Gather to Hear the Call Retreat
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Sept 10,11, 12
The first three days are open days to stay at Alderlore before the workshops begins with dinner Thursday evening. These are days to enjoy the natural settings, walk to the beach, explore the deep hemlock forest, or sit by the pond. Arrangements can be made to take workshops with the horses (contact me individually for designing a workshop that suits your interests or needs.)
Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be opportunities for conversation, and although I will be busy with some workshop preparations during the day, I also want to make time to meet each of you on a more personal level. Morning walks and evenings on the porch are both perfect opportunities to relax together and get to know each other.
Thursday, September 13th
The workshop venue officially begins with Thursday dinner. Participants will gather in the Main House at 5:30 and dinner will be served.
From 7 – 9 pm we will have evening discussion in the Studio which will include check-ins and orientation.
Friday & Saturday September 14th-15th.
7 – 8 am … Walking Meditation/ Qigong
8 – 9 am … Light breakfast foods, tea and coffee, juices, fruits, etc… will be available in the Studio. A full breakfast will be offered in the Main House.
9 – Noon … Bonnie will host group circle process in the Studio. Over the course of the two days, we will work with the inquiry that is written in the retreat description (see below). Bonnie will help move the process from the deeply personal “felt sense”, to the shared expression, and into the realm of the collective gesture of “what wants to emerge.”
Noon—1:00 Lunch Served in the Main House.
1:00- 3:00 Workshop Presentations
- Friday: Perspective and the Dzogchen notion of View
- Saturday: Aurobindo’s Illumined Mind
3:00 – 5:00 Artist in Residence Featuring Thomas Arthur (with other guests)
5:00 – 5:30 Break
5:30 Dinner in the Main House
7:00 – 9:00 Evening Discussion in the Studio
Journaling, Blog-Posting : On Going
Sunday September 16th
7 – 8 am … Walking Meditation/ Qigong
8 – 9 am … Light breakfast foods, tea and coffee, juices, fruits, etc… will be available in the Studio. A full breakfast will be offered in the Main House.
9 – Noon … Bonnie will host group circle process in the Studio towards an even deeper, intuitive level of being able to stay in the process of listening, without overlaying any of the perspectival aspects to the listening self.
Noon—1:00 Lunch Served in the Main House.
1:00 – 3:00 Group Discussion: Completion and Carrying Forward
Note: There is a possibility that we might livestream and/or video tape Bonnie’s Workshop Presentations and Thomas’ Artist Performances. All group process and discussion will be private and closed – participants will be asked to respect the privacy of what is offered in group work.
What is calling to emerge just beyond, piercing the edges of our collective moment?
How does being together increase our capacity to hear this calling?
What is my own unique purpose in this process?
How can my deeply personal core self speak from the universal, arriving as the future of our in-becoming?
What are the magical processes in play, gathering us together?
How do we immerse in the free-flow of being as the deeper presence of the always already in-becoming Spirit that we are individually and collectively?
Listening to being as strings being tuned in order to play together.
