Awakening to What's Here: Attuning to Self & Others

This is an online Sunday retreat to: develop basic fluency in the practices, concepts, and language of spiritual experience with like-minded people; cultivate attunement and connection with oneself and others; access flow states, embodied awareness, grounded and centered presence & consciousness; and taste the transcendent already present in the core of our being.

This workshop is for anyone who struggles to notice or articulate their subtle experience, and/or those who struggle to slow down, to drop out of drive gear into neutral; those wanting out of the doing mode and enter into the being mode; to awaken the inner source of meaning, value, purpose, connection, and wisdom; and to share that presence in relation to others.

We’ll move through a multi‑modal series of participatory practices across the DIME framework – Dialogical, Imaginal, Mindfulness, and Embodiment – as a foundation for a practical philosophy and intentional way of life.
Practices include: body scan meditation, mindful speaking and listening, focused and open awareness meditation, contemplation of a sacred text, invoking the spirit of a philosophically meaningful text, practices evoking a felt sense of “moreness” or “suchness”, other authentic relating groupwork and a creative self‑expression and self‑exploration practice.

No prior experience is needed – just curiosity and a willingness to explore.

Duration: 6.5hrs (with breaks)

### About your Facilitators


Rick Repetti, PhD. - Professor of Philosophy & VP of APPA
Rick’s list of credentials could justify it’s own page. Relative to this workshop, he’s a Philosophical Consultant, and Socratic Dialogue facilitator, faculty member of the Philosophical Practitioners Association of India, meditation instructor here at ATM, founding member of the CUNY Mindfulness and Contemplative Studies group, multiple decades practitioner and instructor of meditation and yoga, and 4th degree black belt in Shotokan Karate. He’s also written things, many things, such as Buddhism, Meditation and Free Will: A Theory of Mental Freedom (Routledge 2019)


Taylor Barratt - Director at Awaken to Meaning, Integral Facilitator
As Director of Practice and Education with Awaken to Meaning, Taylor brings over 13 years of experience in facilitation, design, and training. Along with John, he has been a robust voice of guidance in the design and pedagogical execution of TIAMAT. He’s a certified Integral Facilitator and has co-designed the Socratic Search Space, Socratic Imaginal Self-Reflection as well as the pedagogical structures for Dialectic-into Dialogos
Facilitation: Rick Repetti & Taylor Barratt