Living Earth Circle Workshop Registration
Integrating contemplative practice and social action
Upcoming Workshop
Hood River, Oregon
Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008
10:00 am-5:00 pm
Riverside UCC at 4th and Oak Streets in Hood River
Register for the workshop by following the link(s) under "Hood River Workshop."
In a world facing unprecedented transition and instability, transforming our understanding of what it means to be human, of human purpose and potential, is crucial to our future. The Living Earth Circle workshop provides a framework for integrating contemplative inquiry and inner reflection into our personal lives and our work on local and global issues.
The Circle Workshop incorporates interactive, experiential, and reflective processes, working in pairs, small groups, and as a whole circle. These practices loosen the hold of unexamined assumptions that create conflict, and open up fresh perspectives and understanding. A range of contemplative practices soften our edges and encourage greater compassion and insight to emerge.
Many of our conditioned ideas about the world emphasize separation, duality, divisiveness, and conflict. Unfortunately, our interactions and strategies too often reflect those same qualities, with often disastrous results. To develop cooperative, creative, win-win approaches to engaging, we need to recognize the cultural assumptions and myths that frame our worldview, and explore new concepts and inner terrain that will yield a more authentic truth.
Creating a just, peaceful, and sustainable future for the world's children will require a radical "aikido of the heart" that turns all the challenges, joys, frustrations, fears, hopes, and dreams that arise into our tools of transformation. Wielding these tools, the ideology of separation, duality, and power that threatens our future gives way to emerging models for relationships and systems based on inherent wholeness, interconnection, compassion, and cooperation.
Next Workshop, September 27, 2008, Hood River, Oregon
To Register for the Hood River workshop online with your Visa, MasterCard or Paypal account, follow the link below:
Registration for the workshop is $85 for a family of two and $50 for an individual until September 10; after Setember 10, $115 for family and $65 for an individual. Space is limited so please register early.
If you prefer, send your your payment to Workshop Registration, Living Earth, PO Box 86960, Portland, OR 97286. Questions? Contact Keith Harding in Hood River at 541-352-7550 or email Info –at- LivingEarthGatherings . org
This workshop is facilitated by Betsy Toll, founder of Living Earth. Betsy has been exploring the interface between spiritual practice and social action for many years. Generous input was offered by Ram Dass, Joanna and Fran Macy, and Richard Heinberg in developing the Living Earth Circle program.
Living Earth Circle presentations, mini-workshops, full programs, and retreats can be scheduled for faith communities, student and community groups, and activist organizations. For information, email: Info -at- LivingEarthGatherings . org, or call 503-788-7311.