Notes from Connie
Spring/ Summer 2010
Eventide Counseling & In The Safe
Place Seminars continues
to be teaming with life. I am noticed this morning how far and wide
our team has expanded and grown. Some
of the colleagues who lived in NH have now moved to other parts of
the country and continue to work with us. We have picked up some new
people along the way, like
Cheryl Ann Gajadhar from
Trinidad, the author of
The Girl In the
Cupboard – She has the same goals as we have, stopping
child abuse through education. Her approach is very different from
ours, the message universal – bring attention to the child abuse
epidemic. Cheryl has been gracious and generous offering to sell our
book & DVD’s in Trinidad. She invited us to Trinidad to present our
documentary and workshop during 2010– An exciting turn of events. I,
who feels alone in this work at times, have come to the conclusion
it is going to take concerned people from around the world to stop
the child abuse epidemic.
Join the team we need you.
Cheryl Ann’s book is available in our web site store and will
appeal to people of faith & those who want to read about a personal
account of child abuse occurring in another culture.
Marcel Duclos, coauthor, colleague
and friend is living in Arizona
and returning three or four times a year to see clients, participate
in our workshops and professional training. We continue the writing
of our books by email. Our new book is soaring toward completion.
Marcel presented the documentary as part of Domestic Violence
Awareness – as a representative of
Northland Family Help
Center, Flagstaff AZ.
“Cultivating Hope With Child Abuse Survivors”
with a sub title of is
Anyone Out There Listening?
This project started to be a rewrite
of Common Threads and evolved into a whole new book which includes
new essays, discussion questions, healing exercises, therapists
points of view on the live cycle of children who start out abused.
Lorraine Lordi (NH)
has used her skills to gather statistics on abuse and edit
this book with her special touch.
The DVD: Common Threads
– Amber Ward (Minneapolis, MN),
the creator of the documentary is working on a common cover design
for both the new book and the DVD. We have seen the previews of the
cover and wow – very nice Amber.
She is an award winning designer so we are not surprised and
very pleased with all that she has brought and continues to bring to
our projects.
A yet to be named book of our poetry
is being gathered together by
Lana Hectman Ayers,
(Seattle Washington) the editor of Common Threads.
She is adding her magic to Marcel and my poems, some old and
some new following the theme of how men and women think mixing it up
with the insights Marcel and I gained doing conjoint couples work.
Michelle Goodwin
is assisting with the gathering and assembling of the poems during
her college breaks (Keene
State College.)
Both books will be available by
October, 2010.
Common Threads is now on Amazon as a
Kindle download
A Doorway in the Desert
is on our web site as an e-book and our hope is to continue to work
with the doorway. Ernie
Gault, Master Photographer will be adding to photos to the book
– making it even more visually lovely.
More about this book
In October 2009 – Marcel, Shelley
Hartz (MA) Sue Lederer (VT) & me,
led a workshop on aging at the Internal Family Systems Conference in
Chicago. (We are all
Internal Family System’s colleagues.)
The Tin Man Meets Oz.
The video we used at the conference is available for purchase on our
web site. It is a series of interviews with friends about their
feelings on growing older. Look
for this romp through aging –
Reflections on Aging
by Connie Robillard.
Amber Ward
has invited us to return for the second time to MN for another
showing/discussion of the documentary for
Free Arts MN. No date
has been set.
Marcel and I will be presenting the
documentary and workshop at the
USABP 2010 Annual Conference:
Unraveling Trauma:
Body, Mind and Science @ JFK University, Pleasant Hill CA
October 22 – 24th
Marcel & Connie are members of
USAP: United States Association of Body Psychotherapists -
