Anastasia's Ms Class: Season Two To Take An Interesting Turn

Under Construction

Updated: October 1

Among the coming changes --

●Group discussions will follow class presentation with Anastasia, Sue -- the only remaining student of the original, Season One Class -- and on-site at Black Bear Mountain Village Auditors. Dial-in auditors will also be offered discussion opportunities tba

● Monthly Fire Circle Storytelling participation will be open to Auditors.

Read on to hear of our fascinating journey, from "there" to here -- now trying to rebuild our lives, post- pandemic and our present "Becoming Black Bear Mountain Village" experiences as we go forward on our "adventure of a lifetime."

Also, find out how to just hang out with us.

From fancy hotel workshop accommodations ro what used to be only a kitchen door back driveway to now becoming "Anastasia's Courtyard" -- under construction, the times are a changing at the New Horizons Harper's Ferry Retreat Center becoming Black Bear Mountain Village.

Last Thursday as Board Members and Provisional Board Membrrs sat down for our first official Ms Class -- Study Groip: Season Two, I found myself stumbling a bit to find my way.

Everything was dramatically different from the beginnings of even Ms Class--Study Group: Season One with its first class -- and its original agenda launched February 28, 2019 -- pre-pandemic shutdowns.

Most dramatically, "Season One" was not intended to be a "Season" though it lasted close to two years -- a very long season if you want to call it that at all.

But what else might we call it?

The original- Class-Study Group had been organized in mid-December, 2019, specifically to support a single board member that we call Tonya, publicly, to preserve her privacy. Tonya had just recently lost her home and all her belongings to one of Northern California's wildfires - and her husband to another woman aong with it.  

To compound her distress, her lurking tendency to emotionally swim and drown herself in the depths of suicidal ideation had taken hold of her to such an extent that I was seriously concerned for her.

So I had prodded her to once again do an "Evaluation Session" with me as a prerequisite. Her earlier one had been almost thirty years ago.  And I would reward her discipline in doing that by doing a five or six week class/study group for all interested NH/ZOP Board Members? focusing on her special needs as the centerfold. 

We had had six Board members at our last annual board meeting in July. However, we began what I now want ro call "Season One

To be continued"