Embodied Presence in Action – Sunday Morning Series
We are delighted to share our Sunday Series:
Matters of the Heart
In these small and supportive groups, we will explore ways to honor the heart through all its many lenses: the Sorrows, the Joys, the Difficult and the Ease. We will draw on our personal experience and utilize experiential learning to foster presence, personal discovery and resilience. We will explore what, who and where supports and uplifts the heart.
We invite you to attend all four or one or as many as you like!
Dates:
- April 27th, 2025 – Attending and Befriending
- May 18th, 2025 – All Broken, Beautiful
- June 15th, 2025 – Deep Listening
- July 27th, 2025 – Forgiveness
Time: 10:30 AM -1:30 PM ET on Zoom
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“Attending and Befriending” | April 27, 2025
We have a lifetime of turning away from the difficult. What supports us in turning toward the difficult?
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” – Rainier Maria Rilke
“Deep Listening” | June 15, 2025
Mark Nepo writes: “listening requires letting go of our internal argument with the world. Before we can truly listen, we must exhaust ourselves of our assumptions.”
How do we deepen our capacity to listen?
What supports deep listening?
What interferes with our ability to listen to ourselves and to another?
“All Broken Beautiful” | May 18, 2025
The philosophy behind kintsugi is to value an object’s beauty, as well as its imperfections, focusing on them equally as something to celebrate, not disguise.
Can we see the cracks of our vulnerability and imperfections through eyes of kindness and compassion? Can we see the cracks of our vulnerability and imperfection through the eyes of the kintsugi craftsman?
“Forgiveness” | July 27, 2025
It has been said that “Forgiveness is not for the person who has wronged you; it’s for you. It about letting go of the pain and anger and freeing you heart.”
What is our relationship with forgiveness?
What challenges and what supports forgiveness?
1. Short warm-up and introduction
2. Guided practice
3. Dyad sharing
4. Short contemplative reflections and prompts for writing
5. Experiential investigation, utilizing doubling, role reversal and sociometry
6. Connections
