Workshops

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RETURN TO THE CENTRE: A DAY WITH BEDE GRIFFITHS
Facilitator : Meath Conlan, PhD

This reflection day seeks to open the heart through gentle inquiry into the life and vision of the late Bede Griffiths. It will help you experience the spiritual insights of an amazing sage and mystic – an English Benedictine monk who lived at Saccidananda ashram, South India , for over 30 years. This is a day for personal well being, as well as to benefit others. We will enjoy a time of music, poetry, stories, and a video presentation on the life of Bede Griffiths.

To discuss organising a workshop or retreat in your area or at your venue, please contact: meath@diversejourneys.com

TELLING OUR STORY
Facilitator : Meath Conlan, PhD

Stories are essential in any culture, and are spoken and represented through visual forms. Images give rise to stories, and narrative texts are “illuminated” by images. Stories are in the constant process of being re-told. The re-telling of a narrative is part of the effort to make it present, and relevant in a given lived situation. Only then are stories meaningful. In the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to tell stories that are meaningful for them. The group will reflect on how these stories are important for an understanding of our present lived reality.

To discuss organising a workshop or retreat in your area or at your venue, please contact: meath@diversejourneys.com

CENTERING PRAYER: THE PRACTICE OF CONTEMPLATION
Facilitator : Meath Conlan, PhD

This is a full day seminar format that seeks to convey specific theory and practical training in the art of ‘Centering Prayer’ – a recovery of an ancient Christian form of contemplation.

To discuss organising a workshop or retreat in your area or at your venue, please contact: meath@diversejourneys.com

MID-LIFE DIRECTIONS: PERSONAL & SPIRITUAL GROWTH IN MID-LIFE
Facilitator : Meath Conlan, PhD

This is a full weekend (Fri p.m. – Sun afternoon) workshop – an adult education process for people at midlife (35/40+), offering a “rite of passage” into a new way of being in the world; with guidelines for a deeper, more intense reflection on your own personal story. You will appreciate the potential of your own unique personality and come to a more conscious realisation of the meaning, creativity and possibilities of your mid-life years. It is a call to awaken your un-lived personality dimensions, as well as a chance to plumb your interiority, with the chance to redesign daily life around new dreams and goals – as appropriate for the new demands and challenges of the middle years.

To discuss organising a workshop or retreat in your area or at your venue, please contact: meath@diversejourneys.com

LONG LIFE DIRECTIONS: PERSONAL & SPIRITUAL GROWTH IN LATER ADULT LIFE
Facilitator : Meath Conlan, PhD

This is a full weekend (Fri p.m. – Sun afternoon) work-shop format introducing adults (55/60+) to the many blessings, challenges and opportunities of a long life through participation in learning, processes, activities and strategies – directed to putting one more securely on the way of inwardness and individuation.

To discuss organising a workshop or retreat in your area or at your venue, please contact: meath@diversejourneys.com

THE TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: DEEPENING OUR SPIRITUAL JOURNEY
Facilitator : Meath Conlan, PhD

Two-day reflection on “The Ten Oxherding Pictures:” a set of ten calligraphic works from the Zen tradition that portray the different stages in the inner journey to the realization of the truth / the realization of the true self.

To discuss organising a workshop or retreat in your area or at your venue, please contact: meath@diversejourneys.com

THE CROSS & THE LOTUS: INTRODUCTION TO INSIGHT MEDITATION
Facilitator : Meath Conlan, PhD

This is a 2-day and 5 or 7-day practical retreat format that uses the language and methods of Theravada Buddhist Insight Meditation together with the mystical teachings of St John of the Cross. Participants are led to their own rich arena of direct spiritual experience, where, through direct, non-judgmental awareness we see our own particular conditioned patterns of thought; we open to the possibilities for understanding ourselves and the world from a place emptied of self-centredness.

To discuss organising a workshop or retreat in your area or at your venue, please contact: meath@diversejourneys.com