Beechwood House, Duncton, Petworth, GU28 0NA
West Sussex, UK
To make your life a prayer is to hold in your heart your greatest desire, your highest intention, and be prepared to do anything and everything you are asked as the granting of it unfolds. In practice, you will be asked to do far less than you might imagine, but just enough to give you opportunities to waver. Don't. Hold up your end of the bargain and your desire will be fulfilled.
Bart Marshall
We set out on a path of inquiry, not really knowing for sure where we are at or where we are going, yet we yearn for answers.
Inspired by the work of Richard Rose and the TAT Foundation, through presentations and group work, and with guidance and leadership from Tess Hughes, we will explore how we might make our lives into a prayer and what that might mean for us all individually.
Costs for the event will be £80, which includes accommodation in the house.
A charge of £60 for those taking lodgings elsewhere.
3:00pm Arrivals and set up
6:00pm Light supper
7:30pm Welcome and introduction followed by discussion and group rapport
8:30pm Informal chat
Saturday
8:00am Optional Yoga/Meditation session with Ben Brennan
9:00am Breakfast and chat
10:00am A Seeker's Life – A journey with Peter O'Doherty
11:30am Break
11:45am Q&A with Peter
12:30pm Lunch
1:30pm Quiet time to explore the house, gardens and local landscape
3:00pm Living a Spiritual Life - Group inquiry led by Tess Hughes
4:30pm Break
5:00pm Q&A with Tess
6:00pm Supper
7:30pm Open session with Topi Piirainen
8:30-9pm Rapport sitting
Sunday
8:00am Optional Yoga/Meditation session with Ben Brennan
9:00am Breakfast and chat
10:00am Douglas Harding and Headlessness with Rob Lloyd-Owen
11:00am Harding experiments in small groups
12:30pm Lunch and discussion
1:30pm Conclusion and feedback
2:30pm Clean-up and Adjourn
Tess Hughes was born in the West of Ireland and still lives there. She spent 50 years seeking something, not knowing what, and not conscious what she was seeking, until she finally found the answer she had always been seeking as Self-realisation, Enlightenment or Christ consciousness in 2010.
Her book, This Above All, is a spiritual memoir, where she shares that journey, the journey that everyone is on, whether they know it or not.
Her path is very modern in the sense that it is not locked into any one tradition, but is informed by all of the major religions of the world. She refers to the classical spiritual teachings which guided her as the perennial wisdom.
Tess had a wealth of teaching experience teaching and leading retreats, she is currently involved with various groups in Ireland, and more recently online, and will be leading and guiding us through the weekend.