The 6 week journey begins...
MONDAY JANUARY 7, 2013 @ 7:30pm
Registration $125 (includes student workbook and recordings)
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SOUL MAPS : KABBALAH to NAVIGATE your INNER WORLD
Ever feel like you are running around in circles? You can feel caring and nurturing one moment, self-centered and aggressive the next. Making sense of your thoughts and emotions is not easy, and you can often feel conflicted and overwhelmed.
How can you navigate your inner complexity and chart a clear path for yourself? SOUL MAPS, intorduces you to Tanya, a 200-year-old text with a revolutionary approach to human psychology. The course is structured as a six-session consultation with a Kabbalaistic master, to help you understand yourself and navigate your inner conflicts. You'll learn to reslove guilt, onflict, and confusion, and to traverese lifes journey with joy, purpose and direction.
Course Outline
Lesson #1: Soul Words
If you are such a good person, why do you sometimes feel so mean inside? And if you are such a bad person, why are you plagued by fits of conscience? Just as Freud developed the vocabulary that enables you to speak about your psyche, the Tanya provides the key terms and constructs that allow you to speak about your soul . . . or souls. What kind of person are you? What is the source of inner conflict? This lesson introduces the lexicon you will need in order to answer these questions.
Lesson #2: Getting A Grip on Yourself
It can be enlightening to know why you succumb to temptations that you wish you had resisted. But is there a strategy to gaining self-control? This lesson provides practical guidelines for overcoming weakness and learning to control behavior.
Lesson #3: Sync or Sink
When your heart’s passion pulls you one way and your measured mind pulls another way, the disconnect can be agonizing. This lesson will teach you two methods for aligning reason and emotion, so you can reduce stress and live decisively.
Lesson #4: The Joyride
Constant doubt and emotional unhappiness can gradually sap you of the strength and will to change. But joy provides the boost that allows you to live each day with enthusiasm and resolve. This lesson provides useful perspectives that can help you generate a positive attitude.
Lesson #5: The Big Picture
Even after learning methods for overcoming personal challenges and pursuing goodness, you may still wonder why it all matters. What is the purpose of imperfect attempts at perfection? Do your human failings condemn you to be a personal failure? Or might your weaknesses provide an opportunity for your making a unique contribution to the world? Lesson Five allows you to make peace with your personal struggles, as you consider your place in the larger scheme of things.
Lesson #6: Have a Heart
Most of Tanya focuses on how you can gain
control of the way you act, even if your feelings and motives are not always pure. For those who are patient enough to pursue a slow fix, this final lesson provides meditations and guidelines for reshaping your essential nature over time, while recognizing that the true
key to living purposefully is behaving purposefully.
Rabbi Berel Bell is a world renowned lecturer and author. He is the founding dean of Bais Chaya Mushka Seminary, a member of the Rabbinical Court of Montréal and author and
director of Teacher Training for the Jewish Learning Institute.