The Ridhwan Boston 3 Group

The Boston 3 group has been meeting in the Boston area since 2008 and is open to new students. The group is taught by an experienced team of teachers; Gina Crago Ackler, Neal Carbon, Anne Laney, and Duncan Scribner. The group meets 5 times a year; 2 are long weekends from Thursday evening to Sunday at noon; 2 are a longer retreat format meeting from Wednesday evening to Monday at noon; and one 3 day weekend meeting jointly with the other Boston Groups.

Dates for 2011 are: (all meetings are at the Walker Center except December)

• February 17, 2011 7pm through February 20 noon - $275 plus retreat center fees
• April 6, 2011 7pm through April 11 noon - $495 plus retreat center fees
• July 14, 2011 7pm through July 17 noon - $275 plus retreat center fees
• September 28, 2011 7pm through October 3 noon - $495 plus retreat center fees
• December 9, 2011 2pm through December 11 noon - $250

Dates for 2012 are:

• February 16-19 at The Walker Center - Tuition: $295
• April 18 - 23 at The Espousal Center - Tuition: $495
• July 26 - 29 at The Espousal Center - Tuition: $295
• September 26 - Oct 1 at The Espousal Center - Tuition: $495
• All Boston Weekend - Awaiting Dates and Location

Walker Center
Main Room and Eddy House; the 3 meal plan options; prices to be confirmed

Espousal Center
All rooms are singles. Meal plan prices to follow.

Lodging is available on-site at the Walker Center and the Espousal Center. The site fees vary by site and length of retreat and are in addition to the tuition.

About the Diamond Approach

It is a natural step in our human development to at some point ask questions about who we are and what we are doing here on this planet. What is my full potential as a human being? Who am I beyond my history and conditioning? What would it be like to experience the present moment in its pure immediacy, empty of my usual structures and beliefs? These are important and potentially life-changing questions.

The Diamond Approach offers the clear understanding that our Essential or True Nature, the pure presence and fullness of the moment from which we come, can be returned to, through rigorous experiential understanding of how our original pure experience became structured into specific patterns of belief and reactivity which we now take to be the norm. Simply put, we begin as pure presence, we leave that state of presence in order to survive in environments where presence is generally not valued, and we then long in one way or another to return to that condition from which we came. By presence, here, we mean a richness and fullness of experience which is not simply empty space/big mind, but a fullness and richness of in-the-world experience which is free of the resistances, controls and stuckness which dominate our soul when identified with our patterns and old reactions.

Taking advantage of the inherent tendency in the soul to return to its original and natural state, personal exploration not only of essence and presence, but individual personality structures as well, tends to allow ego structures to relax in the field of truthfulness we create; enough so that we might see beyond and experience, stepwise, our increasingly more true sense of self. This is a gradual process - the natural movement of the individual soul toward its natural state, where it most wants to go…

For more information contact Anne Laney at Abachman22@aol.com or Duncan Scribner at duncanscribner@msn.com.