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A Participant Responds after a presentation, October 2011
“. . . You speak from a deep place of authenticity and transparency, coming from your experience and your years of seeking, and your passion for the emergence of Love in the world. It was somewhat of a Pentecost experience: you are speaking your own words out of your own experience and we are hearing it through our ears and our individual experience but the Silent message breaks through and everyone, at whatever level hears the whisper, “I Love You.” You can be sure your work was an encounter with what is deepest within everyone there and they heard something of what they have been longing to hear . . .” Alice MacDonald, Santa Barbara, CA
TALKS, RETREATS, AND WORKSHOPS 2012-2013
April 5, 2012. OAKLAND CA. Talk titled “In Unbroken Intimacy with Life.” THE SOPHIA CENTER, HOLY NAMES UNIVERSITY, 1:30-4 P.M. In times of radical change, we look for some kind of guidance to show us how to proceed. There’s an inherent, longstanding prejudice as to where and how we look for wisdom. But we have a deeper, more visceral awareness that I call under-standing. From this most tender connection with life, we learn that Love isn’t something we do. It’s who we really are when we’re living in unbroken intimacy with life. Then, as Teilhard says, “we will have discovered Fire.” LOCATION: Sophia Center Classroom (at Chapel level, look for signs — see the Visitors Map) Holy Names University, 3500 Mountain Boulevard, Oakland, CA.
TWO RETREATS AT THE CHRISTINE CENTER, WILLARD WI:
June 1-3, 2012. WILLARD, WI. THREE-DAY RETREAT titled “In Unbroken Intimacy with Life”:
During times of radical change, we often long for guidance in how to proceed with our lives. We may turn to others for wise counsel or try to “figure it out,” but sometimes tend to forget that Life is the teacher. In this gathering, we’ll reach deep into our genetic heritage for a more visceral wisdom that comes from living the life of connection—what I call under-standing. This is an opportunity to completely shift your perspective, to ask sacred questions, and see your life and calling as part of the intricate web of relationships in our living world. True freedom, spontaneity, and creativity are the gifts of living from such an orientation moment by moment in our daily lives. The intent of An Unbroken Intimacy with Life is to support this kind of alignment. The retreat will offer a gentle process for those who long to trust themselves and life more fully, and we’ll listen deeply to its subtle promptings, to each other, and to ourselves. You will also receive in advance some suggestions for personal inquiry to help you prepare for our time together.
This retreat will be followed by the FIVE-DAY RETREAT below in which we will learn some ‘cutting edge skills’ and practices that deepen the qualities of an unbroken intimacy with life. Both retreats are complete in themselves, but taken together, have the potential to profoundly alter your worldview and your life, and provide a transformational pathway toward your own call or vision—whether for work, family life, service, or creative venture—as part of the intricate web of relationships in our living world.
June 3-7, WILLARD, WI. FIVE-DAY RETREAT titled “AWAKENING THE ENERGIES OF LOVE” (Description follows):
Lie down in the Fire
See and taste the Flowing
Godhead through thy being;
Feel the Holy Spirit
Moving and Compelling
Thee within the Flowing
Fire and Light of God. — Mechtilde of Magdeburg
June 10-12, 2012. MADISON, WI., THREE-DAY RETREAT at the HOLY WISDOM MONASTERY, titled In Unbroken Intimacy with Life. See THREE-DAY RETREAT description under June 1-3 above.
June 15-16, 2012. CHICAGO, IL. Talk titled “In Unbroken Intimacy with Life“at THE WELL’S SUMMER INSTITUTE. The Conference theme is Living as One with the Earth. It will be followed by the FIVE DAY RETREAT (below).
June 17-22, 2012. CHICAGO, IL. FIVE-DAY RETREAT, titled Awakening the Energies of Love, sponsored by THE WELL, in which we will learn some very new skills and practices that permit these qualities of unbroken intimacy with life. See FIVE-DAY RETREAT description under June 3-7 above.
2013
March-April, 2013, Eastern United States. Details to follow.
April 2013 Willard, WI., Christine Center. Details to follow.
June 2013, Northern California. Details to follow.
BEGINNING AGAIN IN SEPTEMBER 2012. BIMONTHLY GATHERINGS NEAR PALO ALTO, CA. Scroll to bottom of page for full descriptions.
PAST TALKS, RETREATS, AND WORKSHOPS 2011:
September 16-18 Christine Center, Willard, Wisconsin. LIVING A SURRENDERED LIFE. (scroll down for September offerings)
OTHER RECENT TALKS, INTERVIEWS, WORKSHOPS, RETREATS 2010:
Stanford University.Three guest lectures in Anne Firth Murray’s course entitled “Love as a Force for Social Justice,” Department of Human Biology.
Poet Drew Dellinger presented a poetry reading at our home . Two other poets, Betty Kissilove and David Ergo, joined him to benefit Conexions, Partnerships for a Sustainable Future. See Conexions.
2009 Stanford University. Three guest lectures in Anne Firth Murray’s course entitled “Love as a Force for Social Justice,” Department of Human Biology
Interview on Jean Ramiciotti TV
Aspen, Colorado: Three events co-sponsored by the Davi Nikent Center for Human Flourishing and the Aspen Chapel:
THE EMERGENT CONSCIOUSNESS OF LOVE. Friday: Talk and conversation with the audience.
AWAKENING THE ENERGIES OF LOVE: DISCOVERING FIRE FOR THE SECOND TIME. Saturday: Experiential workshop.
Sunday. Dialog with the Rev. Dr. Gregg R. Anderson, in the Interfaith service at the Aspen Chapel followed by a discussion. See www.davinikent.org and www.aspenchapel.org
Live interview with LaVerne Hotep, Peace-It-Together Pittsburgh, www.wedo.com. Programs archived atwww.cvvc.org