Listen Like a Seed

Many of us yearn for a slower, easier rhythm to life. Or at least a break, a pause, a gap in all the doing and noise. 

We may want it, but we may also fear it. What could happen, what might fall apart, if we slowed down? 

We may want it, but it may also feel impossible. Like most of our peers, we’ve found ourselves on the hamster wheel of life, furiously spinning our hamster legs and hamster minds just to get it all done. 

And “all” isn’t all bad. Our jobs, families, communities, hobbies…a full life is often a fulfilling life. 

But beyond our private lives, we’re steadily inundated with information, content, polarizing drama, and noise. 

It can feel like we’ve lost our balance, our choice, most certainly our sense of peace. 

A group inquiry, reconnecting to what matters

Even if we don’t yet hear the question, a wise part of us might be asking: What here really matters? 

Even if we don’t yet hear the question, it might be showing up in our fatigue, malaise, impatience, overwhelm, or avoidance. 

How do we answer that question? 

What does it take to listen? 

LOGISTICS

Listen Like a Seed is a six-week workshop designed as an intentional pause. 

Within a circle of like-minded meaning seekers, we’ll direct our attention beneath the surface of everyday living to explore the seeds ripening within each of us, questions of meaning, soulfulness, satisfaction, and connection in our lives.

This workshop combines qualities and practices of a book group, journaling/free writing, meditation, and group inquiry. As a guide to deepen our listening and inquiry, we’ll use prompts from Mark Nepo’s beautiful book, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What is Sacred. 

Each circle includes: 

  • Short grounding meditation

  • Brief personal check-ins

  • A reading from Nepo’s book to highlight the current theme

  • Prompts to inspire journaling, plus questions 

  • Sharing in dyads and in the larger group 

An invitation to drop below the surface of doing. 

Six sessions

7-8:30 pm PST 

$167 for all 6 sessions or $33 per session

Whether you join us for a single session or the entire series, you’ll come away from our time together: 

  • More connected to a deeper, wiser self

  • Inspired by fresh perspective, guidance, and rich dialogue

  • With a sense of belonging, knowing you’re not alone 

  • Relieved and nourished from shared authenticity

  • Renewed to engage in your life with more clarity and intention

One last thing…

You deserve this. And quite possibly, your busy life and your people and all the things that depend on you might actually need this, or some other, kind of pause.  

While running on auto pilot isn’t easy, it’s become comfortable for most of us. We’re used to it. It’s not only normal, but expected. 

But the world isn’t exactly thriving under these go-go-go conditions. Our hearts and our minds, and our planet, are suffering. 

It’s not up to you to fix it all, but you can change course, even if for a few hours. Give your nervous system, and the wise, attuned listener inside of you, the gift of a different conversation. Bring the jewels you uncover back to your life, and without even “trying,” become a source of equanimity and good in our wild and beautiful world.