3 Great Opportunities for Personal Growth
The Art of Living – Powerful exercises (involving yoga and a breathing technique, but not limited to these) that give us insights and lessons about how to live our lives more joyfully. Level 1 left me feeling as though my emotional innards had been scrubbed clean. A very good friend of mine told me that when she took Level 1, many years ago now, she felt some serious old childhood crud fall right off her, and that the experience definitely changed her life. Gotta love that! www.artofliving.ca
Healing the Wounds in Couple Relationships (by Martin Rovers) is a quite excellent book. Author Rovers also offers occasional workshops at Serenity Renewal for Families in Ottawa. Visit www.serenityrenewal for more information, or call (613) 523-5143. They have lots of neat programs there. I found his couples’ workshop very worthwhile.
Landmark Forum – I attended a LMF weekend and feel it helped me gain quite a few insights about myself and about the world. http://www.landmarkeducation.com/section.jsp?top=21 Landmark is rather controversial. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, for sure. I’ve written an item about my LMF experience that is now posted on this blog (the essay is called ‘Landmark Experience‘ & it outlines both the bad & the good in my LMF weekend experience).
** I can’t think of a single person I know who would not benefit from any one or all three of these powerful personal growth opportunities, by the way.
In the Landmark Forum there is an anti-spiritual bias that I find puzzling, offensive and wholly unnecessary (I had some other issues with LMF that are outlined in my blog essay); however, I believe in doing my best to fully mine every experience for its value, and given how much I’ve gained from Art of Living, Landmark Forum and the ‘Healing the Wounds’ couples workshop, am happy to give all three thumbs up!