Audio Highlight: Drive Thru Café Piano Accompaniment
Bring the cozy ambience of the February 12, 2021 Drive Thru Café to your ears! Ninety minutes of piano accompaniment by Lasse, Rosanne, Johannes and Barbara, lightly edited, plus sweet background murmuring of greetings, chatting and moments of meeting.
Text Highlight: Cinema Night Open Mic January 11, 2018
This excerpt from an Open Mic followed the movie, Midnight Special, shown at a Cinema Night at the College in Edmonton on January 11, 2018. Some of the questioners comments are paraphrased. Well, well! What does all that mean?! Q1: I was touched by the last scene where the father is standing on the bridge, […]
Cinema Night: Pre-movie Announcement, December 8, 2019 Edmonton, Canada
This Tuesday, December 10, there’s a cinema night at the College. The movie is family-friendly. I think it’s PG13. It’s just an inoffensive pleasure for all to enjoy. Inside of us there is a capacity to create kindling, and the kindling can be very, very fine, and very, very clean and dry, so that any […]
Text Highlight: Fairness Isn’t It. But What Matters More?
This excerpt is from a conversation at a table in the Jewel Café on June 27, 2019, some of the questioners comments are paraphrased. Q: I once asked you whether there was a code for true community. You said yes, but this is not an intentional community. I understand that the community is not here […]
Text Highlight: Developing Perspective At Work And In Living
These conversations were part of a Staff & Volunteer Gathering on March 16, 2019 in Edmonton. Q1: Can you say something about balancing work and taking care of the practical details of other areas of our lives, including health. Is burnout a real thing? Just the mention of it already brings attention to it and […]
Text Highlight: If It Doesn’t Reach, It’s Not Feedback
This is an excerpt from a staff discussion session held at The College with John and Leigh Ann on September 18, 2018. The topic was the giving and receiving of feedback in the workplace, and included department heads, team leads and regular weekday staff. The introduction to the session included a comment recalled from John […]
Text Highlight: A New Chemistry, A Functional Oneness
September 3, 2018 at the Jewel Café in Edmonton John had been speaking with another about the communication between innermost and outermost as like the being of foetus and mother in concert in one body. A later café conversation touches the same theme, excerpted below: Q: Did you mean by “in conversation” what you come […]
Text Highlight – The Intimate Dialogue between Innermost and Outermost: Sexuality Beyond the Psyche and the Human
These excerpts are from a Jewel Café table conversation with John that lead to a meeting hall dialogue, both talks were in Edmonton on Sunday, September 2, 2018. Excerpt from Jewel Café conversation Q: You’ve shared in different settings that you’ve recently come into so much … and then so much again. Is it continuing? […]
Text Highlight – Moving in Your Humanness: The Awakening of “Her”
What is this sleeping form of you that John calls “her”? How is “she” related to you? What awakens “her”and what’s the connection to our humanness? It all has to do with “there” coming “here”! Enjoy this discussion with John at the Jewel Café in Edmonton on March 11, 2018. Q: Can you say more about […]
Text Highlight – The Magical Key: Knowing, Given, Taken
February 25, 2018. A conversation at the Jewel Café in Edmonton. Q1: It seems that what you are opening now changes everything. There’s a different momentum, a different law. Is that true? John: In some way. It keeps going further. Q1: It adds something, changes the whole being and the self. John: It does. […]