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Online Programs

The Complexity of the Intimate

With Adrian Roman

Saturday, January 31st & Saturday, February 7th

12pm - 3pm Eastern (9am – 12am Pacific)

Online via Zoom

Cost: $50

“The Complexity of the Intimate” is a two-part, experiential workshop that explores intimacy not just as romantic closeness, but as the everyday ways we learn to be present, honest, and connected with ourselves and others.

Drawing on somatic practices, meditation, and insights from teachers like bell hooks, adrienne maree brown, Tarthang Tulku and Lama Rod Owens. We’ll slow down together, explore intimacy as resonance, trust, recognition of awareness and practice relating from a place of presence rather than ingrained patterns.

Whether you’re looking to deepen relationships, understand your emotional patterns, or cultivate a more grounded sense of connection, this workshop offers practical tools and spacious reflection to support a more authentic, courageous intimacy.

Use coupon code CLOSENESS for 40% off the enrollment fee.

In-Person Programs

Unfreezing the Future

Dealing with Change by Riding the Dynamic of Time

With Jack Petranker

Thursday January 29th, one session, 5:00-6:30pm

Location: 2210 Harold Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

This event is FREE and open to the public!

Today, more than ever, change is the only constant. We try to deal with it by making plans and trying to make them happen: I’ll live here; I’ll succeed in my career; I’ll have great children. But how does that work out in practice? Right now, are you where you thought you would be? Have you accomplished what you hoped to do? Are you surprised by how things have gone? By what is going on right now in the U.S.?

Look at your own life, and you will see that the future seldom unfolds the way we thought it would. Trying to freeze the future in place with our plans is a hopeless task.

We can do it differently. Instead of trying to make things turn out the way we want, we can let the dynamic of the always-arriving future power our lives from moment to moment—an endless source of creativity and an unending resource for fulfillment.

Give the gift of creative inquiry

Looking for the perfect gift to inspire your children, cousins or grandkids? Our NowHere guidebook brings together contemplative practice, emotional awareness, connection with nature, and relational presence to support the development of the qualities we most need in ourselves—and in the next generation.

In Visible Mind is a guided reading meditation designed to help you discover your present moment without expectation, with practices based on Full Presence Mindfulness and the Time, Space, Knowledge Vision.

Visit the Creative Inquiry Shop

The Center for Creative Inquiry (CCI) explores alternate forms of knowledge and inquiry and their potential to bring about fundamental change at the individual, cultural, and social level.

CCI headquarters is located in downtown Berkeley, California, USA.

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