Ever feel like you are running around in circles? You can feel caring and nurturing one moment, self-centered and aggressive the next.
Making sense of your thoughts and emotions is not easy, and you can often feel conflicted and overwhelmed.
How can you navigate your inner complexity and chart a clear path for yourself?
Our upcoming course, Soul Maps, introduces you to Tanya, a 200-year-old text with a revolutionary approach to human psychology.
The course is structured as a six-session consultation with a Kabbalistic master, to help you understand yourself and navigate your inner conflicts. You'll learn to resolve guilt, conflict, and confusion, and to traverse life's journeys with joy, purpose, and direction
How: In person (Zoom option also available)
When: 6 Tuesdays, Nov 15 - December 20 2022
8-9:30pm
Sushi & refreshments will be served.
Where: Address in W2 provided upon registration.
Cost: £60 (Includes course book)
Couples & Bring a friend: £45 per person (Includes course book).
Not sure it’s for you? Try the first lesson for free!
Full & part scholarships available. Please see registration page or be in touch for more info.
Course author: This course is developed by JLI, the world’s preeminent provider of Jewish learning.
Each lesson is highly engaging, interactive and includes cutting edge media.
Course Instructor: Rabbi Shneur Wineberg, Director, Chabad of Notting Hill
COURSE OUTLINE
Lesson One - November 15
Soul Words
If you are such a good person, why do you sometimes feel so mean inside? And if you are such a bad person, why are you plagued by fits of conscience? Just as Freud developed the vocabulary that enable you to speak about your psyche, the Tanya provides the key terms and constructs that allow you to speak about your soul . . . or souls. What kind of person are you? What is the source of inner conflict? This lesson teaches you the words you need in order to answer the question.
Lesson Two - November 22
Getting A Grip on Yourself
It can be enlightening to know why you succumb to temptations that you wish you had resisted. But is there a strategy to gaining self-control? This lesson provides practical guidelines for overcoming weakness and learning to control behavior.
Lesson Three - November 29
Sync or Sink
When your heart’s passion pulls you one way and your measured mind pulls another way, the disconnect can be agonizing. This lesson will teach you two methods for aligning reason and emotion, so you can reduce stress and live decisively.
Lesson Four - December 6
The Joyride
Constant doubt and emotional unhappiness can gradually sap you of the strength and will to change. But joy provides the boost that allows you to live each day with enthusiasm and resolve. This lesson provides useful perspectives that can help you generate a positive attitude.
Lesson Five - December 13
The Big Picture
Even after learning methods for overcoming personal challenges and pursuing goodness, you may still wonder why it all matters. What is the purpose of imperfect attempts at perfection? Do your human failings condemn you to be a personal failure? Or might your weaknesses provide an opportunity for a making a unique contribution to the world? Lesson Five allows you to make peace with your personal struggles as you consider your place in the larger scheme of things.
Lesson Six - December 20
Have a Heart
Most of Tanya focuses on how you can gain control of the way you act, even if your feelings and motives are not always pure. For those who are patient enough to pursue a slow fix, this final lesson provides meditations and guidelines for reshaping your essential nature over time, while recognizing that the true key to living purposefully is behaving purposefully.