We began our 5-day workshop by asking what our motive is behind learning itself. We wondered whether we usually learn about ourselves and the world around us, in order to be secure, safe and in order to know how to behave, act, think or feel. Learning, we realised in our societies, is to know better […]
We met at the Gorge Park Pavilion and began in a simple and unstructured way: arriving, exchanging a few words, and then settling into a shared space of attention. Through gentle movement and awareness of the body, the group eased into a deeper inquiry with a central question: how does this exploration relate to our […]
We met at Swanwick Centre outside near the pool, with a couple of new people joining. After a short meditation, Oda introduced a central question for inquiry: What is relationship? It quickly revealed a paradox: relationship seems to imply both separation and connection. If there were no distance, no distinction, would relationship even exist? Yet […]
We met at the Pavilion in Victoria. There were two requests for this meeting: to dialogue about curiosity and about relationship. As in the last few meetings we began with 10 minutes of Bodymeditation, connecting to the body and asking : “Can we feel where the body ends and the space around it begins?” Exploring […]
We gathered on the lawn by the pool at Swanwick Centre, beginning with introductions and a gentle body meditation, feet on the ground, breath, small movements, arriving not only individually but together in a shared sense of aliveness. From there, we continued from where we left off in the last dialogue, with the question: Can […]
We met at Esquimalt Gorge Park Pavilion. The exploration began with the question, “Can there be an intent in meditation?” and whether meditation can be something we decide to do, or whether intention already introduces a goal that moves us away from what meditation actually is. Very early in the dialogue, sport was used as […]
We met outside on the lawn near the pool at the Swanwick Centre to explore meditation together. One participant, deeply influenced by Jiddu Krishnamurti, shared his personal journey, describing meditation as moments of being fully present without thought, often supported by sensations such as sound, breath, and bodily awareness. He felt he had learned to […]
This was our first meeting of 2026 in Victoria, facilitated by Oda Lindner, our guest facilitator for this month. It started with a presentation by Oda that explored meditation as a gentle shift from doing to being and contrasting thought-based meditations with Bodymeditation, feeling your senses instead of being in your head. Oda brought up […]
This was our first on-site meeting of the year and part of the Centre facility’s reopening after the winter season. We met on the grounds in front of the main house on a sunny, warm afternoon. Oda Lindner, who is joining us from Ontario for the month of April, was our facilitator. We began simply […]
This was the last of the six-part series on The Urgency of Change, entitled ‘The Religious Life’. The presenter framed K’s approach in the historical context of the clash between science and religion in the 19th century. Science dismissed religion as superstitious and philosophers proclaimed that God was dead. In contrast, the theosophists felt that […]