Interfaith Reading Group Greenville
Atlantic Institute SC is partnering with the Interfaith Community Planning Team from Spartanburg to offer an Interfaith Reading Group. The group will be reading Karen Armstrong's "Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life"[ISBN-13: 978-0307742889].
Regular Attendance will help build community, but anyone should come when they can.
Please see the information below and Sign up if you'd like to join the group.
Location: The Atlantic Institute at 12 Davis Keats Dr. in Greenville
Dates: Every other month, on the second Tuesday of the month
Dec. 9, 2014, read the Preface, First Step, and Second Step
Feb. 10, 2015
Apr. 14, 2015
June 9, 2015
Aug. 11, 2015
Oct. 13, 2015
Time: 6:30pm
Readings: 2 Chapters per session, completing the book on the final session after the interfaith community gathering on Sept. 10, 2015 in Spartanburg
Facilitators: M.B. Ulmer, Akif Aydin, and the Atlantic Institute
Meal: We will share a light meal at each session; the first will be provided by the Atlantic Institute.
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Interfaith Book Group February 10, 2015
Eleven members gathered and shared a delicious meal – hospitality of The Atlantic Institute!
Recognizing the potential for Silence to be a source of deep sharing, we began our discussion with 2 minutes of quiet. Then each person was offered the opportunity to share her/his response to the chapters we had read. This evoked a wide range of perspectives, and was followed by open discussion focusing on the steps to developing a genuine compassion for yourself so you will be able to extend it to others; a Muslim and Christian understanding of compassion for oneself; the ways of developing empathy toward others; the power of tears; some discerning thoughts about some of the practices offered by the author; meditation and contemplation; and the place of reason/or not in becoming compassionate…and much more.
On April 14th we will discuss The Fifth and Sixth Steps – Mindfulness and Action
Interfaith Reading Group Columbia
Atlantic Institute SC is offering an Interfaith Reading Group. The group will be reading Karen Armstrong's "Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life"[ISBN-13: 978-0307742889].
Regular Attendance will help build community, but anyone should come when they can.
Please see the information below and Sign up if you'd like to join the group.
Location: The Atlantic Institute at 909 Shull Street, West Columbia, SC 29169
Dates: Every other month on the Second Thursday of the month
April 16, read the Preface, First Step, and Second Step (this one is on the Third Thursday)
June 11, 2015
August 13, 2015
October 8, 2015
December 10, 2015
February 11, 2016
Time: 6:30pm
Readings: 2 Chapters per session, completing the book on the final session
Facilitators: Akif Aydin, and the Atlantic Institute
Meal: We will share a light meal at each session; the first will be provided by the Atlantic Institute.