| INSIGHT | COLUMNS & GUIDANCE Golden Visions Center: A Community Resource The EDGE Interview with Donna Guice and Kay Holm by Tim Miejan Community is vital for the evolution of human consciousness. Donna Kettler Guice, co-founder and longtime president of the Wholeness Center, is among the group of local visionaries and creators who are constantly seeking ways to connect people for the greater good. After having stepped away from the Wholeness Center, she embarked upon a new project that envisions even greater sharing of resources throughout the region. She calls it Golden Visions Center. The following is a recent interview with Donna Guice and Kay Holm, a fellow creator of the vision. Donna, What led you to create Golden Visions Center? Because you had been synonymous with the Wholeness Center for quite a long time. Donna Guice: For a long time. That was when my dream first came. I suppose my passion was first aroused as I worked with Wholeness Center for six years. I volunteered there and saw it grow to what it is now. Then my guides were telling me not to be involved with that anymore. It was a year process just for me to let go of that. It was very hard, very challenging, and yet I knew that I was supposed to. You were involved in creating The Wholeness Center, right? Guice: With a whole lot of other people, yes. I was the president for six years and volunteered before that. We were just putting something together, when it was the Spirituality Center. It was a lot of fun and I enjoyed that. But then for some reason I was called to let go of that and let a new energy take over, and it has worked well. I needed to go on, mostly to promote myself. I created a logo for Golden Visions and then I began doing business as Golden Visions for about a year. Then I started getting messages to start another center. Was it like you were starting over again? Like you've done this before? Guice: One good thing was that I had done it before and had all that practice at the Wholeness Center of working with people. But I was wondering why Spirit asked me to leave, only to have me start again. I have learned that it was to be a different form of center. Describe the different form. Guice: Golden Visions Center is geared to a retreat center or a center where we are going to lease space. We hopefully will have a site for workshops and classes, very much like what I do out of my home, but much more extensive. We will bring in people who want teach a technique in this area. The time is right again to offer more to the community. We can offer more of a variety of classes, eventually in more than one location in this region. The Wholeness Center was more geared toward supporting the healers and practitioners themselves. Golden Visions Center will offer opportunities to those from the Wholeness Center, but we'll be more of an educational center, totally geared to empowering people through education and personal transformation. How far along are you in the creation process of the center? Guice: We filed nonprofit status with the State of Minnesota with the Secretary of State on July 30, and we are planning a fundraiser for October 27. Every part of my house is going to be filled with fun and people. We're finishing up the business plan and have been looking at potential sites for the center. I am going to buy it personally and then rent space consistently to Golden Visions Center. I'll build four healing rooms and two workshop areas. We're already having Sunday gatherings with a theme for the week. We meditate and we're doing a Friday night gathering to support people who are out of the box, so to speak. I see expanding to having a pot luck once a month. If we get the place we're looking at, it can be where people can come for a healing or hypnosis or whatever and stay there and walk the paths, walk the labyrinth, walk by the river. There'll be a meditation room and also a library -- all free to clients there. Kay Holm: The process of this whole thing has been just incredible. Because. Each time we come right against our own stuff, our fears. We encourage each other to "think bigger, breathe, breathe!" and it's just been amazing. People we never expect show up to participate. Personally, I think this is so much bigger than we think it is. I think spirit has only given us a glimpse. Guice: I think if we knew more it would mortify us, even me as a leaper. Holm: I really see it as a sanctuary, a day retreat where you can come over and be in nature. When I first met Donna I said, "I know we're going to be doing something together" and I didn't have a clue then what it would be. We didn't see each other for a couple of years. When I saw the logo for Golden Visions, I knew this was going to be the project that was going to manifest. Guice: We were talking with Alana Ray, who was saying, "Oh, this is much bigger." I can see us having another center in Virginia or New Mexico and Australia. People can go there and you can work this out as this network so you have different places to go for sanctuary and a place to just rejuvenate. But each place will hold the energy of healing besides being a center. It will be a place of sacred ground. Holm: There's more even in the Twin Cities area that we're open to. Guice: I see this so totally as community. It's like the expanded community. That's what overwhelms me. It's like building such a huge community where everyone is sharing. Do you get a sense that that's what everyone is looking for? Holm: I know that's what I've been looking for. Guice: The other piece to Golden Visions Center is something I've always wanted to do. That is to help healers and teachers receive grants to teach others people about their area of expertise. It's a way to help the healers who are so dedicated but don't have the money to teach others. They have to work at their regular jobs and their passion isn't being fulfilled. You feel like you're walking on a path you were meant to be on. Guice: Absolutely. The guides were telling me, "This is what your soul needs to do. You're a gatherer, and you need to do it." The first FUNdraiser for Golden Visions Center is from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, October 27, at 6008 Winnetka Ave. N., New Hope, MN. Call Donna Guice and Golden Visions Center at (763) 537-5274 or e-mail Donna@GoldenVisionsCenter.com. Online, go to www.goldenvisions.center.com Tim Miejan is editor of The EDGE. Contact him at (651) 578-8969 or e-mail editor@edgenews.com Copyright 2001 Tim Miejan |
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