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$ Breathing Under Water with Richard Rohr (Center for Action and Contemplation)
January 18, 2023 All day
A 15-week online course studying the twelve steps through the themes and wisdom of Richard Rohr’s book, Breathing Under Water. Learn to apply Alcoholics Anonymous’ guiding principles to your own life and addictions.
Breathing Under Water is a spiritual study of the twelve steps based on Richard Rohr’s book, Breathing Under Water. It will explore the parallels between what Jesus taught and the freedom that can be found in twelve-step programs.
The invitation is to let go of egoic attachments and step into freedom and wholeness. Richard Rohr often says, “We do not think ourselves into new ways of being; we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.” Students will learn how contemplative practice and spiritual wisdom can be joined with the wisdom of the twelve steps to transform our habitual patterns of stinking thinking.
Whether you are new to the Twelve Steps or have been doing this work for years, we hope Breathing Under Water moves you to surrender more deeply to your Higher Power and to experience the peace (not of mind, but of being) that comes with such freedom.
Membership in a 12-step program is not required. Anyone can and will gain insight from this course.
Learning Objectives
- Integrate twelve steps into daily life through reading, reflection, and engagement with Fr. Richard’s book, Breathing Under Water
- Deepen personal awareness of “stinking thinking” as a universal addiction and explore its consequences (e.g., codependency and dualistic thinking)
- Develop a contemplative practice to grow alternative consciousness, which provides the only freedom from the dominant ego self and from cultural falsities
- Connect and learn with other spiritual seekers
$120
