Audio for Introductory Courses 2020/21

 

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Audio for 2020-21 Sunday Introductory courses:

  • Fall 2020: Things Have Fallen Apart

  • Winter 2021: Going Beyond Our Comfort Zone

  • Spring 2021: Healing the Divide

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Spring: 2021:

Sunday Introductory Course: Healing the Divide, Finding Common Ground in a Polarized World

In this 10-week course we will explore what it takes to strengthen our ability to communicate with candor, even when we disagree. Based on Pema Chödrön’s newest book, Welcoming the Unwelcome.

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Syllabus

Healing the Divide, Class 1: Begin with a Broken Heart, Does it Matter? 4/25/21
Jane Kolleeny
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Healing the Divide, Class 2: Overcoming Polarization, The Fine Art of Failure, 5/2/21
Charlie Olson
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Healing the Divide, Class 3: The Path of Non-Rejecting, Just as It is
Jane Kolleeny
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Healing the Divide, Class 4: How Not to Lose Heart, Beyond the Comfort Zone, 5/23/21
Jane Kolleeny
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Healing the Divide, Class 6: The Practice of Open Awareness, Life Changes in an Instant, 6/16/21
Charlie Olson
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Healing the Divide, Class 7: Cool Emptiness, Experiencing Nowness, 7/11/21
Charlie Olson
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Winter 2021:

Sunday Introductory Course: Going Beyond Our Comfort Zone: Examining the Places that Scare Us

An 11-week course focused on an examination of Pema Chödron’s book, Places That Scare You.

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Syllabus

Going Beyond Our Comfort Zone, Class 1:The Excellence of Bodhicitta; Tapping Into the Spring 1/17/21
Jane Kolleeny
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Going Beyond Our Comfort Zone, Class 2: The Facts of Life; Learning to Stay, 1/24/21
Charlie Olson
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Going Beyond Our Comfort Zone, Class 3: Warrior Slogans; Four Limitless Qualities, 1/31/21
Jane Kolleeny
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Going Beyond Our Comfort Zone, Class 4: Lovingkindness & Compassion, 2/7/21
Charlie Olson
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Going Beyond Our Comfort Zone, Class 5: Tonglen & Finding the Ability to Rejoice, 2/21/21
Jane Kolleeny
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Going Beyond Our Comfort Zone, Class 6: Enhancing the Training in Joy & Thinking Bigger, 2/28/21
Charlie Olson
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Going Beyond Our Comfort Zone, Class 8: Strength, & Three Kinds of Laziness, 3/14/21
Charlie Olson
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Going Beyond Our Comfort Zone, Class 9: Bodhisattva Activity & Groundlessness, 3/21/21
Jane Kolleeny
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Going Beyond Our Comfort Zone, Class 10: Heightened Neurosis & When the Going Gets Rough, 3/28/21
Charlie Olson
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Going Beyond Our Comfort Zone Class 11: The Spiritual Friend & The In-Between State, 4/11/21
Jane Kolleeny
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Fall 2020:

Sunday Introductory Course: Things Have Fallen Apart!

A Good Time to Examine Our Capacity to Withstand Disruption, Based on the book When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice For Difficult Times, by Pema Chödrön.

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Syllabus

Things Have Fallen Apart, Class 1: Class 1: Intimacy with Fear; When Things Fall Apart, 9/27/20
Jane Kolleeny
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Things Have Fallen Apart: Class 2: This Moment is the Perfect Teacher; Relax As It Is, 10/4/20
Charlie Olson
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Things Have Fallen Apart: Class 3: It's Never Too Late; Not Causing Harm, 10/11/20
Jane Kolleeny
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Things Have Fallen Apart, Class 4: Hopelessness and Death, 10/18/20
Charlie Olson
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Things Have Fallen Apart, Class 5: Eight Wordly Dharmas; Six Kinds of Lonliness, 10/25/20
Jane Kolleeny
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Things Have Fallen Apart, Class 6: Curious About Existence; Nonaggression and Four Maras, 11/1/20
Charlie Olson
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Things Have Fallen Apart, Class 7: Growing Up; Widening the Circle of Compassion, 11/8/20
Jane Kolleeny
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Things Have Fallen Apart: Class 8: , The Love That Will Not Die; Going Against the Grain, 11/15/20
Charlie Olson
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Things Have Fallen Apart, Class 9: Servants of Peace; Opinions, 11/22/20
Jane Kolleeny
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Things Have Fallen Apart, Class 10: Secret Oral Instructions; Three Methods for Working with Chaos
Charlie Olson
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Things Have Fallen Apart, Class 11: The Trick Choicelessness, 12/13/20
Jane Kolleeny
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Things Have Fallen Apart, Class 11: Reversing the Wheel of Samsara; The Path is the Goal, 12/20/20
Charlie Olson
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