Creating belonging through awakening inner agency (via Brahma Kumaris contemplative practice)
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Abstract
Taking a novel inside-out lens for creating more belonging in communities, sourced from
Brahma Kumaris contemplative Raja Yoga, this workshop will: (i) provide motivation for how awakening an inner agency of seeking to help and uplift others in a community creates belonging, (ii) provide a guided-experience of gentle, open-eyed meditation to re-awaken an eternal connection to the divine source and/or of being a special and powerful spiritual being from within, (iii) provide time to participants to come up with any insights to apply in their own communities.
Presenter Biographies
Sudarshan Sundar has been a student and teacher of Brahma Kumaris Raja Yoga Meditation since 2001. Sudarshan helped start and co-coordinated the activities of "Inner Space Meditation Center and Gallery" in Harvard Square from 2012 to 2020. Sudarshan has been a Software Engineer by profession at Microsoft since 2003 and working part-time since 2020. Sudarshan is was a Resident Fellow at Harvard Divinity School for the 2024-25 academic year.
Rita Cleary is a co-founder of The Learning Circle and The Visions of a Better World Foundation in 1993. She is also a founding partner of The Society for Organizational Learning and Images and Voices of Hope Media Project and the Call of the Time Global Leadership Dialogues and Retreats series since 1998. For over 30 years, she has been a student and teacher of Raja Yoga Meditation. Rita currently serves as the Co-Coordinator of the Boston chapter of the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organization.