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Compassionate Listening Workshop ~ (Due to an emergancy this was cancelled. It will be re-scheduled soon.)
A parable says that people have two ears but only one tongue because we need to listen twice as much as we talk. With that in mind and as a follow up to the Right Relations Workshop presented last January, The Right Relations Task Force is sponsoring an interactive workshop aimed at improving our skills at listening – really listening—to others. Many participants in the previous workshop expressed a desire to improve their listening skills. This is an opportunity to do just that. After all, we all want to be heard. It's a universal need for us to be understood and affirmed. This workshop will give us the tools and the practice to let others know they are really heard.
The leader will be Glenn Dickter, a certified Compassionate Listening facilitator who has facilitated dozens of groups and workshops for 20 years. (His day job is as a financial advisor.) He offers this workshop as a person committed to the growth of peace within the individual, leading to peaceful interactions with others. He is taking no fee for his work.
The workshop will take place on a Saturday from 9 to 4. Morning coffee and lunch will be provided. Please sign up on the sheet in the foyer. Enrollment is limited to 16 so that all will have the opportunity to practice good listening and improve their skills.
For more information go to www.compassionatelistening.org., which describes the movement and the trainings. Closer to home, see Trish Steindler, Sally Sabo, or Gail Marriner with questions.
Sally Sabo, Right Relations Task Force
Adult RE for Winter/Spring 2012
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, based on the book by Karen Armstrong, will meet in the Library, each Monday afternoon from 1 to 3, February 13 through April 9. This class is facilitated by Pat Jonietz and Rev. Marriner.
Karen Armstrong believes compassion is intrinsic in all of us, but needs to be cultivated. Her path to strengthening one's ability to offer compassion includes concrete ways to think and act compassionately. Through class activities and discussion, we will increase awareness of compassion in our private and public lives. Armstrong's book can be bought through the Amazon link on the church web site or borrowed from the church library. Please sign up in the foyer and take a hand out!
Mindfulness
Fliers and signup sheets are now available in the foyer for Grove Burnett’s meditation classes, Mindfulness 101(“basics of the ancient practice of mindfulness”) and Mindfulness 102 (“intermediate training”). Grove Burnett describes mindfulness as “the art of awareness and being fully present. . . By practicing mindfulness we can make a complete break with how we normally operate. We can begin to live our lives consciously in a way that reclaims our liberty”– as opposed to living on automatic pilot, entangled in endless activity, with constantly wandering minds.
The training will include guided instruction in meditation practice, group discussions on integrating mindfulness into everyday living, and weekly home assignments and readings.
Mindfulness 101 led by Grove Burnett, will meet in Fogelson, each Tuesday evening from 6:00 to 7:30, March 6 through April 10. There will be a registration fee for this class, with proceeds to be divided equally between UUCSF and the Vallecitos Mountain Ranch retreat center.
Mindfulness 102 led by Grove Burnett, will meet in Fogelson, each Wednesday evening from 6:00 to 7:30, February 29 through March 21. There will be a registration fee for this class, with proceeds to be divided equally between UUCSF and the Vallecitos Mountain Ranch retreat center.
An exploration of the work of Walt Whitman, will meet in the Library, Sunday evening from 7:10 to 8:30, March 4 through 24. Facilitated by Rick Beaubien and Deborah Wimberly.
Leaves of Grass, says Mary Oliver, “is...a sermon, a manifesto, a utopian document, a social contract, a political statement, an invitation, to each of us, to change. . .[We] feel what the poem tries continually to be--the replication of a miracle.” The class continues the study of Transcendentalism undertaken in previous classes on Thoreau and Emerson. Planned discussion topics include: Whitman as the incarnation of the American bard envisioned by Emerson in his essay The Poet; Whitman and democracy; sexuality and spirituality in Whitman; and Whitman on death. Sign up in the foyer.
An exploration of the work of Margaret Fuller, will meet in the Library, Sunday, April 1, 7:15 to 8:30. Facilitated by Angela Merkert.
Please sign up for any of the above classes on the singup sheet in the foyer.
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THE VP (vagina-penis) DIALOGUES is “Just Say NO!” Enough to Know? Welcome to a performance piece THE VP (vagina-penis) DIALOGUES. From the overture written by Santa Fe’s Alice Ladas, - co-author of The G Spot, the performance is both entertaining and educational, illustrating the universal questions about our two favorite anatomical parts. This piece is all about questions. Audience members are invited to write their own questions, which will be answered in the after-show talkback. What have you always wanted to ask and not had a safe place?
