New Tools for a World in Transformation

A major challenge facing our current generation is that our world has changed tremendously in the past century, and even faster in the past decade. Our technology, society, interpersonal relationships and environment have transformed dramatically. The attempt to keep up with such changes triggers important questions relating to key issues such as:

How to behave?
How to think?
What to take a stand for? What is non-negotiable?
What to believe and how to decide what to believe?
Where do we put our attention in order to get the best guidance?

It has been wisely pointed out that, “If you are full of an answer, you have no space for questions.” Many of our old answers may not serve us any more, and we must let go of them in order create space for new answers. This can allow us to better become aware of opportunities and assess risks.

In times of change, however, we can also become more susceptible to limiting beliefs and “thought viruses.” “Thought viruses” can “infect” our minds and belief systems just as a physical virus can infect our bodies or a computer virus can infect a computer system leading to confusion and malfunctions. We need ways to detect the assumptions and presuppositions in the messages we receive (similar to “virus scanning” software or a mental “firewall”).

A key issue in order to effectively cope with change is how to find stability (and inner security) when everything is changing faster and faster (and sometimes falling apart). How, for instance, can we stay in contact with what stays untouched in us in the middle of an ever changing world?

This workshop will provide tools for addressing these questions and finding the resources needed to effectively and ecologically manage times of change with confidence and wisdom. The program will cover tools for:

Centering, awareness and letting go (with respect to past and present)
Recognizing when you are not in awareness
Getting back to awareness
Breaking out of short term perception of time
Releasing old fears
Increasing self-acceptance
Detecting and filtering possible “thought viruses”
Cleaning out our filters with respect to presuppositions
Moving from regression to progression.