I received this notice on facebook and wanted to share it with my friends here. It looks very intriguing. If my schedule will allow it, I plan to attend.
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Free Telephone Seminar
Finding your true voice: Writing as a tool for spiritual growth.
Wednesday, February 11th, 3pm Eastern (2pm Central, 12pm Pacific). To register, send an email to timetoteachacim@gmail.com with Subject: teleseminar
Message from Bastiaan:
My name is Bastiaan Berende and my goal is to help you find your true voice through practicing and teaching A Course in Miracles.
I invite you to participate in a Time to Teach A Course in Miracles Teleseminar. It will be a unique event.
I want to inspire you to use writing as a teaching tool or as Lisa Natoli puts it as a tool for spiritual growth.
My native language is Dutch and I regard English as my second language. I have written lyrics for songs and I have written some poetry. When my life got complicated I began writing my thoughts down in notepads. Since then writing has been instrumental to my awakening. A couple of years after I found the Course, I moved to the US. I have lived there for ten years now and I have written articles for a couple of newsletters. I always write for myself as I reflect on my thoughts, expose my grievances and plan and communicate my projects. I have started to write essays about the stages of my awakening last year. These essays will soon be published in a book. This is when I began reading books on writing and it has given me some valuable insights I would like to share with you now.
What I learned is that:
Writing helps me to organize my thoughts and to learn lessons from the past. Writing makes things stand still and makes me appreciate my encounters and relationships with other people.
Writing grants me a deeper understanding of who I am and why I am here as I turns my attention from the meaningless outside to the meaningful within.
Writing heightens my awareness and steers me away from destruction. Writing urges me to admit when I have gone insane and when to ask God for help and forgiveness. Writing exposes my hidden thoughts and helps them to heal.
Writing can inspire and guide others and witness to the miracles in my life. Writing makes room for grace and gratitude and helps to see things for what they are, simple and clear.
With these last thoughts in mind I want to introduce you to Lisa Natoli from Gorgeous for God. Lisa will be the guest speaker/teacher for this event. I am excited and honored to have her on this call with me. She displays an amazing clarity and character in her writing. She has the gift of telling you exactly how it is. She is an inspiring teacher not only through the written word, but she speaks with absolute certainty of her understanding of A Course in Miracles. She demonstrates how to live a life of uncompromising commitment to the truth. Here she is.
Guest speaker
Lisa Natoli is the author of the best-selling book Gorgeous for God, which is based on the principles of A Course in Miracles. She has been writing daily for over 35 years on anywhere she can think of to express an idea: cocktail napkins, paper journals, postcards, blogs, notebooks, letters, greeting cards, chat rooms, email, and facebook.
Lisa will teach us:
• How to use writing as a tool for spiritual growth.
• How daily writing is a great practice for overcoming fear and doubt.
• How writing can help you recognize unwanted habits to allow them to be transformed.
• How to find your true voice.
• How writing about every day events can make you become more honest and a better communicator.
• How writing forces you to look for beauty in the mundane.
• How writing can be a great excavating tool for bringing up old fear, desires, wishes, goals that have been buried, dormant, and unrecognized.
• How writing can help you become more conscious and aware.
• How writing can help you emerge from your old limiting beliefs.
To register for the teleseminar send an email to timetoteachacim@gmail.com with Subject: teleseminar
You may forward this message to all your friends and contacts.
I look forward to having you on this call on Wednesday February 11th at 3pm Eastern (2pm Central, 12pm Pacific).
Within one or two days you will receive a reply with the phone number and pin code you need to dial in to the teleseminar.
Love Bastiaan Berende
Time to Teach A Course in Miracles
Oh what a wonderful, and powerful insight this has been in my life. I write. Constantly. Writing lets me see who I was, am, and become. Writing is as limitless as God[dess], and all at once, as limiting as a snapshot.
In my life up to June of 2004 writing was a tool for communications in a highly structured, cold, distant, technical fashion. Professionally I was sought out for my ability, but I had no real voice. In ‘04 as I lay weak and spent from a ong battle to save my own life, I put pen to paper and began at first, to document what was happening.
Over time, and the many battles to survive, my writing grew. My soul grew, and my voice became the mirror to my soul. I started five years ago with a single 200 page comp book. Today I’m in my 16th comp book and I’ve been growing this chronicle of my growth at the rate of three or four volumes per year.
The process of daily writing, has over time, become a form of meditation for me, as I take thoughts, feelings, experiences and weave them into a fixed form, embracing, accepting, and integrating them into me, while preserving the moment. It has indeed become mindfullness manifest.
I’m kind of sorry I missed this seminar, but confident that all who attended could find start the path to the opening the lotus of their voice.
200 page comp books: around $4.00 each.
The growth and memories they capture: Priceless!
Finding your voice in everything you are: Writing.