This weekly one and half hour online meeting is offered as a supportive space during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is an invitation to share and listen in a well-held space (facilitated by Em Strang) and to participate in reflective and contemplative practices, loosely guided by the central themes of the workshop:

Resilient Futures is a 5-step workshop structured around the five essential messages of initiation, a ritual process which invites us into 'bigger picture awareness', enabling our relationship to nature, fellow humans, suffering and love, to shift and re-member itself anew.

The five messages (also known as 'the five hard truths') have been reconfigured into questions, to facilitate an open and fertile space in which participants can explore their own and others' responses. The questions provide a springboard for us to launch ourselves into the deep water of our times:

• Is life meant to be hard?

• Are we important?

• Are our lives about us?

• Are we in control?

• What does it mean to die?

The online workshop offers a taster session only, and will give participants a flavour of the deeper work that will eventually take place during a week-long residential (post-pandemic) in rural Scotland (see Three Streams for further details).

We will meet every Tuesday on Zoom from 7-8.30pm for 5 weeks. This booking is for a workshop beginning June 9th and ending July 7th.

The ticket booking numbers are limited to 12 in an effort to create a closed group of participants, to build trust and a sense of community.

This is a donations only programme: we suggest a minimum donation of £50 for the full 5-week programme. If you are on a low income or out of work, we encourage you to pay what you can or to participate free of charge.

“Acceptance does not mean surrender. It does not mean resignation. Acceptance means I am finally available to the entire spectrum of creative response.” Trebbe Johnson