A universal assembly for true discernment
Title: “Simple”
Description: Truth is Simple. So what makes life appear so complicated? Together, let’s take a look.
Reading: Fran Hamilton read from Mooji’s book, Before I Am: The Direct Recognition of Truth, Chapter “The True Master Has No Teaching”.
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This Gentle Healing Group Year 3 is being led by Rev. Sharon Hepburn. The Gentle Healing Curriculum guides committed students to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy, and love. This group began year 3 on January 24, 2024.
Here’s a direct link to the helpful facilitator guide for Gentle Healing Year 3 that helps you to know what week you are on: Click Here
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We are seeking Awakening Together Ordained Ministers to facilitate courses in our Minister Preparation Program (MPP). Facilitating the MPP courses is an excellent way to review the teachings you learned in these courses. In addition, facilitation helps you deepen in those teachings and into your own spiritual practice. MPP facilitators are also paid for facilitating MPP courses.
In order to become certified to facilitate MPP, ministers must complete our MPP Facilitators Training course. In this course, ministers will be trained and certified to facilitate MPP in both the forum and weekly zoom class meeting formats.
In this class you will learn:
Workshop Dates & Times: Friday, October 4, 2024 through Sunday, October 6, 2024 from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. ET each day
Homework Commitment: Prior to the start of the workshop homework will be assigned which you will be required to prepare and share. Time commitment is approximately 45-60 minutes per day for 3 days prior to the start of the workshop.
Facilitator: Rev. Susan Telford
Format: Classes will be held live on Zoom.
Cost: $180
Registration closes: September 24, 2024 @ 5 p.m. ET
For more questions please connect with us.
For scholarship information for this course, contact us here.
Please join us as we continue to contemplate Out of the Stillness & The Seven Steps to Awakening. This program is on Wednesdays, 3pm ET / 1pm MT (except for the first Wednesday of the month).
“Awakening Together was designed by inner guidance to be a sangha rather than a guru-centered collective.”
As we step into the vision of “The Sangha is the New Guru” we are learning how the sangha is its own teacher, and honing the skills that are important for each member of a highly effective sangha. We are teaching ourselves how to genuinely support awakening, for each of us and for the community.
The primary qualities of a sangha are:
During this program we are currently contemplating Out of the Stillness and The Seven Steps to Awakening as Regina had been contemplating during this time.
A new facilitator will also be assigned each week. The facilitator will be the one to facilitate the program during the following week. The facilitator will lead by reading the quotes, calling on participants who wish to share their contemplations and may also be the one to share contemplations. To be a facilitator you will need both books.
Any questions posed will be posed to the group and inner wisdom will be brought forth from the sangha in response. We invite anyone who feels called to join us as we step into the vision of a highly effective sangha.
Live in the Sanctuary
Wednesdays at 3 pm ET/1 pm MT,
except for the first Wednesday of the month
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In this program, Rev. Cyndi will explore how we can use the Conditioning Loop (What I think, I see, what I see, I experience, what I experience I think) to shine a light on how the little self works to keep us in the dark. She will be using personal stories, contemplations, and wisdom teachings. Join Cyndi in using the world that we see and the thoughts that we think to Awaken Together.
Wednesdays 12:00-12:30 p.m. ET
REGISTRATION CLOSES IN TODAY~ THERE ARE TWO SANGHA GROUPS STILL AVAILABLE
Awakening Together is delighted to introduce a renewed Spiritual Mentoring Program, designed to support you on your spiritual journey through two possible opportunities. This program is tailored to accommodate both communal and individual needs as well as fostering a nurturing environment where participants can explore, understand, and deepen their spiritual practice.
Mentoring Sangha: 6-Week Spiritual Practice SessionsMentoring Sangha offers participants the unique opportunity to join a small, intimate sangha that meets weekly under the guidance of a certified spiritual mentor. Sanghas are best for those who are seeking an opportunity to grow their own spiritual confidence, competence and commitment. Each sangha, limited to a maximum of three participants plus the mentor, creating a supportive and confidential space to share and explore spiritual practices. Over the course of 6 weeks, these sessions are dedicated to the following:
The 2- hour sangha meetings are structured to ensure a nurturing and productive environment. The cost for this transformative 6-week journey is $180.
An investment in your spiritual confidence, competence and commitment.
For those who would like to participate but are in need of a scholarship, which covers 50% of the cost, please contact us here. Our pricing policies as well as our scholarship opportunities endeavors to ensure that no one is turned away due to financial constraints. Again, please contact us if you are prompted to discuss this further.
To participate in a Sangha as a mentee, the mentee agrees to uphold the covenants of membership.
Registration for the Mentoring Sangha closes as each group fills up but no later than:
August 28, 2024 @ 5 p.m. ET
Please join Rev. Yolanda as she continues to share her beautiful voice and heart during The Mighty Companions Hour. This is a program she and her late, beloved husband, Rev. Glen Ganaway began in 2020.
Rev. Yolanda Mapes, who is an interfaith minister, shares a delightful, funny, and inspiring hour of A Course in Miracles. Come join in on the fun, the laughs, and the music while unlearning the ego through the lessons and chapters of ACIM. You can find out more about the Mighty Companions on the website: themightycompanions.
Live in the Sanctuary on Sundays at 5 pm ET/3 pm MT.
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*We ask anyone who feels called to please help support our beloved Rev. Yolanda as she walks through this difficult time. Donations are now being accepted. Please clink on this link https://gofund.me/545d958a
Registration closing in one week.“When I met my Guru, he told me: ‘You are not what you take yourself to be. Find out what you are. Watch the sense I am, find your real Self.’ I obeyed him, because I trusted him. I did as he told me. …
I simply followed (my teacher’s) instruction which was to focus the mind on pure being I am, and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the I am in my mind and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared — myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained and unfathomable silence.” ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Join us as we contemplate the extremely profound teachings of a great sage, a cigarette salesman, who trusted his guru completely and awakened to become one of the most perspicacious teachers of our time.
In this course you will learn to:
1. Allow inner spiritual intuition to guide you to a small portion of a teaching so you can go deeper within that teaching.
2. Write from beyond one’s self in order to realize additional clarity or commitment.
3. Meditate on the sense of ‘I Am’, also known as awareness watching awareness.
Course Duration: 4 weeks
Homework & Course Begins: Monday, September 9, 2024
Last Day of Course: Sunday, October 6, 2024
Facilitators: Rev. Susan Telford
Individual Homework Time Commitment: An hour per day 5 days per week.
Structure of Course: Forum. Four weeks including one introductory video and reviewing one other participant’s homework.
Textbook needed: The textbook needed is “I Am That” by Nisargadatta Maharaj (or use the free pdf format.)
Format: Classes will be held live on a Zoom Link weekly.
Cost: $120*
Registration closes: Tuesday, September 3, 2024 @ 5 p.m. ET
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Jill Grace facilitated today while Michele takes a holiday. Jill guided a group of committed students through year 2 of Gentle Healing who want to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy, and love. This group meets weekly on Mondays at 5-7 pm ET/3-5 pm MT and all members are committed to specific assignments and practices between group meetings.
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Homework for next week:
Awakening Together’s Vice President-Minister, Rev. Rhoda Makled, and Rev. David Hemphill share from the Tao as they contemplate its principles in order to fully embody them.
The Tao Te Ching (The Way), written by Lao-Tzu (Old Teacher), is a guide to enlightened leadership. While most people believe effective leadership lies in knowledge and power, the Tao teaches it lies in emptiness, stillness, and presence.
The pair are using three books including interpretations by Derek Lin, Wayne Wang, and Stephen Mitchell. And now they are excited to add Regina’s translation to their contemplations of the Tao and you are invited to join them each Sunday.
*During this program, Rev. David contemplated an Angelo Dilullo video.
Taught Live in the Sanctuary Weekly on Sundays 6:00 – 7:00 pm ET
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