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 15 August, 9.00 am to 11.00 am (Sydney time)
Venue: Zoom

Are you interested in discovering your heart’s desire and purpose?

Your heart has a function; it is fit for a particular purpose.

Every wish of the heart is like a petal that can unfurl, and every opening of the heart to what is true, makes it happier, lighter, and more radiant.

Your heart delights in being real, and that delight can lead you to experience a deeper and truer experience of who you are.

This retreat will explore the wishing and wanting of your heart. You will uncover and work through the patterns that keep your heart from being naturally, irrepressibly joyful.

The retreat is open to the public as an introduction to the Diamond Approach path, and to students in ongoing retreat groups who have not yet had this teaching or would like to receive it anew.

Cost: $275 (inc. GST) or $440 (inc. GST) when combined The Heart of Kindness Retreat

Does your heart ache?

Are you interested in discovering soothing balm for the hurts of life that have made you less open-hearted?
Loving kindness is the miraculous ingredient that opens your heart. It helps you attend to your hurts, and gently move through them.

Developing a heart of kindness carries you surely and directly into the truth of who you really are, the inexhaustible richness of Being.

In this retreat, you will explore the nature of compassion and loving kindness as central qualities of your human essence. You will uncover and work through some of your core obstacles to experiencing loving kindness directly. And you will discover how to express the exquisite tenderness and beauty of a heart of kindness in your inner journey, as well as your daily life.

The retreat is open to the public as an introduction to the Diamond Approach path, and to students in ongoing retreat groups who have not yet had this teaching or would like to receive it anew.

Cost: $275 (inc. GST) or $440 (inc. GST) when combined The Delight of Being Retreat.

Cost: Free

In the Diamond Approach we use our everyday lived experiences as portals to know more of our spiritual nature, rather than remove ourselves from the world into a monastery or ashram. Through inquiry into our most seemingly mundane lived experiences, we open to deeper and deeper realisations of who and what we truly are.

Cost: Free

While we may understand that the super ego is early introject of our parental voice, what are the deeper ramifications of its being active in our day to day living? This webinar will explore the inner workings of the super ego (or inner critic) and its commanding voice. We will focus on the function of the super ego and whether its presence in our life continues to be a necessity. The inquiry process will explore the impact of our aligning with this voice versus the guidance of “True Nature”.

More information will be available soon.

Do you sometimes feel that you are standing on shaky ground? Is it a struggle for you to do what you know is needed?

Everyone is looking for solid ground.

When your foundations get shaky and your centre wobbles, do you find yourself feeling foggy or confused and unable to find your footing? Or perhaps you try to compulsively control your experience through seeking a firm foundation in fixed positions, endless efforting, or procrastination.

All these struggles point to a need for real Will, the radical inner reality that enables you to find your true ground in the immediacy of the moment. With true Will, you develop the capacity to respond flexibly; you become decisive, resilient and unshakeably real.

Will gives you the determination and persistence needed to traverse the inner journey and live a real life.

Join us for this experiential teaching on finding your true inner support.

The retreat is open to the public as an introduction to the Diamond Approach path, and to students in ongoing retreat groups who have not yet had this teaching or would like to receive it anew.

Cost: $330 (inc. GST).