Crisis of Self Sustainability: Apprenticeships Available in the Poetic College

Former Yugoslavia region experienced 100 years of war and has intergenerational trauma in three generations. As we show no signs of pulling back from our violence and policy of perpetual economic expansion, the only unknown seems to be how severe the ecological and catastrophic impacts in the aftermath will fuel self-sustainability crisis.

Apprenticeships are earth based social trends driving humanity towards a crisis of self-sustainability. Within that crisis, the ancient ways and earth practices resurface to readdress the imbalance scarring the world as we know it today.

The South Slavic women war survivors and war crimes survivors offer an exquisite apprenticeship into their agriculture, their bio-culinary delights, herbal lore and Slavic round dances (kolos) that helped survival during vicious wars and violence. After three wars, the South Slavic women returned to their round pech (stove) to cook and keep warm while farming small plots of land to grow food continually.

The kolo (Slavic round dances) is 'social memory'[ii][1] brought into the present moment thus becoming eternal.

The apprenticeships range from pilgrimages to ancient sites, annual gathering in Bosnia with the Bosnian women war survivors and war crimes survivors to online curriculum and book "Baba Yaga Crone Inscriptions: Blood & Honey Icons, South Slavic Women's Wisdom amid a World of Catastrophic Violence. "

The Poetic College requires an apprenticeship that activates and expresses your own meaningful work. The Kolo Poetic College offers ancient motherline storied instruction. Participation in the offered experiential curriculum funds The Kolo's feminist trauma treatment in Bosnia. Homestudy coursework available- online curriculum for each Migration/Pilgrimage listed. Facilitations for groups on offered coursework is available.

Bosnia Kolo Trauma Treatment & Training Annual Gathering Novi Travnik, Bosnia MIGRATION / PILGRIMAGE

Donations towards this kolo trauma treatment will be accepted. The Kolo Trauma Treatment has the Bosnian women becoming lay-therapists to heal their own communities.

Peaceful Dimensions Annual Gathering, Novi Travnik, Bosnia

Call for papers & proposals "Healing the violence through first person story."

Scotland-Standing Stones: Orkney Islands

A sacred pilgrimage near the Arctic circle where the sun sets near Midnight with the Standing Stones, and ancient homes bearing witness to the earth for 6,000 years.

Breakthrough Intensive at the Oregon Coast Yachats

Based on Baba Yaga Crone Inscriptions: Blood & Honey Icons, South Slavic Women's Wisdom amid a World of Catastrophic Violence.

The coffee cup in the Balkans is a book of symbols; Blood & Honey Icons.  Learn to remember your innate skills to read beyond the 26 letter alphabet by reading the cups just as our South Slavic sisters do daily. Explore the feminine divinatory arts such as; The Blood & Honey Icons, tarot and cup readings, and visualizations. Experience community with others in a house right on the rugged Oregon coast by use of synergistic methods of experiential therapies we will develop a potential to:

• Reconnect and explore your own universal language
  
• Increase awareness of physical and emotional energy cues
  
• Empower authentic self through self-expression
  

Thesmophoria- Female Solidarity-Female Humanities & Female Blood Mysteries- Washington

Based on: Baba Yaga Crone Inscriptions: Blood & Honey Icons, South Slavic Women's Wisdom amid a World of Catastrophic Violence 

Thesmophoria is an ancient thanksgiving celebration rite that was an exclusive and seclusionary spiritual practice done by women. Thesmophoria has roots in Late Pleistocene era where a great political transformation accelerated genetic evolution over 2 million years ago. Recent theorists in evolutionary biology and social anthropology have engendered their science and basically have been able to point to the 'uteri' and uteri life experiences of female beings as being the key factor in accelerated genetic evolution of human beings while being in a circle and bleeding together. It takes place at the rugged and virtually untouched North West coast in Kalaloch, Washington. Hiking in the Hoh Rainforest (the last virgin rainforest left on the North American continent) trance walking along the sandy beaches of the coast that are dotted with wild rock formation and driftwood to the South Slavic round dances is a part of this work/study.

Slavic "Old Europe" Hagiography Storied Aprons reclamation

Baba Yaga Crone Inscriptions: Blood & Honey Icons, South Slavic Women's Wisdom amid a World of Catastrophic Violence

Evolution not revolution in the groundwork of Slavic "Old Europe" Hagiography allows for a legacy and a heritage for the next ten generations. The apron is not for housework or housekeeping.  

The apron is the necklace adorning the uterus.  The South Slavic ancient Babas (wise women in Serbo-Croatian) apron honors destiny and the fates in the cauldron of life.

South Slavic storied aprons are the first person stories of daughters, mothers and grandmothers handed down through mitochondrial DNA and into future generations.  Often the Slavs embroidered pockets to hold dolls, keys, jewelry to be passed on to their daughters.  In the aftermath of the Bloody Balkan war in the 1990s' I inquired many stari Babas (old wise women) what was in their apron pockets?   What is in your apron pocket?   Exploration of the hauntingly beautiful chants of South Slavic women and songs to the Slavic round dances-kolos. 

Malta-A Feminine Pilgrimage; Hearing and Being in the Goddess Madrigals

The recent "Rough Guide" to Malta 2002 has me listed as one of the most authentic work/study tours available for the feminist archetypal psychology practices. My work/study in 2000 was written up in the Maltese Sunday Circle with a wide circulation in England prompting so many responses and subsequent articles regarding female culture that it is still being used to this day. Malta is home to the oldest site in the world; the mother and daughter temple Ggantija (means Giantess- Titaness) on the island of Gozo and predates the pyramids by 1,000 years.

Very few women know this substantial piece of women's archeology or social anthropology.

Malta is a pilgrimage sung and danced on the holy of holiest landscapes of the Goddess dotted with screaming Giantesses limestone figures that are over 20-30 feet tall. The Hypogeum is three floors under the city of Valetta with perfectly rounded rooms done by the fingers of females holding an antler and obsidian flints for its unattainable proportions in modern day technologies!

Malta is a sacred pilgrimage to the divine feminine and commitments towards this end are especially critical. The work/study fee is $1250 per person and does not include flight, accommodations, meals or transport. Mother and Daughter participants' work/study fees are: $1000 for Mother, $425 for daughter totaling $1425. For participants bringing extended family the same scholarship is processed. Interview via email and telephone call is required before signing up for this exclusive work/study. No refunds on work/study fees however hotel accommodations & flight may have differing refunds. Email to register and interview for a place at this work/study email danica_kolo@yahoo.com .

You will need to make your own flight arrangements and pay for accommodations.

[i] Joost Beltman and Johan A.J. Metz, July 22, 2005  issue of Proceedings: Biological Sciences,
[ii][1] Simon Schama, Landscape & Memory, (Fontana Press, Great Britain, 1996) p.18.