Flourishing Now // Session Six

What's Flourishing Now?
​Flourishing Now is a six-session course that draws from contemplative traditions, philosophy, cognitive science, complexity science, and more.

Each two-hour gathering will be more like a jam session than a formal class, with a mix of conversation, meditation, and other contemplative practices. Sessions build on each other, so it's helpful (but not absolutely necessary) to attend them as a series.

What's it all about?
We live in a world of astonishing beauty, creativity, and possibility, as well as profound suffering, injustice, and loss. There is much worth loving just as it is and much that urgently needs to change.

But our desire for things to be different can make it difficult to fully encounter things as they are. We can become so focused on what should happen next that we lose touch with what is happening now. Yet accepting the world as it is can seem like giving up on changing it.

How can we engage with this tension? Can we flourish here, now, in a world that’s both beautiful and broken and still change things for the better?

Session Six​: Flourishing Now
In this final session, we'll return to our original question: How do we live well in a world that is both beautiful and broken? We'll explore flourishing as an ongoing, relational process that unfolds through how we sense, notice, respond, and participate in shaping the world around us. We'll ask how we might cultivate generative possibilities without reproducing the systems we're trying to transform. And we'll consider what it means to practice flourishing, here and now, amid all of the complexity, uncertainty, and possibility of our time.

Session Schedule
1. Experience & Reality: Mon\, Oct 5 | 6:30–8:30 pm
2. Belonging & Boundaries: Mon\, Oct 12 | 6:30–8:30 pm
3. Opening & Closure: Mon\, Oct 26 | 6:30–8:30 pm
4. Clarity & Insight: ​Mon\, Nov 2 | 6:30–8:30 pm
5. Wisdom\, Freedom & Play: Mon\, Nov 9 | 6:30–8:30 pm
6. Flourishing Now: Mon\, Nov 16 | 6:30–8:30 pm

Other Details

​We'll provide snacks and beverages
​Here's some info about parking at Northern Commons