“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
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About the Weekend:
In the face of the Climate and Ecological Emergencies, and the widening impact of increased anxiety at every level of society, there has emerged a growing realisation that the remedies lie less in “what can we do about it”, and more in “how can we most skilfully and effectively respond to it.”
This weekend retreat and workshop is designed to cultivate our individual and collective capacity and skills to face, embrace, respond to, and transform our experience of these difficult times
The workshop will include meditations, discussions and practical exercises and tools to better resource ourselves. We will cultivate individual and collective capacity through the powerful integration of Mindfulness, Embodied Compassion and Active Hope practices.
This combination enables RECONNECTION with ourselves, each other and with nature/the world we live in.
Participants will go away with improved inner balance, self confidence, motivation and thus better able to respond skilfully and effectively.
The inclusion of ‘Active Hope’ practices based on Joanna Macy’s world famous ‘Work That Reconnects’ offers participants the real opportunity to navigate between despair and denial, and so cultivate agency, thereby finding the ability to respond skilfully and create positive change
This is offered as a blended retreat. You can choose to attend either in person at Land of Joy or to take part online via Zoom.
Land of Joy operates a generosity model and this course is offered on donation basis, please check their web page for more info, bookings and how to donate https://landofjoy.co.uk/eco-dharma-2/
Course facilitator: This retreat will be lead by Paul Wielgus
Paul combines his Buddhist and secular mindfulness and compassion teaching with Eco-Dharma practices such as Joanna Macy’s ‘Work That Reconnects’. He is a Buddhist practitioner and teacher of nearly 30 years, has a Masters in Action Inquiry and Sustainability from Bath University, is MBSR teacher trained, Work that Reconnects trained, and studied Secular Dharma at Bodhi College with Stephen Bachelor.His working career involved mindfulness and sustainability based coaching and leadership development, on an international scale, working for organisations, NGOs and charities based in Europe, USA and Africa.He lives in Somerset with his partner Ros, a familiar face at Land of Joy, and their unruly Persian cat, Oliver.
