Fear colors our present experience and can limit our future.  At the same time, fear is a gift of creation.  We are not safe without it.  But the gift understood and used ineffectually can lead to an emotionally challenging life filled with uncertainty.

 We live at a time that fear is used as a religious, political, cultural, and economic manipulative tool, often buried deep into our subconscious.  We respond to life as we have been set up to respond. We are congratulated for our “good behavior.”  We see the wedge that this has created in families, communities, and our world.

 This time of COVID-19 has intensified the place of fear in our psyches.   It is impacting our relationship with ourselves and with those around us.  It has created a climate of distrust reverberating through the struggles we should be united in solving.

 Fear has immense personal implications, and it is in facing what frightens us that we open our lives to a fuller experience of ourselves and our relationships.

I am grateful for the work of Pema Chodron, an American Buddhist nun, and Father Richard Rohr, A Franciscan Priest, both profound mystics whose writings I am using as source material for this course. Synthesizing these Western/Eastern approaches can bring new clarity to our understanding of ourselves and free us to the healing work of love and compassion for ourselves and each other.

 This six-week class will meet on Zoom on Monday mornings from 9:30 am – 10:30 am.  May 10 – June 21. (No class on Memorial Day)

ZOOM LINK: CLICK ON THE BOX - PASSWORD: FACING