Finding Light in the Darkness
Dec 07, 2025 2:00PM—4:00PM
Location
ONLINE: Eastern Time (USA, Canada)
Cost $25 - $100 (sliding scale)
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Categories Biography Work-Social Art, Eastern Region US, ONLINE, Workshop
DECEMBER PUBLIC ONLINE WORKSHOP WITH ELVIRA NEAL
Every culture creates festivals, celebrations, and rituals to create moments of pause, reflection, realignment, and give space for appreciation and gratitude. However, for them to be meaningful
and alive, we need to renew them for ourselves time and again.
We have to be awake to those silent moments to appreciate the past, be aware of the precious present moment, and look with hope towards the future with new insights and striving.
Here in the northern hemisphere, we find ourselves in the season of Advent — a time of preparation, of expectant anticipation, of inward listening and quiet contemplation — but also a time of greatest busyness and distraction.
So, the true challenge becomes meeting our higher intentions in moments “of quiet, which bring goodness and wisdom to birth.”
With the current world we live in, this takes on an even more potent meaning… to be awake and upright at all times and in alignment with our life intentions.
Thus, the path of Advent can become a path of self-knowledge. Together, we will endeavor to enliven the richness of this season by looking at our life stories with the aid of images and artistic exercises.
Elvira Neal is the co-director of the biography and social arts certificate program and a life-long Camphill community member. She was born in Germany, and has been residing in a Camphill community in upstate New York since 1998, where she is a house leader and teacher in the Camphill academy. She loves art, yoga, traveling, and is enthusiastic about bringing biography and social art to benefit individuals and groups.
Please bring pen, paper and some colored pencils or crayons.
In order to respect the privacy of our participants, we do not record any of our sessions on zoom. The link will be sent to you the day prior to the workshop to the email that you registered with.
Online Public Workshop: Sliding scale suggested donation is $25.00 – $100.00
You can pay by PayPal and or mail a check to CBSA:
41 Hubbard Ave, Northampton, MA, 01060 USA