Neil Baker is hosting another “Comfortable Silence” on May 16th. The plan is very simple: we will gather on Zoom and be silent together, for an hour. We did this in March and it was lovely, so he thought we’d do it again.
The invitation is to use the silence in whatever way you feel called to. You might meditate, write, draw, do some ironing – who knows. You might find it intolerable and leave. That’s fine. The only two rules are: you must do it silently and if you join more than five minutes late, you will not be let in (as we should respect the silence).
Here are some of the things people said about our last Comfortable Silence:
– “I was surprised when the hour was up. I’d managed to focus attention on a thorny issue that has been troubling me for a while and some answers popped up unexpectedly.”
– “I was struck by the sense of company we achieved. It was a conscious, voluntary act of spending time together.”
– “It made me think more clearly. I have no idea why. It also made me more self-reflecting and better at seeing things through and understanding where the blocks are. I solved a problem in that hour that had been bothering me for a while.”
If you’d like to join, here are the details:
Comfortable Silence
May 16. 5pm-roughly 6.15pm, UK time