Way of Council & the Spirit of Enquiry

Council as a Deep Practice 

"Lift the veil that obscures the heart.

And there you will find what you are looking for" - Kabir

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What is The Way of Council?

In modern times the core practice of Council sets a container for empathy and honesty. It provides a way of bearing witness and of peace making that accepts diversity, both in each other and ourselves, and helps cultivate non-hierarchical power

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The Way of Council builds trust, is inclusive, non-judgmental and accepting. It can be a support and aid for groups and communities.

Participants learn the art of listening with full attention and expressing themselves through personal experience and heartfelt truth. In offering their stories, Council enables people to open to each other as equal human beings in a place of safety. It creates community in a way that has become rare in our modern Western culture.

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We will explore

• History and roots

• Importance of creating special time and place

• The intentions of Council

• Use of story from our own lives, embracing the art of attentive listening.

• Various forms of Council to share, support and enter the gateway to an enquiring mind.

• Safe container for dealing with challenging issues

• Participation and belonging to a larger interpersonal consciousness  

 

What you will learn      

• Council as a personal practice can help quieten our habits of thought, allowing us to become an empty vessel and make friends with what is present.

• How the stillness of Council enhances our capacity to enquire; to ask questions rather than fix things and how this informs and creates a spiritual practice. 

• As we share this truth, we will discover that behind right and wrong, fixed ideas and past beliefs is a place of relative freedom a state of being that is a creative lively energy.

• ​We will ask how this serves our selves, our community and the world

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Shape of the weekend

We will begin at 6.30pm on Friday, February 7th and finish by 8.30pm. Saturday and Sunday, we will start at 9.30am and finish by 5pm. This special Council weekend will be held in the Julian Centre. Further detail about our venue will be sent on receiving your commitment with a deposit. We also have a few rooms available at the Julian Centre for people to stay.

 

The fee is £250.00 - (non-residential) including a non-refundable deposit of £80.00

To enrol please contact- pippa@ancienthealingways.co.uk

 

Personal statement

We are asking each participant to write a personal letter or a few paragraphs, saying something of your past and who you are, and what calls them to participate in this weekend.

Please send this to Pippa pippa@ancienthealingways.co.uk

 

​“In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth and all you behold; though it appears without, it is within” - William Blake