Are you searching for a trustworthy guidance to help you navigate what it is to live a full and authentic human life? Are you seeking a spiritual path that has integrity and love of truth at its core?

This February our newest retreat group begins a journey into the Diamond Approach, a teaching that opens us to the discovery of who and what we truly are. On this journey, we learn how to live all the qualities of our true nature in a full human life.

As we set sail on this adventure together, we will take our first look at the vessel that transforms our experience of ourselves and our world over time. We will gather tools and resources that will support us as we go. We will start to develop our foundational practices and learn to orient our map.

We will discuss the benefits of participating in an ongoing group – how this format offers a stable and committed community, providing reliable and strong support for your transformation and realisation.

If you are a lover of truth, and longing to connect to your deepest nature and express that in your daily life, this group and retreat may be for you.

This retreat explores:
o how to attune to where you are now
o how your personal history and current life are key entry points for your unfoldment
o the foundational practices of this path and how they support your unfoldment
o how your heart, mind, body, and soul are vessels of transformation
o the group as a safe container allowing for your transformation and realisation
o how to take the next, true step for you

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

Teaching sessions generally start with a meditation practice 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.

EVENT DETAILS
Who: https://diamondapproachaustralia.com/our-teachers/
Date: 11 – 13 February 2022 (3-days)
Time: 9.30am – 5.30pm (AEDT) 2-hour break for lunch
Cost: $550 (incl GST)
Location: Online ZOOM
Open to: General public and those considering joining DAA8, the new Diamond Approach Australia ongoing retreat group.

Cost: Free

We all have a sense of what something being ‘deep’ means, as opposed to something being ‘superficial’.

We may have difficulty defining depth and surface, but we do have an experiential sense of these two terms.

In this teaching, we will explore depth from the perspective of spiritual awakening and experience: feeling our depth, expressing ourselves from that depth and living our lives from that depth.

The more we explore it, the more we begin to glimpse the significance this can have for our lives as individuals and as a society.

Cost: Free
Teacher: Grant Trewenack

Do you long to reconnect with what is most real and essential within you?

Well, there’s no better place to start than right here and now with the direct experience of our own life! Exploring our direct, inner experience can lead like a divining rod, to truth – our truth in the moment. And following this rich, gold vein of truth may reveal Presence, with its many satisfying and enriching qualities, that arise to meet us in life.

Eventually this may lead to the source, the motherlode, the heart and magnificence of who we are, arising anew in each moment, free from the past and all history.

In this webinar we will explore the simple yet profound principle that is central to the Diamond Approach path – ‘be where you are’. Our life is always happening here and now, not somewhere else. So that’s where we start.

Based on The Unfolding Now, by A.H. Almaas, Chapter 2: Learning to be Here

If you enjoy the webinar you can continue learning and exploring this central principle ‘be where you are’ with Grant via the online Book Study: Unfolding Now 2022. See all the details in the Event Hub.

The Unfolding Now: Realizing your true nature through the practice of presence.

We all know times, perhaps fleeting, when we feel real, authentic, aligned. For those of us who long to reconnect with what is most real and essential within, there is no better place to start that exploration than right here and now with our direct experience. Our life is always happening now, not in our memories from the past, or plans for the future.

Exploring our direct, inner experience can lead like a divining rod, to our truth in the moment. And following this rich, gold vein of truth may reveal Presence, with its many satisfying and enriching qualities, that arises to meet us in life.

‘Be where you are’, is a central principle in the Diamond Approach. We will explore this principle in The Unfolding Now book study.

A Sufi story illustrates this dilemna that many of us encounter on the inner journey, searching everywhere but within:
Someone saw Nasrudin searching for something on the ground.
“What have you lost, Mulla?” he asked.
“My key,” said the Mullah. So they both went down on their knees and looked for it.
After a time the other man said, “Where exactly did you drop it?”
“In my own house.”
“Then why are you looking here?”
“There is more light here than inside my own house.”
-from The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin by Idries Shah

If we want to find the key to our soul’s unfoldment and illumination, we are wise to shine the light inside our own house, not search everywhere else. We’ll be exploring our own unfoldment and our own ‘house’ in The Unfolding Now Book Study.

Dates: Free Zoom Webinar introduction: Saturday 5 Mar (see Webinar) – then 8 sessions by Zoom
Time: Thursdays 7-9pm – March 17, 31; April 14, 28; May 12; June 2, 16, 30
Cost: $185
Location: Online Webinar – Sessions will be recorded for those who need to miss a session
For more information email Grant Trewenack: grant.trewenack@gmail.com

Cost: Free
Teacher: Frances Haynes

What helps us to turn towards the Truth?
Do we dare?

We often hear the spiritual journey or inner work being described as the Search for Truth. Or, people might say – “I just want to know the Truth, I am a seeker”.

What do we really mean when we say this? And, if we really want the Truth so much, why can it be so hard to find? Why does looking for Truth so often feel like a challenge ….. or a dare ….?

And, when you think about it, how do you know when you have found ‘truth’ anyway?

Attending this webinar, you will gain a deeper understanding about how your ideas and experiences of ‘truth’ – including being true, telling the truth, hearing the truth – might either help or hinder you on your inner journey.

Cost: Free
Teacher: Ian Cox

The Flame: what fires us up for the inner journey home?

We each have our own unique story about what draws us to exploring our spiritual nature.

For some it’s a desire to be more real and authentic, for others a love of a deeper Truth that they have tasted and want more … It may be simple curiosity, or a wordless feeling that there is more to this business of living than there seems on the surface.

The ways are myriad, but they hold in common a wanting, that contains both a desire, and implicit in the desire a love for that which we want. The alive energy of that wanting can be experienced as an inner flame; anything from a gentle flicker of curiosity to a burning desire to be close to that which is real.

In this webinar you will have the opportunity to explore your own, unique story of wanting. You may taste how this wanting itself is a gift that can fuel and sustain. You may discover how this flame can guide you on your path towards something that our ordinary, egoic minds cannot find or grasp.

An Essential Conversation is a conversation that is important to have. In the Diamond Approach path, an Essential Conversation is also part of learning how to bring our spiritual development, our contact with our True Nature, with us into conversation in our daily life.

A couple times each year DAA students join with people interested in spiritual development to have an Essential Conversation together.

All topics or questions are welcome, and freely participated in. The sharing in an Essential Conversation can go quite deep. Often the exploration focuses on what brought us to inner work, how our lives have been impacted by the Diamond Approach path, or something happening in our lives or in the world that we want to understand more deeply.

We welcome you to join us in a free-flowing conversation and get to know us, both students and teachers, more personally.

Date: Saturday TBC , 9.00 am to 11.00 am (Sydney time)
Location: Online – Zoom
Cost: Free