APPLYING MEDITATION FOR NONVIOLENT LIVING ONLINE COURSE
THIS COURSE IS FULL
Course Facilitator: Veronica Pelicaric
Veronica was raised in the Catholic tradition in Argentina. While in her thirties, she lived for two years in a monastery in Brazil. She has have been a practitioner of Buddhist meditation for over thirty years and lives in a spiritual community in Montreal. She has been with Pace e Bene for twenty one years and considers her work a concrete expression of spiritual practice.
EVERY THURSDAY AT 11 AM PACIFIC / 12 PM MTN / 1 PM CENTRAL / 2 PM EASTERN, BEGINNING AUGUST 13TH THROUGH SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Six weekly sessions of 75 minutes each – approx.
If you are in a different time zone, you can find the start time for your location here.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS COURSE WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED TO START ON JULY 14, BUT IT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO START AUGUST 13TH.
Cost: $80 USD for the 6 sessions. Register below. If you are in need of a scholarship, a few are available, just let us know. Email us at info@paceebene.org
Requirement: Have a good internet connection and understand how zoom works. No previous experience required.
Goals of the Course:
When we study the lives of people who changed the world through nonviolent means, we see that they were all rooted in some form of spiritual practice which sustained them through moments of crisis and human vulnerability. Faith was the fundamental source of their inner strength and capacity to endure.
“Some form of contemplative practice is the only way (apart from great love and great suffering) to rewire people’s minds and hearts. It is the only form of prayer that dips into the unconscious and changes people at deep levels — where all of the wounds, angers, and recognitions lie hidden. Prayer that is too verbal, too social, too external, too heady never changes people at the level where they really need to change. Only some form of prayer of quiet changes people for good and for others in any long term way. It sustains and deepens the short term wisdom we learn in great love and great suffering. Forgive me for making that an absolute statement, but I believe it from years of working with people.”
The goal of this workshop is to offer an experiential introduction to the practice of meditation drawing from different spiritual traditions yet free of jargon, dogma or doctrine. The overall goal is to give participants an opportunity to discover which way is most suited to their temperament and natural inclination. Generally speaking, meditation is a way to train the mind and make friends with ourselves; it is an act of love that nourishes the core of nonviolent living and being. As Gandhi has said, “nonviolence is impossible without self-purification”. Transformation happens naturally through meditation.
Outline of weekly courses:
Week one: Why Meditate?
Neuroscience and Meditation - Guided Practice
Week two: Breathing our Way Home
Harnessing Attention – Meditation with the Breath
Week three: Heartwork
Exploring Disturbing Emotions- Loving Kindness Meditation
Week four: Be Here Now
Mindfulness - On the Go Practices for Stress Management
Week five: Visualizing for Health
Meditations for Healing - Guided Practice
Week six: Peace is the Way
Being the Change – Guided Practice