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The following special events will take place at the First
Divine Science
Church in the coming months.
For information about other happenings, see News and
Sunday Services.
presented by...
1400 Williams St. Denver, CO 80218
http://www.brookscenterforspirituality.org/
1819 E 14th Ave, Denver, CO 80218
(303) 759-5985
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EVENTS:
(All
events/activities at 1400 Williams St. unless otherwise
noted. See below for more detailed descriptions.)
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- community
building discussion: Sundays, 12:30pm (following the 10:30am Sunday
service, & ensuing community lunch)
-
yoga (with loreli): Mondays, 7:00 pm
- baking class (with brian): Wednesdays, 5:00pm
(the
baking class serves a delicious dinner at 8pm for all to enjoy.
please donate what you can for groceries.)
-
meditation (with katy and mike): Wednesdays, 6:00pm
(held in the SE
corner of the building, through the library, down the hall and on your right)
- yoga (with paris): Wednesdays, 7:00 pm
- dream group (with katy): every other Thursday, 7:00pm
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DETAILS:
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MONDAYS:
-YOGA CLASS a
Free School Denver class: MONDAY NIGHTS 7:00-8:00
taught by Loreli Bratton.
For
all fitness and experience levels. As a class we will decide upon a few
therapeutic needs to focus on (winter depression anyone? bicyclist-tight
hips?) We can even study some anatomy if we feel like it. Bring a mat if you
have one. Maybe a blanket, too. If you have extra of either, bring them
for someone else!
WEDNESDAYS:
Baking Class: taught
by Brian Shald.
Come cook a meal with us! We begin at 5PM, but feel free to join us when you
can. The meal is shared with other classes at about 8PM. We will be
doing baking of some kind and creating a meal to go with it. Contact Brian at
(720) 244-4671 if you have any questions.
Wednesday, 5PM @ Brooks Center (1400 Williams)
MEDITATION facilitated by Katy Kurtz and Mike
Serruto, WEDNESDAY NIGHTS 6:00pm. With a duration of 45 minutes, the
quiet mind meditation is an unguided one.
YOGA CLASS a Free School Denver class WEDNESDAY
NIGHTS 7:00 - 8:00 pm
taught by Paris Latke.
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THURSDAYS:
Dream Group: 7-9 pm every other Thursday, with Katy Kurtz.
This group meets every two weeks to share and discuss several dreams had by
people in the group, following the six part procedure of dream work that Jeremy
Taylor sets out in his book "Where People Fly and Water Runs
Uphill". The group
"works" on a participant's dream from the perspective of it being
one's own dream, each person present
envisioning the dream in their own mind as the dreamer shares what they
remember of the dream. The group then offers insight or interpretation
of the dream using the first person "I" to talk about
"my" dream, rather than project upon or tell the original dreamer
what their dream was about. This way the speaker owns their own
projections. The group never tells anyone what their dream is about,
but only what it would be about if it were our own dream. Although the
first class is free, $10 is asked per session, $5 is willingly accepted, and
if someone can not afford to pay, they should not stay away for that reason
alone. The money all goes to operations of Brooks Center for
Spirituality itself.
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SUNDAYS:
-Sunday Services begin at 10:30AM
and combine meditation with a talk and with music. There is a community
lunch that follows (suggested donation $3).
-COMMUNITY BUILDING DISCUSSIONS:
Sunday at 12:30 (after the 10:30 am Sunday service and ensuing
community lunch).
"Important Spring Study and Discussion Groups on Creating
Community Begin"
ALL MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH AND ITS
EXTENDED OUTREACH throughout metro-Denver are enthusiastically invited to
join this spring in an ongoing in-depth study and discussion group on the art
of creating authentic community. Group discussions will be based on the book Creating
Community Anywhere: Finding Support and Connection in a Fragmented
World by Carolyn R. Shaffer & Kristen Anundsen (Tarcher/Perigee,
1993; Kids 4 Kids Press, 2005).
For authentic community, "holding harmony as an ideal is not the
problem," the authors say. "The danger lies in ignoring the process
that leads to harmony and that maintains it after it is attained."
These writers have decades of experience with building communities.
Their book looks at virtually every detail of the processes involved, from
coming together, learning to communicate, making decisions and governing,
through weathering the challenges of growing, to working with conflict and
embracing the shadow. They even address how to dissolve and part gracefully
if the time comes.
The unique factors in a variety of settings is explored—family
and friend groups, workplaces, and neighborhoods, for example, as well as
shared residences, residential communities, assorted retirement living
arrangements, and even electronic communities. A visionary closing chapter
contemplates the planet as community.
"If your attempts at connecting with others in the
past have left you dissatisfied, you might be measuring them against a
faulty, outdated standard," the authors say. "Your community [may]
blame itself for failures, such as interpersonal conflicts, that are not
failures at all but essential parts of the process of community
building."
Well-known psychiatrist
and author Scott Peck.M.D. writes in the Foreword to this book, "The
requirements of real community—such as personal commitment, honesty, and
vulnerability—are so alien to our [. . ]. culture of rugged
individualism that it is utterly unclear whether the citizenry as a whole
will be willing to meet them. As a species, we may not choose survival. So if
you do choose to explore the 'less traveled road' of community, you will be
embarking on a true cultural adventure."
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