Living in a world that is undergoing major environmental, structural, social, and economic transformation …
How do we embody being aware and being kind when so much is painful and scary?
How can we respond rather than react to the changes that are happening in our lives?
How do we access nourishment and belonging when so much of what we have known is shifting or collapsing?
How do we engage the dynamics of current circumstances in a way that clarifies rather than confuses and energizes rather than overwhelms?
What opportunities arise from a “wicked predicament?
“Eye of the Hurricane 1: Conscious Relationship with Personal and Global Change” explores these questions and more through guided meditation, mindful discussion, and experiential practices. We learn to navigate the tension of crisis and opportunity from a place of holding paradox — engagement and stillness, personal and collective, grief and joy — by cultivating a steady mind and open heart. In this way, we begin to shift our relationship with current personal and global circumstances to living with and from the truth of uncertainty.
Facing multi-faceted challenge and uncertainty calls for access to multi-faceted support, resourcing and growth.
Images from the Hubble Telescope offer us a map of transformation, as we engage through the lens of Deep Time and Deep Adaptation perspectives:
Contemplative exploration of the natural process of evolution;
Guided meditations to access inner resources;
Somatic and energetic practices that cultivate a steady mind and open heart;
Reflective writing to process and integrate internal and external changing;
Relational perspective that supports a larger, Deep Time perspective;
Creative expression of what is emerging from the emergency ...
… to stabilize the inner world as we move through outer transition.
Astronomer and author, Stephan Martin, offers his expertise, insights, and cosmic contemplations to our journey, as our Special Guest Teacher.
Join us as we find our seats in the Inflection Point ...
When we center on a Vertical Line (the roots of grounding and the universal process of evolving) rather than a Horizontal Line (the winds and currents of swirling around previous structures, habits, and patterns that are no longer working), we source our choices and actions from a foundational and inspired place… in service of cultivating a new paradigm, a new story of how we are being in the world.
This shift is the orientation that we practice in this course.
Teacher: Marianne Rowe
Special Guest Teacher: Stephan Martin
Tuesdays, Aug. 27, Sep. 3, 10, 17, 24, 27, & Oct. 1
5:30-7:00 pm (Pacific)
Cost:
$220 – Supporter (I want to offer more support to this important work.)
$170 – Regular (I can pay at the regular level.)
$105 – Partial Scholarship (Money is tight. I can pay at this level.)
This course meets online via Zoom, with additional components on our online community platform. When you register, we’ll send you the details to access the session on Zoom.
As a humane being, co-founding teacher of Monterey Bay Meditation Studio, and licensed marriage and family therapist, Marianne is dedicated to cultivating eco-systemic consciousness and living in-cahoots with Earth, Cosmos, and Life in all forms. Marianne’s insatiable love of learning has led her into certifications as a nature & forest therapy guide, eco-therapist, California naturalist, and Authentic Relating facilitator, along with certifications in eco-psychology, climate stewardship and climate psychology. She has been practicing meditation since the last century and teaching mindfulness meditation to children and adults since 2006.
Her sense of belonging and aliveness is sourced and deepened through walks, sits, and gazing with the Pacific Ocean, forest, night skies, along with evolutionary, envisioning conversations with beloved friends and colleagues. Read more
Stephan Martin is an astronomer, educator, and author who has taught astronomy, physics and consciousness studies at colleges, universities, and learning centers across the US for over 25 years. He is currently adjunct faculty in the Consciousness and Transformative Studies program at John F. Kennedy University, the Director of the Deeptime Leadership Program, and Co-director of the continuing care program at the Center for Spiritual Emergence in Asheville, NC where he assists clients in living more conscious lives from an expansive perspective. Steve frequently offers experiential workshops on stargazing, astronomy and personal transformation at observatories, learning centers, and other popular veneers around the world. He is the author of Cosmic Conversations: Dialogues on the Nature of the Universe and the Search for Reality.
This offering is part of the Evolution of Consciousness/Spirituality, Mindfulness/Meditation, Outdoor Engagement, and Relationship with Earth and All Beings MBMS Currents.