Free Live Webinar: Mon Ap 6th, 11am PDT
A powerful and unlikely spiritual teacher has arrived on Earth, blowing across the globe, sweeping everyone into the shadows of its cloak. This teacher has interrupted life as we know it, showing us the impermanence and fragility of our lifestyle - foreshadowing what we can expect as climate change progresses.
This spiritual teacher brings us right to the razor’s edge of this precious present moment. No past. No future. Just what is here now. All across the globe, people are speaking this spiritual teacher’s name: Corona.
The Coronavirus has the potential to kill millions worldwide. The virus also has the potential of being a spiritual initiator for humanity.
How so?
In our day-to-day lives, we are lulled into merely skimming the surface layer. We can easily fall asleep into a homeostatic trance that preserves the status quo, woefully inhibiting our evolution. What can awaken us from slumber is a personal or collective crisis.
A personal crisis has the power to thwart our daily routine. Cancer, stroke, heart-attack, job loss, divorce, or loss of a loved one can crack the shell of ingrained habit and initiate us into a journey of self-discovery.
A collective crisis has the potential to wake up the masses. Climate change and pandemics serve as potential species-wide intiatory events. Recognizing the possibility that Corona may kill millions can activate dormant spiritual instincts, bringing into consciousness such powerful spiritual inquiries as:
Who am I?
What do I do?
What is my purpose, place, destiny?
Pandemic as Practice: Transforming Fear Into Empowerment
Date: Monday, April 6, 2020
Time: 11am-1pm PST
Place: LIVE Zoom video conference
Cost: FREE
Register
Veta Goler and Jonathan Gustin (of Purpose Guides Institute) invite you to participate in a LIVE Zoom webinar council - transforming despair into empowerment. Meeting our anxiety, fear and desperation is vital if we are to be at full strength in meeting this crisis. Merely remaining in either denial or survival mode, attempting to either brush it off or tough it out, keeps the heart stuck in a frozen condition. Having a safe place, a council, allows the tender heart to thaw and express its pent up emotions. This process is key for moving from desperation to empowerment.
You are invited to this special Zoom video gathering where we'll meet this pandemic moment:
first our understandable despair and fear,
and then we'll transition to "empowerment," connecting with our soul’s deep purpose.
Schedule- All times PST
10:30 - 11:00 Gather & Connect
11:00 - 11:15 Talk Part 1- Pandemic as Practice
11:15 - 12:00 Despair Council - Meeting our Corona Anxiety Together
12:00 - 12:10 Talk Part 2 - From Despair to Empowerment
12:10 - 12:40 Personal Action Exploration - Soul inquiry guided meditation, “What do I do?”
12:40 - 1:00 Collective Action Debrief - Share what you were called to be and called to do.
Working together, we can awaken the human soul to meet this pandemic. Working together, we can use our "dark-adjusted eyes" to see the coronavirus crisis as a spiritual call from Soul.
Pandemic as practice...this moment is asking something of us.
Your Hosts
Veta Goler, PhD, has been on the faculty of Spelman College for over 30 years, teaching dance and dance history and incorporating contemplative practices and pedagogy. Committed to helping others discover the ways contemplative practices can enrich their lives, she is a national Circle of Trust® facilitator, leading retreats and workshops based in the work of education innovator Parker J. Palmer, and is in training to be a Purpose Guide™.
Jonathan Gustin, M.A, MFT, is a purpose guide, psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and integral mentor in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 23 years. Jonathan is the founder and lead teacher of the Purpose Guide Institute, Integral Awakening Center and Green Sangha. He teaches purpose discovery at San Quentin Prison and also serves as adjunct faculty at John F. Kennedy University.
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Monday April 6th, 11am-1pm PST
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