The Heart of Who We Are: Return to Belonging (Vancouver)

We all long to be happy. We all long to feel at ease, to be at peace, and to know that we’re okay and we belong. When it feels like the world is on fire, when divisiveness is commonplace, it can seem harder than ever to access such belonging — both personally and collectively.

Most of us are deeply habituated to believe that we are separate — from one another, from the world, and even from ourselves. We are habituated to fall for the story that we must fix ourselves in order to earn and experience deep connection.

We forget that belonging is already seated in the heart of who we are — and that it’s always available if only we look within. When we do, we can transform far more than just our own lives.

Ask yourself these questions:

• Have you ever touched this peace, this contentment, this deep return to belonging but then feared losing this experience?
• Have you ever struggled because you recognized the world around you did not reflect this experience of your true nature?

These questions will guide our time together as we explore how meditation, mindfulness, and contemplative technologies can — and must — be applied collectively. Our guided meditations will serve as a framework onto which we will begin to weave teachings with personal reflections. You will have the opportunity to connect to yourself, others, and the world beyond in solo and group exercises and discussions that inspire us to put our values into action.

Join us in this return to belonging — this remembering of the deepest truth of who we are — with the intention of using this understanding to transform our own lives and the world we share.

Recommended, but not required, reading:
The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together by Caverly Morgan

Learning Outcomes

• Clarify your understanding of who you truly are versus who you’ve been conditioned to be.
• Recognise your inherent belonging that transcends intellectual understanding of what it means to belong.
• Learn practical tools that can be applied to both personal and collective practice.

Expected Activities

• Meditation
• Journaling
• inquiry through mindful exercises
• Dyads
• group discussion
• walking meditation
• receiving Dharma talks

Testimonials

• Caverly is a loving wise teacher who has done her work. She contains multitudes, presenting to the practitioner the lesson called for in the moment, be it gentle or firm. The strength and agility with which she engages in this dance of loving awareness is beautiful to behold. She is a lioness and I am so grateful for her work! —Rosie, Teacher
• Caverly is gifted teacher of the dharma and meditation. Her decades of study of Zen and other contemplative practices shone as she beautifully explained concepts that often defy words. Caverly was exquisitely attuned to retreatants she offered support as emotions bubbled up, and skillfully fostered an intimate and transformative connection among us. I hold Caverly in high regard. There is much I can learn from her and I hope to get that opportunity again. Chris, Judge
• This was my first retreat, and I felt very secure and supported by Caverly and the community she immediately curated. This retreat allowed me to drop into my whole entire being for the first time in my life, and the lessons from this weekend will impact me, my loved ones, and my community for the rest of my journey and beyond. I cannot wait to bring my mother on this retreat in the future. – Caroline, Creative Director and Designer
  I am profoundly moved and changed by my time with Caverly and her work. She is a gifted teacher and listener, and able to quickly and effortlessly get to the heart of a person, a moment, a discussion, a problem, or the dynamics of our world. Her guidance and teachings helped me make sense of things I have been grappling with for most of my life, and I left my time with her with a new and deep confidence in how I show up in the world. -Emily, writer and filmmaker

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Daily Schedule

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