RVML Ashland Events

FREE ADMISSION – 1757 Ashland St., Ashland, OR. One mile west of I-5 Exit 14

RVML’s “Approaching AI” Hands-On Workshop with Ian Ingram is a welcoming space for anyone interested in exploring the world of artificial intelligence in a fun and safe way. Limited to 20 participants.

WI-FI DEVICE REQUIRED (Laptop, Tablet, or Phone)

1st Wednesdays Monthly, 7pm

An informal, facilitated gathering beginning with a brief intro and demonstration, then allowing you to explore on your own and ask questions. Whether you’re a novice or an experienced professional, this is great environment to explore the incredible array of modern AI tools with a friendly and patient expert.

No experience necessary; just bring your curiosity and sense of adventure!

Ian Ingram is the founder and CEO of Neuraven AI Consulting and Prompt Engineering Services. He is a passionate educator and advocate for the safe deployment of AI technologies.

Ian founded Neuraven to meet the rapidly increasing need for AI literacy and its strategic application in business. Ian believes we are at an unprecedented technological inflection point and that the future is ours to change. AI technology is still in its infancy, but it’s evolving at a rate that entire industries cannot keep up with. It is imperative to start the conversation now.

Note: This event is not recorded.

FREE ADMISSION – 1757 Ashland St., Ashland, OR. One mile west of I-5 Exit 14.

Life Behind the Mask: What People-Pleasing Is Really Costing You
Drop the mask. That’s the invitation. But what’s actually underneath it?

For many of us, people-pleasing didn’t start as a personality trait, it started as a survival strategy. In homes with unpredictability or dysfunction, children learn to read the room before anyone says a word. That hyper-vigilance becomes the foundation for a quiet and devastating belief: something is wrong with me.

So, we learn to perform, becoming the good girl, the good boy, the silent child, the scapegoat, the comedian, different costumes built around the same root belief, all in an effort to earn love or attention from a caregiver who couldn’t, nor had the capacity to, give it consistently.

That mask becomes so familiar it starts to feel like home. Underneath it, though, many don’t even know what they need anymore. They’ve spent so long tending to everyone else that the question “what do I need?” draws a blank or instant guilty feelings. The emotions have gone quiet too, numbed out, pushed down, until exhaustion, frustration, and resentment are the only ones still visible. Somewhere in the middle of all that doing, a quieter question starts to surface: when did I lose myself?

This talk explores how fear, guilt, and resistance show up when we consider taking the mask off, even the sense of who am I without it, and what’s possible when living life on the other side of the mask: honesty, boundaries, authentic connection, and the freedom to be you.

This isn’t about fixing yourself. Nothing about you is broken. It’s about understanding how you learned to operate and beginning the worthwhile unraveling back to yourself.

In this talk, you’ll discover:

• The many faces people-pleasing can wear, the good girl, the scapegoat, the silent child, the comedian
• How fear, guilt, and resistance show up when we imagine dropping the mask
• Why people-pleasing isn’t the enemy, and what it can become once it has boundaries

Jennifer Jo Kenworthy is a People Pleaser Coach and former Mental Health Coach at Lyra Health with over 2,500 client sessions. Drawing from Internal Family Systems, somatic practices, and nervous system education, she helps people recognize the patterns they’ve been living in and find their way back to who they actually are. Her own healing journey informs everything she teaches.

FREE ADMISSION – 1757 Ashland St., Ashland, OR. One mile west of I-5 Exit 14.

Movements of Love Family Constellation Experience
A Monthly Gathering for Community Coherence with Marina McDonald

SECOND THURSDAYS Monthly, 7-9pm
Discover an ancient way to embody your natural inborn healing powers as you bring more love, joy and peace into your own precious life and into the lives of others in a circular community format.

An experiential gathering to work on collective community healing and ancestral or historical trauma that has its origins in work discovered by Bert Hellinger who lived as a Catholic Priest amongst the South African Zulu people. After converting to this way of community processing by participating with the Zulu community in their local conflict resolution and/or ancestral repair models, he traveled back West to get his psychology degree and pursued developing this modality for Western students.

Movements of Love Sacred Ceremony was created by Marina McDonald, following many years of focused study and direct experience. Movements Of Love is a powerful synergy of Bert Hellinger’s Movements of the Soul Family Constellations and Ron Kurtz’s Refined Hakomi Method of assisted self discovery.

Movement Of Love is true to the revolutionary, experiential, multidimensional method created by the German psychotherapist Bert Hellinger. Originally called Family Constellations, Hellinger continued to evolve his method over many decades, referring to the final refinement of his method as Movements of the Soul.

After running a long term successful boutique furniture design, manufacturing and high-end marketing enterprise in Los Angeles, Marina moved up to Ashland, Oregon in the late 90s and was called to abandon her previous life and live here. Working with others to develop a community center on her property that was originally a Tibetan Buddhist refuge and Shrine, it then became a Somatic Therapy Teaching Center for Hakomi developed by local Somatic Psychology Pioneer Ron Kurtz.

Simultaneously, she studied Family Constellation work as a Mother interested in working on her own family concerns and the relationship of herself with her own ancestral line and her children’s role in this. This pursuit eventually led her to study directly under Bert Hellinger himself. After this training she held and facilitated numerous Movements Of Love Constellation events on her property and brings this experience to RVML to share with its community.

She has recently revived this center as a training facility and is bringing the wisdom and skills she has to share to RVML in a synthesis of offerings to share with the community. There is no charge for the RVML events, its intention is to provide an experiential education in this methodology that is known internationally.

FREE ADMISSION – 1757 Ashland St., Ashland, OR. One mile west of I-5 Exit 14.

Be surprised by revisiting an ancient concept in a new and important light. The Chamber of Commons seeks to update citizens’ awareness and commitment to reclaiming and preserving all that we share.

Our mission is to inspire and encourage a viable future based on practical wisdom, common sense and the awareness of “all that we share”. If we don’t address our interference with Earth’s ability to sustain life, the future is not viable.

While privatization continues to absorb land, water and energy resources- it is time for the people to assert their concern and care for The Commons. Come learn about the history, aspects, and how we can restore the Commons concept into communities.

Catie Faryl is an Oregon artist and community organizer. She is a member of the Bellview Grange, Phoenix Grange and Southern Oregon Pachamama Alliance, a group that has organized efforts to curb the climate crisis and build sustainable systems in Southern Oregon. She is currently a leader in the Chamber of Commons movement, which she is advancing along with other local community members.

Catie’s previous careers as a public housing administrator, a realtor, and Ashland Gallery Association staff person have helped her be effective in addressing community and environmental issues.

As an Oregon resident for over 35 years, she’s made many connections with local organizations developing solutions and creating understanding of our current systems’ challenges and future needs.

Suzia Aufderheide is a family member, landlord and seeker of truth living in Ashland, Oregon for 40 years. During her early career, she worked in New York City as a receptionist and ceiling tile specialist […]

After two years in accounting, she knew the corporate world was not for her. Later, as a single mother of six she supported her family by doing childcare, insurance sales, videography, and radio/TV production. Presently, she owns an up-cycled clothing business with her daughter.

The Chamber of Commons hopes to connect community to help remember our inherent connection to the Commons.