The details:
NABGBG meets online (Zoom).
7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesdays January 6, January 20 and February 3.
Themes include: The Why of Ritual (January 6), On Big and Little Unions and Reunions and Beginning Again (January 20), Grief and Goodbyes and the Gift of Revival (February 3).
$45 includes all three sessions plus at-home prompts sent between sessions.
Cost does not include the book.
From Beginning to End: the Rituals of Our Lives—an exploration of the what, where and how of ritual and why ritual matters.
We’ll talk about the big rituals of life and explore how simple acts on any given day can bring a bit more joy, hope, connection and care into the everyday ordinary, too. Personal. Practical. And possibly even life-changing (it’s happened).
Over the years we’ve read Anne Lamott, Thomas Moore, Brené Brown, Padriag O’Tuama, Richard Rohr, and others with an eye for seeing the sacred in the simple stuff of life. We’ve explored (among other things) grief, good, things-that-are-considered-sacred, community, blessing, gratitude, grace, prayer, and hope…and along the way have conjured up a lot of “A-ha!”s, more than a few “Huh…”s, and a whole lot of “Damn, I hadn’t thought of it that way before…”. People don’t necessarily walk away with a lot of hard-and-fast, once-and-for-all answers to the questions that come up in these sessions, but we all walk away with insights that shape us for the better.
It’s so good. As one participant once put it: “This is the best part of my week…”
Questions? Contact Angie Arendt: angie@bigstonehouse.org.
(yes, that’s Angie’s beaten up copy of this book in the photo…it is well read, well loved).
*Note: registration cost is per month, not per session.
A long-time participant once described Sitting on Sundays as:“a mashup between a Quaker meeting, a Buddhist sit, an AA meeting…and a little bit of hootenanny thrown in for good measure….” Another says that: “This practice gives me hope for the world. More than that, it gives me hope for myself and the people around me…and that’s no small thing. I wish everybody had something like this to be a part of, a community like this to belong to. We’d all be better off for it.” We agree. It’s such a simple practice, really. But don’t let the simplicity fool you: these sessions are about as good for the soul as anything we’ve ever experienced.
Details:
Sitting on Sundays happens on Zoom. One hour, once-a-week, online, ongoing from…
*7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
Access to the Zoom link is provided upon registration.
Registration is $15 a month. You can jump in at any time. And you can opt out at any time, too.
Please note: there is no pressure or requirement to attend every session. If you are unable to make it to a Sit? No guilt. There is no attendance taken, no recordings made. Just come when you can.
Also: should a major holiday fall on a Sitting Sunday, we’ll take that day off and gather again the following week.
Curious to know more? Contact Angie Arendt: angie@bigstonehouse.org
*Here are the start times for different time zones: 7 p.m. Eastern Time, 6 p.m. Central Time, 5 p.m. Mountain Time and 4 p.m. Pacific Time. Also, 8 p.m. Atlantic Time.
