Session Three
Our ultimate goal is transformation at depth but we can’t get there unless we recognize ourselves with compassion. We need to understand how it is we found ourselves in this astonishing situation. In a process that involves not just mind, but heart and body, we are looking back, remembering both for ourselves and our people the causes and conditions that led us here. With great care and attention, we begin to untangle the tangle.
Session Two
In this second session, we will especially make space for difficult emotions, especially fear, grief, and rage. We can investigate the narratives that support these emotions and how they might be loosened, meeting our habitual defensive responses not only with kindness but with clarity, courage, and determination. This is an ambitious journey, one that requires not only safety and compassion, but also a certain boldness. We are challenging massive forces and patterns; Mara doesn’t go down easy (and gets back up). So we can also purposefully discover and nourish our wholesome ambition.
Session One
In this opening session, groups will be gathering and all participants will be keen to know what they’ve signed up for. We’ll begin by gathering and reflecting on our global situation and the changes that are rapidly underway. We’ll map out the journey, ensure satchels are packed, and facilitate connections among travelers. In particular, we’ll be seeding psychological safety, essential to risk-taking, inside the course framework and among group members.
Course Resources
Course Resources Updates on the Course Resources for Your Journey Session Format Session Resources Course Survey Questions? Updates on the Course Learn more about the newest version of the EcoSattva Training, available now. Materials for all eight sessions are available now. Thanks to the generosity of Intersein Stiftung (Interbeing Foundation), German subtitles are now available […]
EcoSattva Training – Live Monthly Gatherings
From November 2021 through May 2022, One Earth Sangha hosted monthly gatherings for participants in the EcoSattva training. These gatherings will resume in the fall with the launch of the next version of the training. We hope to see you there! Recordings November 7, 2021 Kaia Svien co-facilitated our first live gathering, guiding participants in […]
Resources for Dharma of Resistance (Working)
Contents Schedule Zoom Information Upcoming Session: Readings & Homework Offer Dana Past Sessions Schedule All formal sessions will be online on Saturdays from 10 am to 12 noon MDT (9-11 am PDT, 12 noon -2 pm EDT). Phase 1: May 15, May 29, June 12, June 26, July 10, July 24 Phase 2: Aug 7, […]
Resources for Dharma of Resistance
Contents Schedule Zoom Information Upcoming Session: Readings & Homework Offer Dana Past Sessions Schedule All formal sessions will be online on Saturdays from 10 am to 12 noon MDT (9-11 am PDT, 12 noon -2 pm EDT). Phase 1: May 15, May 29, June 12, June 26, July 10, July 24 Phase 2: Aug 7, […]
Session Eight
In the closing session, we’ll return to our individual aspirations or visions to refine and affirm. Critical is exploring how the process of letting go, going deep and reforming ourselves can become a regular part of our practice. We’ll also look at how we can create sacred and nourishing spaces that support authentic investigation and also share opportunities for collaborating on diverse forms of engagement. We might discover how connections we’ve made here can go forward.
Session Seven
Equipped with a deeply rooted sense of our belonging and calling, we turn outward. In earlier sessions, we opened up some of the habitual but limited ways that we engage with others around social transformation. Now we’ll look at what does work supported by research and our own honed wisdom. We’ll clarify in particular our agency in relationships (implicit and explicit) and groups (social norming) as well as what sabotages that agency.
Session Six
Continuing in the relational spiritual task, attunement with the unknown, we’ll open further to so much more than the conventional holding of that truth. We’ll welcome whatever arises, from nothing to mystical everything.