My return to Georgia this time was also not without much Meaning.   Not only, was I able to continue to care for the Alexzanna Farms animal residents and tend its woods, I was asked by a group of folks from the Chattanooga community to lead a class on “radical Virtue”.  This 11-week event, entitled “A Course in Practical Selflessness”, gave its participants a backdrop into the very real sociological and psychological effects of caring for others during those times when we feel least inclined to do so (i.e. when we are tired or injured or ill or “too busy” or too angry or simply too frightened).  What was ground-breaking about this course is the practical way in which it was facilitated — with every week’s discussion of one of the “9 Noble Virtues” being followed by exercises that allowed participants to experience what it felt like to enliven the same.  For more information on this course, including access to live mp3 recordings from every class as well as pdf’s of all class handouts, simply go to the “A Course in Practical Selflessness” category of this blog.

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