Prairie Jubilee … Deepening into Wisdom
A few thoughts from Prairie Jubilee Instructor, Cheryl Kinney Matheson
The 11th Cycle of Prairie Jubilee will begin in September. Dale and I have received and accepted participants and have room for 3-4 more. We know that some people are still discerning and have noticed a common thread of questioning, so I thought I’d offer a response.
“I’ve already taken intro enneagram courses. Tell me why I would want to hear this again?”
“I would like to learn about Spiritual Direction but I’m not sure I want to do all of the work that Year One requires.”
“I’ve read a lot about the enneagram and I’ve taken a course in active listening. Why can’t I take Year Two without taking Year One?”
All good questions! Here are my thoughts regarding the unique nature of Prairie Jubilee.
Prairie Jubilee certainly offers a lot of course material/information but Prairie Jubilee also offers integration and deepening. I don’t know about you, but I know that I have been lured into a whole variety of programs that offer this and that. Most have been great and I’ve learned from them.
There is a whole smorgasbord of courses out there and I have been a keen sampler, however, tasting this and that has it’s limits. At some point, one needs to sit, savour, digest. The participants who come to Prairie Jubilee come with a variety of rich life and educational experience and yet, each expresses a longing for ‘more’. What is it that people are longing for? What is it that Prairie Jubilee offers?
Prairie Jubilee brings participants to a place where each can digest previous and new Work. Prairie Jubilee creates time for integration. We do not ingest and then run off to do errands. We take in and pause, letting what has been received move through us. In this way, head knowledge moves to heart and then, in time, to a transformed way of being. Our Work is done within a framework of Contemplation.
Prairie Jubilee teaches anew and also reviews. I have now instructed six Cycles of Prairie Jubilee and am also a participant in post-Jubilee programs. It is my experience that I am both refreshed and deepened every time I am led around the enneagram symbol and when I experience a spiritual practice within a Jubilee gathering. Being part of Jubilee nurtures me and also holds me accountable to my Work.
Prairie Jubilee integrates self-knowledge Work (the enneagram) and Spiritual Practices, so as to initiate the Way of Wisdom. Prairie Jubilee births Wisdom…a deeper way of knowing.
Prairie Jubilee teaches deep listening through the Journey Group process (Year One). This is a foundational step leading into the practice of Spiritual Direction. It is vital to establish this skill prior to engaging in Direction with Directees.
Prairie Jubilee leads participants into a contemplative way of living. A Director who is a contemplative is able to be present and know Presence. Year One offers an important grounding for Year Two, the Art of Spiritual Direction.
Prairie Jubilee offers a community of friends (participants and leaders) who accompany each other on this path of growth, transformation and work in the world.
Prairie Jubilee is not an academic course. Prairie Jubilee is a community of Wisdom seekers. It is experiential, contemplative, evocative, spacious, integrative, transformative.
For a full description of our program, go to www.prairiejubilee.ca
If you have read this and the course information on our webpage and would like to discuss further with Dale or I, please contact us: