Subject: Calling for creative submissions! Plus upcoming programs...

News and updates, September 2021

Upcoming Retreat: Finding Knowledge Within

Led by Jack Petranker in
Neu Plaue, Germany
October 16-20, 2021

In this TSK retreat, we will explore how to cherish our own capacities, cultivate appreciation for all that arises, and find more powerful and fulfilling ways to live. The retreat is based on Love of Knowledge by Tarthang Tulku.

Cost: € 450, including meals and on-site lodging in shared rooms with shared bathrooms. Single options also available.

What's New

Submit your creative work to our new online magazine.

Center for Creative Inquiry will launch a new online magazine this month featuring TSK-inspired content, including essays, poems, photographs, and other artistic reflections related to the Time, Space, Knowledge vision. The first theme will be "Reflection of the Moon" with a submission deadline of October 29, 2021.

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Announcing the NowHere guidebook for kids

We are finalizing a guidebook for tweens titled NowHere, which explores mindfulness, nature and interpersonal practices to open new ways of understanding experience. It is filled with gentle prompts and games intended to deepen your child's relationship with themselves and the world around them. NoWhere will be released in both English and Spanish and the text will be informed by color illustrations to create a unique immersive involvement with the material. Stay tuned for updates on its release, how to get it, and ways to support the project so it can benefit more kids!

East Coast TSK Retreat

We are in the beginning stages of organizing a weekend TSK retreat to take place in early 2022 in Massachusetts or another East Coast location. Think you might be interested? Let us know and we'll keep you up to date about the location, dates, and cost!

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New Class: Skillful Means in Daily Life

with Marion Frank and Phil Gold

Be fully present day and night, enhancing the quality of your life.

Exploring some of the most renowned books of Tarthang Tulku – Skillful Means, Time, Space and Knowledge, and Kum Nye Relaxation – this series of classes invites you to find and liberate what is often withheld inside. We’ll explore simple but profound improvements to apply in your work routine, as well as visions of reality that enrich every moment. These explorations will be facilitated and emphasized by physical movements and breathing exercises, expanding the consciousness of how precious human embodiment is.

Online via Zoom

Mondays, October 18 - November 29, 2021

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time

Cost: $0 - $150 sliding scale; no one is turned away for lack of funds.

LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER!
Full Presence Mindfulness Retreat with Jack Petranker

At Ratna Ling Retreat Center

The mindfulness movement has popularized a healthier way of relating to thoughts and emotions. Full Presence Mindfulness builds on this movement, drawing on the teachings of Tibetan Lama Tarthang Tulku, as presented in his Time, Space, Knowledge Vision. FPM is designed to open every dimension of our experience —sensations, emotions, thoughts, and how we connect with others. It offers a new way to see the world and our place in it.

Except for evening sessions, the retreat program will be held in silence. We start with breathing and sensory exercises for grounding, then go on to look at how we shape our world through the stories we tell and live. As we learn to recognize the patterns that hold us back, we find new resources for acting on our highest values and promoting real and lasting change.

Ratna Ling Retreat Center

September 28 - October 3, 2021

Cost: $700 - $1,400 sliding scale; contact us if additional financial assistance is needed.

The Center for Creative Inquiry (CCI) explores alternate forms of knowledge and inquiry and their potential to bring about fundamental change at the individual, cultural, and social level.

CCI headquarters is located at the Mangalam Center in downtown Berkeley, California, USA.