Self-Enquiry Enlightenment Intensive and Awareness Intensive Meetups

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A Request for Support

We intend to continue offering these gatherings free of charge and would like some help to cover costs. If that is something you feel moved to help with, please see our Donate page. Thank you!

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For New People without Experience of Self-enquiry Dyads

As a new person, you are warmly invited to attend all the presentations which occur at the beginning of each monthly event. To participate in dyads in breakout rooms (the second part of each event), it will be necessary for you to be introduced to the particular dyad technique we use. There is an opportunity for this during the first dyad period so that you may then, if you wish, join the second dyad practice with another participant. For more information and an explanation of terms used, see ‘New to Dyads?’

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With special thanks to Osha Reader, Lawrence Noyes, and Grace Honore for their support and suggestions. Dedicated to Murray Kennedy and Edrid for their inspiration and personal guidance. Dedicated to Osho. 

If you have any queries, please email us at info@selfenquirydyads.org 

The Presentations

Each month an Awareness Intensive Leader from the Osho communities or an Enlightenment Intensive Master will present an informative and inspiring talk about various aspects of these intensives and of the dyad process.

“Awareness Intensive (AI)” is the name used in Osho communities; the process is the same as in other communities where they use the name “Enlightenment Intensive (EI)”.

Each monthly presentation will include the unique, and often inspiring, personal experiences of the presenter.

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There are many benefits of these intensives, especially how they are an opportunity for you to discover and “directly experience” the truth of who and what you actually are, of what life is, of what love is, and of what others are.

This process is suitable for every sincere seeker of truth in their lives, regardless of religious or spiritual orientation. Care is taken so that no belief system is introduced or taught. Only a method is provided to facilitate effective and satisfying personal enquiry and experience.

Previous Presenters

These monthly gatherings started in April 2022,  So far we’ve had presentations by Edrid (a student of Charles Berner, the creator of Enlightenment Intensives); Murray Kennedy leading a tribute to Jeff Love; Lawrence Noyes, Ganga and Garimo, Simone Anliker from Global Dyads, Zen Reverend Pitaka Christie Close, Forest Dalton, founder of the Love Intensive, Avikal Costantino, Colleen Santini, Smaran Stockard, Bill Savoie, Osha Reader, Russell Scott, Emma and Barry McGuinness, Murray Kennedy, Yoah Wexler, Doug Seeley, John Heron, Emir Salihovic, Paul Weiss, Grace Honore, Jake Chapman, Shivam O'Brien and Lila Paradigm group.

Event Dates and Times

All events in this Zoom series occur on the first Wednesday of each month.

Events begin at:

• 8pm Central European time
• 7pm London time
• 2pm in Eastern USA/Canada  
• 11am Pacific Time  

Privacy: If you would like to remain anonymous on the Zoom call, please see Privacy on Zoom.

Next Presentation in this Series

Wednesday, December 4, 2024 - presenter Joseph Rubano

I am really not sure what I will present in December except that I will share my path to and with the Dyads and the Intensives. I seem to have made it a practice to say Yes to doing something when I am asked. Smaran asked and I said yes. Some of you know my poem Go to the Edges — saying Yes to requests to do what I am not necessarily comfortable doing is one of the ways I go to my edge. Actually that is how I led my first Enlightenment Intensive. Someone asked and after 2 years of saying no, I agreed. That was in 2008. I’ve led around 35 Intensives since. 

I started on this path of meditation and inner work consciously around 1972. I was introduced to the Dyad Communication Process in 1980, in San Diego, by Jack/Yoah Wexler. Well, I should say, we were introduced to the Dyads — my wife, Patricia, and I. Those dyads saved our marriage. The magic of speaking and listening, the magic of direct contact. I do counseling; I often work with couples and bring the dyads to those sessions.

I knew nothing about Enlightenment Intensives until 1986 or so, after we moved to New York, when my friend Paul Weiss invited me to one he was leading in Bar Harbor, Maine. I was hooked. I loved it. I did a bunch and then began monitoring. I did more and moved back to San Diego in 1999 where I met up with Yoah again (it’s an interesting story — 20 years no contact and then we meet again) and started monitoring for him. I did that for about 8 years. I loved monitoring, I loved being in the field.

Then Kate Feeley encouraged me to lead an Intensive — I had no ‘official’ training — but that is how I am, I have always liked the apprentice model of developing. Paul Weiss and Yoah Wexler were the masters I apprenticed with. They gave me their blessings when I finally said yes to leading one. And Osha participated in my first one — I think she came to check me out!

I have been blessed with a great team — Kate, Kamakshi, Christy, and for many years, Nama and Robin.  I never feel that "I" am leading an Intensive — "we" are. It is a team doing. I sit in front of the room. I was trained in the doing and by my team.

In addition to the dyads and Intensives, the path that life placed in front of me to walk has brought the Sweat Lodge, Vision Quests, and Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy to me. They are all foundational in my life path and what I offer to others. I have brought the dyads to many Anthroposophic trainings, workshops and conferences in England, Hungary, China, Japan and around the States.

And, oh yes — I write poems — I have a bunch of poems that have sprung forth out of the fertile ground created during an Intensive. I’ll probably read some of them.

Joseph

Website: josephrubano.com 

The presentation will be followed by two dyad sessions.

Join the Zoom Call

A few minutes before the event start time (we have music playing 15 minutes before the start), click the link below:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83979867311?pwd=aFJjTkN5b0FzRDYvMkNVTkFjZmVnUT09

Meeting ID: 839 7986 7311

Passcode: 768440

Future Presentations

Wednesday, January 8, 2025 - presenter Jake Chapman

Jake was educated as a physicist at Cambridge in the 1960s. He had a successful academic career. He pioneered the fields of embodied energy analysis and energy ratings for dwellings. He was Professor of Energy Systems at the Open University from 1978 and taught systems thinking to public sector leaders from 2002 until 2012. He started a successful energy efficiency business in 1983 that was finally sold in 2010.

A personal crisis led to Jake taking his first EI with Jeff Love in London in 1980. The experience he had banished the worthlessness that had plagued his life. The next year he participated in Satyavati’s two-week in England, and the year after in her six-week in California. On that six-week Jake had several experiences and a major kundalini release that transformed his life. 

Jake and his wife, Eva, ran more than 60 EIs, 5 Master’s training courses and a similar number of Monitor training courses. Jake Mastered ten 2-week Intensives and one six-week Intensive. He wrote the manual for EI Masters wishing to run long Intensives.

Jake's presentation

Although the experiences and insights people gain on EIs have the potential to transform their lives, the glow usually wears off and the difficulties of integrating experiences into everyday life can be formidable. Jake will describe  ways of addressing these issues, both in terms of adding integration days to Intensives and how to make real changes in one’s life.  He will also allocate time to answering questions people may have as a result of the previous talk, or as a result of browsing the website amasterspath.uk. 

If you have any questions you would like addressed please send them to ProfJakeChapman@gmail.com before December 21st.

You may also be interested in Jake’s earlier website relating-manual.com

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Some Appreciation

"Thank you so much for this!

I'm training to be a Master and all this early history helps me learn more about the nature of the intensive.

Warmly, MM, US"