One-week Study Course
Saturday, 26th July, 2025
19:00
Saturday, 2nd August, 2025
14:00
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One-week study course
An approach to wisdom texts
AN INTRODUCTION
This short residential course provides an introduction to the education offered at Chisholme – an education in self-knowledge dedicated to the understanding that all existence is essentially one.
Each course engages the whole person and is rooted in the same study, work, meditation and devotional practice that is Chisholme’s fertile ground.
Selected texts from the major wisdom traditions are presented for study.
Meditation and the cultivation of awareness is part of the daily programme.
Work in the kitchen, house, garden and estate provides a practical way of being of service.
Devotional practices help us cultivate the quality of the heart.
These four aspects form an integrated whole.
The course is group-based which allows for conversation and reflection.
The cost for the week is £400 with a deposit of £50 due once your participation is confirmed.
Please contact Chisholme for payment terms and options.
For more information and to apply please email secretary@chisholme.org
or call us on +44 0)1450 880 215
About the courses at Chisholme
All courses at Chisholme, however much their formats differ, begin with the principle of the absolute unity of existence, in view of which unity all life, in whatever sphere, is interconnected and interdependent.
If this is so, then who and what am I? Is it possible for me to come to know my reality and place within the one absolute existence? And what is the way forward, to know myself within the context of unity? That such knowledge is possible, and that there is indeed a way towards it is the reason for all courses that Chisholme offers.
There are different lengths of courses at Chisholme. From a weekend to six months, the course comprises a beginning, a middle and an end and has a continuity of participants throughout. Each participant begins at the same starting point as every other, and all complete the course together. To begin at the beginning, it is important that each participant, whatever their prior learning and experience, enters upon the course with ‘beginner’s mind’, as far as possible putting aside all previous understandings, with a freshness of intent and enquiry.
This kind of knowledge cannot be taught as such, and for this reason Chisholme has no teachers. Rather, this knowledge is within each of us already and reveals itself as and when we are ready, when the time is right. Chisholme’s courses aim to provide the best circumstances for each participant to approach this transformational moment, whether during the course or in the future.
Each person’s journey to self-knowledge will be different.
Please email secretary@chisholme.org
to register your interest.
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