Subject: Creative Inquiry Newsletter, February 2022 ✨

CCI News & Events, February 2022

What's New

CCI welcomes Ignacio Ercole and Anaïs Roman to our team of facilitators! 😀

Ignacio (they/them) will be leading a Full Presence Mindfulness workshop on Breath & Sound, while Anaïs (she/her) will be leading our weekly Inter-Resting drop in class on Sundays. For details, please read below.

There's still time to submit to the "Reality Painting" collection!

If reality was like a painting, would you try to enter the imaginary space of the painting, or would you pull aside the canvas to catch the painter in the act of creation?

The deadline to submit is February 28, 2022.

Details about our call for submissions

Jack Petranker will lead a special TSK international seminar in March, co-sponsored by Nyingma Centrum Nederland.

Originally scheduled for January, the Self in Question has been moved to March 18-20. Based on Love of Knowledge, this international event is one not to miss!

The Self in Question

Online seminar with Jack Petranker
March 18 - 20, 2022

Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us
is forced upon them by our conviction that they
are themselves, and not anything else,
and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.

Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

Our world is shaped by space, time, and knowledge. Events happen in time, the reality we know appears in space, and our ability to experience is shaped by the kinds of knowledge available to us.

Usually, we think of space, time, and knowledge as factors we cannot change—larger and more powerful than we are. But when we look with care and appreciation, we realize that space, time, and knowledge are fluid and alive. The only reason they seem so limiting is that we see them through the eyes of the self—the actor we put at the center of what we do and what we encounter, the unquestionable owner of experience.

In this program, we will call the self into question. Following a path of inquiry laid down in Rinpoche’s Love of Knowledge, we will look at the stories we use to make sense of experience, the positions we adopt that close down alternatives, and the limits we impose when we claim that knowledge is what the self knows.

More Upcoming Programs

Inter-Resting

FREE Contemplative Drop-In
Led by Adrian Roman
Weekly on Thursdays, 9 AM PST/12 PM EDT

Our time will be in dialogue and experiential exercises that encourage reflection on the way we operate in our environment. We will normally have a brief welcome, a led exercise, and dialogue among the participants. Any experience is welcome.

Led by Anaïs Roman
Weekly on Sundays, 9 AM PST/12 PM EDT
Starting March 6th

Breath & Sound

90 minute Workshop with Ignacio Ercole
Saturday, March 5, 2022 at 10 AM PST
$10-$20 sliding scale

Full Presence Mindfulness (FPM) helps us to go deeper in the ocean of mindfulness. Practicing FPM allows us to experience life as an integrated whole and opens a sense of feeling more fulfilled and alive. One of the approaches of FPM is through listening, a gateway to new meanings, values and understanding. Music in this context can become a force that goes beyond entertainment and can unfold rich inner messages that will support us through the different facets, cycles and vicissitudes of our life. FPM and music works as a catalyst of new knowledge beyond the structures that the self imposes on us, leading us to a greater sense of freedom, empowerment and intimacy.

As we explore the field through Full Presence Mindfulness, we can allow experience to arise as an integrated whole, in which each aspect arises in intimacy with every other aspect. We discover a structure to experience that we can describe as the Center and the Whole.

Full Presence Mindfulness Annual Retreat

5-day Retreat with Ignacio Ercole and Morgan Wells
September 20 - 25, 2022

FPM is designed to open every dimension of our experience —sensations, emotions, thoughts, and how we connect with others. Its vision is to offer a new way to see the world and our place in it. It draws on the teachings of Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku as presented in the Time, Space, Knowledge Vision.

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.

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.

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