cic's Podcast

Megan Parke leads a celebration reflecting on courage & what it means to invite, honor and welcome ALL parts of ourselves. Putting ourselves out there, stepping off the dock, daring to show up fully. What if we felt fear and did it anyway? What if we welcomed all of ourselves to be seen....the parts we like AND the parts we do not. Easier said than done - but daring to welcome all of ourselves and...

Corey Passons leads a celebration continuing a reflection on the twin implements of insight and compassion (via the Shambhala warrior parable) with a special emphasis and exploration on interconnection (insight).  Using sacred stories and our imagination, we will explore insight as a guide and tool in the work of racial justice.

Jodi Kline leads a celebration exploring Creativity as a Portal for Transformation.  We engaged in a very simple, super-fun, low stakes creative project, and will then shared our experience in small groups.

Corey Passons leads a celebration that picks up where we left off with the celebration on anger last month.  In this celebration we will look at the "two weapons" of compassion and insight via the Tibetan tale of the Shambhala warrior and ask how these twin implements are involved in our ongoing transformation.

When people speak of doing their heart's work, or opening one's heart, or feeling it in our hearts, or following our hearts, we know what they mean as metaphoric. But knowledge of our physiological heart can inform and enrich what you may have thought of as just a metaphor. This celebration led by Karen Kirsch will explore how our head and heart and guts are connected and communicate in sensation...

Peter Ilgenfritz is our guest on this annual recognition of World Interfaith Harmony Week.  Peter is an ordained UCC pastor currently serving as the Interim Minister at the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor, Maine who previously served on the leadership staff at University Congregational UCC in Seattle from 1994-2018.  He has been a member of Cho Bo Ji, a Rinzai Zen Buddhist Community in Se...

Corey Passons leads a celebration that explores how anger contains the sacred energy of ch'i, and the various potentials of this emotion in our own transformation. Kathy Pruitt shares of her journey and Kathleen Peppard offers a teaching from Tara Brach called RAIN.

The CIC Social Justice Committee leads a celebration about becoming a non-racist society.

Al Gilliom leads a celebration about transforming fear.

Corey Passons leads a celebration on the power of forgiveness to help us be available to transformation.

The Women's Spirit Circle leads a solstice celebration that features readings, reflection, and guided meditation as well as song.

Corey Passons leads a celebration on the Third Sunday of Advent and the Fourth Day of Hanukkah, exploring the story of the miracle of light that did not go out and how we dedicate our lives to what is sacred.

Jamie Rainwood leads a celebration about transitions and his journey.

Corey Passons leads a celebration about presence and "full consciousness" on the first Sunday of Advent. Ted Ryle leads an embodied spiritual practice.

Sabra Hull leads a celebration about our grief and our hope toward a beautiful future for our planet.

Karen Lohmann leads a celebration of presence, body awareness, and gratitude.

Corey Passons leads a celebration about the generative energy of what Pema Chodron calls the, "basic energy" of chaos.

Corey Passons journeys through three metaphors about rootedness and connection in three different traditions and explores the various spiritual practices they exhibit.

Corey Passons leads a celebration about letting go.

Jodi Kline leads a celebration for Yom Kippur.

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corey passons - 9.20.20