Flourishing Now // Session Four // Clarity & Insight

What's Flourishing Now?
​Flourishing Now is a six-session course that draws from contemplative traditions, philosophy, cognitive science, complexity science, and more.

Each two-hour gathering will be more like a jam session than a formal class, with a mix of conversation, meditation, and other contemplative practices. Sessions build on each other, so it's helpful (but not absolutely necessary) to attend them as a series.

What's it all about?
We live in a world of astonishing beauty, creativity, and possibility, as well as profound suffering, injustice, and loss. There is much worth loving just as it is and much that urgently needs to change.

But our desire for things to be different can make it difficult to fully encounter things as they are. We can become so focused on what should happen next that we lose touch with what is happening now. Yet accepting the world as it is can seem like giving up on changing it.

How can we engage with this tension? Can we flourish here, now, in a world that’s both beautiful and broken and still change things for the better?

Session Four​: Opening & Closure
Session four is all about what it means to see clearly. We often imagine insight as finally arriving at the right answer, but perhaps clarity has less to do with certainty than with seeing our experience, assumptions, and patterns in a new way. Together, we’ll explore how insight arises, what can obscure it, and whether seeing differently can open new possibilities for how we respond.

Session Schedule
1. Experience & Reality: Mon, Oct 5 | 6:30–8:30 pm
2. Belonging & Boundaries: Mon, Oct 12 | 6:30–8:30 pm
3. Opening & Closure: Mon, Oct 26 | 6:30–8:30 pm
4. Clarity & Insight: ​Mon, Nov 2 | 6:30–8:30 pm
5. Wisdom, Freedom & Play: Mon, Nov 9 | 6:30–8:30 pm
6. Flourishing Now: Mon, Nov 16 | 6:30–8:30 pm

Other Details

• ​We'll provide snacks and beverages
• ​Here's some info about parking at Northern Commons