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27 Days of Change: Practice Period

March 17 to April 12
Opening Ceremony: March 17, 6:30 PM

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, Executive Director, 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.

Participate online or in person. Residential opportunities available.

For 27 days, participants commit to the following intentions:

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

Download Intention Agreement:
http://transformativechange.org/filemgmt/visit.php?lid=6

More information:
http://transformativechange.org/staticpages/index.php?page=practiceperiod

Register:
Register Online: http://snipurl.com/27daysofchangeregister
Tel: Toll free 888 X SOCHANGE
Email:Web Flyer: http:///www.27daysofchange.com
________________________________________________

Center for Transformative Change
transformative programs & practices for agents of social change
2584 Martin Luther King Jr Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 549-3733

http://transformativechange.org

"...changing the WAY change is done..."

27 Days of Change: Practice Period - Designed for Activists, Allies & Agents of Change
Date	Tuesday March 17
Time	6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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Location Details
Center for Transformative Change 2584 Martin Luther King Jr Way Berkeley, CA 94704
Event Type	Other
Organizer/Author	chandra thuy tran
Email	register [at] transformativechange.org
Phone	Toll Free 888 X SOCHANGE
27 Days of Change: Practice Period March 17 to April 12 Opening Ceremony: March 17, 6:30 PM 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, Executive Director, 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. Participate online or in person. Residential opportunities available. For 27 days, participants commit to the following intentions: 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 Download Intention Agreement: http://transformativechange.org/filemgmt/visit.php?lid=6 More information: http://transformativechange.org/staticpages/index.php?page=practiceperiod Register: Register Online: http://snipurl.com/27daysofchangeregister Tel: Toll free 888 X SOCHANGE Email:Web Flyer: http:///www.27daysofchange.com ________________________________________________ Center for Transformative Change transformative programs & practices for agents of social change 2584 Martin Luther King Jr Way Berkeley, CA 94704 (510) 549-3733 http://transformativechange.org "...changing the WAY change is done..." Download PDF (3.2MB) For more event information: http://transformativechange.org/staticpage... Added to the calendar on Sunday Feb 15th, 2009 6:59 PM

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