A poem from Rumi:
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The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.

You must ask for what you really want. 
Don't go back to sleep.

People are going back and forth across the doorsill 
          where the two worlds touch.

The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.

~

A BOOK of LIFE and DEATH and Life
sparrow

JAN RICHARDSON

"I've been thinking about memory the past few weeks. It began with a quote that came my way from Oliver Sacks:  We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves in larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection. Evidently that landed somewhere in my subconscious, because sometime during the following week, during my prayer time in the front studio one night, the quote came to the surface. It got me pondering in a new way what it is that remembering does and how it's part of my journey in grieving."

"Specifically, I've been thinking about memory as a creative act, that perhaps in the disassembling and the reassembling Sacks talks about, memory is generative. It's not just pondering and piecing together what happened in the past but also creating something for the future."

"I find myself with the sense that in remembering you, your story, our life together, something new is being created, something that has a tangible element to it--that it has structure, that it is a shelter, a new home between the worlds (page 151)."

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Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a contemplative, soulful, and non-pathologizing approach to personal healing and spiritual transformation. This workshop explores how IFS offers a model and process for compassion-centered spiritual direction that deepens connection with the sacred, with others, and with our own spiritual essence.

A contemporary spiritual path, it deepens our connection to a sacred Source of loving energy; it tends, with care, the cacophony of emotions, impulses, and interior self-chatter that so often swirl within us; and it restores us to our true Self, that reservoir of personal power, expansiveness, and compassion that dwells within every human being. 

This is a virtual event for CCSV Spiritual Directors who are Members of the Center, also, Friends of the Center who are spiritual directors or on the training path. Registration not required.

​Frank Rogers is a spiritual director, supervisor, IFS practitioner, retreat leader, writer, and professor of spiritual formation at the ecumenical and inter-faith Claremont School of Theology. He has taught and written in spirituality, contemplative practice, and compassionate social engagement for over 30 years, and is the author of Practicing Compassion and Compassion in Practice: The Way of Jesus. As the Co-Director for the Center for Engaged Compassion, he offers and teaches compassion-based approaches to spiritual direction and supervision.

EVENT DETAILS
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Meeting ID:  862 0534 2591
Password:  296454

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Our blog features articles, contemplative quotes, art and poetry, and news of upcoming offerings in the community with the opportunity to share posts. Our content is authored by CCSV Spiritual Directors and guest presenters including writings from spiritual leaders and teachers who want to share with us from their area of expertise. 

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