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Purpose:
Deliberate Living members try to practice simplicity in order to live more
deliberately and more in harmony with our inner sense of truth.
The Deliberate Living offers its members the chance to share
goals and practices and to learn together. We expect to have a
variety of goals and practices among our members because
everyone’s experience and perception is different.
Background:
The
kickoff for the Deliberate Living was the UFWC Earth Stewardship
Task Force Voluntary Simplicity Workshop that was held at the
Fellowship in April 2002 as part of the UUA Green Sanctuary
program.
That
workshop and the initial meetings of the group (then called
Simplicity Circle) were
based on the Northwest Earth Institute’s seven-week Voluntary
Simplicity discussion course. After completing the course, we
read and discussed the UUA study guide Responsible
Consumption as a Moral Imperative. Later we used the
book The Simple Living Guide by Janet Luhrs as the basis
of our discussions.
Past
discussions have included: The meaning of simplicity, living
more with less, money, time, inner simplicity, the practice of
simplicity, how much is enough, work, families, holidays,
clutter, cooking and nutrition, health and exercise, gardening,
travel, simple pleasures, and religious language and inner
truth.
Meetings:
We
normally meet once a month after the Sunday Service. A meeting
coordinator provides the opening and closing readings. (We take
turns in this role.) After the opening reading we usually do a
check-in where we each may say something about the simplicity
issues on which we are currently working. We then discuss a
section of the book that we are reading. At check-out those who
wish may set a personal goal for the coming month. Then we close
with a reading.
Activity
for 2008:
Contact
Heidi Buss. Email: deliberate-living.
How
to Join:
Newcomers are welcome to join Deliberate Living. Contact Heidi
Buss if you have any questions or if would like to join. |
