The Heart of What Matters: Making Meaning in a Time of Crisis

The Heart of What Matters: Making Meaning in a Time of Crisis

with John Watters & Céline McKeown

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

To many of us things feel like they are falling apart: the old ways cannot hold. Institutions are faltering and failing. Amidst so much uncertainty and suffering, we can lose our footing, experiencing waves of outrage, denial, helplessness, despair or blame. There is a growing sense that this requires a radical response from each of us – radical meaning going to the root (radix).

What does a meaningful life look like now? Where do we choose to place our attention?

This retreat invites us to pause and see ourselves, our world, our human and more-than human kin, afresh. By gently shifting the focus of our attention and opening ourselves to heart-centred, intuitive and embodied ways of knowing, we’ll explore meaning, not as an idea but as a lived experience. Noticing how meaning ebbs and flows like the tide, we’ll give time to the question of how we sustain meaning in the gap between our heartfelt inspirations and everyday reality.

This Circle of Trust® weekend retreat is a call to come home to ourselves and connect to the heart of what truly matters.

Event Details:
12 Jul 2024 - 14 Jul 2024
Friday - Sunday
12:30 Start
13:30 End 

Accommodation and meals:
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10:00 AM - Persian Patterns
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Detailed Timings:

Friday 12 July 12:30pm – Sunday 14 July 1:30pm 2024

Venue:

Emerson College
Emerson College, Hartfield Road

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