The schedule and curriculum for STRUCTURE - my New Year's retreat - is now finished! Here's how the retreat will flow over four days: 12/30: Form - Morning Tai Chi and Meditation - Orientation - How to Read a Building: An Introduction to Christopher Alexander - There's No Such Thing As A House: Systems Thinking and Dependent Origination - Somatic Meditation Practice - The Architecture of the Self: Modeling the self-concept, mapping connected systems and understanding negative space and experience - Evening Movie (Optional): Life As A House 12/31: Space - Morning Tai Chi and Meditation - The Order of Nature: Bringing Work to Life - Group Trip to Japanese Gardens / Remote Video Content - Zen and the Japanese Arts: Tea, Calligraphy, Flowers and the Great Dao - Attention as Prayer: Thich Nhat Hanh, Simone Weil and Jon Kabat-Zinn on Mindfulness - The Zen Way of Seeing: Training a suite of concrete perceptual tools to enrich observation, increase perspective, and open up new dimensions of experience and understanding - Evening Movie (Optional): Ikiru - New Year's Celebration and Ceremony 1/1: Object - Morning Tai Chi and Meditation - Beauty and the Dream of the Self: How investments of time, care & attention shape the feeling of who we are - Coaxing the Infinite: Mindfulness, Presence and Creativity - Group Lunch at Dushanbe Teahouse / Remote Video Content - The Inner Theater: Self-schemas, object relations, inner dramas - How to Build a Void: Emerging from internal conflict and inhabiting the True Self - Evening Movie: The Five Obstructions 1/2: Quality - Morning Tai Chi and Meditation - The Quality Without A Name: Resolving inner conflict, building self-trust, and making the world whole again - A Personal Pattern Language: Daylong workshop mapping your existing life structure, identifying patterns that vitalize you and internal conflicts that numb you, and planning effective, sustainable upgrades to your self-architecture - Personal coaching with Gabe - Closing Ceremony - Evening Movie (Optional): Perfect Days ~ End of Retreat ~ A few notes: - Participants should plan to fly in on December 29th and fly out on January 3rd. Flights are tricky at this time of year, so I can offer lodging to folks if they need to be flexible with their travel itineraries. - We'll make and eat all of our meals together. - In-person participants will go together on field trips to the Japanese Gardens in Denver and the Dushanbe Teahouse in Boulder. Remote participants will have video content available to learn the same lessons. - All Tai Chi and Meditation sessions will focus on vedanasati (awareness of feelings) and other practices that increase and refine somatic sensitivity.