27 Days of Change: Practice Period September 1, 2009

27 Days of Change: Practice Period

September 1 - 27, 2009
Opening Ceremony: September 1, 6:30pm

REAL change & justice begins with YOU.

Designed for activists, allies & agents of social change, Practice Periods are 27 days of daily inner practice in the midst of our urban lives.

"America's next great social movement must be an inner one.
Without inner change, there can be no outer change. Without
collective change, no change matters."
-- angel Kyodo williams, Founder, Center for Transformative Change

The 6-point, 360 degree personal change program helps you examine your relationship to yourself, your community and the world. Join the movement to make inner change matter for real social change.

Includes fearless Meditation & Yoga, cleanses, retreat (sliding scale fee applies), community support and more.

Participate online or in person. Residential opportunities available.

How does it work?
Whether you participate virtually or in person, each participant commits to the following intentions for 27 days:

Practice Period Intention Agreement

Giving: Selfless Service
I will deepen my engagement with the community and the world
through the cultivation of selfless service. My letting go
practice is to give this amount of time ______________________
to the following project: __________________________.

Ethics: Reducing Harm
I will bring my life into greater alignment with my purpose and
values through the cultivation of self responsibility and
integrity. My harm reduction practice is to bring needed
attention to this one of the Five Warrior Trainings [non-harming,
truthfulness, continence, non-stealing, non-attachment] and to
reduce my footprint on the earth by ________________________.

Patience: Reclaiming Relationship
I will strengthen my mind and heart to find creative responses
to life's challenges through the cultivation of spaciousness
and curiosity. My equanimity practice is to re-examine the
following difficult relationship or situation and find greater
balance:______________________________.

Effort: Choosing Life Every Day
I will shift the way I show up through the cultivation of
consistency and sustained intention. My fearlessness practice is
to change the following behavior by applying myself daily:
__________________.

Meditation: Sitting & Yoga
I will develop mental stability and self-awareness through the
cultivation of sustained attention. My dynamic stillness
practice is to increase my sitting meditation/yoga by
___________________ including practicing with the community
at these extra times/days:________________________________.

Wisdom: Waking Up
I will root each and every thought, word and action of these
perfect intentions in transcendent understanding though the
cultivation of deep insight. My skillfulness practice is to
dissolve all ideas who is doing practice, who practice is done
for and practice that is done.

Personal Challenge
My own intention for this Practice Period is:________________.

Name: __________________
Date: __________________

Witnessed:
Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Mahamitra
Spiritual Director and Guiding Teacher
on this day of ______ in _________________________________.
New Dharma Community

More Information:

Website:
http:///www.27daysofchange.com

Download Intention Agreement:
http://snipurl.com/intentionagreement

Register:
Register Online: http://snipurl.com/27daysofchangeregister
If you live in the Bay Area, Opening Ceremony: September 1, 6:30 PM
Tel: Toll free 888 X SOCHANGE | 888.976.2426
Email: [email protected]

To view other Center for Transformative Change events visit: http://transformativechange.org