PLEASE NOTE: THE FIRST SESSION OF THIS COURSE TOOK PLACE ON MARCH 4. THERE ARE FIVE REMAINING COURSES LEFT. IF YOU STILL WANT TO JOIN THE COURSE, REGISTER BELOW AND WE’LL SEND YOU THE LINK WITH THE RECORDING FOR THE FIRST SESSION THAT YOU MISSED.
Compassion As Presence - Level II of Applying Meditation to Nonviolent Living
*No prior experience necessary & you need not have taken any previous meditation course to attend.
EVERY THURSDAY AT 1 PM PACIFIC / 2 PM MTN / 3 PM CENTRAL / 4 PM EASTERN, BEGINNING MARCH 4TH THROUGH APRIL 8, 2021
Six weekly sessions of 75 minutes each – approx.
If you are in a different time zone, you can find the start time for your location here.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
In this follow up to the two very successful meditation courses we offered in 2020, this course will delve deeper into the practice and benefits of meditation for all aspects of living.
We will empower ourselves with confidence, clarity and understanding. Nonviolence is about embodying Truth. We practice Truth when we refine presence. This approach has protective power that blesses our lives and the lives of others bringing meaning, belonging and loving kindness. In this six week course we will explore how a vaster vision makes for a richer life.
All are welcome, you need not have taken any previous meditation course to attend.
OUTLINE OF WEEKLY COURSES:
Week 1: Meditation for the times we are living in. General overview.
Week 2: Working with Thinking - Insight and Silence
Week 3: The four kinds of mindfulness: of body, of feeling, of mind, of phenomena.
Week 4: Letting go and Letting be - Flow of Awareness
Week 5: The Indestructible Essence of our Being – Who are we?
Week 6: Commitment to Practice - Strengthening Intention.
All the sessions will include breakout rooms and exercises to practice what has been explained. We will also record each session and send out the link only to registered participants in case you miss any sessions.
COURSE DATES and TIMES:
Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 1pm Pacific / 2pm Mountain / 3pm Central / 4pm Eastern.
Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 1pm Pacific / 2pm Mountain / 3pm Central / 4pm Eastern.
Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 1pm Pacific / 2pm Mountain / 3pm Central / 4pm Eastern.
Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 1pm Pacific / 2pm Mountain / 3pm Central / 4pm Eastern.
Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 1pm Pacific / 2pm Mountain / 3pm Central / 4pm Eastern.
Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 1pm Pacific / 2pm Mountain / 3pm Central / 4pm Eastern.
COST: $80 USD for the 6 sessions. Register below. If you are in need of a scholarship, a few are available, just let us know. Email us at info@paceebene.org
REQUIREMENT: Have a good internet connection and understand how zoom works. No previous experience required.
FACILITATOR
Course Facilitator: Veronica Pelicaric
Veronica was raised in the Catholic tradition in Argentina. While in her thirties, she lived for two years in a monastery in Brazil. She has have been a practitioner of Buddhist meditation for over thirty years and lives in a spiritual community in Montreal. She has been with Pace e Bene for twenty one years as a nonviolence trainer and educator and considers her work a concrete expression of spiritual practice.
“Some form of contemplative practice is the only way (apart from great love and great suffering) to rewire people’s minds and hearts. It is the only form of prayer that dips into the unconscious and changes people at deep levels — where all of the wounds, angers, and recognitions lie hidden. Prayer that is too verbal, too social, too external, too heady never changes people at the level where they really need to change. Only some form of prayer of quiet changes people for good and for others in any long term way. It sustains and deepens the short term wisdom we learn in great love and great suffering. Forgive me for making that an absolute statement, but I believe it from years of working with people.”
“I was very moved by the meditation course. Because of your guidance my view of meditation has changed. Before I thought it was something to clear MY mind. Now I see it is an offering I have to give those around me and the world. A way to be in the world that is a benefit to all. ”