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SUMMARY:Engaged Nonduality ~ With Miranda Macpherson and Lisa Ferguson
DESCRIPTION:Engaged Nonduality:\nWaking Up AND Showing Up\nwith With Miranda Macpherson and Lisa Ferguson \nRecording will be emailed to participants within a week.\nYou’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend the live session. \nAs these chaotic and challenging times continue\, we need the refuge that spiritual practice provides to nurture our access to clarity\, peace and joy. Equally\, we need the refuge of community\, to help us acknowledge all that we may be feeling – fear\, anger\, despair\, hopelessness – and open to the Grace that can transform them into responsiveness from our depth. \nWe will explore what it takes to abide in natural great peace\, real love and trust so we can stay resilient in amidst such anxiety provoking times; what can help us find the restorative Grace we need to thrive\, even in the face of heart-breaking news; and most importantly\, what can help us to become more potent\, graceful human beings\, embodying spiritual values in potent\, practical actions that serve our loved ones and wider society now. \nIn this session\, spiritual teacher and author Miranda Macpherson will share insights and practices that can help us to honor all parts of our experience\, harnessing the intensity of our times to grow deeper\, stronger\, clearer\, wiser – as we wake up and show up in our world today. \n\n\n\nCultivate the spiritual musculature that supports presence\, open-heartedness and equanimity amidst uncertainty \nTransform fear into trust\, anger into strength\, reactivity into responsiveness\nHarness the intensity of our times to grow deeper\, stronger\, clearer\, wiser\nListen inwardly for fresh ways to show up from your spiritual depth in peaceful actions that serve\n\n\n\nThe Engaged Nonduality series\nThis Engaged Nonduality series\, hosted by Lisa Ferguson\, explores how nondual wisdom may respond to our world in crisis. We live in a time of multiple intersecting crises that threaten the wellbeing of all life\, including climate breakdown\, unaligned tech and AI\, injustice\, war and authoritarianism. The recognition of nonduality has much to offer in these times\, including a deep knowing of our wholeness and shared Being\, as well as opening to the wellspring of our wise and creative response. This series invites guest presenters to explore how nondual teaching may respond to planetary crises through talks\, practices and group participation. \nBios: \nMiranda Macpherson is a contemporary spiritual teacher who has been guiding others into direct experience of the sacred for over thirty years internationally. In her twenties she founded the OneSpirit Interfaith Foundation in London\, where she trained and ordained over 600 ministers and counsellors. Today Miranda leads the Living Grace Global Sangha\, leads retreats internationally\, broadcasts extensively and serves as core faculty at The Shift Network. \nUnapologetically feminine\, joyful and down to earth in her way of being\, Miranda is dedicated to loving people all the way back into the freedom and wholeness of our True Nature. Further\, Miranda invites others to become more graceful human beings\, embodying creative\, peaceful and wise action that serves our loved ones and the human family in these enormous times. \nMiranda’s books include The Way of Grace: the Transforming Power of Ego Relaxation (Sounds True)\, Boundless Love (Rider) and Meditations on Boundless Love (Sounds True)\, and the Cultivating Grace Card Deck. Miranda is also a kirtan musician and singer with 2 mantra albums – Streams of Grace and The Heart of Being. Find out more at www.mirandamacpherson.com \nLisa Ferguson\, Ph.D. is the founder of the Engaged Nonduality series and sangha\, which connects the recognition of our non-separateness with our engaged response to suffering\, injustice and separation. She also founded Climate Compassion\, which supports the inner and outer work of attending to our world in crisis. Weaving the threads of awakening\, healing and service\, she offers meditative inquiry groups\, 1:1 sessions\, workshops and trainings that integrate spiritual inquiry\, psychological healing\, and leadership development as expression of our unique service offering. \nSliding Scale: $15 to $40\nHowever\, no one turned away for lack of funds.\nIf you can’t pay within the sliding scale\, contact us to let us know what you can contribute.\nAddress inquiries to web@opencirclecenter.org\nREGISTER \nTo check your local time\, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
URL:https://opencirclecenter.org/event/engaged-nonduality-jul-13-2025-2/
LOCATION:Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)
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