Essential Compassion

Luminous Tenderness: a Retreat on Essential Compassion

The Diamond Approach path is a spiritual teaching that recognises the inherent synthesis between the spiritual and psychological, the ego and essence, the psyche and spirit. Here, the ego is not rejected or dismissed. We recognise that when it is approached with kindness, explored with openness, and understood for what it really is, our ego self becomes a portal that can open us up to the deeper truths of our spiritual nature.

Loving kindness, essential compassion, is needed for this process, and it is one of the treasures of our spiritual nature that can develop through it.

During this two day online retreat, we will explore Essential Compassion, and its role in the inner journey. We will discover how Compassion, the living presence of loving kindness, opens the heart, and helps us to feel and hold our hurts in loving kindness as we move through them.

In this retreat, we will explore the nature of this central quality of our human essence. We will illuminate and work with some of the important obstacles to experiencing Compassion directly, and to expressing its exquisite tenderness and beauty in our inner journey and our daily lives.

From your experience of participating in this retreat you may discover:

• the nature of essential compassion
• how it differs from our usual ideas of compassion
• how it is blocked by particular emotional issues
• the role compassion plays on the inner journey
• how to work with and move through experiences of pain and hurt

📅 Event Details:
🌿 Teaching Team: Grant Trewenack and Jean Berwick
🗓️ Date: 7 – 8 December 2024
🕒 Time: 8.30am – 11.30am and 1pm – 4pm. Each retreat day is divided into two, three-hour sessions with a break for lunch.
📍 Venue: Online
Retreat Fee: $330 (GST inclusive)
Open to the general public and current Diamond Approach students. If you are a current DAA student, you are eligible for a discount on the retreat fee, please contact Anna East at anna@diamondapproachaustralia.com to register your interest to attend. 

This two-day retreat uses an experiential approach that includes teacher talks and spiritual practices such as open-ended inquiry, meditation and awareness practices.

Teaching sessions generally start with meditation followed by a specific teaching related to the theme of the retreat. You will have the opportunity to deepen your personal exploration through experiential exercises, usually in pairs or triads and sometimes in a small group, before re-joining the large group to process what has emerged in response to the teaching.

If you are a current DAA student, you are eligible for a discount on the retreat fee, please contact Anna East at anna@diamondapproachaustralia.com to register your interest to attend.