Last Sunday I hosted a 7-person lunch in my dining room. For most of my life that would be an unremarkable event, but this event was the largest gathering we have held in over two years. Some of these people did not know one another; all of us had to trust that the other had …
A CIL Reflection: Emerging from Covid by Alexis Johnson Read More »
Thursday, June 23rd – Sunday, June 26th 2022 in South Salem, NY This learning retreat is open to all CIL graduates, and will explore themes crucial to both our personal evolution and our participation in the collective. Personal evolution and that of the collective call out as never before to be interwoven. It becomes more and …
“You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I’ll take grace. I don’t know what it is exactly, but I’ll take it.” – Mary Oliver Dear CIL Community, I am writing to you to let you know that come this summer, I shall be moving from Westchester, New York to Hanover, New Hampshire. It is …
Friday, January 21st – Sunday, January 23rd 2022 (via Zoom) Thursday, June 23rd – Sunday, June 26th 2022 (South Salem, NY) These two independent learning retreats, open to all CIL graduates, will explore themes crucial to both our personal evolution and our participation in the collective. Several centuries ago we lost empathy for not only …
Love is responsibility of an I for a You… in this consists the equality of all lovers – Buber We are in a time of great change: climate change, political turmoil, pandemic, social/racial justice. Joanna Macy calls the cataclysmic changes of our time ‘the Great Unravelling,’ each of which has a multitude of tendrils into our outer …
Call and Response in a Time of Pandemic – June 2021 Open CIL Graduate Retreat Read More »
These are days of intense inner and outer chaos. Covid-19 and the measures most countries have taken to fight its propagation have forced us to ‘stay home’ and have profoundly disrupted all of our routines, save for the very most basic. As a consequence, ‘our lifestyle’ has been put on hold: our jobs and the movements …
Chaos and Pandemic: A CIL Reflection Written by Paule Guerard Read More »
April 2020 COVID-19 Dear grown kids I chose and grandkids that I consider mine, It’s 5:15 am and I am already up with my coffee. Not because I am farming or commuting, but because my nervous system is on high alert. Some ancient part of me is frightened. As you know, I have spent my whole …
A CIL Reflection on Covid-19: Written by Deborah Allen Read More »
It was twenty years ago, during the time of Passover and Easter. With a small group of dear friends, I travelled to the home of my ancestors in Poland. It was springtime, just like now. We went to visit the small village, the shtetl, where my family came from. I asked people where the cemetery …
A CIL REFLECTION: IN THE TIME OF THE CORONAVIRUS JUDITH S. SCHMIDT PHD Read More »
Hello Beloved Community It’s Alexis here. We know that you are inundated with words of inspiration and words of wisdom as the coronavirus moves across our planet sowing chaos and fear. Mainly we fear for our health. We hope that you are staying away even from Beloveds and limiting your movements as much as possible. …
A Reflection from Cornelia Okkerse If we look at the bigger picture in Australia, then we have to go back to how the original indigenous people managed the land. They did very conscious back burning all the time. The aboriginal people created an open circle on the land and put that on fire, with an …
