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The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together

Live Online Course

With Caverly Morgan

October 13th, 2024 - November 17th, 2024

Learn how to be the change you want to see in the world with Caverly Morgan

Do you ever feel ungrounded given how rapidly our world is changing?

How can we create a beloved community in times like these? How do we live into true belonging?

And what supports the remembrance of the heart of who we are—personally and collectively?

Join spiritual teacher Caverly Morgan for a 6-week, interactive and experiential course rooted in contemplative insights designed for these times – tools and practices with practical, spiritual, and global applications.

Together we will explore five essential contemplative life skills: Relating, Dismantling, Inquiring, Returning and Realizing.

As we journey along this path of realizing freedom together, you will learn holistic practices that ignite and nurture transformation – both personal and collective.

These practices enliven compassion, the experience of belonging, and not only support the recognition of our true nature but nourish our capacity to align our lives with this knowing.

Between sessions there will be (optional) recommended reading from Caverly’s most recent book, The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together.

Join this 6-week guided journey to discover:

  • Five essential contemplative life skills – Relating, Dismantling, Inquiring, Returning, and Realizing – and how to apply them for personal and collective transformation
  • Profound self-awareness, understanding, and interconnectedness with others
  • How to tap into deeper compassion, belonging, and alignment with your true nature
  • Comprehensive tools and holistic practices for navigating change, fostering resilience, and finding inner freedom

Module 1: Discovering Who We Are

The focus of our introductory session is to create an environment of care, emphasizing mindfulness, community, and self-awareness.

Caverly will guide us in reflecting on our “Way Seeking Story,” exploring our journey towards contemplative practice and inner freedom, with a compassionate witness exercise in breakout groups to share our stories.

Activities and exercises will include a mindful minute, an inclusive check-in, a short talk, and discussion on creating a supportive community.

Module 2: Relating

In the second module, we’ll explore liberation through the lens of Relational Dharma, emphasizing the interconnectedness of all relationships and the dissolution of the subject-object dichotomy.

Together we’ll engage in personal reflections on how we’ve been conditioned – or how our minds have been shaped by society, culture, family, experiences, etc. – as well as reflective listening exercises.

We’ll also begin zooming out to look at collective needs, starting to bridge personal and collective transformation.

Module 3: Dismantling

The focus of our third week together will be on recognizing and deconstructing the conditioned mind, exploring the inner critic and releasing negative self-talk.

Together we will explore undoing beliefs and assumptions, with the ultimate intention of aligning with presence and recognizing the illusory nature of the separate self. Caverly will offer guided steps to recognize, name, let go, and return to presence.

This session will also include filling out a personal “Map of Healing” and discussing collective healing through exploring our shared unmet needs.

Module 4: Inquiring: Who am I?

In the fourth module, we’ll discover the true nature of self beyond the conditioned mind and personality.

Caverly will lead us in exploring – through direct experience – our constant, untarnished essence, distinguishing it from transient thoughts, personality aspects, and the inner critic.

We’ll focus on the concept of disidentifying from ego-driven aspects through Love. Free from all conditioned projections, we’ll practice recognizing others and ourselves as awareness itself.

Module 5: Returning

Our fifth week will be all about reconnecting with the body as a gateway to remembering our true nature.

The session highlights the importance of turning toward our experience, embodying presence, and experiencing wholeness. We’ll explore the illusory nature of the ego and the body through guided meditations and inquiries into their direct experience.

With Cavery as our guide, we’ll identify moments of collective disembodiment and explore how practices can address societal issues like racism and climate change. These practices aim to honor and transform personal and collective experiences into deeper and more embodied understandings of presence and shared being.

Module 6: Realizing

The focus of our last session together will be on realizing unity and living in service of truth.

We do this by embracing the complexity of holding multiple truths simultaneously, such as the paradoxes between identity and its illusory nature, and the material and spiritual perspectives of existence.

This session includes reflections on Chapters 11 and 12 of Caverly’s latest book, emphasizing the reconciliation of paradoxes through true acceptance and love, and fostering acts of being that reflect our deepest truths and shared humanity.

Together we will discover how to serve others, the world, and even ourselves from a place of unity and pure, boundless love.

Praise for Caverly's Teachings

“I found Caverly’s teachings to be incredibly inspiring, they reignited my interest in practicing a deeper form of self-inquiry as a way toward healing. Caverly is a wise and compassionate teacher. I highly recommend this course.”

“[Sangha Live] sessions with Caverly have been incredibly valuable to me. I feel I have grown so much in my practice… we can talk to Caverly and clarify any questions, make comments, and drink in all of Caverly’s wisdom. Caverly’s rich background, insight, and compassion make these sessions the perfect accompaniment for the times we live in.”

“Caverly Morgan is a gifted teacher; she has warmth, intuition, good instincts and boundaries. She seems to see into people, and knows how to offer something each of us needs in a way that invites depth and transformation.”

Live Online Course Details

Sunday Sangha Dharma

Live Interactive Sessions

Caverly will lead our weekly Sunday sessions. Emphasizing what she describes as “relational dharma”, weekly sessions will feature a blend of guided meditation, dharma discussion, dyad and small group work, and reflection.

Connection as Dharma Practice

Inquiry Partners (OPTIONAL)

Students who feel it would be helpful for them are encouraged to pair up with an inquiry partner for the duration of this 6-week journey. Caverly will offer guidance in class around how to work together with your partner to explore, share, and bring awareness to each week's learnings.

Experiential Exercises

Deepen your understanding of the teachings through weekly exercises guided by Caverly, to be completed with your inquiry partner or alone in journaling form.

The Bridge To Happiness with Caverly Morgan

Lifetime Access

All teachings, meditations and Q&A's will be recorded, published and archived on our interactive course platform. Video recordings will be permanently available for you to come back to as many times as you like in the future.

Schedule

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Dates & Times

Module 1: Sunday, Oct 13@ 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm BST / 6pm CEST (90 mins)

Module 2: Sunday, Oct 20@ 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm BST / 6pm CEST (90 mins)

Module 3: Sunday, Oct 27@ 9am PT / 12pm ET / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET (90 mins)

Module 4: Sunday, Nov 3@ 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET (90 mins)

Module 5: Sunday, Nov 10@ 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET (90 mins)

Module 6: Sunday, Nov 17@ 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET (90 mins)

Replays will be posted in the days afterwards for those who cannot attend live.

About Caverly Morgan

Caverly Morgan is a spiritual teacher, non-profit founder, speaker and writer who blends the original spirit of Zen with a modern nondual approach. She is the author of The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together as well as A Kids Book About Mindfulness. Caverly’s practice began in 1995 and has included eight years of training in a silent Zen monastery. She is the founder of Peace in Schools, a nonprofit that created the nation’s first for-credit mindfulness class in public high schools. Caverly has been teaching contemplative practice since 2001. She leads meditation retreats, workshops and online classes internationally. Learn more at caverlymorgan.org.