Meilleurs Voeux 2017
and Some Real News
Do as the French do.. Send your New
Year's wishes up until January 31st and continue "la fête" or
celebration of the end of the past year and the coming of the new year
as long as possible! This is reason enough for us to seek
out new and more profound ways of being together than anyone has ever
experienced, and in doing so, naturally contribute to creating a
more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.
A more beautiful world is one which we and
others appreciate who we are and what we have to offer, one in which we
can feel an unexplainable deep connection with others and all
"things"--in the heart--and one in which there is a true
life-work balance or integration--the workplace is alive and
fulfilling and there is wellbeing with others and ourselves.
For most, this may seem to be an impossible
endeavor--to change or evolve society and culture to such a degree,
especially considering how much the show of populism is likely
to distract just under half of this country for the next four
years. But exciting new ways of being with others have been
incubating mainly in the San Francisco Bay area and in Boulder,
Colorado over the last twenty-six years, and are now being offered
right here in D.C. and Virginia through the D.C. Awakening
Collective and others. The D.C. Awakening Collective includes Samsara House 2023, Awakening New Possibilities LLC and
launching this January, Meditate Everywhere LLC (see below).
In January, we restart the successful
monthly Open Fireside Chat Awakening Circle (see below) and
an inaugural launch of Meditate Everywhere just steps from the White
House (Jan 25th). You are invited to come see what this movement
is all about and learn how to increase the capacity to be with yourself
and others in a more authentic way than anyone ever knew was possible.
Be sure to read our article published in the January 2017 edition of Natural Awakenings
magazine. [Flip through the Full January Guide]
To you and yours, and all others who may cross
your paths or come into your lives anew this year, may this 2017th
year be one in which we all find more ease, more stillness, and
more brightness in the relationships with ourselves and others, and may
our lives be and become full of more space, more healing and more
possibilities.
Meilleurs Voeux 2017 ("milly-yuurr vurh,
deurh-mill set"),
Cullen Kowalski
20 JAN FRI - TODAY!
How to Make America
Great (Natural Awakenings, Jan 2017)
by Cullen Kowalski and Matt
Willmott
"Cullen Kowalski knows that our elected leaders
will not save us. The solution, he says, is to help guide an evolution
in consciousness. Kowalski aims to act locally, but he is not
thinking small." [continue reading..]
25 JAN WED - AFTER WORK
Inaugural Launch:
Meditate Everywhere, steps from the White House
Wednesday After Work, January 25, 2016
5:30pm - 6:45pm
Cost: FREE
Venue: WeWork Metropolitan Square @ 655 15th Street NW 20005
(enter building on G
Street NW - Walk from Metro Center & McPherson Square)
The New Year is a powerful
time for reflection and contemplation. It is a time for all of us to
review the past and look into the future, to create new positive
changes. Learn key essential mindfulness skills and practices to begin
your New Year with more clarity, more wholeness and on purpose.
Come join Meditate
Everywhere--a full-service business provider of workday meditation
programs, for an engaging 75-minute meditation session on the future
now of business management and a whole new way of being together at
work. Please try to arrive and be seated by 5:20pm. Opening bell starts
at 5:30pm sharp.
Please sign-up/RSVP: Hello@MeditateEverywhere.com Please Note: You will not be able to enter the building without
your name on the check-in list, so please RSVP to attend.
Meditate Everywhere designs, hosts and facilitates
transformative corporate meditation programs which shift the normal
workday into a whole new way of being together at work. Interpersonal
Mindful Meditation within the workplace brings True Corporate
Wellness and Integrated Mindful Leadership. Loyalty. Trust.
Productivity. All hands on deck.
For more information, send
contact: Hello@MeditateEverywhere.com.
28 JAN SAT - EVENING
Open “Fireside” Chat Awakening Circle with
Bennett Crawford & Cullen Kowalski
Note: The normally scheduled Saturday Jan 21st Fireside Chat has
been moved to next Saturday Jan 28th to
accommodate the Women's March in D.C.
Saturday Evening January 28, 2016
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Cost: $5 - Tea and Conscious
Snacks Served (cash or paypal@samsarahouse.org)
We're doing it again! This
monthly community gathering for discovering how to
cultivate real connection with ourselves and others happens again
next Saturday January 28th!
There is no community without connection. Samsara House
2023 seeks to create and hold space in which profound connections
happen. The result is a real community of humans who live and die
(continuously), committed to each other like never before. A community
that lives, acts and talks from the Heart and no longer from only the
head of ideas and concepts.
Open to the participants of our workshops and anyone who
is committing to changing the world by how they show up in the world.
We automatically transmit our new way of being to others around us; we
create ripples. Sitting in mutuality with others helps accelerate our
individual awakening. Mysteriously, we gradually relax into the ground
of Being and all Knowing while we continuously let go from the ground
of fear, and polish the mirror of our consciousness along the way. The
leading edge of meditation is interpersonal and the practice of
mutuality. The future spirituality is experiential. Like everything, we
only get good at it when we practice. Come on out and practice in
togetherness. You won't regret it.
Save the Dates for these upcoming
Fireside Chats: Feb 11, March 11, April 8
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About DC Awakening Collective, (est. 2016)
Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin once said,
“There
is almost a sensual longing for communion with others that have a
larger vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between those
engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality almost
impossible to describe.”
The
D.C. Awakening Collective contains a group of organizations, which
collaborate and share resources to fulfill the overall purpose of
the collective: to ignite an evolution in both cultural and individual
conscious. The collective was launched in March 2016 and governs
itself with Holacracy, an evolutionary organizational operating
system recognized within the movement of Teal Management.
Be and become inspired to come participate in
one or more experiential events being offered, and join us in building
the awakened society our hearts know is possible.
The founding members of the collective are:
Experiencing What's Possible
- A venue space for experiencing, learning and
spreading leading-edge ways of being to help create the world our
hearts know is possible.
• Transforming Organizations
LLC - [meetup]
Evolve
the self => Evolve the organization => Transform the world
- Integrated corporate
programs for helping shift organizations to revolutionary new ways of
self-organization
- Introduction to Holacracy workshops, Holacracy
simulation workshops, Pilot programs and Full installs (offered in
English and French)
• Meditate
Everywhere LLC (new) - [website]
Corporate
Meditation Programs
- A full-service business provider of workday
meditation programs which invoke the future now of business management
and a whole new way of being together at work.
• Awakening New
Possibilities LLC - [no website yet]
Creating
Space for Healing, Connection and Awakening
-
One-on-one private mindfulness meditation therapy sessions by a
licensed social worker
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You
never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete. ~ Buckminster
Fuller
Be
the change you wish to see in the world.
~ Gandhi
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