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TAT Fall Workshop 2008
Friday - Sunday, August 29 - 31
Rebooting the Mental PC
Session Details - Friday Evening
A Vignette: Richard Rose's Kitchen - Michael Casari and Mike Gegenheimer We'll try to recreate the mood and atmosphere that Richard Rose's students experienced so many times in the past, conversing in his Benwood kitchen or at his rural farmhouse. We'll look at awareness and consciousness, from the inside point of view of the participants. We'll add a touch of poetry and mix in a bit of nostalgia, a bit of confrontation, a bit of humor, and pour in one of the most important ingredients – inspiration. Our Friday night session is designed to provide a good segue to the workshops that follow...
Saturday
Self-Definition: From Outward to Inward - Bob Cergol. This informal workshop will attempt to motivate participants to deconstruct the definition they have spent their lives building by provoking them with questioning. We'll encourage participants to catalog the attributes and conditions they use to define themselves, and then point them inward for definition using meditation. What remains when those attributes and conditions are removed?
Dethroning the Boss-Complex - Paul Constant. In a 1960 letter to Richard Rose, Alfred Pulyan wrote the following perspective: " 'God' is very much alive, conscious, and directs the process (and everything else) even though in the student it is still HIDDEN. Our little consciousness hides this big Consciousness like a penny hides the Sun. Since the ego must be DETHRONED in the student it is a disagreeable, unsatisfying, hard, up-hill process all the way." This workshop will look at the ego and provide a bit of leverage in dethroning the boss-complex in each of us.
Jacob's Attic: Finding inspiration in the overlooked corners of our mind - Shawn Nevins. This workshop will incorporate experimental exercises to help you remember your true desire.
Hot Potato interactive Q&A talking-stick game with all session leaders and participants. Reconvening after being split into three groups, all participants will have an opportunity to work together. Only the person in possession of the "talking stick" can speak – making a statement or asking a question – then passing the talking stick to someone else in the circle. The aim of the game, as always, is self-inquiry.
Sunday Morning
Feedback to participants. Observations and feedback from session leaders and other participants. Session leaders and participants provide observations and comments to each participant – the goal being to help each self-inquirer see what may be blocking self-knowing.
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