Workshop: The Self as a Story – Jack Petranker

## The Self as a Story

None of us is a self at birth. It’s a story we are taught as we grow up, a way of making sense of experience: “You are you, and you are separate from everything else.”
That sense of separation haunts us every day of our lives, leaving us feeling imperfect and incomplete. But we do not have to accept it. The key is to experience the self as a story, not as something real. When we do, we can recover intimacy with the world around us. We can be fully present.
This workshop is based on Full Presence Mindfulness, an approach which grows out of the teachings of the revered Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku. It will introduce practices that lead into a different way of being present.

### Jack Petranker

Jack Petranker holds degrees from Stanford, the University of California, and Yale Law School. Since 1980, he has worked full-time in the Nyingma community founded by Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku. He has served as senior editor at Dharma Publishing and Mangalam Press, Dean of the Nyingma Institute, and Executive Director of the Mangalam Research Center.
Jack is the founder and Senior Teacher at the Center for Creative Inquiry. He has a special interest in developing secular approaches to transforming experience and the ways we construct reality. He regularly offers programs and retreats in the US and Europe.

Location
Linnégatan 21b, Göteborg

Date & Time
Fre 5 september: 18.30-20.00
Lör 6 september: 10.00-13.00 & 14.30-17.00
Sön 7 september: 10.00-13.00 & 14.30-16.30

Price
Ordinary: 1000:-
Member: 900:-
Sponsor: 1200:-
Friday Introduction: 150:-

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