 Human Relations
Laboratory 2008
Experiencing
Compassionate Community
Sunday, August 10 to
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Welcome to Human Relations Laboratory 2008 – Experiencing
Compassionate Community! The
Human Relations Laboratory, now in its 39th year, offers an
intergenerational, educational experience of learning about yourself and
how you relate to others and the world.
You will engage an exciting curriculum, utilizing large and small
group process, learning games, and other experiential activities,
leading you to becoming a more compassionate person. You will find
yourself practicing compassion and receiving the benefits of the
practice. There will be applications
to
personal growth, friendship,
family , organizations and communities. If you attend with a partner, family,
or a living group, you will have an opportunity to apply your learning
to those relationships.
The Lab provides a safe place to explore living from your true
nature, in a process that encourages you to practice being the best
version of your self
You Can Expect...
- Opportunities to experience yourself practicing new behaviors with
encouragement from others
- A rejuvenating, healing experience set in the natural beauty of
Sahale
Retreat and Learning Center.
- A rich, intergenerational experience, including an ably led program for
children and youth
- Social creativity including music and song, reflective time, dance and
drama, free time.
Who is invited?
We welcome individuals, couples, and families, as well as
shared-living groups and communities. Our common purpose is to create a
compassionate community in which everyone attending is giving and
receiving compassion throughout the event. Compassion addresses all
levels of being. Each of us will be asked to create a week full of
experiences that meet the needs of body, mind, and spirit.
"I felt very loved
by the group and we all took care of each other, bring up our issues and
working on them with friends. It was a time of healing for me - I had
been through a lot in the last year and I needed the support and love
that was offered."
Samantha Wickham,
2007 Lab
Participant
We invite all who register to participate in the design of the Lab
through owning their own needs for compassion: healing, knowledge,
relationship, and spiritual and moral discernment. Acknowledging your
own needs begins a process of acknowledging the needs of others. We are
learning that compassion involves having feeling and begins with having
feeling for yourself at all levels. The Laboratory would begin by
sharing our sense of what needs to be healed, lifted, and empowered
throughout the week.
The founder of the Lab, John L.
Hoff, comments:
"I see lots of people who don’t know how to
create for themselves happy, fulfilling environments in which to
live and work. Hence, when a person first discovers the nourishment
and support of intentional relationships in community, they become
critical of their other existing relationships. And because of this,
our community works hard preparing people to export and demonstrate
what we value here—wisdom, love, forgiveness, and laughter—back into
their families, friendships, and work life.
Location
The Lab is held at Sahale
Learning Center, a
70-acre site of farm, forest and wilderness, Registrants will have ample
opportunity to immerse themselves in the natural world.
Questions
Please contact Richard Kenagy at (206) 524 - 4032.
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OVERVIEW
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PRESENTERS
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LOCATION
Sahale Center
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