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Wisdom in Time of Challenge: Support Resources

This page offers a gathering of Wisdom resources ― videos, events and writings ― being shared specifically as a response to the current global situation. We have gathered content from Teachers we have hosted, as well as others we find deeply valuable.

In addition, Open Circle offers an extended choice of mostly donation-based online events intended to be of best support during this time of transition.

If you’d like to suggest a profound, relevant resource not listed below, please write to sara@opencirclecenter.org.

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Online Events

Online meetings shared as support for the current period of intense change. Most events are free or by donation.
Hover over each card for more details and a link.

(The following events are not organized by Open Circle)

Mukti

Re-Visioning Suffering: A New Paradigm for Well-Being

Free 4-Week Online Teaching Series

May 19, 26, 2020
6:00-8:00 PM PT

This series of teachings will examine and challenge how you define, perceive, and organize around suffering. You will learn pointers for shifting unhelpful perceptions of suffering that consume energy.
Broadcast Schedule

Adyashanti

Live Online Broadcasts

May 30th: 11:00 am - 2:30 pm PT

Adyashanti offers live, as well as prerecorded broadcasts.

For full calendar visit:

Broadcast Schedule

Jeannie Zandi

Love & Fear in Changing Times – Online Retreat

Friday, May 29, 6:30 pm
- Sunday, May 31, 5:00 pm mdt

Want some company to drop into presence and meet what rises in the context of a global pandemic? Join Jeannie & friends for these free calls  to bring simplicity and sweetness to this collective challenge.
Jeannie's Website

Prajna

Live Meditations & Zoom Sessions

Most Thursdays,
12:00 pm PT

"I offer this guidance for you to directly experience who you truly are—your true nature. Deeply enhanced by our collective presence and your clear aspiration for liberation."
Prajna's Website

Anam Thubten

Weekly Livestreams

April Sundays, 10am - 12pm PT

"Right now, many of us are staying home; this can be turned into a spiritual opportunity to immerse ourselves in awareness. In the spirit of friendship, Dharmata Foundation is offering this series free of charge as a way to support everyone."
More Details

Gail Brenner

Calm Center Online Conversations

Tuesdays, 9:00 - 10:30 PT

Let’s come together to support each other in the field of love and presence at this challenging—and sacred—time. You are most welcome with your fears, doubts, questions, and insights—and simply to share sacred space together.
More Details

A New Beginning World Conference

May 23rd - 25th, 2020

A three-day interactive online event with talks, interviews, discussion groups and Q&A sessions with 30 of the foremost spiritual teachers in the world today.
Learn More

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Daily zoom sessions and livestreams

11:00 am Pacific Time

Cultivating Mindfulness at this Critical Moment - Daily Practices and Inquiry with Jon Kabat-Zinn

Sign up and watch recordings here:

Livestream Page

Shakti Caterina Maggi

Frequent Online Events

"When we are challenged by Life, we have the opportunity to use fear as a resource previously embedded in the sense of separation."
Event Schedule

Richard Miller & Stephanie Lopez from iRest

Live-stream Sangha Sessions

Richard Miller: Tuesdays 4pm pst
Stephanie Lopez: Thursdays 4pm pst

Each session will include guided meditations that promote well-being and gratitude practices to help you feel calm and at ease.
Event Page

Krishna Das

Hanging in the Heart Space
Online Satsangs

April Thursdays, 7pm New York Time

Krishna Das will chant, tell stories and respond to questions.
Event Page

World Peace Meditation

with Lisa Lestander (Satyagita)

Every Monday
11:00 am-11:40 am PT

First time? Join the introduction at 7:40 pm CET

Contact Lisa Lestander (Satyagita) at lestanderlisa@gmail.com to join

Message Lisa

Byron Katie

"At Home with Byron Katie"
zoom sessions

May 19, 20, 21, 9:00-10:00 PT

"Hello, dears, please join me at home in Ojai.

Together, let’s dive into what really matters. Let’s look at the cause of all suffering and how to end it. Come Home with me. Let’s do The Work!"

Register

Mother Meera

Daily Live Meditations

10:00 - 11:00 am PT

Mother's message for the current situation:

"Don't be afraid, stay calm and pray!"

Livestream

Marlies Myoku Cocheret

Weekly Online Meditations

Wednesdays, 10:00 - 11:00 am PT

This is a live guided meditation, followed by an opportunity to ask questions.
Website Calendar

Rupert Spira

Frequent Online Events

Various Times

With almost everyone confined to their homes due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Rupert has increased the number of online events to enable the Non-Dual understanding to be available to as many people as wish to receive it.
Rupert's Website

Paul Hedderman

Online Events Twice a Week

Wednesdays, 7:00 pm
Saturdays 1:30 pm

Online Schedule

Jon Bernie

Weekly Online Satsangs

Saturdays, 11am to 1pm PT

These meetings have a fluid structure guided by Jon’s intuition, similar to his local gatherings—familiar to many of you from his podcasts—with silent sitting, teaching from Jon and one-on-one work with a number of participants.
More Details

Videos

  • Eckhart Tolle, May 2nd
    Find Death Before Death Finds You

  • Amoda Maa, May 1st
    Awakening in the Midst of Crisis

  • Jeannie Zandi, April 20th
    What Will Become of Me?

  • Jeannie Zandi, April 12th
    Love & Fear

  • Aisha Salem, April 9th
    Making Space for The Overwhelm

  • Amoda Maa, April 8th
    Deeper Than Thought

  • Matt Kahn, April 7th
    Surviving the Unthinkable

  • Mary Reed, April 5th
    Channeling Consensus: On Tiredness

  • Mary Reed, April 2nd
    The End of Hell

  • Aisha Salem, April 2nd
    Livestream

  • Loch Kelly, March 30th
    Guided Meditation – Welcome & Liberate Fear

  • Amoda Maa, March 28th
    The Power of Presence in Troubled Times

  • Eckhart Tolle, March 28th
    How Do I Handle the Fear That I’m Feeling?

  • Igor Kufayev, March 28th
    Deeper Dimensions of the Global Crisis – Part 1

  • Neelam, March 27th
    Transformation during Covid-19 times / Find Peace Now Practice

  • Tim Freke, March 27th
    Making Sense of The Coronavirus Pandemic – A message to the spiritual community

  • Aisha Salem, March 26th
    You Choose how Life Goes on from Here

  • Tilicho, March 26th
    The Game of Disturbing Identities

  • Tilicho, March 26th
    Coronavirus and the Shift in Consciousness

  • Amoda Maa, March 21st
    The Wake Up Call

  • Eckhart Tolle, March 21st
    Staying Conscious in The Face of Adversity

  • Jeannie Zandi, March 18th
    Eye of the Storm #2 – Meeting Coronavirus – Guided Meditation

Writings & Websites

Articles and pages filled with care and wisdom, created during recent days.

Andrew Harvey - Healing Resources

A collection of free texts, audios and videos

We've come to the defining crisis of human history. And if we're going to get through this, it will only be through a massive and extremely painful and complete transformation.

This transformation won't just be individual, it will have to be structural. It will have to be economic, political, spiritual, and emotional. All at once. And very fast.

Visit The Page

Charles Eisenstein - The Coronation

For years, normality has been stretched nearly to its breaking point, a rope pulled tighter and tighter, waiting for a nip of the black swan’s beak to snap it in two. Now that the rope has snapped, do we tie its ends back together, or shall we undo its dangling braids still further, to see what we might weave from them?

Full Text

Stephan Bodian - The Spiritual Teachings of Covid-19

Human life as we’ve known it has ground to a halt, and we’re faced with an unprecedented crisis—and an unprecedented opportunity. Covid-19 is the guru who won’t leave us alone...

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Human Online

Experience presence and heartfelt connection. Connect with people from all places and backgrounds. Slow down and share a moment in silence. Share one minute in silence, 
looking at each other through the screen.

Visit The Website

Kitty O'Meara - In The Time of Pandemic (poem)

And the people stayed home.

And they read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still....

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