Mark Nepo

Yearlong Journey

MARK NEPO OFFERS A YEARLONG JOURNEY IN 2025-2026

Please make your reservations early as space is limited.

HELPING EACH OTHER STAY AWAKE

A YEARLONG JOURNEY FOR 2025-2026

GUIDED BY MARK NEPO

July 11-13, 2025, Oct 24-26, 2025, March 13-15, 2026, July 10-12, 2026

FRI. 6:00-9:00 P.M., SAT. 9:30-5:30 P.M., SUN. 1:00-4:00 P.M.

Meeting at Peoples Church, 1758 10th St N, Kalamazoo, MI, 49009

Closest Airports: Kalamazoo (15 minutes away) and Grand Rapids (45 minutes away)

CLASS SIZE IS LIMITED TO 16 STUDENTS.

COST: $1950.

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No matter how many conversations I

start, they all end with me kneeling at

the same deep well. And drinking there,

I find you and remember who I am.

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

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EVENT: HELPING EACH OTHER STAY AWAKE, A YEARLONG

JOURNEY, GUIDED BY MARK NEPO

START: JULY 11, 2025, END: JULY 12, 2026

COST: $1950.

CLASS SIZE IS LIMITED TO 16 STUDENTS.

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FOUR WEEKENDS
FRI. 6:00-9:00 P.M., SAT. 9:30-5:30 P.M., SUN. 1:00-4:00 P.M.
July 11-13, 2025, Oct 24-26, 2025, March 13-15, 2026, July 10-12, 2026

Meeting at Peoples Church, 1758 10th St N, Kalamazoo, MI, 49009

Closest Airports: Kalamazoo (15 minutes away) and Grand Rapids (45 minutes away)

Register

CLASS SIZE IS LIMITED TO 16 STUDENTS.

IF THE COURSE IS FULL, PLEASE ADD YOURSELF TO THE WAIT LIST BY EMAILING BROOKE WARNER (brooke@threeintentions.com) AND YOU WILL BE CONTACTED IF SPACE OPENS UP.

CANCELLATION POLICY: NO REFUND WITHIN 90 DAYS OF WHEN THE COURSE BEGINS, AND HALF REFUND IF FOUR MONTHS BEFORE THE COURSE BEGINS.

The course does not include lodging or food. Here’s some information about local places to stay and eat.

DETAILS FOR YOUR STAY IN KALAMAZOO

The course does not include lodging or food. Here’s some information about local places to stay and eat.

Closest Place to Stay in Kalamazoo

Holiday Inn Express, 1315 Westgate Dr, Kalamazoo, MI, 1-877-410-6667 (very close to where we will meet)

https://www.ihg.com/holidayinnexpress/hotels/us/en/kalamazoo/azoes/hoteldetail?cm_mmc=YextLocal-_-EX-_-US-_-AZOES

Others Places to Stay in Kalamazoo

https://www.tripadvisor.com/SmartDeals-g42354-Kalamazoo_Kalamazoo_County_Michigan-Hotel-Deals.html

Food Places

We will break for 90 minutes Saturday for lunch. Here are some nearby places for breakfast, lunch, coffee and dinner:

Locally owned, near our meeting place:

 
Locally owned, downtown or near downtown:

 

Chains Nearby:

  • Starbucks, 5370 W Main St, Kalamazoo, MI 49009, (269) 276-9819,starbucks.com
  • Biggby, 4560 West Main.
  • Panera 5119 W Main St, Kalamazoo, MI 49009, (269) 342-1222,panerabread.com
  • Applebees, 5330 W Main St, Kalamazoo, MI 49009, (269) 382-4448,applebees.com
  • Hardings Supermarket, 5161 West Main, Kalamazoo, MI, (269) 381-0244.  Good for organic veges and other grocery needs.
  • Meijer’s Supermarket.  This is on the corner of West Main (which is M43) and 9thGrocery store, produce, pharmacy, and like Walmart, but more upscale ( a little) and was born in west Michigan. You know, aspirin, tires, clothes, pots and pans; that sort of thing.

 

For others, see:

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurants-g42354-Kalamazoo_Kalamazoo_County_Michigan.html

We like Cosmo’s, Oakwood Bistro, Martell’s (nice view of a small pond), Latitude 42 to name a few.

Beer and Wine

Kalamazoo is a big craft, micro-brew, etc. beer town.  So many we can’t keep up anymore, but the most famous and oldest is Bell’s Beer. See this website, and pay attention to the Kalamazoo sites. http://www.beeradvocate.com/place/city/43/.

Tiffany’s (different than the breakfast restaurant) is also a good place for wine, cheese, etc.  http://www.aatiffany.com/

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