Dear Friends and Colleagues,
This Spring’s “Create the Work You Love” workshop at the Rowe Conference Center in Rowe, Massachusetts (www.RoweCenter.org) will by my last residential workshop for the next six months. I am taking a much needed sabbatical and plan to stay home, stay quiet, and stay within. I thank you from the depth of my heart for supporting this work over the years. It is all too easy to become jaded and/or overwhelmed by the challenging circumstances we have created as a culture. Just as our forgetfulness may open us to greater depths of remembrance, however, whatever we have co-created may allow for truly unprecedented healing and renewal. In the light of such hope, I remain yours.
Blessed Be.
Rick
March 13, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Rick,
Thank you for all your work throughout the years. I wish you well on your sabbatical. Here in Mexico where I am working and living, they make no apologies or excuses for periods of rest and inactivity. The culture assumes they are natural and even desirable. How refreshing!
Thank YOU for not becoming jaded. May we all gain the wisdom to support that which is good in our lives, our cultures and our work and open to that unprecedented healing and renewal, which I’m sure are here even as we search.
Wendy
May 14, 2008 at 4:18 pm
I had the good fortune to attend this workshop. I’m usually skeptical of either side of the spiritual/material divide, particularly when it might involve promises that prey on hopes, but Rick always kept the spiritual side grounded and his definition of abundance was exactly what I needed to grok. Sharing his gifts with me gave me sufficient insights to make some progress in manifestation where I had been stuck in my head before and not even realizing it.
I’m hoping to continue the work and start a small study group in my own community. Any advice?
May 17, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Hi Arthur ~ It’s good to hear that you made it under the wire to Rick’s last workshop before his break. Your idea to start a group to go deeper with the material is inspired, and can be of great service and support to people–including yourself!
Do you have access to bulletin boards (in your physical community, ie, at spiritual orgs, libraries, or health-food stores, or via online communities/interest groups) through which you can spread the word? There are numerous resources on starting “book circles” or support groups. I believe a few searches with various terms could help you with this if you’ve not done it before. I’d be happy to post your notice here, if you’d like. ~No idea if you are in an area where others who visit here are located… altho presently, many groups are meeting via teleconferences as well as in person. Some of those services are even free if you are working on a small and casual scale. (Again, you’d have to research.)
I’d also suspect that, if and when you get a group together around Rick’s book (or Cds, which you could play a few minutes of at meetings; he has a ’special way’ when speaking, IMO :), you might also be able to arrange for Rick to make a guest appearance (via phone, that is; possibly on speakerphone during one of your meetings) to address particular issues that come up in your group once it gets ‘clicking’ to some degree.
This is what comes to me in the moment, upon seeing your comment here. I certainly wish you success with this; makes me wish Rick actually had some pre-published materials specifically for this purpose. But his books and audios are VERY useful to call a circle around!!
All the best to you! ~ Whitehawk