Here is Ed Bastian's letter inviting us to the
Start the New Year with InterSpiritual Meditation
The 7-Step Mindfulness Practice
8-Week Course via Zoom
January 18 to March 8, 4pm Pacific
As we begin 2023, I invite you to join our upcoming 8-week InterSpiritual Meditation course. We aim to help you create a calm, wise, and compassionate foundation for the year ahead. This live ZOOM course runs on Wednesdays from January 18 to March 8, from 4 pm - 5:30 pm PST.
This course also meets the qualifications for 20 hours of continuing education units for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Click here to learn more and to register for CE Credits.
Deepening Mindfulness Meditation Through 7-Steps
ISM can be described as a “Holistic 7-Step Mindfulness Practice.” Why? Because it integrates “Mindfulness” into each the other six steps: Motivation, Gratitude, Transformation, Love, Wisdom and Service. Each of these steps are essential for a holistic and sustainable meditative practice. The integration of all these steps can have a transformative impact on all aspects of our lives.
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Energizing Our Spiritual Styles
Each of us embodies a unique combination of 12 styles. Our styles can help us better develop calm and compassionate insight and practice. In this course, we will learn to harness and empower our innate styles to improve our meditation through such styles as physical exercise, the arts, devotion, imagination, intellectual reason, or immersion into nature. We will explore and experience how both our dominant and dormant styles can help reinvigorate our personal meditation practices.
Community
Our busy lives often make it hard to sustain a daily meditation practice. Community support can remind us of the relevance and importance of meditation. Our work together is invigorated by diversity of race, ethnicity, beliefs, gender designations, and spiritual learning styles. We experience profound unity amidst our dynamic diversity. We experience an InterSpiritual Consciousness that immerses us into the depths of our being.
1. Motivation
“May I (We) Be Happy and Healthy.”
2. Gratitude
“May I (We) Be Grateful for Life’s Gifts”
3. Transformation
“May I (We) Be Transformed”
4. Intention
“May I (We) Be Compassionate”
5. Mindfulness
“May I (We) Breathe Mindfully ”
6. Wisdom
“May I (We) Become Wise ”
7. Service
“May I (We) Be in Service to All”
Please Join Us
Please join us in the upcoming January course on InterSpiritual Meditation. You will enjoy the conversation with fellow students along with our certified facilitators and mentors. Joining together, we will refine our meditation practice and learn to companion others on their journeys.
INFORMATION & REGISTRATION
We'd love to see you!
Ed Bastian, PhD, Founder & President of Spiritual Paths Foundation
"Spiritual Paths is an excellent program that grew out of the Snowmass Inter-religious Conference at St. Benedict’s Monastery. As interspiritual dialogue continues to deepen and spread, experienced spiritual practitioners, with some capacity for scholarship, need to suggest what works best for spiritual growth. This is the thrust of the Spiritual Paths conferences and educational activities." -- Father Thomas Keating, Founder, Centering Prayer
"ISM is an open-hearted and truly universal practice. If ever there was a practice to help us get spiritually unstuck, this is it.” -- Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault, Author & Teacher
"Dr. Bastian's work is a great and important breakthrough, as so many believe they are not spiritual because they do not follow a particular dogma..." -- Dr. Carol Pearson, Author and Past President of Pacifica Graduate University
"I am particularly excited by this initiative of Edward Bastian and the Spiritual Paths Foundation. It as a sea change in the evolution of what we used to call the ecumenical activity. I see us coming into the next phase of inter-religious dialogue, to introduce one another to the inner experience of each others faith traditions. For when we do, we shall come to the realization that the end is One." -- Imam Feisal Abdul-Rauf, Founder of American Sufi Muslim Association
"Spiritual Paths brings together the wisdom of authentic teachers from the worlds spiritual traditions, provides an excellent curriculum based on those traditions, and leads us toward a new paradigm of InterSpiritual education and practice." -- Rabbi Zalman Schachter, Founder of Jewish Renewal
“May I (We) Be Happy and Healthy.”
2. Gratitude
“May I (We) Be Grateful for Life’s Gifts”
3. Transformation
“May I (We) Be Transformed”
4. Intention
“May I (We) Be Compassionate”
5. Mindfulness
“May I (We) Breathe Mindfully ”
6. Wisdom
“May I (We) Become Wise ”
7. Service
“May I (We) Be in Service to All”
Please Join Us
Please join us in the upcoming January course on InterSpiritual Meditation. You will enjoy the conversation with fellow students along with our certified facilitators and mentors. Joining together, we will refine our meditation practice and learn to companion others on their journeys.
INFORMATION & REGISTRATION
We'd love to see you!
Ed Bastian, PhD, Founder & President of Spiritual Paths Foundation
Recommendations
"ISM is an open-hearted and truly universal practice. If ever there was a practice to help us get spiritually unstuck, this is it.” -- Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault, Author & Teacher
"Dr. Bastian's work is a great and important breakthrough, as so many believe they are not spiritual because they do not follow a particular dogma..." -- Dr. Carol Pearson, Author and Past President of Pacifica Graduate University
"I am particularly excited by this initiative of Edward Bastian and the Spiritual Paths Foundation. It as a sea change in the evolution of what we used to call the ecumenical activity. I see us coming into the next phase of inter-religious dialogue, to introduce one another to the inner experience of each others faith traditions. For when we do, we shall come to the realization that the end is One." -- Imam Feisal Abdul-Rauf, Founder of American Sufi Muslim Association
"Spiritual Paths brings together the wisdom of authentic teachers from the worlds spiritual traditions, provides an excellent curriculum based on those traditions, and leads us toward a new paradigm of InterSpiritual education and practice." -- Rabbi Zalman Schachter, Founder of Jewish Renewal
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