Teacher: Christopher Ash
Weekly Conversations
When a specific course is not happening, I open up our Zoom venue each Sunday at 4:00 PM, Sydney-Melbourne time, for conversation. These weekly Kalyanamitta meetings are open to those who have done my courses or have made an arrangement with me personally.
If there is a topic designated for the Sunday meeting, it will be listed below in the events.
Courses
Any courses will be on Zoom; and all are held on Sundays at 4:00 PM, Sydney-Melbourne time. In between courses we enjoy our regular conversations.
Individual Sessions with Christopher
If you have any questions about the approach to the Dharma, or feel in need of support, I’m available for one-on-one sessions.
In case there is extra content, click on the heading-link for the particular course.
Four weekly sessions, beginning Sunday 31 October, 2021. These sessions will be presented by Christopher, and will follow the course of Rob Parker's presentations for the Focusing Institute. The topics broadly traverse the landscape of Gendlin's A Process Model. This course was devised primarily to support members of our group who are doing Rob's course, but it is open to any of our Kalaynamitta group. There will be a follow-up session, soon after, at a time to be announced. The topics for the Four-week course are: Week 1) The need for new concepts in our understanding of the human in the world. Introduction to some Philosophy of the Implicit core concepts, which play a part in our work in the Kalyanamitta group. Week 2) Some concepts which help to practically ground our understanding of our experience of feeling, perception, and consciousness - namely, versioning and re-recognizing. Week 3) How the previous week's concepts help us freshly understand: verbal consciousness, our sense of self, and social reality. Week 4) In this session we will see how all these processes show us how it is that we can Focus (in Gendlin's sense of that word). Cost: There is no fee. The course is offered on a 'dana' (donation) basis, as per Buddhist custom. (I, Christopher, will explicitly request a donation for our special guest in the follow-up event.) Today's topic is: 'Person,' it is said. 'Person.' What kind of experience is it, to be a person?