Speaker: Tom Halbert (Online)

Mon 15 & 22 Sept | 7.00-8.30pm AESTLocation: In person at Western Sydney University (74 Rickard Rd, Bankstown City Campus), Room 1.4.34 on level 4;

or Online (Zoom link below)

Cost: Free

These two workshops are about how the spiritual supports the environmental, and how the environmental supports the spiritual. It works from the attitude of unashamedly bringing the spiritual to the environmental. The topic is quite the multi-faceted jewel, so many aspects which are relevant; respect life, co-existence, mutual benefit, bring the sacred, what views we have and their consequent thoughts, words and actions, vow to energise. We also will acknowledge our humanity, valuing our feelings, empowering ourselves, having faith and trust, generating Metta, contentment with our scope. Whilst we see the environmental damage of the Anthropocene, we will also see the vast amount of mutual benefit activities of the symbiocene that are in action. And, finally work to fine tune the spiritual-environmental practices that we have and can get on with.

About the Speaker: Tom Halbert has been a Buddhist going on 50 years. He has been involved in climate campaigning and has a degree in sustainable development and recently completed the Permaculture Design Certification.

Hybrid event: Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in an interactive session in person at the Metta Centre or online by clicking on this link to access the session: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83506489824?pwd=cmpNQ1ljSmFVYURLWVN1dWllYUN1dz09 Alternatively, you can dial in from your telephone (call charges apply): +61 2 8015 6011 | Meeting ID: 835 0648 9824| Passcode: 718905

If you are feeling unwell, please consider staying at home and joining online instead.