing. Dan is a recognized helper or co-leader in ceremony on the "Red Road" of Native American spirituality, in Dagara (West African) rituals, and in European/Celtic mystery practices, and in ancestral healing, communication and reconciliation. Dan works as chaplain for the State of Minnesota, Department of Human Services, at state dual recovery centers, since 2009 when the first Warrior Healing Circle of Seven Feathers was introduced. He is a traditional-holistic healer since 1993.
Images: "Warrior Dan" in natural classroom for meditation (above); heptagram - symbol of Mother Earth (Gnostic) and Divine perfection in creation, also used in ancient astronomy, and as protection from negative influences (upper, above).
"In the Seven Feathers program, Dan exhibits a natural, yet masterful ability to lead healing circles that integrates all traditions." - A.P.
Dan is trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Taoist practice and martial arts, skilled in Eastern bodywork, experienced as a storyteller and drummer, experienced as a youth initiation facilitator and mentor program leader. He is dedicated to bridging traditions and facilitating personal, family, and community healing. Dan is a recognized helper or co-leader in ceremony on the "Red Road" of Native American spirituality, in Dagara (West African) rituals, and in European/Celtic mystery practices, and in ancestral healing, communication and reconciliation. Dan works as chaplain for the State of Minnesota, Department of Human Services, at state dual recovery centers, since 2009 when the first Warrior Healing Circle of Seven Feathers was introduced. He is a traditional-holistic healer since 1993.
Images: "Warrior Dan" in natural classroom for meditation (above); heptagram - symbol of Mother Earth (Gnostic) and Divine perfection in creation, also used in ancient astronomy, and as protection from negative influences (upper, above).