Essential Will

Integrating the inner foundation of confidence, persistence and ease

How would it be to live your life with an honest-to-goodness confidence in yourself? To be able to persist through the ups and downs of life, and and remain steadfast in face of difficulty?

This is possible when essential will is available.

Essential will – the natural will of our deepest nature – is quite different from what we usually experience or think of as will. It is not ‘willpower’ or ‘iron will’–ideas which implying hardening, effort and control.

Discovering and developing true will can give us the confidence to respond to reality in a direct, grounded and realistic way, that is not rigid or forced.
True will brings an easeful determination rather than hardness. It is an unshakeable inner support for being who we really are.

In this three day online retreat, we will look at the obstacles to true will, how we became disconnected from it, and how our current patterns continue to disconnect us.
By exploring these patterns with openness, curiosity and compassion, we can understand and release them, making way for the presence of will, our essential will, to arise within us.

By participating in this retreat , you have the opportunity to gain:

• an understanding of how you block your true will
•  a clearer sense of what essential will is
•  a greater capacity for persistence and determination
• more confidence, resilience and inner solidity
• a greater capacity to stay the course in life and on the spiritual journey

This three-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.

Each retreat day is divided into two, three-hour sessions with a 2-hour break for lunch.

EVENT DETAILS
Teachers: Ian Cox and Laurie Wattell

Dates: 15 – 17 August 2025, (3-day on-line retreat)
Cost: $385 (inc GST)
Online

Open to: 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 Alicia Savelloni at alicia@diamondapproachaustralia.com to register your interest to attend.