Friday 17th July

from 17:30, formal start at 19:30

Play human Bingo; What’s a rope and wall got to do with anything?; Experience how you can make the most of the weekend; We Will Rock You!

Saturday 18th July

09:30 PRAYERS & WELCOME – MAIN HALL

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS - MAIN HALL

Step back and examine. What is my identity? Determining my direction. What is it in life I want to achieve? What is the point?

Leading you through a logical analysis, taking part in this thought experiment will enable you to understand the motivation underlying your everyday activities. Practical, applicable and mouth wateringly thought provoking. Enjoy.

Break –Dining Hall & Grounds - Sign up to your workshop

WORKSHOPS – BREAK OUT ROOMS

Various workshops allowing you to explore in more depth the themes shared in the previous session. The workshops are constructed to allow you to think through and consider the concepts; realising how to practically apply these insights.

Lunch - Dining Hall & Grounds

LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE – MAIN HALL

Having established your identity, we ask, how can you glimpse who you truly are? How can you let your inner light shine? This session explores the beauty of your true nature, your inner light, and how turning that inner light on, marks the first step in your journey to bridge the gap between where you are and where you strive to be. "This little light of mine … let it SHINE, let it SHINE"

Break – Dining Hall & Grounds

SUMMARY / QUESTIONS & ANSWERS – MAIN HALL

Realise the gaps that have been bridged! Naturally you will have questions. Through-out the day, place the questions in the boxes provided.

Dinner - Dining Hall & Grounds

RAAS GARBA

Talented members of Young Jains (including Sweet Harmony) will be providing the music and singing for a night of colourful and dynamic raas garba; a wonderful way to express bhakti.

Bring your clothes (changing facilities will be provided), dandies and devotional energy!

Sunday 19th July

10:00 PRAYERS & WELCOME – MAIN HALL

GREMLINS, HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM - MAIN HALL

Having identified who you are at your core and recognising your primary goal in this life, this session brings your awareness to the barriers that you constantly come up against.

You will be guided through the chain of events that take place as a result of delusion, how your five senses cause you to have attraction and aversion toward life's situations, which in turn ignite damaging passions such as anger and deceit.

It might feel like a dark picture has been painted of life, but all is not lost. Only once you shine a bright light on the challenges, can you to work towards lifting away the barriers. Through tools available from the timeless Jain tradition you can take positive steps towards experiencing your limitless and fearless true self.

Break –Dining Hall & Grounds - Sign up to your workshop

WORKSHOPS – BREAK OUT ROOMS

Lunch - Dining Hall & Grounds

TO BELIEVE OR NOT TO BELIEVE: THAT IS THE QUESTION – MAIN HALL

Doubt. Risk. Ignorance. Blindness. Confusion. Identity. Investment. Responsibility. Trust. Belief. Experience. Understanding. Faith. Direction. Motivation. Goal. Freedom.

Is life a gamble? Does the soul exist? Where is the proof?

An attempt to untangle the mind, iron out some confusion and gain some all important perspective in a perceivably abstract concept that is the soul. Exploring how the mind understands the world around us may help us in our understanding and experience of the soul.

Break – Dining Hall & Grounds

WORKSHOPS – BREAK OUT ROOMS

SUMMARY / QUESTIONS & ANSWERS – MAIN HALL

The essentials of the bridge have now been revealed! Are you ready to make the journey? Naturally you will have questions. Through-out the day, place the questions in the boxes provided.

GARDEN PARTY

Chill-out, relax, contemplate upon what you have experienced and where you are going to take it.

WHAT NEXT?

Don’t just stop! Continue the journey...

Jain Dharma: The Elevator Pitch – what is it?

At school, university, the work place and beyond, we often meet people who have never even heard of Jainism. When Jainism comes up in conversation, people are almost always thoroughly interested and inquisitive, often intelligently speculating aspects of the religion which we may never have. We may be the only Jains these people ever meet and therefore should understand Jain Dharma to confidently and accurately explain and present this ancient religion. This Jain Dharma session will seek to equip us with answers to questions the Jain community and wider society may ask us in order to represent the philosophy, logical beauty and spirituality of Jain Dharma.

Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Location: Sayer Centre, Oxgate Lane, Cricklewood NW2 7JN
For more information, email training@youngjains.org.uk