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Peter in the Bay Area, California
Peter will be in the Bay Area this January for an evening of nondual inquiry on Thurs Jan 14th (7pm) and a workshop on Sat Jan 16th (11am-5pm). Both events are sponsored by the East Bay Open Circle and are by donation. For more information visit www.eastbayopencircle.org.
Peter will be available for one-on-one meetings with anyone who is interested in the Nondual Teacher and Therapist Training which will be offered in San Francisco from March 25, 2010 - Feb 6, 2011.
There is no charge for these meetings; you will have 45 minutes to meet with Peter, experience his work and ask any questions you have about the Training.
 Meetings will be held in or near the city on:
Wed Jan 13th / 9:30am - 9:15pm
Thurs Jan 14th / 9:30am - 4:15pm
Fri Jan 15th / 9:30am - 4:15pm
To schedule a meeting with Peter email Jonathan Taylor, jetnelson2009@gmail.com. You may also call 1(250)354-7511, or 1(877)723-6463.
This is a wonderful opportunity to get a feel for the Nondual Teacher and
Therapist Training program. The format is casual, with lots of time to
ask questions about the Training, or whatever else arises.
Feel free to extend this invite to friends and colleagues who may be interested in the Training. More telecall info down below.
Listen to the Nov 25th telecall
Part 1 (5 min): Peter provides a general introduction to the Nondual Teacher and Therapist Training. Sound quality improves as it goes along.
Part 2 (12 min): Peter describes how the Training can be used in a therapeutic setting. He also describes the structure of the three course workshops.
An Excerpt from the Nondual Teacher and Therapist Training Manual
 Viewing Experiences as Constructions
In the Nondual Teacher and Therapist Training we find it useful to view experiences as constructions. Buddhism says our empirical experiences are compounded or constructed. When we view our experiences as constructions it gives us a handle on them. It lets us deconstruct or dismantle them and release the energy from attraction and aversion. We are no longer captivated by the construction and can see through the construction, thus releasing us from a limiting view of reality. If we can see how an experience is put together, we can take it apart.
Take anxiety for example. When you are engrossed in the idea that you’re feeling anxious because you’re in a new relationship, you might think, “I feel uncomfortable, is this the right or wrong thing to be doing?” Your experience becomes narrow and crystallized around this. Energy is being tied up in this construction, in being anxious. If we can dismantle the core construction to find/not find the ‘me’ that is anxious, and see the ‘me’ feeling anxious as a construction, we can dismantle that. As we notice no clear person is available to feel anxious, the feeling and its texture begins to dissolve. More is available in the experiential field, energy is released with the removal of aversion because normally anxiety is something we want to be rid of and try to push away. In addition, there is a release of worrying about the future, and a release of the energy that is involved with that feeling. You may have the sense, “I’m no longer involved in myself, I’m no longer tied up with what is happening with me. I’m free and am no longer stuck in a pattern, a complex or reactive response.” We will go into the skill of nondual inquiry and deconstruction later on in this Manual.
Often I’ll engage in a conversation that begins like this, “Okay, you say that’s what you are experiencing. I acknowledge that. But for a moment let’s view it as a construction, as something that’s assembled. What I hear you saying is that right now you are confused and wondering what is happening here. Can we look at that as a construction?” If the student says yes, we can begin to look at “what is it to be confused?” “What or where is here?” and perhaps even “who are you?”
Recommendation
"Peter Fenner functions naturally as a teacher even when you’re just chatting with him. He possesses a gentle magnetism… For the student in the Nondual Teacher and Therapist Training program, the whole complex makes for tremendous support, good networking, and a steeping within a clean, unfettered wisdom… I had a chance to look through the guidebook for the Training and it seems to touch on every specific detail of teaching."
Jerry Katz of nonduality.com, and
One: Essential Writings on Nonduality
Telecall Tips
- If you can, please dial in from a land-line, rather than a cell phone.
- Long distance and cell carriers, quality of phone equipment and line quality can cause static or echoes.
- If you are calling from your computer, please use a headset.
- In general, keep your line muted when you’re not speaking. Use the mute button on your phone or press *6 (star-six). Press *6 again to unmute your line.
DisclaimerWe may choose to record these calls for possible educational or promotional applications. By choosing to participate in this telecall, you have consented to the use of your recorded participation in part or in whole, for any future correspondence or other derivative materials based on this taping. Further more, your consent is extended to include, but is not limited to, the course leaders right to reproduce, distribute and prepare derivative works from this recording, in part or in full. Example of circumstance may take the form of public performances, displays, advertisements and or other publicity not specifically mentioned here. Specifically, the use of your name, voice, words, or participation in this recorded telecall, of which you are hereby consenting to use of, does not give you basis to entitlement, claim or compensation of any form, in general or in specific.
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