Looking Back on the Living Love Workshop : 2001-07

The Skinny

What: Living Love Workshop.
When: 2001-07-01 to 2001-07-08. Sorry. It is over.
Where: Heron House on Quadra Island British Columbia, Canada.

Introduction

We had a fantastic workshop on Quadra Island, right on the water. A dozen of us came from Canada, the USA, England and South Africa.

Why Was It So Good?

I have never been to a more enjoyable insightful workshop. Here are some of my thoughts on why it turned out so well.

Quadra Island setting was magical. The weather was perfect. The smells and sounds of nature wafted everyone instantly into cornucopia consciousness.
We were mostly couples. This provided a feeling of safety for everyone. The bios people provided before they came helped break the ice much faster than usual.
We focussed on the same top ten addictions for the whole week. This provided intensity and honesty.
Everyone was present for everything. Everyone knew what addictions everyone else was working on. Everyone was rooting for everyone else to succeed in reprogramming them.
We had three experienced people co-leading the workshop, and to a certain extent each session. The three leaders had been in the "trenches" using Living Love in daily life for decades.
Everybody had some part in creating the workshop. It was most definitely a group creation. We did our best to blur the distinction between leaders and participants.
We went repeatedly for cosmic consciousness experiences. To some degree everyone experienced that. It spilled over into an incredible spirit of co-operation around preparing meals, cleaning up, and caring for each other that pervaded the entire workshop.
We laughed ourselves to the point of peeing our pants.

Highlights

For me the pinnacle of the workshop was the martyr process where Angela played the part of Dina’s inner martyr. Dina bawled herself out, and Angela as inner martyr dutifully acted out all the dreadful epithets hurled at her. I laughed till I cried. I finally got the futility of beating yourself up.

Another highlight was when we did the centipede cosmic consciousness process where each of us took control of the group body and played with our many arms and legs.

Another highlight for me was when I asked the group to go into cosmic consciousness, then I asked Craig why he thought it was ok to beat himself up, but not any of the other people. He said, "Because he’s handy I guess."

There were so many times when I could see that aha moment when the lights went on inside, and various participants suddenly realised that their suffering was not obligatory.

And of course, the hugs and the back scratches.

What Did People Say About It?

Roedy, I am so glad I was there. I feel so blessed to have witnessed a work of art: your dues-paid, wise, dead-on, creative, inspired, Take-it-to-the-limit, go-for-Cosmic-Consciousness and Oneness facilitation of the best workshop I ever have attended. Wow! Don mentioned an e-mail from Andrew re a possible repeat in England in May or September of 2002. We vote strongly for September and we shall come! But, for now, let’s both bask in the glow of a unique 7th Center mutual experience. In Living Love, JOY
Yesterday the Mail-person brought a set of all four silly songs CD’s and as I write this the first one is going in the background. Somehow I can’t stop smiling… Quadra was a truly special event - one that is still with me every day.
KC is on a visit to her daughter in, of all places, Sedona, Arizona. She’s having trouble staying on this planet, the energy she received from Quadra is just rolling over and over at Sedona. She was supposed to help set up her daughter’s new household after Carmen moved, but can hardly stay inside, and is taking 3 hour walks and floating on air.
Carmen’s husband Ed believes that consciousness is a difficult road of studying the saints and their lives and learning and reading everything he can. I can just picture her sitting with him, beaming with cosmic bliss while he explains how challenging and difficult and long the path is..
All you need is some incredible Canadian scenery, a dozen wonderful people, and a week to pry your heart wide open, and there you are!
That jump in energy in the weeks after Quadra? Most of mine went right to the 2nd center - I watched every movie out there, and every time an idea came, like, "Gee its 6:30, I’ll bet I could make it to the beach before the sun sets", I just did it. What a change. Before it was always easy to talk myself out of doing anything "fun" because there is always so much work to do!!!
KC said it best - there has been a softening around every stuck-place since Quadra, and that softening has released energy to put into the rest of our lives.
Thank you so so so much for sharing it with us.
Craig

In a Nutshell

Your suffering is optional.
Is getting upset about this helping or hindering me from getting what I want?
We are literally all one life.

What’s Next

Andrew held the next one in Bath England in 2002 September. Ed Smith may hold one in BC, perhaps on Vancouver Island or the interior. Debbie Hamm held reunion in the summer of 2002 in Colorado.

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