The Seven Powers of Enlightened Relationship, with Dr. Marc Gafni

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First weekend in February

The Seven Powers of Enlightened Relationship With Dr. Marc Gafni, annual Board retreat, by invitation only

1) The core practice of spirituality in the world today is the practice of relationship. We all yearn for exciting, dynamic, and rich relationships in our lives, but very few of us ever reach the point of 100% relationship satisfaction. Eye-gazing, non-violent communication, and empathy practices are all fine tools to help deepen your relationships, but how do you really practice sacred relationship?

What if you had the opportunity to radically expand and deepen your relationships to the point of ecstasy in just three amazing days?

Best-selling author, visionary leader, and World Spirituality teacher Dr. Marc Gafni, are changing the game in evolutionary ways when it comes to cultivating unique and authentic relationships.

No where else can you experience the integration of the best that our pre-modern, modern, and post-modern traditions have to offer on the path and practice of The Seven Powers of Enlightened Relationship developed by Marc Gafni, with the profound power of Face to Face process rooted in the teachings of Emanuel Levinas

Every person we meet in a significant encounter possesses a piece of our story. Some people may have a sentence, others a missing word, while still others may hold a paragraph or even a whole chapter. Significant meetings involve intimate, deep, and enriching encounters.

The ultimate relationship practice is the committed, caring, dynamic process of discovering just what these missing pieces might be, and puzzling them back together. Something we can only do in relationship.
In their newest 3-day intensive, The Seven Powers of Enlightened Relationship, Dr. Marc will guide us to discover:

That in every significant relationship, each holds a piece of the others story, which must be returned to the other in order for both to be complete.

That to have deep and nourishing relationships, we have to make authentic contact in the present.

How labels obstruct contact in relationship.

How to fully receive and be received in deep understanding and empathy.

How meaningful relationships foster the experience of entering together into higher states of awareness and intelligence an evolutionary WE space.

To engage in deep relationship, we must stay open as love through the pain.

Enlightened relationships require not only integrity, but evolutionary integrity.

Our relationships are also defined by our evolutionary context. In an authentic encounter, we seek not only romantic, pragmatic, or emotional connection. We seek evolutionary relationship.

In evolutionary relationship, we seek to manifest the evolutionary potential in our encounter and we let go of the narrow narcissistic needs that initially brought us together.

In an evolutionary relationship, we are obligated by evolutionary integrity. We identify the Unique Gift that our encounter holds. We see how this gift supports and furthers the ecstatic evolutionary God-impulse that motivates and moves all of existence.
Evolutionary integrity means that we bring all the people of the past, present, and future who might be affected by our decisions into the room. We widen our sense of time from the immediate shallow time to deep evolutionary time.

Enter the Face to Face Process
Face to Face is an organic, in-the moment interpersonal process that’s proven to create extraordinary and deep intimacy in relationships.
Face to Face helps us identify the places where we push away the depth of connection and intimacy that’s possible in every encounter. In a nutshell, Face to Face helps us to uncover our relational blind spots.
Through this in-the-moment process, we have more Choice about how we respond. The more we are aware of our blinds spots, the greater our Choice in any situation. The greater our Choice, the greater our degree of relational freedom.
If youre ready to discover how to foster more rewarding, meaningful, and nourishing relationships that will stay with you for the rest of your life, this 3-day hands-on intensive on The Seven Principles of Enlightened Relationship is for you!

2) Center for World Spirituality Fall Retreat at Esalen: With Dr. Marc Gafni and Sally Kempton, October 2012 Precise Date to be announced: Theme Turning Poison into Nectar: Tantra and the Transformation of the Heart

To Learn More:Hyper Link this text What would your life be like if you knew how to keep your heart open even in the midst of pain? The tantric traditions specialize in practices for turning the stuff of daily life into sacred experience. Some of the most powerful tantric practices work with shadow emotions, revealing the secrets of how to transmute the ‘poisons’ of negativity into fuel for the spiritual fire. This is the transformation of the heart: an alchemical process in which our pain and pleasure become vehicles for stepping into the higher octaves of the self.

This weekend, we learn how to go into the source of negative emotion, find the core energy within it, and use that energy for transformation and opening. Using teachings and practices from the eastern and western tantric traditions, the weekend unfolds processes that you can apply in in relationship, at work, and in your creative life.

3) Center for World Spirituality Spring Retreat at Esalen, 2013 with Dr. Marc Gafni and Special Surprise Guest. Precise Date to be Announced Soon. Theme: Sexuality Spirituality and Shadow. The Three S’ of your Personal Dynamic Evolution. To learn more: Hyperlink this textThe domains of Sexuality, Spirituality and Shadow, when consciously engaged, propel us into greater love, clarity, spontaneous compassion, and freedom. This series will examine Spirit and Shadow through the lens of the most energetically potent facet of our embodiment: Sexuality. Through yogic practice, meditative inquiry, interpersonal intimacy, and dynamic group consideration, we will deeply discover and refine how we deploy this most potent force of our embodiment in our personal and professional lives.

It is the adventure not to miss if you crave great company, the profound pleasure of growth and laughter, and want to be challenged to the greatest depth of your gorgeous and evolving being.