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Friday-Saturday
November 8 - 9, 2008
Location: Novalis Hall, Nottawasaga Village, 7481 4th line, Angus
Stairway of Surprise:
A Two-Day Workshop with Michael Lipson, PhD
"I shall mount to paradise
By the stairway of surprise"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where do thoughts come from? What lies at the basis of our world of sights and sounds? Can we learn to feel fresh feelings, or must our feelings grow stale and dead? What is life's meaning, what is it for? What are we to do? How can our planet be saved?
These fundamental questions cannot be answered, or even adequately posed from out of normal consciousness. To move more deeply into such questions, we need to pursue a path of spiritual development
This weekend workshop will offer exercises in consciousness that are suitable both for beginning and advanced students of meditation. These six exercises were initially formulated by Rudolf Steiner. They prompt us to move beyond our habitual world of separation and to enter a more unobstructed level of consciousness that is our true source of meaning, purpose and love.
Saturday, November 8 from 1:00pm - 8:30 pm
Sunday, November 9 from 9:30am - 3:00pm
Michael
Lipson, PhD, is the author of The Stairway of Surprise, a re-working of Rudolf Steiner's six 'supplementary' exercises, and the translator of many works by R. Steiner and by Georg Kuehlewind. A Clinical Psychologist in independent practice in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, he teaches meditation internationally.
Cost:
Complete Event $150
(including Saturday dinner, Sunday lunch and snacks)
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The Spiritual In Art
…a water colour painting course with Italian art master, Donald Hall
June 28/29, 2008 at Novalis Hall, 7841 4th line, Angus, Ontario
Explore the 'light' energy of the Black Madonna and experience Donald Hall's inspired approach to art history and his unique insights into the work of the great Italian masters.
Educate your senses and gain a practical understanding of Goethe's theory of colour.
Learn Donald's engaging exercises in colour, form and composition.
Enjoy meaningful social exchange with kindred spirits old and new.
Experience the tranquil, rural ambience of Novalis Hall and environs.
Create your own rite of passage into summer.
Mornings: 9.30-12.30pm Afternoons: 2.00-4.30pm
Please bring dry watercolours or a set of Pelikan watercolour cakes and brushes-suggested sizes small, three quarters and one inch. Bring your own easel if possible-some can be provided. Course suited to beginners and advanced students alike.
Course fee, including paper, lunches and snacks: $225
(a non-refundable deposit of $35 is due before June 10) Cheques payable to Ita Wegman Foundation, 92 Mary St., Barrie, ONL4N1T1
“A mood of contentment prevailed during Donald's discourses on the history, meaning and purpose of art when we clustered in rapt attention around him.”
Lilipoh Magazine
“In working with Donald Hall and in hearkening to his profound insights on the great masters, I have renewed my connection with painting.”
Denis Schneider, art teacher
To reserve: call 1-705-722-5408 or email rsvp@novalisproject.com
at Novalis Hall, 7841 4th Line, Angus
www.novalisproject.com_ for information and map
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Presenting
an Earth Day Concert with Mary Anderson and friends
The Haunting Magic
of the Celtic Harp
Sunday April 22 at 3pm
Location: Novalis Hall, 7841 4th Line, Angus,
Ontario
Admission: $20 including refreshments
"One
of Canada's finest harpists."
- Ottawa Folklore Center
"Simply a superb musician with a growing
reputation for excellence"
- Kitchener Waterloo Record
"Enough exuberance to set your feet to
dance and your heart to dream .."
- Folkharp Journal
Mary
Anderson began her career as a harpist studying at the Royal
Conservatory of music. Mary has evolved a style that encompasses
traditional, jazz, classical, contemporary and popular sounds.
Her playing has been called "aggressive", "refreshing",
and "spirited", and she has been dubbed one of Canada's
finest folk harpers.
Special
Guest Rev. Bonnie Kelly will present
Maude’s
Newfoundland Memories
The character of Maude is a composite of the many wonderful
Newfoundland women that Rev. Kelly lived and worked with in
her native Newfoundland when she served a United Church parish
there. Maude has been shaped by a vibrant, happy community
life and by the wild waves of the sea. Come and listen to
her tales... She's sure to give you a laugh!
Please
reserve by calling 1-705-722-5408
rsvp@novalisproject.com
Mailing address: Novalis Project, 92 Mary Street, Barrie,
ONL4N ITI
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A
Watercolour Painting Course with Donald Hall,
art professor and water colour artist from Bolzano, Italy
The Mystic Mastery of Raphael
Saturday-Sunday, March 24-25, 2007
Raphael exalted the art of painting to an expression of the
divine and revealed the spiritual dimensions of colour and
form. We can discover the true purpose of art in the study
of his work, which has endured the test of time as a source
of beauty and transformation in human hearts. Drawing on Goethe’s
classic theory, participants will create colour combinations
that give entry to the secret world of Raphael’s creations.
The hidden power of the good, the beautiful and the true to
which the work of this painter attests will reveal themselves
in these exercises. The course will also include short talks
on the history of art as it relates to Raphael. As a painter
working in Italy, Donald presents an informed perspective
on the classical tradition and its relevance to modern art.
Mornings: 9.30-12.00am:
Learn to see colour and find the right technique. Explore
a living process to raise consciousness and feeling with the
guidance of a superb teacher.
Afternoons: 2.00-4.30pm:
Make colour sketches and light/dark charcoal drawings to express
the formal nature of objects and their relationship to one
another.
Please bring dry watercolours or a set of Pelikan watercolour
cakes and brushes-suggested sizes small, three quarters and
one inch. An easel can be provided if you do not have your
own. Course suited to beginners and practiced painters alike.
Course fee including paper, lunches and snacks: $225
(a non refundable deposit of $35 is due before March 10)
Location: Novalis Hall, 7841 4th line, Angus.
Please reserve by calling 1-705-722-5408
rsvp@novalisproject.com
Mailing address: Novalis Project, 92 Mary Street, Barrie,
ONL4N ITI
“A mood of contentment prevailed during Donald Hall's
opening talk and seemed to increase as participants applied
themselves to his clearly articulated exercises and discourses
on the history, meaning and purpose of art, delivered between
painting sessions when we clustered in rapt attention around
him.”
- Lilipoh Magazine, Fall 2006
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Friday-Saturday
October 13 - 14
Location: Cornerstone, 78 Toronto St., Barrie
Peace
The Spiritual Challenge of our Time
with Dr. Michael Lipson, clinical psychologist
Lecture:
Friday, 7:30-9:00pm, $20
Our world is breaking apart into deadly wars. Meaningful peace
between nations or individuals (horizontal peace) depends
on our first making peace with the heavens (vertical peace).
The process demands an infinite strengthening of our feeling
life. This evening lecture establishes the basis for the meditative
process that the Saturday workshop will engage.
Workshop: Saturday, 9:30-4:30pm
We will practice exercises of spiritual peacemaking through
group and dyadic meditations, working from inspired texts
and with everyday problems and conflicts. Through group meditative
practice and reporting, we will help one another to make peace
with the heavens and to transform the heart into a perceptive
organ.
Michael
Lipson, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist in independent
practice in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The translator
of Steiner's Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path and numerous
books by G. Kuehlewind, he is the author of The Stairway of
Surprise: Six Steps to a Creative Life. He teaches meditation
and related themes internationally.
Cost:
Complete Event $100 (including snacks)
Lecture
only:$20
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Saturday,
November 11, 1:30-4:30pm
Hospitality that Heals
A
conversation with John and Carrie Schuchardt, who founded
the House of Peace in Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1990, so that
victims of war might live in therapeutic community with working
adults who have disabilities. In the last 16 years, John and
Carrie have welcomed over 400 refugees from approximately
30 countries into their home, offering a healing refuge from
the despair of war and enabling each refugee to realize the
sacred right to peace that is fundamental to every human life.
John and Carrie also participate in many activities that foster
the conversion in consciousness and policies that will shift
the collective focus from war to peace. They join many others
in following the lead of individual conscience, which becomes
a powerful redeeming force when it is exercised. Traveling
to Japan in 2005 to conduct a prayer vigil and fast, they
apologized as individual Americans for the atomic atrocities
perpetrated in Hiroshima and Nagasaki sixty years earlier.
They promised to devote themselves to building a strong spiritual
base for a non-violent future.
Participants
in this dialogue will learn how to create hospitality that
heals in their own hearts and homes. People who care for the
homeless, the sick, the disabled and the elderly will derive
encouragement and inspiration from these two pioneering peacemakers.
The extended Camphill family is in the process of forming
an inclusive therapeutic community in the Barrie downtown
area, for which Carrie and John Schuchardt will provide valuable
mentorship in the course of their visit.
Location: Cornerstone, 78 Toronto St., Barrie
Suggested
Donation: $30
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The
Novalis Project is sponsored by Camphill Communities and Sophia
Creek Centre for the Arts, Medicine and Cultural Life.
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