In cooperation with UMKC Communiversity, Djaloki Dessables will lead the following course at Kafe Kiskeya. Contact Communiversity to signup: http://www.umkc.edu/commu/. Refreshments will be available during the hour prior to the course. Live Haitian music will follow the program from 8 to 10pm!
This event will mark the GRAND PRE-OPENING of Kafe Kiskeya!
http://www.umkc.edu/commu/catalog_summer2007/features.pdf
Course Title: Ancient Selves, New Consciousness
Course Description: We will briefly examine the concept of ancestral spirits in primordial tribal cultures, before engaging in a guided imagery session that will introduce us to an old primordial part of ourselves. We will then share and discuss our experience.
Also, a workshop called ANCIENT WISDOM AND SPIRITUALITY FOR 21ST CENTURY SEEKERS will be offered at Kafe Kiskeya on Saturday & Sunday May 26 & 27. Please email or call for more details: kafekiskeya@hotmail.com or 816-914-5096.
Workshop Summary: During this workshop, we will review concepts common to many shamanic and animistic cultures. Using a modern paradigm and language, we will interpret how the spirit worlds interact with the human world in these cultures. We will then examine how these ancient pieces of wisdom apply to the global shift of consciousness currently in progress, and how they can help us navigate its waves. We will use a combination of mini lectures, questions & answers, group discussions, guided imagery, and time for reflection and personal journal entries, in a friendly atmosphere.
Bio: Jean Luc Dessables, also known as Djalòki, is an international consultant and lecturer from Ayiti (Haiti) in cross-cultural awareness and paradigm shift coaching. His intention, through his consulting, workshops and lectures, is to help create a sustainable multicultural global society showing reverence for the diversity of life and valuing inclusive excellence among people and institutions. He believes that the time has come for the shift of global human consciousness prophesized by many ancient people.
Born in 1961, Djalòki grew up between Ayiti, Belgium, France and Senegal. After his graduation in France as an engineer, he started a career in the corporate world in the fields of Total Quality Management and Organizational Development. He soon felt that, instead of enriching relationships, cultural differences between institutions or people often prevent good communication and mutual respect. He then shifted his career focus toward raising cross-cultural awareness, more specifically between the modern Western culture and the traditional Ayitian culture.
His current activities and positions include: - founder of "21 Jenerasyon", which raises cross-cultural and cross-spiritual awareness through international public speaking and workshops, and coaches people in the process of paradigm shifting; - co-founder and vice-president of the "N a Sonje" Foundation, which aims at healing the historical wounds between the peoples of Africa, Europe and the Americas; - associate of "DOA/BN", which specializes in transformational cultural tourism in Ayiti; - individual and group Guided Imagery.
For the last three years, Djalòki has been speaking at several educational institutions in the US, including Saint Mary's College of the University of Notre Dame, Keystone College, University of Southern Maine, Earlham College, Naropa University, Temple University, Indiana University in South Bend, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, New York University, the New Seminary Center for Interfaith Studies, and other community and spiritual centers. His speaking engagements also took him to Europe. He has been published in the Black Arts Quarterly of Stanford University.
Djalòki lives in Port-au-Prince, Ayiti. He speaks French, Ayitian Kreyòl, English and Spanish, and is currently studying at the New Seminary of New York to become an ordained Interfaith Minister.
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