13th to 27th November 2010
This is a retreat with an emphasis on meditatively inhabiting the wild landscape which surrounds the Ecodharma Centre. It is part of our Nature Based Practice and Learning series.
Our deepest nature is untameable. Yet, spending so much time living in a world constructed in service of a humanity, this can be hard to remember. So step out of the narrow dusty world for a while and meet the wild.
Yogis and forest renunciates, just like hunters and foragers, know that the places to look for nourishment are ‘off the path’ – through the thickets, amidst the trees, where people don’t tend to stray. So, Meeting the Wild takes us onto mountain ridges and into ravines, to meditate in caves and secret groves. It takes us to loll by streams and sit amidst the mossy oaks. In order to help us follow the path of integration and transformation more fully, this two week retreat takes us ‘off the path’!
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Dec 18th 2010 to Jan 8th 2011
A retreat with Guhyapati, Maitrisara, and Shantiprabha
Nature is a teacher. But what can we learn to help us through these difficult times? How are we to understand and integrate nature’s teachings? On this retreat we bring the methods and insights of the Buddhist tradition into association with an emerging ecological perspective. This is a winter retreat of practice woven within the web of ecology as it manifests in the land, in our own consciousness, and within community. It will connect us with inner and interpersonal resources which can help us respond to the cries of the world with courageous compassion. We will discover how the unfoldment of our own nature is rooted in the unfoldment of the world – exploring these issues through a blend of study, dialogue, solitary time and meditation.
Suggested contribution €500 (euros) in the dana economy.
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May 2011
Tools for Effective-Sustainable Activism
A 10 day workshop in the Catalan Pyrenees
This workshop, in a remote and wild valley in the Catalan Pyrenees,
offers a range of tools, collective and personal, which can make our activism more effective. These methods can help us stay in it for the long haul, adding continuity to our movement building.. They can be used to ensure the collective and organisational dimensions of our activism exemplifies the values we’re struggling for. And they can help us stay inspired, nourished, & more creative in our tactical approach.
The course applies systems thinking, ecological thought and radical critical analysis to the practice of activism and the building of participatory social movements. It will bring together activists from across Europe, to share practice and re-inforce networks.
The workshop will use methods of holistic and participatory learning: cognitive, critical, emotional, and visceral. And the event will model direct democratic social forms.
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