Barrie Events

Attend a Special Introduction Event Coming Spring/Summer 2017. 

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. 

Attending a free, in-person Introduction to awaken Forums is your opportunity to get your questions answered. During the Introduction, you will get a sense of what it would be like to participate in an awaken Forum, the profound difference an awaken Forum could make in your everyday life, and how the various courses, seminars, workshops and events are conducted. 

By using everyday situations and guiding you through thought experiments and exercises, this session is filled with valuable ideas interwoven with inspiring messages, and visual aids. Donald does an excellent job of peeling back the layers and revealing the disconnects in much of our thinking, beliefs, desires, and choices--contradictory beliefs held at the same time with no apparent awareness. Once you have seen your own mind with the filtered lenses removed, it is impossible to remain the same. That is why so many have praised his work as being absolutely life-changing--not just an event--but a transformational experience! 

Experience the Event!

Cost: In order to cover the costs in making this event possible, a donation, though not required, would be appreciated.

Date: TBA. 

Time: 1:30PM to 3:ooPM or 3:30PM to 5:00 PM

Place:  TBA, Barrie ON. 

Registration: Not opened

Seating is limited. So register today!  Call 850-725-0527  


awaken Cinema Circle - Barrie ON -  Enrollment begins Spring/Summer class 2017.

The awaken Cinema circle relates solely to the meaning making process of the individual's direct experience. "tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I will understand."

“Our mission, at the awaken Cinema circle, is to use film and discussion to foster understanding and appreciation of the diversity of the human experience, to facilitate self understanding, to introduce options for action plans, and to seed future personal development and spiritual growth, to educate, normalize, reframe, and expand ideas and create community among the participants” Donald Gordon Carty 

We will be bringing you movies that are out of the "norm". These hard-to-find films presented through the awaken Cinema circle will warm your heart, stir your soul and expand your mind.

“When you try to bring about change with an effort of will power alone you do harm to yourself,” says Carty. Odds are you will not succeed and if you do succeed you will probably pay a price that you are not happy paying. When people go through my “awaken Cinema circle” program they do find that behaviour change happens, and this lasts, because it does not happen as an effort of will power alone”, “I have developed a process by which you examine what your mental models are and as you do that you change how you look at the world, as you change how you look at the world, you literally become a different person, as you become a different person behavior change is a natural bi-product.”

By using everyday situations and guiding you through thought experiments and exercises, these sessions are filled with valuable ideas interwoven with inspiring messages, and visual aids. Donald does an excellent job of peeling back the layers and revealing the disconnects in much of our thinking, beliefs, desires, and choices--contradictory beliefs held at the same time with no apparent awareness. Once you have seen your own mind with the filtered lenses removed, it is impossible to remain the same. That is why so many have praised his work as being absolutely life-changing--not just an event--but a transformational experience! 

Come, watch, and discuss. EXPERIENCE!

The awaken Cinema circle is scheduled to begin again in the November 2016 . For more information including contents and syllabus please visit the awaken Cinema Circle website or Call 850-725-0527.

awaken Cinema circle Course: Eight Weeks - 2 1/2 hours classroom, approx. 3 hours homework/fieldwork per week. One 1 hour one to one Coaching/Mentoring session per week with Donald Gordon Carty.

Cost: $427.00, for complete details please visit the awaken Cinema circle website.

Date: 8 consecutive Monday   or Wednesday 

Time:  Mondays 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM  or Wednesdays 

Place:  Suite Success - TBA, Barrie ON

Registration is limited. So register today!  Call 850-725-0527

Monday Evenings: 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM or Wednesday Evenings 

If this session is full or closed, no worries! Simply fill out the form on our contact page  and we will keep you informed of any additional dates and times.   


Free Movie Screenings on Sundays.

Meetup with locals area residents who are interested in studying and practicing the science and ideolgy of The Law of Attraction. You are invited to experience a single event that just may awaken the stranger within you. 

The "Awaken" discussions will be focused around the Law of Attraction, and will dare the participants to envision, believe and create a new view of themselves and the world around them. 

Presented through discussion forums focused on blockbuster independent films like The Secret, What the Bleep, One.. the Movie, You Can Heal Your Life and and many more, awaken predicts, the sleeper must awaken. 

"I can't imagine anybody participating and not feeling changed in a deeply personal way," says Donald Gordon Carty, author and facilitator of the event. "This is going to be a remarkable life changing event for anyone interested in the idea of the mind and how it affects their reality!" 

Attendees are strongly encouraged to bring their own ideas to awaken each other to a new way of thinking about what it is to be human and what it takes to make life and work more rewarding and fulfilling. A collection of selected topics from the films will be available to help inspire and guide the discussions. 

Film runtimes; approx. 1 to 2 hours.

Discussion, exploration, experiential exercises and support materials; approx. 90 minutes.

Total time; 2 hours 30 minutes to 3 hours 30 minutes  RSVP.

For additional information click here.

Cost: In order to cover the costs in making this event possible, a donation, though not required, would be appreciated.

Date: Sundays (all year round)

Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM

Place:  TBA, Barrie ON,  

Registration is limited. So register today!

Click here to Register and RSVP.  

                                                             

Resolutions into Reality - Barrie ON - Coming  Spring/Summer 2017

One of the most difficult turning points in life is New Years day and during the start of the New Year most people make resolutions about lifestyle changes. How many of us have said something like ‘from now on things are going to be different, I am going to stop smoking, eat healthy, exercise regularly, spend more time with family and friends, quit drinking, enjoy life more, help others, or get out of debt?’ Yet, still filled with good intentions, before January’s end these resolutions either fail or falter.

“How do we break the cycle of breaking our personal resolutions? First of all it is important to understand that, resolutions are a process, not a one-time effort of will power that offers you a chance to create new habits,” says Donald Gordon Carty creator and facilitator of the two-evening workshop ‘Resolutions Into Reality’. Trying to change and do something positive for ourselves is the fastest way to come right up against our deepest sources of resistance and come face-to-face with our most negative beliefs and self-sabotaging tendencies. And that’s why we fail or falter. So, rather than deny this dynamic, I like to show people how to be aware of the subtle forces that are at work in their minds and bodies and their tendencies to go unconscious in certain situations. I am delighted to be able to offer this two-evening workshop again  in  the Atlanta area that will give participants insights that will add support to their New Year or not-so-New Year’s resolutions.” 

The two-evening “Resolutions Into Reality” workshop, sponsored by the Personal Development Institute and Awaken Forums, will be held over two evenings  Tuesday January 27th and Thursday January 29th, 2015 from 6:00pm to 7:30pm and pre-registration is required.

“Research concludes that the people who succeed at making lifestyle changes typically have support systems and find that getting into the right mindset is the first priority”, says Carty “and resolutions are not a one-size-fits-all commodity because each of us has experienced the world differently and largely depends on our individual beliefs and perceptions that make up our personalities and preferences. The ‘Resolutions Into Reality’ workshop will encourage participants to change their frames of reference by critically reflecting on their assumptions and beliefs and consciously making and implementing plans that bring about new ways of defining their worlds.”


Resolutions Into Reality Workshop: Two Evenings - 3 hours  classroom total, approx. 3 hours homework/fieldwork

Cost: $497.00.  Includes Workbook.  Please email or call for details.

Date: TBA. For Winter Dates go here.

Time: 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Place:  TBA, Barrie ON. 

For additional information please visit our contact page. Or call 850-725-0527

If these sessions are full or closed, no worries! Simply fill out the form on our contact page  and we will keep you informed of any additional dates and times.



Conscious Aging Workshops Coming To Barrie ON Spring/Summer 2017

People assume that the solutions we’re seeking come from outside ourselves, but it’s important to recognize that some of the problems—as well as their solutions—arise from within us. In other words, it’s about consciousness. The focus of the Conscious Aging workshop series is to invite shifts in consciousness away from self-limitation, lack, isolation, and fear and toward expansiveness, inclusiveness, wholeness, connection, and compassion.

The Conscious Aging Workshop Experience

We will guide workshop participants as they:

· Explore their unexamined, self-limiting beliefs and assumptions about aging and learn to make better choices about how to age more consciously;

· Develop the skills of self-compassion to cope more effectively with the stresses associated with aging;

· Discover what has given heart and meaning to their lives and how that can enrich their intentions for a healthy aging process;

· Identify the regrets, sufferings, and negative self-concepts that have kept them from more fully appreciating themselves and their lives;

· Minimize any feelings of isolation from others and deepen their relationship with the world around them;

· Learn to manage their fears and those of their loved ones in the presence of death through the transformative power of surrender and acceptance; and

· Cultivate a personal roadmap for their own aging journey by deepening their spiritual life and learning to make each moment matter.

We have found that seniors are yearning to engage in dialogue together on these issues. They are looking for guidance, meaning making, connection, and community to help fortify themselves for their aging years. They will experience all of that and more by participating in this unique program.

8 Session Topics:

  • Introduction to Conscious Aging
  • Self-Compassion
  • Forgiveness
  • Life Review
  • Transformative Practices
  • Death Makes Life Possible
  • Surrender – Letting Go
  • Creating a New Vision of Aging

Conscious Aging Workshops: Eight Sessions - 2 hours classroom.  For More Information about Content click here.

Cost: $157.00. for the eight session series plus $25.00 for Workbook. 

Early registration cost: $127.00 for the eight session series plus $20.00 for Workbook. 

Date: TBA 

Tme:  TBA

Place:  TBA.

Click Here for additional information. You will be redirected.

For additional information please visit our contact page. Or call 850-725-0527

If these sessions are full or closed, no worries! Simply fill out the form on our contact page  and we will keep you informed of any additional dates and times.