Date/ Nov. 5
Schedule/
10.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. PST
Registration closes at noon Pacific on Friday, November 3.
DESCRIPTION
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
― Wilkie Collins, Woman in White
If only we lived in such a world! Our modern orientation is more along the lines of “Too much to do and too little time to do it all!” But is that really true?
Regardless of whether or not it’s true that we have too much to do or too little time to do it, we intuitively latch on to a schedule as our key to being free of the overwhelm, despair, and urgency that surround our to-do-lists.
A schedule is a structure that promises freedom, not from the oppression of the to-do list but from the tyranny of the voices that drive us into giving up our life force for “utility and productivity.”
In the words of Annie Dillard:
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.
In this workshop, we’ll explore how we’re bamboozled into living life on ego’s schedule. We’ll look at ways to create structures that support the human being to dance to life’s rhythms, and we’ll discuss practical tips to create and maintain compassionate schedules.