Cultivating Resilience
Staying grounded and connected in a changing world
A four-week online course starting May 29
The central purpose of our work together is to help people experience their innate connections with each other and with the self-healing powers of the web of life, so they may be enlivened to play their part in creating a beautiful culture.
Joanna Macy
How can we be grounded and respond wisely in an ever-changing world?
A collaborative experience that will transform the way you engage with the world.
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How do you feel when you hear of events happening in the world?
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What do you notice within yourself?
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Are you offering your full potential to the world as you see it?
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This course is about growing our ability to be resilient, to stay grounded with what we experience and to respond wisely.
We will learn together to develop response-ability to this question.
If you feel inspired, we start May 29.
Course overview
When I feel the inner and the outer world connected, I am empowered to have an impact in the world. My care for the world expresses naturally.
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​This course is about weaving these two worlds together so we can keep grounding, connecting, and having agency in the world. With the pace of change in the world increasing by the day, we might feel overwhelmed or unsure how to make sense of what we see. We will learn together how to move from overwhelm to agency and from urgency to grounded presence. We will practice together the strength of vulnerably sharing our challenges and the generosity of receiving support. We will practice simply being together with the power of our questions.
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The world will not open the door for you. It’s up to you to open the door and step fully into your life.
Course contents
The course will be in a mastermind format, meaning that there will be an opportunity to work directly with the challenges that are alive in your life now.
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What specifically challenges you about relating with this rapidly changing world?
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Where would you need more support?
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Where do you have a desire to step more fully in?
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What seems to be blocking you?
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As a structure for our time, I will offer experiential practices and teachings around four themes:
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Being grounded in our bodies
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Connecting with the beyond human world
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Building a mutually empowering group field
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Embodying our care for the world​​
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The course will be highly experiential, emergent, and collaborative. The meetings will only happen live and there will be no recordings.
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There will be a free live webinar, Staying Grounded in Our World, on May 29th from 18:00-20:00 CET (9:00 PST/12:00 EST).
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We will meet from 18:00-20:00 CET (9:00 PST/12:00 EST) on Mondays June 2nd, 9th, 23rd, and 30th. Note that we take June 16th off.
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​The course is held in a spirit of Dana (the Buddhist tradition of generosity). There will be no up front financial exchange. Instead, you will be invited at the end of the four meetings to be in your integrity with what you received. I am open to receive money generously given to honor the benefit you have received.
What clients say about my work
How surely gravity’s law,
strong as an ocean current,
takes hold of even the smallest thing
and pulls it toward the heart of the world.
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Each thing—
each stone, blossom, child—
is held in place.
Only we, in our arrogance,
push out beyond what we each belong to
for some empty freedom.
If we surrendered
to earth’s intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.
Instead we entangle ourselves
in knots of our own making
and struggle, lonely and confused.
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So, like children, we begin again
to learn from the things,
because they are in God’s heart;
they have never left God.
This is what the things can teach us:
to fall,
patiently to trust our heaviness.
Even a bird has to do that
before he can fly.
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Rainer Maria Rilke