Golden Bridge

with Melissa Michaels and Friends

PO Box 7488, Boulder, CO 80306
1-877-B-GOLD-56

 


Surfing the Creative ®

2011
July 16 - 20 ~ Youth
July 22-Aug 3 ~ Intergenerational


 

Youth Camp

 

Dancing on Sacred Soils of Body and Heart
~ A 5-Day Moving Journey Exploring our Intimate Relationships with the Natural World, Within and all Around ~

June 29th - July 4th, 2012



Golden Bridge is a non-profit educational and charitable organization whose primary goal is to allow gifted and/or challenged young people across the globe to interact in positive ways with their families, their peers, and their communities from a place of deep kinesthetic connection with their bodies and hearts, with the earth, and with all of life, seen and unseen.
At the foundation of all of our programs is somatic, dance-based work that educates people about how to renegotiate trauma and shock in the body, how to express oneself in life serving and creative ways, and how to access one’s vision, one’s will, and ultimately one’s capacity to practically develop and implement one’s creative work in the world. This organization’s work involves ongoing intensive mentoring, classes, events, and trainings that invite individuals, groups, and communities into an intimate and direct dialogue with their challenges and their gifts.
Our services are focused on youth and the adults who serve them, including families, educators, community leaders, and health professionals. In support of our ongoing programming, we offer one-on-one mentorship along with numerous youth rites of passage educational programs coupled to assist young people from numerous cultures find the inner and outer resources necessary to create safe and productive lives. These programs, offered during the summers and throughout the school year, provide young people with specific social, psychological, creative, and leadership skills that allow them to transform addictions, rebuild self-esteem, and discover life affirming creative pathways for expressing themselves in the world. Through our intensive movement-based programs, youth develop inner strength, resiliency, and self-esteem, along with fundamental outer competencies to become active members of community, at local, national, and international levels.
In collaboration and/or follow-up to our programs, we also provide some of the young people with financial support that allows them to pursue extra therapies or educational opportunities that they otherwise could never afford.
Our programs serve the special needs of youth that are often missed in our school systems and youth development programming. We welcome all young people including at-risk and/or gifted youth


who are considered highly successful in the world, yet they are deeply unsatisfied with their lives and desperate to create new social, educational, economic, and environmental norms.
Golden Bridge has assimilated SomaSource™ knowledge, experience, and programming that has been developed over a number of years by Melissa Michaels regarding use of somatic, dance-based psycho-educational activities to improve the lives of young people.
These programs are directed by Melissa and co-facilitated by a group of core faculty and youth leaders who have graduated from previous programs or apprenticeships with Melissa. We anticipate eventually fully actualizing these programs in New Zealand, Auroville, South India, and in South Africa. Strong liaisons in each of these countries are now being built, connecting both with others doing rites of passage work with youth and with youth leaders seeking training in these integrative transformational modalities.
These central programs are funded by tuition from the small percentage of youth whose parents can afford this kind of experience, along with the donations of private funders. Many in-kind donations are also made by staff, faculty, and local Boulder merchants. We serve youth from over 18 countries, bringing them together for healing, dialogue, visioning, and action. Over the past years, five Tamil youth from South India have come to the United States to participate in our rites of passage programs. Young people have also come from Brazil, Bulgaria, Spain, Austria, New Zealand, England, Canada, Russia, and Israel to participate in these programs.
We give thanks for support from our community. This is simple, life sustaining work, rebuilding community and connection with and for young people. If you are moved to serve this initiative, financially or otherwise, we will welcome your call 1-877-B-GOLD-56 or email.

 

Surfing the Creative Postcard

~ Rites of Love ~
A Golden Bridge Fundraiser

Saturday Night, February 5th, 2011
7:30 pm promptly - 10:00 pm

With Melissa Michaels and TransMirror

Rites of Love

This is an opportunity to Celebrate and Amplify the Movement of Love in Our Lives and to Gather Resources for Golden Bridge Youth from around the world!

Where: Boulder Circus Center (747 N. 26th St., Boulder)   
Sliding Scale $50.00 - $35.00
No Pre-registration is necessary

Tickets available at Movement Mass or at the door.

Buy Raffle Tickets ~ $5.00 each. Purchase in advance at Movement Mass or the night of the show.


 

 

 
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