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I am excited to be offering a yearlong journey over four weekends, weaving themes from several of my books including, The Book of Soul, Drinking from the River of Light, The One Life We’re Given, and The Book of Awakening.

This journey offers a chance to work together in a smaller group setting as a way to deepen your own path over a year of your life. The aim will be to engender a live and safe space in which we can compare notes on what it means to be alive. The group will explore the lifelong process of listening, reflecting, and expressing, and on how bearing witness to the truth of living reveals the mysteries of life.

It is my hope that through our time together, you will continue to personalize the practice of being human, so you can live closer to your core. It is my aim, through our company, that you will discover the inner resources and outer skills to stand more deeply in your life and better know your heart. It is my commitment that this journey into authenticity and listening will enhance your ability to integrate who you are with what you do in the world. My goal is that you will leave more whole, with a more enlivened sense of what it means to be a spirit in the world.

This journey will center on the timeless need to help each other stay awake. And I will  use ancient and contemporary stories, poetry, journaling, and dialogue, as a way to invite us to befriend our own stories and listen for our own wisdom in this reflective and transformational journey.

In our time together, we will explore what it means to live with truth, meaning, and kindness, not abstractly but in a personal way. These are the antidotes for despair. When we can slow down enough, what we hide loses its reason to hide, and everything becomes holy. Then what’s real moves between us, and what matters is everywhere.

—Mark Nepo