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SUMMARY:John Prendergast\, Lisa Ferguson & Jared Michaels ~ Engaged Nonduality ~ InPerson Daylong
DESCRIPTION:Engaged Nonduality: Attending to Our World in Crisis\nwith John Prendergast\, Lisa Ferguson and Jared Michaels \nThis daylong event is an opportunity to turn toward our world in crisis from an awakened heart. Whatever is touching your heart is welcomed\, including climate and ecosystem breakdown\, war and conflict\, injustice and polarization. How is Being moving through us in response? We will explore through meditation\, dyadic inquiry\, and group interaction what it means to open to our awakened nature\, while also being moved by our deepest knowing to respond to our world in crisis. \nWatch John and Lisa’s video invitations to this special daylong event: \n\n\n  \n  \nBios \nJohn J. Prendergast\, Ph.D. is the author of The Deep Heart: Our Portal to Presence (2019 ) and In Touch: How to Tune In to the Inner Guidance of Your Body and Trust Yourself (2015) and is working on a new book entitled Your Deepest Ground: A Guide to Embodied Spirituality (March 2025). He is a retired Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies as well as a retired psychotherapist. He studied with the European sage Jean Klein for many years as well as with Adyashanti who gave dharma transmission to John in August\, 2023. John and his wife Christiane offer residential retreats in the United States and Europe.\nwww.listeningfromsilence.com\nYouTube channel \nLisa Ferguson\, Ph.D. is the founder of Climate Compassion\, and has focused on supporting planetary wellbeing as a healing arts practitioner\, climate justice activist\, organizer and contemplative.  She offers psychospiritual support to activists through one-one sessions and small groups\, weaving together a focus on awakening\, healing and wise action.\nwww.climatecompassion.org \nJared Michaels is a psychotherapist in private practice in Berkeley\, a Zen priest in the San Francisco Zen Center lineage\, and a longtime student of John Prendergast. For decades\, he asked what he could offer humanity that would make a difference. His answer has been consistent for years: To invite us to walk a path of personal and systemic transformation.\nJaredMichaels.com \nSuggested Donation: $75 per person\n(any amount acceptable\, no one turned away for lack of funds) \nREGISTER\nPre-registration is recommended\, through you can pay at door if not pre-registered. \nLunch Break: There are places close by to go out for lunch\, or you may bring your own lunch\, though there is no refrigerator access.\nNOTE: The venue is a kosher-style facility\, so no pork or shellfish\, and no meat mixed with dairy on premises. \nPARKING: There is some limited street parking in the neighborhood\, free and without time limit on weekends. There is also parking a few blocks away at the east parking lot of the Ashby Bart station: www.bart.gov/stations/ashb/map\nYou may also find paid parking just a few blocks away at Alta Bates Parking Garage: Enter on Colby between Ashby and Webster St.\nNearby parking may fill up quickly. Plan accordingly.
URL:https://opencirclecenter.org/event/john-lisa-jared-sept-15-2024/
LOCATION:Chochmat HaLev\, 2215 Prince St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,SF Bay Area In-Person Events
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