Welcome

Welcome to The Unlearning School. The site is about working with A Course in Miracles: for more about the Course and further links, see below.
A Course in Miracles
is a complete course of learning for any individual to study in private for their own relief and enlightenment.
The purpose of the commentaries here is to clarify my own thoughts about the Course and to invite further consideration of this profound and beautiful work.
Some of the ideas ... you will find hard to believe, and others may seem to be quite startling. This does not matter ...You are asked only to use them. It is their use that will give them meaning to you, and will show you that they are true.
Remember only this; you need not believe the ideas, you need not accept them, and you need not even welcome them. Some of them you may actively resist. None of this will matter, or decrease their efficacy. But do not allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the ideas the workbook contains, and whatever your reactions to the ideas may be, use them. Nothing more than that is required.
(Workbook, introduction)
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Only you can save the world! New workshop series for 2014




January to June 2014: a series of monthly Saturday workshops about YOU.
Who are you (really)? What is your special purpose here?





You are unique, and what is unique about you is exactly what the world needs. If you are not true to yourself, how true can you be to anybody?



But you may be acting a part, making compromises, living for other people, ruled by the dreaded Oughts and Shouldn'ts. Or fighting to be different, reacting against your upbringing and circumstances. Neither of these is truly living from the heart.



When you describe yourself, do the words 'powerful' and 'inspired' leap to mind? Or does that seem over the top? But surely that is exactly how you feel when you are most alive? Perhaps you have been keeping yourself down, trying to find a place in an ungentle world? Perhaps you have lost something or someone (the real you) along the way?



Here are some of the questions these workshops will help you to answer for yourself:

Who are you anyway? ...let's pretend that under all those disguises and party hats there is a 'real' you

Why are you here? ...assuming just hypothetically that you are not a random flash in life's pan

What is the difference between being true to yourself and just being the selfish, defensive, suspicious, secretive, vengeful, unfairly treated person you are afraid you really are?

Where can your inner self, with its loves and its childish innocence, find its place in the brutal and indifferent outer world?

When the genie pops out of your bottle and offers you anything at all, will you have a list ready at hand of exactly what you want?

How can you tap into your sources of inspiration, acquire the tools to resolve problems and upsets where they really are - on the inside - and rediscover the sheer joy of being truly yourself?

Think not you lack a special value here. You wanted it, and it is given you (T25 VI 7)


In these workshops you will become used to turn to your inner resources for problem-solving and for inspiration, and be guided by your true values rather than by other people's rules and expectations. You will be exploring the person you have learned to be, to find the essential being that you are.



Free up your energy and real strengths and begin to live 'from the inside', instead of being stressed out trying to appease everyone else, or to fill your roles as you suppose you should.
I would fullfil my function that I may be happy (W62 5.3)

If any of this sounds like you, come along and join any one of the workshops, or book now for all 6 workshops.



Bring a notebook and something towards a shared lunch. Expect to take part in lively discussions, exercise your mind, listen to stories, draw doodles, laugh, possibly cry, meet like- and unlike-minded people. Go home with new ideas to make your relationships more wholehearted and your whole heart lighter.


Note: although the workshops are inspired by the teaching of A Course in Miracles, this series is not directly teaching the Course itself. It is about reconnecting with your own inner resources and how to live truthfully in a deceitful world. In Course language, it is about self-concept versus Self.


DATES

Saturday 11 January 2014

Saturday 1 February 2014

Saturday 1 March 2014

Saturday 5 April 2014

Saturday 10 May 2014
Saturday 7 June 2014

TIME
10.30 am to 2.30 pm


PLACE
31 Harrow Way, Andover, Hampshire SP10 3RQ.  
Please email anna@unlearningschool.com if you would like directions.


PRICE
£30 for any one workshop
£120 for all 6 workshops
There is an easy-pay button at the top of this page, or to pay by cheque please make it to Anna Powell and send it to 31 Harrow Way, Andover, Hampshire SP10 3RQ.


Interested? Any questions? Email me at anna@unlearningschool.com, I look forward to hearing from you.

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