Is there a spiritual practice you'd like to be doing regularly, but that you find you aren't quite managing to do?
I am putting together a free, 12-week virtual peer support group for people who want to engage in a regular spiritual practice and get support from other people.
- Free.
- On-line.
- Runs for 12 weeks.
- You pick the spiritual practice you want to do. It can be almost any spiritually-oriented practice or discipline. It can be something you do by yourself or something you do in a group. It can be mostly physical or mostly mental, or a mix. Everyone in the group can have a different spiritual practice. Since we're checking in weekly, it will be helpful if it's something you can do at least once a week.
- Once every week, the group checks in about what happened in the past week and to get support from the others in the group. Did I meet my goal this week? What worked? What didn't work? If I didn't meet my goal, why not? Was my goal realistic? Too hard, too easy, just right? Does my goal need to change? How?
- Each group will have 13 people maximum.
- We will do the check-ins on-line, in a locked blog, a private Facebook group, whatever fashion works best for the group.
- People are welcome from a wide range of spiritual traditions, including none at all.
This 12-week cycle will start Sunday, 1 September and end Sunday, 1 December.
If you're interested, let me know by leaving a comment or sending me an email at stasa dot website at gmail dot com.
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
The Edinburgh Complaints Choir
I am having so very much fun singing with the Edinburgh Complaints Choir, part of the Edinburgh Arts Festival.
I signed up because I have long been a fan of complaints choirs, and I thought it would be fun. It has been a blast in so many ways!
I think none of us knew the Edinburgh choir would become so popular so quickly, but all of a sudden, we are in high demand!
Places to find us in real life:
Place to find us in print and in video:
- From BBC Scotland: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23574229
- BBC Radio 4 Today (from this morning!): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01dt2q9
- BBC World Service (also today!, at about :50 into the Newsroom programme): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016tklr
- BBC Radio 5 Live (live performances today at 4.30pm, 5.50pm, and 6.50pm): http://www.bbc.co.uk/5live
In the meantime, enjoy this video: