"Love" by Alexandr Milov, at Burning Man
Start Date: July 18, 2022
Duration: 4 weeks
Cost: $30 US
Course is Online with facilitator participation
Facilitator: Deborah Briggs
Optional Zoom: Friday July 29 and Friday August 12. Both will be at 8 a.m. PST.
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Registration Opens: End of June
Take this 4 week instructor-led course at your convenience according to your schedule. Each of the 4 week lessons becomes available on Mondays beginning July 18. The course materials will be available for an additional 6 months as a self-directed course. There will be two optional Zoom ‘meet & greets’ to discuss the course material and your journey during the course.
As part of the Sage-ing® or Conscious Aging movement, we can discover, access and utilize our wisdom through giving ourselves THE GIFT OF FORGIVENESS.
During this workshop we will explore the impact of our beliefs about forgiveness, begin the healing process and recognize the powerful ways that the things we saw as negative can be transformed into the foundation for living more fully.
Participants will have the opportunity to address and heal the blocks in their life caused by hurts, betrayals, disappointments, losses. We will learn how to develop greater compassion for ourselves and others so that we can free ourselves from painful burdens we have carried. We will begin to experience the powerful ways that Forgiveness can satisfy our instinct for compassion and spiritual fulfillment.
Forgiveness is just one part of Wise Aging. Instead of denying our pain or pretending that we are not growing older; we can, instead, learn from reflecting on our past, recognize the value we offer, and face the changes in our lives with greater compassion, joy and meaning.
Our materials are not specific to any religious denomination, but serve to enhance spiritual maturity for persons who embrace any humanistic practice or faith.
“Sage-ing® is a program of spiritual growth that can empower you to add more years to your life and more life to your years!"
– Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Who Will Benefit:
“When you are young and vulnerable, you see the world as being for or against you, and this view is reinforced when people do hurtful things or betray you. When you approach old age and climb the platform of broader understanding, you can reexamine and contemplate your foundational views of the world and recontextualize what happened to you from a more objective, less impulse-driven philosophical position. In this way you do not have to remain imprisoned in your earlier conclusions about life.
– Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Participants will learn how to:
We all have hurts and disappointments. You can choose if you want to hold on to them or free yourself!
How Does This Course Work?
Course Overview
Week #1: What is Truth? What is Forgiveness
WEEK #2: Recontextualizing The Past
WEEK #3: Forgiving Others, Forgiving Ourselves, Asking for Forgiveness
WEEK #4: The Gift of Forgiveness: A Gift to Ourselves
About your Facilitator
Deborah’s certification as a Sage-ing Leader is a culmination of a 30+ year career of helping others discover, celebrate and utilize their unique gifts.
It was through the experience of losing many loved friends and family members at very young ages that forced Deborah to consider the finite nature of life and how to live it going forward – with the process and practice of Sage-ing.
Her Sage-ing skills are rooted by her MA in organizational psychology from Columbia University and the study and practice of spiritual, physical and intellectual approaches to aging with joy, compassion and meaning. She has created numerous NYC based businesses and nonprofits in Los Angeles and Florida – all focusing on helping people find their power and best selves and putting their wisdom into action.
Through interactive and engaging workshops and small groups, Deborah guides participants to create meaning in their lives today and be energized in the next stage of life.
If you are interested in challenging aging stereotypes, harvesting the wisdom of your life and consciously creating the legacy you want to leave to your children, grandchildren and communities you can contact Deborah at: 917.701.7013 or .