Probing Presence Groups to join

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Time: December 30, 2009 all day
Location: cyberspace
Event Type: online, workshop
Organized By: Susan Goldberg
Latest Activity: Oct 12

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PROBING PRESENCE

~ a set of methods to discuss practice questions in a peer group, and to be awake and present in the interaction ~

The foundation of Buddhist practice – meditation – is a solitary activity but as the capacity for attention develops and permeates our life, questions arise. So there is the wisdom that tells us to find guidance from a teacher. Sometimes a teacher isn’t available, but we do have each other.

Probing Presence is a group practice that enables peer groups to recreate some of the special conditions that take place in a one-on-one practice interaction between a teacher and a student.

This is a Question & Answer session in which group members help each other find solutions to questions that arise in practice and in the interaction between practice & life. However, this isn't a conventional discussion. It’s a group practice, held in presence and attention, with a set of guidelines developed by Ken McLeod. The methods & techniques help us to hold a field of attention, to embody awake qualities, to reduce the amount of storytelling, and to point the inquirers to their own knowing and experience.

These methods & techniques are relevant to other types of groups (study, work) and to one’s own, individual experiences with others.

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* Ken McLeod is available to provide guidance and answer questions to Probing Presence groups.

* You may wish to form your own group, or you are welcome to join one of these Probing Presence groups:

online group:
The Sunday Night PPO (Probing Presence Online) Group.
meets via Skype. 7PM Central Time. Contact Greg Germano gfgermano@gmail.com

online & in-person group:
Columbus, OH Wake Up to Your Life group.
Meets via Skype and in person. Wednesday nights, 7PM. Contact Jim: wutyl.columbus@gmail.com

Calgary, Alberta, Canada group:
Meets in person. Monday nights, 7PM. Contact “Leslie” on the UM Ning site.

Montreal, Canada group:
Meets in person. Tuesdays, 3PM. Contact Sonia Osorio: nightskye@sympatico.ca