Warm New Year wishes to all. A few upcoming online events are listed below and all are invited to check out the website calendar to see the planned 2024 events. Hope to see many of you online and in person in the new year.

In celebration, here is a recording of the first talk of 2024: January, 1 (Day 3) Wayne Coger

In a short talk from the January 1996 retreat (Day 7), Center founder Toni Packer asks, “Why the anger?” and then explores the question in depth.

She urges us all to be curious and interested, wondering if it is possible to look in the moment as anger is happening. She questions the why of the anger, asking where does this “anger” come from?

Listen to the full talk with others, this coming Saturday, January 6th. Full schedule listed below. Times are in Eastern Standard (EST). 

1:30 – 1:55 pm     Timed Sitting

2:02 pm     Recorded Talk by Toni Packer 

2:40 pm     Group Dialogue

Please join as your schedule permits, using the following Zoom link/login information: Direct Link 

Meeting ID: 289 037 6188
Passcode: 7179

Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdsftvqRwr

Saturday programs are one of several donation-based online offerings. Please consider a financial contribution to support this work. 

We’re coming together online, with Stephan Bielfeldt, for a day of sharing silence, sitting, listening, and meditative dialogue.

The day begins at 8:30 am EST with silent sitting, includes a talk by Stephan Bielfeldt, and an online group dialogue. 

If you would like to attend this Online All Day Sitting, please complete the Online All Day Sitting registration form here or click the green button below.

A contribution of $25 is requested for attendance.

Online All Day Sitting Schedule (optional). You may prefer to sit off-screen, indoors or out, read, exercise, or walk. 

Please contact us at info@springwatercenter.org for more information.

Everyone is invited to bring a theme, issue, or question to explore together with multiple Springwater teachers and others interested in Meditative Inquiry.

This newly forming group will meet (almost) one Saturday a month for 2024, from 1:30 – 3:20 pm ET. A 25 minute sitting will begin each event and a 1 hour and 15 minute dialogue will follow.

In their essence, dialogues are an opportunity to explore and to discover, alone and together, what is here, alive for us moment-to-moment. We may explore what it is to Simply Listen as we talk.  We may also discover judgments, agendas, expectations, agreements and disagreements that may be getting in the way of just simple listening with each other and oneself openly.  This listening is all inclusive, embracing everything that is happening, not accepting or rejecting but questioning oneself and one’s predicament. This can help us to use language more skillfully, to unite instead of dividing by reinforcing the conditioned self.

This is a donation-based event. Please join as your schedule permits, using the following Zoom link/login information: Direct Link 

Meeting ID: 289 037 6188
Passcode: 7179

Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdsftvqRwr

Kirk Warren Brown is on the faculty in the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, where he teaches and conducts research on the impacts of meditation on people’s lives. He has been retreating and working with teachers at Springwater Center since 1999 and has facilitated meditation groups in the spirit of the Center’s work since 2005.

In this new online group Kirk invites meeting with each other in silent meditation and in group dialogue to bring presence into our lives in meaningful, enlivening ways.

Beginning January 10, 2024, the group will meet weekly, Wednesdays, from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Eastern US time, with 25 minutes of meditation followed by an hour of dialogue.

Presence, or awareness is not a skill to be learned but an inherent capacity we all share, however veiled it may seem. Thus, all are welcome.

Enter the Zoom room here.

The room will open every Wednesday at 6:45 pm.

To connect with other sitting and dialogue groups outside of Springwater, visit  the Center website. 

If information listed on the website needs updating, or if you would like to request a group be added, please email info@springwatercenter.org, ATTN: Update/Addition to Community Webpage. Outside groups are not endorsed or sponsored by Springwater Center.

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