GATE Renewal 2008

  Inviting all GATE participants from near and far to another GATE Weekend:
October 24-26, 2008 

 

MYSTIC/ACTIVIST GATE Conference
with Nancy Sylvester, IHM

 

Those who travel the globe with GATE are on a quest--a quest to understand why the suffering of our world is so great; why women's experience has been so diminished and forgotten; how can we fashion a spirituality for transformation. This weekend retreat will invite you to engage your experience of these realities in the context of the Great Turning, the Chaos Point, and the New Story so as to be more aware of the cultural shift in which we are participating. Believing that the next stage of transformation calls women and men to become mystics, Nancy will explore how communal contemplation opens us to see more clearly who we are and to imagine how we must be and act to further the transformation of our planet and our species. The time together will integrate process and presentation. The participants will experience communal contemplation and learn the skills of deepening conversation.

 

Registration: $25.00, plus meals and lodging. Your costs have been reduced thanks to a genorous grant from FSPA.  

Nancy Sylvester, IHM founded the Institute for Communal Contemplation and Dialogue in 2002 in response to her experiences working for justice and right relationships in church and in society. She serves as President of the Institute and as Executive Director of its major project, Engaging Impasse: Circles of Contemplation and Dialogue.  Nancy did her undergraduate work at St. Louis University majoring in philosophy and political science.  Her graduate degree, from St. Mary's University, Winona, MN, is in human development with a concentration in economics and theology.

 

In the 21st century as more and more people are evolving into a deeper longing to honor our oneness as a global community, we are increasingly aware that we are truly all indigenous people of this one earth.

 

For the past 25 years, people touching people cross-culturally and people knowing people compassionately has been facilitated by traveling with GATE: Global Awareness Through Experience.  GATE offers international immersion opportunities to fire the spirituality of solidarity within hearts and lives.  For the thousands of participants who have traveled with GATE through the years, hearts and lives are forever expanded and changed.

 

How does one’s heart center expand and remain open, so that the energies of compassion and solidarity can be extended out to peoples, communities and nations?

 

How do the findings of quantum physics and the recorded experiences of eastern and western mystics point us to methods of connectedness which can be comprehended and copied?

 

How can we, as globally-hearted people learn the skills to positively influence and increase the frequencies of forgiveness, compassion and peace within ourselves and among diverse peoples, cultures and countries?

 

Can the skills of enlightenment be learned and used to make a global difference?

 

The skills of “enlightenment” can be learned.  These skills are based on experiencing one’s own inner light, having it enriched and enlivened by higher sources and frequencies of light and love, and then mindfully extending and directing these transformative frequencies towards people, conflict, countries and the earth.

On this retreat you will come to experience yourself as the mystic that you
are:
•By learning how energetic blocks within our nonphysical energy fields can be released so as to open our fields to higher frequencies of physical, emotion and spiritual vitality.
•By learning how the quality of our thoughts can be monitored and elevated and directed, so as to positively influence outcomes on personal, national and global levels.

 

On this retreat you will come to experience yourself as the activist that
you are:
•By learning how a peace activist must first internally be vibrating at the energetic frequency of peace, before setting out to promote peace!
•By learning to “be the change that you want to see in the world,” as Gandhi asked.

 

This Enlightenment Retreat is for you:
• If you are ready to be more responsive to and responsible for the vibrancy of your own light and your own presence in the world.
• If you want to learn how to positively influence places on the other side of the globe, without leaving your living room.
•If your heart knows that we are all children of the same tribe and are accountable to consciously attend to the whole.
•If you are ready to be and do more, in energetically powerful ways.
•If you want to rest within a magnificent natural setting and share renewal with other magnificent people.

 

 

Theresa O'Connor

As a spiritual seeker and teacher, executive enlightenment coach, holistic psychotherapist, and facilitator of spiritual maturity within individuals, groups and organizations, Theresa’s mission is the spiritual evolution of the species.  With a foundation from Yale in the field of Mind Body Medicine, she has spent 25 years as a pioneer in the areas of transformational, energy and positive psychology, as well as vibrational medicine and alternative therapies.  Those who work with Theresa are powerfully transformed and become more potent transformers in the world.  Come and see.