2024-2025 Yearlong Journey: The One Life We're Given

MARK NEPO OFFERS A YEARLONG JOURNEY, 2024-2025

THE ONE LIFE WE’RE GIVEN: FINDING THE WISDOM THAT WAITS IN YOUR HEART

A YEARLONG JOURNEY FOR 2024-2025, GUIDED BY MARK NEPO

Please make your reservations early as space is limited to 16 students.

 

START: APRIL 5-7, 2024, END: MARCH 7-9, 2025

FOUR WEEKENDS
FRI. 6:00-9:00 P.M., SAT. 9:30-5:30 P.M., SUN. 1:00-4:00 P.M.

April 5-7, 2024
June 7-9, 2024
Oct 11-13, 2024
March 7-9, 2025

 




 

Meeting at Peoples Church, 1758 10th St N, Kalamazoo, MI, 49009

Closest Airports: Kalamazoo (15 minutes away) and Grand Rapids (45 minutes away)

CLASS SIZE IS LIMITED TO 16 STUDENTS.

COST: $1950

 

No matter how many conversations I

start, they all end with me kneeling at

the same deep well. And drinking there,

I find you and remember who I am.

—MN

 

Mark will offer a yearlong journey over four weekends, weaving themes from his book, The One Life We’re Given, and his #1 New York Times bestseller, The Book of Awakening.

This journey offers a chance to work with Mark in a smaller group setting as a way to deepen your own path over a year of your life. The course experience will explore the practice of being human as an applied art of spirit while unfolding the archetypal dynamics we all encounter in our struggles to engage our full humanity.

This yearlong journey will focus on how we might truly inhabit the one life we’re given: by getting closer to life, loving what we do, finding what can last, and by being kind and useful. These four inner practices shape the theme of each weekend.

Using ancient and contemporary stories, poetry, journaling, and dialogue, Mark invites participants to befriend their own stories and listen for their own wisdom in this reflective and transformational journey. This course is an invitation to engage with profound and life-giving material that will deepen the way you perceive and relate to the world.

On a personal level, staying awake is not something we can manipulate, but only live into. Each of us is born instinctively awake and yet it takes courage to stay awake, to remember that all we encounter is real. As such, staying awake is a timeless practice we must ultimately enter alone, but one we can enliven together. The journey back to wakefulness is an invitation each day to delve into what it means to be alive.

From inside this aliveness, it seems the point of experience is not to escape life but to live it. Mysteriously, truth is a secret hidden in the days until opened by our experience. For at the center of our experience, each of us holds an aspect of wisdom waiting to be discovered, and everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom to us. Each of us has a language of truth in our heart that only living our life can give voice to. And being a spirit in the world centers on how we meet the life of experience that no one can escape. In this, life is the master and we remain the student.

I’m excited to be offering another yearlong journey. It is my hope that through our time together, you will personalize the practice of being human, so you can live closer to your core. It is my aim, through our company, that you will discover the inner resources and outer skills to stand more deeply in your life and better know your heart. It is my commitment that this journey into authenticity and listening will enhance your ability to integrate who you are with what you do in the world. My goal is that you will leave more whole, with a more enlivened sense of what it means to be a spirit in the world.

—Mark Nepo

 

Bring a Journal.

 

START: APRIL 5-7, 2024, END: MARCH 7-9, 2025

FOUR WEEKENDS
FRI. 6:00-9:00 P.M., SAT. 9:30-5:30 P.M., SUN. 1:00-4:00 P.M.

April 5-7, 2024
June 7-9, 2024
Oct 11-13, 2024
March 7-9, 2025

COST: $1950

 




 

CLASS SIZE IS LIMITED TO 16 STUDENTS. 

Meeting at Peoples Church, 1758 10th St N, Kalamazoo, MI, 49009

Closest Airports: Kalamazoo (15 minutes away) and Grand Rapids (45 minutes away)

 

IF THE COURSE IS FULL, PLEASE ADD YOURSELF TO THE WAIT LIST BY EMAILING BROOKE WARNER (brooke@threeintentions.com) AND YOU WILL BE CONTACTED IF SPACE OPENS UP.

CANCELLATION POLICY: NO REFUND WITHIN 90 DAYS OF WHEN THE COURSE BEGINS, AND HALF REFUND IF FOUR MONTHS BEFORE THE COURSE BEGINS.

 

The course does not include lodging or food.

Here’s some information about local places to stay and eat.

 

DETAILS FOR YOUR STAY IN KALAMAZOO

The course does not include lodging or food. Here’s some information about local places to stay and eat.

Closest Place to Stay in Kalamazoo

Holiday Inn Express, 1315 Westgate Dr, Kalamazoo, MI, 1-877-410-6667 (very close to where we will meet)

https://www.ihg.com/holidayinnexpress/hotels/us/en/kalamazoo/azoes/hoteldetail?cm_mmc=YextLocal-_-EX-_-US-_-AZOES

Others Places to Stay in Kalamazoo

https://www.tripadvisor.com/SmartDeals-g42354-Kalamazoo_Kalamazoo_County_Michigan-Hotel-Deals.html

 

Food Places

We will break for 90 minutes Saturday for lunch. Here are some nearby places for breakfast, lunch, coffee and dinner:

Locally owned, near our meeting place:

 

Locally owned, downtown or near downtown:

 

Chains Nearby:

  • Starbucks, 5370 W Main St, Kalamazoo, MI 49009, (269) 276-9819,starbucks.com
  • Biggby, 4560 West Main.
  • Panera 5119 W Main St, Kalamazoo, MI 49009, (269) 342-1222,panerabread.com
  • Applebees, 5330 W Main St, Kalamazoo, MI 49009, (269) 382-4448,applebees.com
  • Hardings Supermarket, 5161 West Main, Kalamazoo, MI, (269) 381-0244.  Good for organic veges and other grocery needs.
  • Meijer’s Supermarket.  This is on the corner of West Main (which is M43) and 9thGrocery store, produce, pharmacy, and like Walmart, but more upscale ( a little) and was born in west Michigan. You know, aspirin, tires, clothes, pots and pans; that sort of thing.

For others, see:

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurants-g42354-Kalamazoo_Kalamazoo_County_Michigan.html

We like Food Dance, Cosmo’s, Oakwood Bistro, Martell’s (nice view of a small pond), Latitude 42 to name a few.

 

Beer and Wine

Kalamazoo is a big craft, micro-brew, etc. beer town.  So many we can’t keep up anymore, but the most famous and oldest is Bell’s Beer. See this website, and pay attention to the Kalamazoo sites. http://www.beeradvocate.com/place/city/43/.

Tiffany’s (different than the breakfast restaurant) is also a good place for wine, cheese, etc.  http://www.aatiffany.com/