2022 Programme – In-person retreats & courses

The Practice of Human Flourishing

Early Buddhism and Greek Philosophy

Stephen Batchelor and John Peacock

Language: English

Location: ITC, Naarden, The Netherlands

During this retreat we will draw widely from early Buddhist and Greek sources to find inspiration for the practice of becoming fully human in the 21st century.
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 The Big Picture

Yuka Nakamura and Jaya Rudgard

Language: English

Location: Kairos Centre, UK

This six-day retreat draws on key Buddhist teachings to explore how our present-moment experience is constructed.
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 Satipatthana Sutta retreat

Christina Feldman and Jake Dartington

Language: English

Location: Woodbrooke, Netherlands

This Insight Meditation retreat will explore the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, as taught in the Satipatthana discourse given by the Buddha.
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Stillness Flowing:

Mindfulness in movement and meditation

Jaya Rudgard

Language: English

Location: Sharpham House, Devon, UK

A retreat exploring the world of the Satipatthāna Sutta – the Buddha’s discourse on the four ways of establishing mindfulness – through the complementary practices of insight meditation and Qigong.
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Philosophy as a Way of Life

– East and West, Ancient and Modern

John Peacock and Stephen Batchelor

Language: English

Location: Phendeling, Denmark

During this weekend course we will consider such an ‘examined life’ through the example and teaching of figures as diverse as Gotama and Epicurus, Montaigne and Sartre.
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Achtsamkeitsmeditation

– Die Fünf Heilenden Kräfte

Christoph Köck

Sprache: Deutsch

Standort: Seminarhaus Engl, Deutschland

Die fünf „heilenden Kräfte“ (Indriyas: Vertrauen, Tatkraft, Achtsamkeit, Sammlung, Weisheit) bilden die kontemplative Struktur der Achtsamkeitsmeditation: es braucht informierte Zuversicht, die sich umsetzt in heilsames Streben; kontinuierliche Achtsamkeit reift zur stillen Klarheit, die befreiende Einsichten ermöglicht. Untrennbar damit verbunden ist das Kultivieren einer Haltung der wertschätzenden Motivation und des gründlichen Erforschens.
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