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Week 1 – August 30, 2018

(unfortunately, this recording didn’t capture all the participants – only me. I’ll work on this for future broadcasts)

This began with Greg offering a welcome to the course community.

Talk topic: “The Green Light”

• Basic Goodness
• The Green Light and challenges
• The Green Light and Self-Trust
• The Green Light and Genuine Pleasure
• Going Beyond Hesitation (Doubt)

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Week 2 – September 6, 2018

To begin, we had a rich time sharing with each other our intentions for going deeper into this material.

Talk topics: “The Red Light”

• The Mechanisms of Shutting Down (through the Three Lights)
• The Creation of Duality
• Mindfulness Approach to Red Light

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Week 3 – September 13, 2018

Talk Topics: Susan Chapman’s keynote address on the Five Buddha Families and The Five Keys.

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Week 4 – September 19, 2018

Talk Topics: “The Yellow Light”

• Liminal States (“between this and that”)
• The Raw Energy of Anxiety
• The Roots of Self-Attack
• Chaos is Good News
• All Mindfulness practices give us opportunity to work directly with Yellow

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Week 5 – September 27, 2018

Week 9 – Oct 25, 2018

• “positive” “negative” “neutral – solid gold experiences
• More than overcoming preferences
  • actually enjoying
  • “Pure Gold” of Basic Goodness
  • opera of experience (Pagliacci video)

• “Totality”
  • 360 circle exercise
• Offering/Hosting/Sharing
  • Total Hospitality (enjoying everyone/everything), inside and outside
    • guided meditation on total gratitude

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Week 10 – November 1, 2018

• Dualistic concepts of worth
  • last week: saw the gold of all experience
  • yellow light wound — being afraid I’m unworthy/worthless
• The See Saw Pattern
• video: ex-neo-nazi who is trans
• The Four Stages of Contempt

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Week 11 – November 8, 2018

• Four Elements Meditation
• Cross cultural classroom
• Leadership and Guidance – “Lids and Flowers” (like in Five Keys)
  • Daryl Davis video (black man who is friends with KKKlansmen)
  • Discuss – “Do we really think all people have basic goodness?”
  • Empty flattery vs. highlighting genuine qualities

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Week 13 – Nov 22 2018

(Week 12 was cancelled due to illness)

Lights in a Conversation diagram & discussion

NOTE: The diagram can be seen here.

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Week 14 – Nov 29, 2018

• Going for the Gold – an unconditional approach which includes painful (and neutral) experience
• The Interruptions to the Four Stages of Contempt
  • Four Interruptions as four meditations/exercises
    • feeling our senses as gold and jewels
    • recognizing everyone as a ‘monarch’
    • seeing our flaws as richness
    • dialogue with ‘honored guest’

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Week 15 – December 6 2018

• Truth as Medicine/Kindness – “Gentle Speech”
  • Speaking in a way that can be heard.
    • Exaggerating
    • Suppressing

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Week 16 – December 13, 2018

Susan Chapman’s class on the Four Stages of Heartless Mind
& the Four Kinds of Compassionate Action

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Week 17 – December 20, 2018

• Meditation on Truth
• Red Light – identifying added projections
• Present Moment Truth is Changing Every Moment
• Suppressing the Truth – Hesitating With Our Insights

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Week 19 – Jan 3, 2019 (week 18 was a holiday)

• The Antidotes to The Four Stages of Heartlessness
  • Susan presented model (diagram)
  • Awake Body as antidote for Complaint/Silencing
    • awkward posture
  • Tender Heart as antidote for Divisiveness
    • generalizations/derogatory slang
  • Open Mind as antidote for Blaming
    • extending/embracing
  • An Awake Attitude Towards “Peace & Reconciliation” (antidote to Retaliation)
    • have human societies healed?
• Breakout – how does it feel when someone forgives us?

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Week 20 – Jan 10, 2019

• The Living “Mirage” of Relationship
• Beauty meditation
  • flowers blooming time-lapse with Caetano Veloso’s “Curucucucucu Paloma”
• Relationship and Discernment
• Becoming a “Connoisseur” of Connection
• Joy/connection can’t happen continuously (impermanence)

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Week 21 – January 17, 2019

• opening meditation
• Mandala of the Yellow Lights
  • unloveable – not just romance
  • exploring red light pattens is not about sin/confession
• The Four Stages of Mindless Heart
  • Emotional hunger
  • Disconnect
  • Freezing an Object of Joy
  • Manipulation/Dependent Strategies
• dialogue exercise

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Week 22, January 24, 2019

• All relationship with others starts with relationship with ourselves
• Feeling connection vs. manufacturing connection
• Boundaries vs. Barriers in terms of intimacy
• The Paradox of Closeness

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Week 23 – January 31, 2019

• Interruptions to The Four Stages of Mindless Heart
  • Emotional hunger – “I want more”
    • Intimate Conversation with Senses (Awake Body)
  • Disconnect/“They have it, I don’t”
    • Witnessing the loneliness of conditional connection (Tender Heart)
  • Freezing an Object of Joy – objectification
    • Investigating Sources of Happiness (Open Mind)
  • Manipulation – must secure resources
    • Falling in Love with Reality

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Week 24 – February 7, 2019

Green Light – The Four Seasons of Relationship

• meditation – Four Seasons of breath
• Four Seasons
  • Winter (solitude)
  • Spring (joy)
  • Summer (intimacy)
  • Fall (pain)

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Week 25 – Feb 14, 2019 (with Martin Ramstedt)

Guest Lecture: “Engaging the three lights in alien cultural contexts”

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Week 26, Feb 21, 2019

• The Four Mindless Heart Misunderstandings
• Partner Exercise – is there a seasonal Red Light that comes up in your experience. Share what it feels like from the inside.
• The Four Seasons of Mindless Heart (diagram)

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Week 27 – February 28, 2019

• The Four Yellow Light Disappointments
  • Love Includes Loss
  • Joy and Impermanence
  • The Limits of Intimacy/Sharing
  • Boundaries Prevent Harm

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Week 28 – March 7, 2019

• Green Zone Practical Tips – Environment
• Responsiveness  (vs. Controlling/”Ruthless”)
  • Surfing the Wave of Coincidence in Nowness
  • Responses to Emotions can be direct
  • Matt Smith – “Everything changes everything.” (in the present moment)

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Week 29 – March 14, 2019

• Interview with Klara and Piotr about the longstanding Green Zone in Szczecin, Poland

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Week 30 – March 21, 2019

• true intention of Yellow/Green Light voices

• • fatigue
  • heroic fixation
  • strategizing
  • domination

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Week 31 – March 28, 2019

• special presentation by Esther Hasselman on Group Dynamics and Systems Centered Training.
• Greg on when issues arise in Green Zones
• announcement of Teacher Training/next GZL course

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Week 32 – April 4, 2019

• Interruptions to The Four Stages of Ruthlessness
• game show format

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Week 33 – April 11, 2019

• Marianne’s presentation – Thich Nhat Hanh sangha with sharing
• Green Zone Structures
• The Four Stages of Exclusion

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Week 34 – April 18, 2019

• Pragmatic Issues with Facilitation
• Ethics for Green Zone Leaders
• Interruptions to Four Stages of Exclusion

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Week 35 – April 25, 2019

• Overview of course
• Comments Going Forward
• Closing Offerings

Chris Bacon’s closing song (adapted from “May Your Life Be as a Song” by Jim Scott):

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