{"id":5362,"date":"2019-09-13T16:06:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T20:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/?p=5362"},"modified":"2019-09-13T16:06:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T20:06:17","slug":"may-2019-conference-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/may-2019-conference-in-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2019 Conference in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot-2019-09-11-19.17.50.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5359\" src=\"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot-2019-09-11-19.17.50.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a>The theme of the May 2019 Conference was about good and evil \u2013\u2018Walking with Our Time \u2013 Can We Transform Evil?\u2019\u00a0 This was most wonderfully introduced and carried through lecture and conversations with Christine Gruwez who has spent many years working with and leading seminars on Manichaeism.\u00a0 In our time of the Consciousness Soul, good and evil are working together and our path forward is not to be based on \u2018either\/or\u2019 positions. We need to transcend dualism and consider expanding our thinking to include thoughts around \u2018as well as.\u2019 Why is evil so powerful in out time? Answers don\u2019t bring us any further.\u00a0As contemporaries we look for a path rather than a set of answers.\u00a0 She elaborated on the five steps of the path:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be present as a spectator, feeling a sense of powerlessness<\/li>\n<li>Become still and listen, allow events to deeply penetrate<\/li>\n<li>A meeting, open up to pure potential<\/li>\n<li>Be present and witness, develop presence of mind<\/li>\n<li>Be awake, engage, a possibility for redemption exists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What attitude can each of us develop when confronted with darkness and evil?\u00a0 We have the possibility to develop the attitude of \u2018milde.\u2019\u00a0 Christine brought this German word for a quality of soul that could be described as gentleness or kindness.\u00a0 It is contained in the image of Mary who provides an open space where goodness and evil are welcomed as potentiality.\u00a0 This is the quality of warmth and light which expresses love.<\/p>\n<p>For the enrichment of our theme, artistic workshops were offered.\u00a0 Our English-speaking group of about 20 participants collaborated under the skilled directionof Denis Schneider and Eric Tardif.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot-2019-09-13-16.01.08.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5360 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot-2019-09-13-16.01.08.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a>In small groups of 3 or 4 we used black crayon on white paper and worked with ripped newspaper to create individual patterns.\u00a0 Each person had a turn, darkening where they desired.\u00a0 As can be seen in the photo, each group\u2019s finished work illustrating dark and light was totally unique.<\/p>\n<p>This was not the end, though: we were asked to choose two words to express aspects of our design.\u00a0 Then, as the whole group, we built up words into phrases and finally \u2018wrote\u2019 a verse which incorporated\u00a0most of the original words. None of us could ever have imagined the outcome. It was a truly collaborative artistic project taking us on a fun and creative journey through the exploration of darkness and light.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the poem our group created:<\/p>\n<p>NOW<\/p>\n<p>Dynamic light building Spider<\/p>\n<p>Play transforms Spring Light<\/p>\n<p>VOID<\/p>\n<p>Head held dynamic acceptance<\/p>\n<p>Expansion<\/p>\n<p>Becoming Light<\/p>\n<p>Held<\/p>\n<p>A big thank-you to Arie van Ameringen and Claudette Leblanc for bringing Christine Gruwez to Canada and for organizing a lively and inspiring conference!<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Mundy and Susan Koppersmith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme of the May 2019 Conference was about good and evil \u2013\u2018Walking with Our Time \u2013 Can We Transform Evil?\u2019\u00a0 This was most wonderfully introduced and carried through lecture and conversations with Christine Gruwez who has spent many years working with and leading seminars&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5363,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions\/5363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}