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: 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 – 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: The Birth of Your Innermost Into This World
Fresh from Rishikesh, February 11, 2018! A deeply impactful open mic conversation in which John takes us into the movement of awareness fully given to direct knowing, bringing about the birthing of our innermost into this world. Q: I’m really loving opening to weakness, releasing the power in my self. Recently I’ve been filled by […]
Text Highlight: Your Words Belong to Your Orientation
In a Café conversation with John, we talked about the throat, speaking and our use of words. An incisive dialogue followed which opened up the meaning, value and complexity of communication, the importance of speaking, and how our words and tone manifest our orientation. Do they reveal a self orientation governed by emotion, or a heart […]
Text Highlights: Nordegg, Canada August 25 & 26, 2017
August 26, 2017 A delightful and practical description of a life-skill. Q: How do I take on new responsibilities and at the same time be okay with what’s around me? John: On the inside, by you always being about building something. As easy as it is for you to break something on the inside, […]
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New Year’s Eve Costume Swap
November 29, 30 & December 1, 2015 A Gift of Wealth Foundation event in conjunction with The College Bring any items you’d like to donate, including clothing, footwear, fabric, make-up, wigs, props. Drop your items off on the tables at the back of the Meeting Hall as soon as the doors open, before the Sunday […]