Naropa hosts weekend workshop, Opus

Boulder, Colorado’s Naropa University hosts a non-credit weekend workshop with Thomas Moore, Opus: Finding Your Life Work, on Friday 21 November to Sunday 23 November, 2008.

"The workshop will include psychological, relational and spiritual aspects and will involve discussion, a personal inventory and dream work. Doing work that engages your mind, heart and soul is a first step to personal fulfillment, meaning and peace. But a life work is more than the right job. It involves reconciling with family influences, good and bad, surrounding work; dealing with past experiences of your own; and having a vision and a deep sense of values. It involves connecting the parts of your life: home, friends, neighbors, hobbies, sports, travel and a spiritual practice."

Registration for the full event is $325 U.S. with a 15% discount if you register by Friday 31 October ($276.25 U.S.). If attending only the Friday evening talk, the cost is $15 with a discount price of $10 for seniors and students.

SCHEDULE:
Fri 21 Nov. . . . 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Sat 22 Nov. . . 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Sun 23 Nov. . . 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

The link above allows you to register online. Register now at the reduced rate, before finalizing your Hallowe’en plans for this Friday.

BetterListen! sells four talks on iTunes

An earlier Barque post announced that BetterListen! offers Thomas Moore’s lecture, Humanizing Medicine, on iTunes. Three additional titles are available now as downloads. Next year, these four talks may be purchased on CD.

Humanizing Medicine
Time: 75 minutes
Thomas Moore talks about extending the scope of medicine to include "spirituality and deep matters of soul, emotions, fantasies, dreams, the physical healing environment, and the relationship of caregiver and patient."

The New Epicureans
Time: 118 minutes
Thomas Moore shares "the roots of his work and approach to philosophy and living," before exploring "how our sexually repressed society contributes to violence and dysfuntion in the current age."

A Magical Life
Time: 137 minutes
Thomas Moore "restates the principals of magicians in the past, who advised tapping into the less obvious, less mechanical, less literal potencies of nature. In this magic, we bring the heart into play and regard the most ordinary aspects of daily life in their sacredness."

Soul and Everyday Life
Time: 181 minutes
Thomas Moore considers this approach: "The soul is greater than the smallness of our problems and our pasts. It is a part of our whole experience of the universe, and caring for the soul is not about introspection. Nor is it about understanding the mistakes our parents made."

Visit BetterListen! for more information about buying these digital downloads of Thomas Moore.

Moore talks about United States election

Thomas Moore responds to a Barque Forum discussion about the presidential election in the United States. His response includes,

"I always think about the words we use. Politics is from polis, the assembly or community of citizens. Politics begins in each of us finding a way through our narcissism to making real and frequent contributions to the community. Today that has to include the global community. I've never understood American politicians making "national interest" the bottom line. It would be like any of us making our own self-interest the final criterion of our behavior."
. . .
"Elections say as much about the citizens as about the potential leaders. Our country has not done well in choosing leaders, and I think the main reason is that we do not truly educate our children. A democracy requires [an] educated citizenry that knows how to choose good leadership and is motivated by common cause. We are far from this ideal."

Read Thomas Moore’s full response on the Barque: Thomas Moore Forum. Register with this free network to participate in the discussion.

Spiritual principles to guide relationships

The Greater Keene Chamber of Commerce lists Thomas Moore’s Thursday 4 December, 2008 appearance at:
Best Western Sovereign Hotel
401 Winchester Street
Keene, New Hampshire
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The Chamber's description for "Building Successful Relationships Using Spiritual Principles," says Moore "believes the only way to deal effectively with emotional problems is to include intelligent and open-minded explorations of spiritual life. Some aspects of spirituality are eternal and never change; others shift with cultural developments. According to Moore, we are in serious need of a spiritual intelligence equal to the complexity of life in the new century."

Sponsors of this free event are Antioch University New England's Applied Psychology Department and MAPS Counseling Services. For more information, contact:
Jan Fiderio
Telephone: 603 283-2107
janet_fiderio@antiochne.edu

Moore is at Syracuse University tomorrow

Thomas Moore speaks tomorrow, Wednesday 22 October 2008, at Syracuse University in Hendricks Chapel at 7:00 p.m. For more information, see the University Calendar’s description of this event,"Healing Body, Soul, and Spirit with Thomas Moore."

Podcast with Moore covers economic crisis

Listen to Shannan Taylor speak with Thomas Moore about "his spiritual take on the economic crisis, fear, depression and work" in a podcast [13:53 minutes].

The file, "Author Thomas Moore on the Economic Crisis", is at
http://shannantaylor.podbean.com/2008/10/21/author-thomas-moore-on-the-economic-crisis.

The unicorn and the world's spirituality, Oct. 25

In a recent radio interview about his latest book, A Life at Work, Thomas Moore mentioned that he'll be speaking at the Mind Body Spirit Expo at the Valley Forge Convention Center near Philadelphia on Saturday 25 October 2008 at 12:30 p.m. He told the radio hosts that in his talk, The Unicorn in the Garden: The Spirituality Of The World, he will discuss spirituality in daily life. See an earlier Barque post and the Barque sidebar for links to this engagement.

Moore's talk about A Life at Work available now

 

Today's archived program is available for free playing and downloading now. Scoll the list for today's date and description, A Life's Work: Thomas Moore.

Enjoy Moore's listening presence on October 23

On Thursday 23 October 2008, Thomas Moore is the featured speaker at the 18th Annual Central New York Spiritual Care Day sponsored by InterFaith Works. This year’s theme is Listening Presence. A 2-page .pdf registration brochure contains additional information about the event.

LOCATION
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Road
Dewitt, New York 13214

SCHEDULE
08:30 - 09:00 a.m. Registration
09:00 - 09:30 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
09:30 - 10:30 a.m. Thomas Moore: SOUL TO SOUL - Hearing the Unspoken in Another
10:30 - 11:00 p.m. Break
11:00 - 12:00 p.m. Conversation with Thomas Moore
12:30 - 01:30 p.m. Lunch

COST
$25 per person includes morning coffee, speaker, and lunch*
$20 per person includes morning coffee and speaker*
*Due to limited lunch seating please register early

Listening Presence
"A great deal is said about communication, which tends to mean rational and logical exchange. But the real trick is to listen to nuance, what is implied, and the mysterious material that can’t be spoken. This is soul to soul dialogue, essential in any counseling of depth and in any intimate conversation. Spiritual matters in particular rise out of the realms of mystery and require a receptive mind and heart that are open and free and in love with the unexpected."

Online radio program features A Life at Work

Darien and Darius, on Blogtalk Radio, host an It's All about You program based on Thomas Moore’s recent book, A Life at Work, on Monday 6 October, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. Listen to the hour-long program about creating your Opus in work and life. The call-in number for the program is 718 508-9628. It's All about You "is about building global prosperity through creativity and inspiration. To create the life we want with the right attitude, a proper thought system, and inspired action. To discover new ways to develop human love, trust, forgiveness, and gratitude." Earlier programs are available online.