EU Flyer - the Ridhwan School

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EUROPE GROUPS, SEMINARS AND PUBLIC TALKS
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Groups, Events and Classes are displayed in this flyer alphabetically by country location. Please note that many
activities are international (taught in English) while others are being offered in Dutch and German.
Locations:
GERMANY / DEUTSCHLAND: Groups and Events ..................................................................................... 2
GERMANY / DEUTSCHLAND: Ongoing Classes and Book Groups ........................................................... 6
IRELAND ....................................................................................................................................................... 7
ITALY / ITALIA .............................................................................................................................................. 7
NETHERLANDS / NEDERLAND: Groups and Events ................................................................................ 8
NETHERLANDS / NEDERLAND: Ongoing Classes and Book Groups ...................................................... 9
UNITED KINGDOM ..................................................................................................................................... 11
SPIRITUAL INQUIRY SESSIONS WITH TEACHERS-IN-TRAINING ........................................................ 12
GERMANY / DEUTSCHLAND: Groups and Events
RIDHWAN AUF DEUTSCH 2 (RAD2)
Dates:
10. - 17. September 2016
Teachers:
Florentin Krause, Stefan Haarhaus
Contact Person:
Heidi Winkler
Email:
[email protected]
Website:
www.dasid.org
Event Ridhwan
Page:
http://www.ridhwan.org/event/ridhwan-auf-deutsch-2-rad-2/
Location:
Kloster Schöntal
Klosterhof 6
74214 Schöntal
Deutschland
RAD 2 - Beginn im Herbst 2016. Das erste Treffen findet vom 10. bis 17. September 2016 statt.
Wie RAD 1 wird diese neue fortlaufende Ridhwan-Gruppe deutschsprachig geführt.
Die Gruppe wird von Florentin Krause und Stefan Haarhaus geleitet und trifft sich zweimal im Jahr für 7 Tage im
wunderschönen Kloster Schöntal (Nähe Heilbronn/Würzburg).
Mehr Informationen und ein Anmeldeformular sind erhältlich von Heidi Winkler bei [email protected] oder über die
Website www.dasid.org
INFORMATIONSABEND ZUM 'DIAMOND APPROACH' IN BERLIN
Dates:
Samstag 15.Oktober 2016 19:00 bis 21:30
Teachers:
Florentin Krause, Stefan Haarhaus
Contact Person:
Ulrieke Promies
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
Berlin
Germany
Cost:
€ 10
An diesem Abend gibt es die Gelegenheit, mehr über den Diamond Approach zu erfahren, und sich zu informieren
über die neue fortlaufende Gruppe "Ridhwan auf Deutsch" oder RAD2, die sich ab Herbst 2016 zweimal im Jahr für
eine Woche im Kloster Schöntal treffen wird.
Die beiden Gruppenleiter Florentin Krause und Stefan Haarhaus werden an diesem Abend in Berlin anwesend sein.
DAS HERZ DER ERKUNDUNG
Dates:
Mittwoch 21 Sept. 2016, 18.00 Uhr bis Sonntag 25 Sept. 2016 13.00 Uhr
Teachers:
Christof Bosch and Philipp Hasselblatt
Contact Person:
Benediktushof
Email:
[email protected]
Website:
www.dawidgruppen.net
Location:
Spirituelles Zentrum Benediktushof
Klosterstrasse 10
97292 Holzkirchen
Deutschland
Cost:
€ 350, - zuzüglich Unterkunft und Verpflegung
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Ein Diamond Approach SEMINAR, zugänglich für die Öffentlichkeit und Studenten der Ridhwan Schule Die
Sehnsucht des Herzens sich selber zu erforschen und zu entdecken ist eine menschliche Erfahrung aller Zeiten.
Diese Gruppe ist für die Öffentlichkeit zugänglich. Die Unterrichtssprache ist Deutsch.
Die Lehrer: Christof Bosch leitet und arbeitet mit Diamond Approach Gruppen in Süddeutschland. Philipp Hasselblatt
leitet und arbeitet mit Diamond Approach Gruppen in Deutschland, Holland und Großbritannien
Frühzeitige Anmeldung wird empfohlen.
Anmeldung und Fragen an: [email protected]
DAWID - DIAMOND APPROACH WOCHENENDGRUPPEN IN (HAMBURG)
DEUTSCHLAND
Dates:
29. – 30. OKT. 2016
18. – 19. FEB. 2017
Teachers:
Philipp Hasselblatt & Gary Kaufhold
Contact Person:
DAWID Administration
Email:
[email protected]
Website:
http://www.dawidgruppen.net/dawid-hamburg/
Location:
Toulouse Institute
Beerenweg
22761 Hamburg
Deutschland
Cost:
180.-€
Hamburg, 29. – 30. OKT. 2016
"Die Arbeit mit dem ganzen Menschen,
die Arbeit mit der Intelligenz des Körpers, des Herzens und des Geistes"
Hamburg, 18. – 19. FEB. 2017
"Das Persönliche, jenseits der Persönlichkeit"
Die Einführungswochenenden dienen dazu die Arbeit des Diamond Approach kennenzulernen.
Diese sollen in eine fortlaufende Gruppe ab September 2018 übergehen. Die fortlaufende Gruppe findet 5 x im Jahr
im Raum Hamburg von Freitag Nachmittag bis Sonntag Nachmittag statt.
INTERNATIONAL ONGOING DIAMOND APPROACH GROUP DHE3
Dates:
23-30 October 2016
5-12 March 2017
22-29 October 2017
Teachers:
Rob Merkx, Tejo Jourdan and guest teachers
Contact Person:
Jill Carabelas
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
Kunzehof
Deichstraße 16
26937 Stadland / Seefeld
Germany
Event Ridhwan
Page:
http://www.ridhwan.org/school/locations/europe/diamond-heart-europe-3/
Tuition: €735 including one individual Diamond Approach session.
Room and board: average €475 for a double room.
This ongoing International Diamond Approach group meets twice a year for a residential 7-day retreat at Kunzehof,
Seefeld, near Bremen in Northern Germany. Participants currently come from 16 different countries.
Cost:
Upcoming retreats: 23-30 October 2016 / 5-12 March 2017/ 22-29 October 2017
The Diamond Approach is a path of wisdom, an approach to the investigation of reality and a method of working on
oneself that leads to increased understanding and liberation. It is a spiritual path that grew out of, and in response to,
the needs of those leading ordinary lives in our current Western culture.
SOUL WITHOUT SHAME
Dates:
October 21-25, 2016
Teachers:
Byron Brown
Email:
[email protected]
Tel.:
+49-8856-93690
Website:
www.zist.de
Location:
ZIST
Zist 3
82377 Penzberg
Germany
A Compassionate Confrontation of Self-Judgment. Taught in English.
The superego, inner critic or judge, shapes and limits our daily life. A psychic entity that praises, cajoles, accuses,
intimidates, promises, and threatens, it sits on our shoulder and watches to see if we measure up. In addition to
invading our relationships and undermining our self-esteem, self-judgment interferes with our personal spiritual work.
It warns that asking deep questions and expanding awareness create trouble. It attacks us for not changing and
makes us anxious when we do change.
This workshop is an introduction to the Diamond Approach, a spiritual teaching that directly addresses the superego
to create space for inner work.
Through embodied awareness (to support presence) and openended inquiry (to bring about understanding), we will
recognize and confront the assumptions and principles that keep self-judgment in place. We will cultivate aspects of
our True Nature that are antidotes to self-judgment: compassion, will, and strength. Most important, we will practice
disengaging from the judgment process through understanding and deliberate action.
Throughout we will develop a felt sense of the contrast between being under the judgment spell and directly
experiencing the joy and freedom that arise in its absence. The sessions will include meditation, lecture, discussion,
exercises, and small group process.
EXPLORING INNER SPACIOUSNESS
Dates:
January 20-24, 2017
Teachers:
Byron Brown
Email:
[email protected]
Tel.:
+49-8856-93690
Website:
www.zist.de
Location:
ZIST
Zist 3
82377 Penzberg
Germany
Taught in English. One of the least recognized sources of personal ease and relaxation is the sense of inner
spaciousness. The shift from having no space to feeling spacious gives us the sense of having room to breathe, time
to slow down and the freedom to be ourself. Without space, we can feel trapped by our situation and under pressure
from the conditions we are facing. But when space arises there can be a dramatic shift in our state of consciousness
without any change in those same external circumstances.
So what is space and where does it come from? What do we mean when we say we have no space? When we need
space? When we take space? What evokes spaciousness inside us and what blocks it?
In this 4-day workshop, we will explore these questions as we look at the subtle nature of our consciousness and how
it is related to the sense of inner space. We will also look at the content of our minds—inner positions, beliefs and
dynamics—that cause us to feel trapped, confined or limited—no space. And what can free us from these constraints.
We will look at the different flavors that spaciousness can have such as openness, emptiness, stillness, awakeness,
potency and deficiency. As well as the common reactions that tend to come up in tasting these different qualities. In
addition, we will discover how our capacity for change itself is a product of the spaciousness that we are.
The workshop will include talks, discussion, movement and inquiry exercises designed to evoke, explore and
elucidate the experience of inner spaciousness. All are welcome regardless of previous experience. The perspective
of this teaching is based on the Diamond Approach.
HAMEED ALI AND KAREN JOHNSON PRESENT QUASAR SEMINAR IX:
UNIQUENESS IN UNITY
Dates:
May 6 - 11, 2017
Teachers:
Hameed Ali and Karen Johnson
Contact Person:
Klaudia Weber
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
Berlin
Germany
Cost:
Euros 530,00
Our true spiritual nature does not annihilate us as unique human beings, but instead shows us the broad
dimensionality and potentials of what it is to be human. Unity and diversity become the dialectical alchemy of life that
expresses itself in as many ways as there are individual human beings.
We will explore in depth the two sides of uniqueness and unity along with the psychological and philosophical
questions and barriers they bring up in our experience.
GERMANY / DEUTSCHLAND: Ongoing Classes and Book Groups
DIAMOND APPROACH BUCHGRUPPE IN BERLIN MIT GISELA BAST
Dates:
2017:
Jan 10
Mai 2
Feb 7
Jun 13
Mar 14
Jul 4
Apr 4
Aug 22
jeweils 19.30 bis 21.30 Uhr
Teachers:
Gisela Bast
Contact Person:
Gisela Bast
Email:
[email protected]
Tel.:
0049 30 787 55 87
Location:
Praxis Gisela Bast
Ebersstsr. 76
10827 Berlin,
Deutschland
Sept 5
Okt 10
Nov 7
Dec 5
Diese Gruppe trifft sich 1x monatlich zur Meditation und zur Praxis der Erkundung ( Inquiry ), wir lesen gemeinsam
das Buch "Das wirkliche Leben beginnt jetzt" von A.H.Almaas, dem Begründer des Diamond Approach.
THE ART OF INQUIRY...INNERE ERKUNDUNG ALS SPIRITUELLER WEG GRUPPE IN BERLIN AB OKTOBER 2016
Dates:
1x monatlich von jeweils 15:30 – 18:00 (vorwiegend
Samstags, 2x Sonntags) im Zeitraum vom 9.Oktober
2016 bis 2.April 2017
Teachers:
Elke Lorenz und Karin Uebel
Contact Person:
Karin Uebel
Email:
[email protected]
Event Ridhwan
Page:
http://www.ridhwan.org/event/the-art-of-inquiryinnere-erkundung-als-spiritueller-weg-7/
Location:
Praxis Uebel/Lang
Körtestrasse 22
Berlin 10967
Germany
Cost:
insgesamt 210.- € (incl. MwSt.)
Eine Gruppe für alle, die daran interessiert sind, innere Erkundung/Inquiry als spirituelle Praxis kennen zu lernen und
zu üben. Sie ist ebenfalls offen für Ridhwan Studenten. Wir lassen uns inspirieren von ausgewählten Kapiteln des
Buches "Spacecruiser Inquiry" von A.H.Almaas. Wir empfehlen, wenn möglich, das Buch in englischer Sprache zu
lesen (auf Deutsch: "Forschungsreise ins innere Universum").
Wir integrieren außerdem Meditation und Gewahrseinsübungen.
Elke Lorenz und Karin Uebel (Lehrerinnen der Ridhwan Schule) begleiten diese Gruppe.
IRELAND
DIAMOND APPROACH IRELAND 3
There will be a Diamond Approach introductory weekend in Ireland November 4-6, 2016 with teacher Jim Terrien,
and a waiting list is forming for the next group, Diamond Approach Ireland 3
For more information, please contact Jim Terrien, [email protected]
ITALY/ITALIA
The current Italy Diamond Approach group is closed to new membership. Students already familiar with the Diamond
Approach work who are interested in participating in the Italy group may contact Janel Ensler
at: [email protected]
NETHERLANDS / NEDERLAND: Groups and Events
DAWN 2: DIAMOND APPROACH WEEKEND GROUP NETHERLANDS 2
Dates:
2017 with introductory days June 25, 2016 and August 27, 2016
Teachers:
Elsa Teeuwen and Philipp Hasselblatt, with guest teachers
Contact Person:
Jill Carabelas
Email:
[email protected]
Event Ridhwan
page
http://www.ridhwan.org/school/locations/europe/netherlands-dawn-2/
Website:
http://www.dawn-group.eu/
Location:
De Poort
Biesseltsebaan 34
6561 KC Groesbeek
Netherlands
Cost:
300.-€
NEW GROUP IN 2017: 3 years after the formation of DAWN 1, we announce an ongoing new international group
DAWN 2, starting in 2017 with the same format of 5 long weekends and a few in-between days per year. Lead
teachers: Elsa Teeuwen and Philipp Hasselblatt, with rotating guest teachers. For information and an application,
contact Jill Carabelas at: [email protected]
Please note the two upcoming introductory days where you can find out more about this work:
Event:
Amsterdam intro day: “Every Step as a First Step”
Dates:
June 25, 2016
Teachers:
Elsa Teeuwen and Philipp Hasselblatt
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
De Roos,
Amsterdam,
Netherlands
Event:
Cologne intro day: “Waking Up to the Mystery of Reality”
Dates:
August 27, 2016
Teachers:
Elsa Teeuwen and Philipp Hasselblatt
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
Wohncafe,
Cologne,
Germany
THE PLEASURE OF BEING. SEPTEMBER 3 & 4 AMSTERDAM
Dates:
September 3 & 4 2016
Teachers:
Tejo Jourdan & Rob Merkx
Contact Person:
Jill Carabelas
Email:
[email protected]
Website:
http://www.roos.nl/agenda/pleasure/
Location:
Centrum "De Roos"
P.C. Hooftstraat 183
1071 BW Amsterdam
Netherlands
Cost:
Cost: €185. A €85 deposit will hold your place.
‘We naturally love what is real. Being oneself brings a deep, simple and fulfilling pleasure’.
In this weekend we will use meditation and open-ended inquiry into our moment-to-moment experience oriented by a
love for truth.
NETHERLANDS / NEDERLAND: Ongoing Classes and Book Groups
SOUL WITHOUT SHAME
Dates:
Data in 2016:
8 en 22 september
13 oktober
10 en 24 november
15 december
Data in 2017:
12 en 26 januari
9 en 23 februari
Teachers:
Odile van Eck
Contact Person:
Odile van Eck
Email:
[email protected]
Tel.:
06 1756 9688
Event Ridhwan
page:
http://www.ridhwan.org/event/soul-without-shame/
Location:
Centrum voor Healing en Meditatie
Boomberglaan 14,
1217 RS Hilversum,
Netherlands
Cost:
€395,- (inclusief 21% BTW)
Tien avonden rond de innerlijke criticus.
How much time do you spend evaluating your performance, your appearance, your capacity, your history?
How difficult is it to live up to the standards you use to judge yourself?
How often is your underlying sense of self determined by your notions of right and wrong?
This is the courtroom of life. And you are the one who is on trial!
Byron Brown, uit Soul Without Shame
Tijdens deze training leer je om bewuster te worden van de aanwezigheid en werking van de innerlijke criticus en om je
te bevrijden van de beklemmende en pijnlijke invloed hiervan op je spiritueel ontwikkeling en je dagelijkse functioneren.
Begeleid door Odile van Eck en Alex Adler
Deze training wordt in het Nederlands gegeven
We zullen gebruik maken van een aantal hoofdstukken uit het boek ‘Soul Without Shame’ van Byron Brown
Aanmelding:
Meld je aan voor 1 juli bij Odile van Eck via [email protected]
THE ART OF INQUIRY: 10 WOENSDAGAVONDEN IN HILVERSUM, NEDERLAND
Dates:
September 21, 2016 – Februari 22, 2017
Teachers:
Odile van Eck en Harma Ebels
Contact Person:
Odile van Eck
Email:
[email protected]
Event Ridhwan
page:
http://www.ridhwan.org/event/art-of-inquiry/
Location:
Hilversum
Nederland
Cost:
€395 (inclusief 21% BTW)
In deze training zullen we focussen op het ontwikkelen, verfijnen en verdiepen van de diverse kwaliteiten die nodig
zijn om de beoefening van inquiry effectief te maken, zoals aanwezig zijn, openheid, nieuwsgierigheid, liefde voor
waarheid, vertrouwen, overgave aan innerlijke leiding en onderscheidingsvermogen.
We zullen gebruik maken van een aantal hoofdstukken uit het boek Spacecruiser Inquiry van A.H. Almaas. (ISBN 157062-859-9). Dit boek is alleen in het Engels verkrijgbaar.
Deze training wordt in het Nederlands gegeven.
De 1e bijeenkomst vindt plaats op 21-9-16; de laatste op 22-2-2017.
Voor meer informatie en aanmelding (voor 1 juli) kun je contact opnemen met:
Odile van Eck via [email protected] of via 06 17569688.
Other activities in the Netherlands and surrounding regions: To receive general information and to be added to a
general mailing list for future new activities, contact: [email protected]
UNITED KINGDOM
THE PLEASURE OF BEING. A DIAMOND APPROACH WEEKEND IN LONDON.
AUGUST 27 & 28
Dates:
August 27th & 28th 2016
Teachers:
Tejo Jourdan & Rob Merkx
Contact Person:
Diane Jonas
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
Mary Ward house
5-7 Tavistock Place
London WC1H 9SN
Cost:
£150. A £80 deposit will hold your place.
We naturally love what is real. Being oneself brings a deep, simple and fulfilling pleasure. This pleasure does not
come from external sources of satisfaction. In this weekend we will use meditation and open-ended inquiry into our
moment-to-moment experience oriented by a love for truth. We will begin an exploration of what the true source of
pleasure is for each of us.
The Diamond Approach recognizes the uniqueness of each individual soul and does not require that people adapt to
some ideal, but welcomes people as they are.
RIDHWAN UNITED KINGDOM UK4
Dates:
2-9 December 2016
6-12 May 2017
1-8 December 2017
Teachers:
Tejo Jourdan, Rob Merkx, Christine Dveirin and Candace Harris
Contact Person:
Diane Jonas
Email:
[email protected]
Event Ridhwan
Page:
http://www.ridhwan.org/event/uk4-a-new-on-going-diamondapproach-retreat-group-in-the-uk-beginning-2016/
Location:
Hothorpe Hall
Theddingworth
Leicestershire LE17 6QX
United Kingdom
Cost:
Tuition £520 plus £475 (average) for room and board.
The Diamond Approach addresses the return to our fundamental nature, the essence of what we are. Based on the
work of A.H. Almaas, it bridges the traditional dichotomies of the psychological and the spiritual, the body and the
soul, and the mundane and divine. Its methodology includes the practice of Presence and open-ended inquiry into
our moment-to-moment experience oriented by a love for truth. This orientation to our experience opens our
awareness giving us access to dimensions of reality that have traditionally been available only to the few.
LONDON DIAMOND APPROACH BOOK GROUP: THE UNFOLDING NOW
Dates:
27 Aug
15 Sep
15 Oct
5 Nov
26 Nov
Teachers:
Dominic Liber
Contact Person:
Dominic Liber
Email:
[email protected]
Being really present and in touch with ourselves however we are is the delightful and sometimes surprising invitation
of the Diamond Approach. It is the doorway to greater authenticity and freedom, and the foundation of inquiry. Yet we
often find it hard to leave ourselves alone and be where we are. The group will use "The Unfolding Now" by A. H.
Almaas to explore experientially this fundamental practice and some of its challenges. We will meet on five
Saturdays in London. Sign up is open to anyone, whether a Diamond Approach student or not. Limited to twelve
people.
SPIRITUAL INQUIRY SESSIONS WITH TEACHERS-IN-TRAINING
SPIRITUAL INQUIRY SESSIONS WITH TEACHERS-IN-TRAINING FROM THE
RIDHWAN EUROPEAN SEMINARY TRAINING PROGRAM:
Low-cost guided inquiry sessions with local European Teachers-in-training in the Ridhwan School are now available
for interested individuals who are not already in an on-going Diamond Approach group or seeing a Ridhwan Teacher.
Ridhwan Teachers-in-training are supervised and mentored by Ridhwan Teachers. Sessions will be conducted in the
English language only for training purposes. Meetings with a teacher-in-training must be in person, therefore the
possibility of having sessions may be limited by the location of teachers-in-training in Europe.
Contact: e-mail [email protected] for information on how to apply.
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