When Is Being Authentic Difficult? Notes from the Authentic Spiritual Conversations meeting held in Cottonwood, AZ on 02/03/2016 Friends, Nelle was the facilitator this week. We started with an introspection exercise on these questions: 1) Where do you have the most difficulty being your authentic self? 2) What gets in the way? 3) How would…
Sensing Our Soul’s Message Notes from the Authentic Spiritual Conversations meeting held in Cottonwood, AZ on 01/27/2016 Friends, Mokasiya was the facilitator this week. Our topic was (loosely): Sensing our soul’s message to us in this moment. Mokasiya passed around a deck of artistic, abstract cards inviting each person to select one and share our…
Desired Experience? Notes from the Authentic Spiritual Conversations meeting held in Cottonwood, AZ on 01/20/2016 Friends, We had a very deep conversation on our topic about what we each want to experience from our participation in this group. Responses included: to develop trust in the Ultimate Source (God) and trust in myself to have authentic…
What Supports or Inhibits Authenticity? Notes from the Authentic Spiritual Conversations meeting held in Cottonwood, AZ on 01/13/2016 Friends, What do we mean by “authenticity?” What are the group dynamics that either support or inhibit willingness to be authentic? We had a very engaging conversation about experiences in groups where people felt safe or didn’t…
Choosing to Learn from Challenges Notes from the Authentic Spiritual Conversations meeting held in Cottonwood, AZ on 01/06/2016 Friends, Today we talked about how to bring our spirituality into challenges that are highly emotional. There was also a request for clarification of the ground rules for the group. Rick and Nelle shared some of their…
Living Consciously with Challenges Notes from the Authentic Spiritual Conversations meeting held in Cottonwood, AZ on 12/30/2015 Friends, One person started the conversation by sharing that some spiritual people believe they are the cause of their physical illness in a blaming sort of way. Another person framed the question, “How can we live consciously through…
Learning from our mirrors Notes from the Authentic Spiritual Conversations meeting held in Cottonwood, AZ on 12/23/2015 Friends, We had three new people join us this week.Checking with the group for what might be alive for them and wanting expression in this moment, someone asked what it means when people say that other people are…
We Are Worthy! Notes from the Authentic Spiritual Conversations meeting held in Cottonwood, AZ on 12/16/2015 Friends, Just briefly, here are some of the topics we discussed in our meeting this week. We had two new people who introduced themselves. Then, returning members shared how the topic of creating sacred space had resonated and shown…
Creating Sacred Space Notes from the Authentic Spiritual Conversations meeting held in Cottonwood, AZ on 12/9/2015 Friends, What a powerful meeting we had this week! We feel so grateful to everyone who came and shared in creating sacred space together. Just briefly, here are some of the topics we discussed… <read more…>
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