Curriculum
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At SOAR the inner and the outer journey are closely knit together. Every workshop, event, activity provides opportunities
to develop awareness of who we are and how we interact. Time will be devoted to processing those insights
through different practices, personally and as a group.
One of our main tasks is to work towards freeing ourselves from our conditioning as consumers, addicted to constant flows of information and entertainment. We believe in slowing down, and offer it as an important aspect of our education, respecting the necessary steps of experimentation and integration. For this reason every workshop week
is followed by a more relaxed week, giving time for integration.
In the curriculum those weeks are labelled: "Community Week" (see description below the schedule).
Body practice and Meditation take place every morning of every week.
Choir singing, dancing and playing are ongoing all through the program.
Community Meetings take place twice a week. As time goes by they are progressively facilitated by the participants themselves.
Week-ends are free.
At SOAR the inner and the outer journey are closely knit together. Every workshop, event, activity provides opportunities
to develop awareness of who we are and how we interact. Time will be devoted to processing those insights
through different practices, personally and as a group.
One of our main tasks is to work towards freeing ourselves from our conditioning as consumers, addicted to constant flows of information and entertainment. We believe in slowing down, and offer it as an important aspect of our education, respecting the necessary steps of experimentation and integration. For this reason every workshop week
is followed by a more relaxed week, giving time for integration.
In the curriculum those weeks are labelled: "Community Week" (see description below the schedule).
Body practice and Meditation take place every morning of every week.
Choir singing, dancing and playing are ongoing all through the program.
Community Meetings take place twice a week. As time goes by they are progressively facilitated by the participants themselves.
Week-ends are free.
Curriculum 2019
For detailed info click on the underlined workshop titles
January 14, 2019
SOAR begins!
First Period: "Me and I".
Identifying my conditioning patterns, freeing my life force, uncovering my truth and learning to honour it …
Week 1 - Arriving home in the Here and Now,
with the whole Soar team.
Week 3 - Community Week *
February
Week 5 - Community Week
February 16th to 24th
Winter Holiday
Winter Holiday
Second period: "I and We".
Exploring the balance between me and others, finding my place within the whole, learning to receive and to give,
becoming a voice within a symphony…
March
Week 8 - Relations and Sexuality,
with Anna-Maria Mergaert
with Anna-Maria Mergaert
Week 9 - Community Week
Week 10 - Relations and Non-Violence:
Me and Us,
with Brigitte Mesdag & Jan Quintens
Me and Us,
with Brigitte Mesdag & Jan Quintens
April
Week 11 - The Way Out is In
Mindfulness retreat
with Monastics of Plum Village
Week 12 - Community Week
Third period: « I, We and Nature »
Walking on the Earth, living under open sky, listening within nature to the nature within…
Week 13, 14, 15 - The Pilgrimage
Trekking in Nature towards Delphi
Walking on the Earth, living under open sky, listening within nature to the nature within…
Week 13, 14, 15 - The Pilgrimage
Trekking in Nature towards Delphi
May 3rd
End of SOAR
End of SOAR
* Community Weeks
Mornings are dedicated to community work: cooking, gardening, working with construction projects, on the land or with the local community.
Afternoons give space for sessions of incorporation of the teachings, for community meetings and for adressing current needs, wishes and propositions of the SOAR community .
