XXX – SAMPLE -John Prendergast and Lisa Ferguson ~ Engaged Nonduality
Engaged Nonduality
Awakening and Action: Toward an Engaged Nondual Approach
with John Prendergast and Lisa Ferguson ~ Oct. 13th
Recording will be emailed to participants within a week.
YouÕre welcome to join even if you canÕt attend the live session.
In this kickoff to the series, Lisa will present a working framework and practices to open the space to explore an engaged nonduality: how the recognition of non-separation moves in response to our world in crisis. This will include themes of personal and collective awakening, individual action, and collective liberation. We will explore how love and truth might move through us, as well as how we can kindly tend to our conditioned parts and intense emotions – such as terror, despair, rage and shame – that may emerge as we face the enormity of our Metacrisis.
John and Lisa will offer space for group sharing, meditation and a deep meeting of what arises as we face our Metacrisis in community, from the heart of being.
Engaged Nonduality Series
This series weaves nondual awakening and an embodied response to our world in crisis. We are facing intersecting crises of climate breakdown, the potential of ecological and systems collapse, severe injustice and inequality, rising authoritarianism, unaligned tech and AI, and more. The path of nonduality has much to offer in these times, including a deep recognition of our wholeness and shared Being, and opening to the wellspring of our wise response.
While awakening is often engaged in a more personal context, we are expanding the context to include structural harm and systemic crisis, where the rubber hits the road in our world today. This series invites guest presenters to explore how the wisdom of these nondual teachings may be deeply embodied through a response to our world in crisis. These sessions may include guided meditations, group and dyadic inquiry and group interaction.
The following events in the series will be hosted by John Prendergast and Lisa Ferguson.
Register for one or more dates, or the full series together.
October 20th: Jeremy Lent ~ From Awakened Heart to a Flourishing Future
October 27th: Jonathan Gustin ~ Non-dual Responsibility – Exploring Non-duality & the Metacrisis
November 2nd: Caverly Morgan ~
John J. Prendergast, Ph.D. is the author of The Deep Heart: Our Portal to Presence (2019 ) and In Touch: How to Tune In to the Inner Guidance of Your Body and Trust Yourself (2015) and is working on a new book entitled Your Deepest Ground: A Guide to Embodied Spirituality (March 2025). He is a retired Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies as well as a retired psychotherapist. He studied with the European sage Jean Klein for many years as well as with Adyashanti who gave dharma transmission to John in August, 2023. John and his wife Christiane offer residential retreats in the United States and Europe.
Lisa Ferguson, Ph.D. is the founder of Climate Compassion, and has focused on supporting planetary wellbeing as a healing arts practitioner, climate justice activist, organizer and contemplative.Ê She offers psychospiritual support to activists through one-one sessions and small groups, weaving together a focus on awakening, healing and wise action.
Suggested Donation: $15 to $40
(any amount acceptable, no one turned away for lack of funds)
Please register early if you can.
Full Series: Sundays October 13, 20, 27, and Saturday Nov 2
Suggested Donation: $60 to $120
(no one turned away for lack of funds)
The events will be recorded and emailed to participants within a week.
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