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PATRICK’S PUBLIC
PRESENTATIONS
(as at 29th
November 2011)
(see below for details)
March
17
Enneagram primer day at Villa Maria Spirituality Centre
May
10
“A Prayerful Approach to
Dreams” at Stillpoint spirituality centre
12
“Sharpening the Focus: The
enneagram and dreams” at Villa Maria
17
“A Prayerful Approach to
Dreams” at Stillpoint (continued)
19
“Sharpening the Focus”
at Villa Maria (continued)
31
“A Prayerful Approach to
Dreams” at Stillpoint (continued)
June
7
“A Prayerful Approach to
Dreams” at Stillpoint (continued)
21
“Soul Food for Famished
Christians” at Stillpoint
28
“Soul Food for Famished
Christians” at Stillpoint (continued)
July
5
“Soul Food for Famished
Christians” at Stillpoint (continued)
12
“Soul Food for Famished
Christians” at Stillpoint (continued)
September
1
“Sharpening the Focus”
at Villa Maria
8
“Sharpening the Focus”
at Villa Maria (continued)
October
11
Follow on series of “Soul
Food for Famished Christians” at Stillpoint (continued)
18
Follow-on series “Soul Food
for Famished Christians” at Stillpoint (continued)
November
1
Follow-on series “Soul Food
for Famished Christians” at Stillpoint (continued)
8
Follow-on series “Soul
Food for Famished Christians” at Stillpoint (continued)
Introduction to the Enneagram
17th March 2012
9.30am – 3.00pm
Villa
Maria convent of the Sisters of Adoration
(parking available underneath building)
The Enneagram has been found by many to be valuable
in helping them not only to better understand themselves and their
motivations, but also to relate more genuinely with those they cherish.
It can help to cut through to the essence of why we are who we are, and
why we see as we see. I personally have found the ennneagram to be of
great assistance for prayer and in relationships, for it can help us to
be more honest in naming more quickly and accurately what is going on
within us.
Applications close Friday 9th March 2012
Minimum number required: 10 people
Suggested donation: $50
Enrolment: To enroll in this course or for further information,
phone Patrick Oliver on (07) 3356 4218, or email him on
patrick.oliver@acu.edu.au.
Tuesday, April 17th
7pm-9pm Presentation.
Patrick Oliver
will present on “Ten Bridesmaids, tinpot gods and the Gaze”- tips for spiritual
direction. Although people can be well educated in faith,
doctrine and the scriptures, it is interesting that in times of stress
or difficulty, they often can unconsciously resort to images of God that
they thought they had grown through or left behind many years before.
It is important in direction to help them to recognize when this
is happening, and to hear what the desire behind the God-image is trying
to let them know. Patrick
will use a different take on the Parable of the Bridesmaids in order to
explore this area of God images. Venue: St Clement’s on the Hill Anglican Church Eudunda St, Stafford. For enquiries and notification of attendance, contact Denise Brosnan at denisembrosnan@hotmail.com
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SHARPENING THE FOCUS:
Letting the enneagram and our dreams
speak prayerfully to us
Many have found the enneagram to be extremely helpful
in self-awareness, and many also have discovered the world of dreams to
be of great assistance in listening to the invitations from God into
greater life.
What happens when we combine these two approaches to
the attentiveness in a contemplative and prayerful environment? In what
ways can we let the enneagram inform our approach to dreams, and in what
way can dreams give us a language and symbol system for honing and
deepening our understanding of our enneagram space? How can both of
these help us to be live more prayerfully and lovingly?
This two-day workshop will be offered twice during
2012. The series will be a practical presentation, and participants are
invited to bring along a couple of their own dreams, so they can work
with others in small groups in discovering how their enneagram space
informs and influences their dreams, and what might be the invitations
into deeper relationship with themselves, others and God.
It
would be necessary for those attending to be familiar in at least a
basic way with the enneagram, and their particular space on the
enneagram.
Evelyn Brennan, who has co-facilitated many of
Patrick’s “A Prayerful Approach to
Dreams”will be present through the two days.
There is a limit of twenty-four participants for the
course.
Dates: First series: Saturday 12th May and 19th May 9.30am -3.00pm
Second series: Saturday 1st
September and 8th September
9.30am – 3.00pm
Venue:
Villa Maria Spirituality
Centre 123 Warren St, St Paul’s Terrace (parking available underneath
the building)
Suggested donation: $100 in total for
the two days.
Bring some lunch to share on each day.
To book:
Contact Patrick Oliver on 3356 4218, or
patrickoliver01@gmail.com.
Please RSVP
by Friday 4th May (first series)
and Friday 24th August (second series)
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STILLPOINT
A centre
for personal and spiritual growth
16 Grove
St Toowong
A PRAYERFUL APPROACH TO DREAMS
helping to reintegrate into the Christian tradition
the awareness of the dream
as a reflective way to listen to God's invitations
This series is for any individual who may wish to help others in
exploring and reverently listening to what their dreams might be saying
to them.
The sessions include:
Four Thursday evenings:
10th May, 17th May, 31st May, 7th
June
, from
7.15pm – 9.15pm
(please
note not 24th May)
To register:
phone Stillpoint on 3217 8992 before Thursday 3rd May.
Also at Stillpoint:
SOUL FOOD FOR FAMISHED CHRISTIANS
So many Christians of all denominations have found themselves in a
difficult position. They wish to continue on the shared faith journey of
their tradition, yet what they receive in sermons, homilies and input
doesn’t nourish their soul. They can feel talked down to, or they sense
an unrelatedness to real life circumstances, or they know that a merely
morality-based approach to the Gospels is no longer helpful nor tenable.
An isolated or lonely experience of Christianity seems to be the only
alternative to giving up altogether.
Soul food for famished Christians
is an offering of two series that follow on from each other. They are
designed to help adult Christians to know that they’re not crazy, lazy
backsliders or that they’re unfaithful to the Gospels. They can meet
others who also are walking this way, and discover that their
soul-intuitions might well be closer to Jesus’ vision than what they
might give themselves credit for!
These two series are not
· about instructing people
what to think;
· about giving proof texts or
answers for every conceivable circumstance;
· about church bashing;
· about a “we have the truth”
approach
· a theology class.
Rather, they are for people
· who are restless with the
“one size fits all” approach to Christianity;
· who want to understand
Christianity from an adult perspective rather than feel as if they’re
being treated as recalcitrant children;
· who want to trust that their
best intuitions about God, life, love and themselves are true;
· who know in their gut that
Jesus was on about much more than right religious practices or moral
certitudes;
· who on their journey have
courageously carried a sense of isolation, yet they don’t wish to
abandon what they know is their faith home.
WHEN:
Thursday evenings:
First series:
21st June, 28th June, 5th July,
12th July
Second follow-on series:
11th October, 18th October,
1st
November, 8th November
(please note not 25th
October)
WHERE:
Stillpoint spirituality centre, 16 Grove St Toowong (see
www.stillpoint.org.au).
To register,
phone STILLPOINT on 3217 8992.
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