Welcome to the retreat - and an idea of what’s coming...

Welcome to the 2011 International Urban Retreat, wherever you might be in the world.  Here’s an idea of what’s coming during the week and when you can expect to find it on-line.  Each day we’ll be exploring different aspects of the overall theme - ‘Sailing the Worldly Winds’ - and posting fresh material. 

We’ll aim to make everything for the following day available at around 17.30 UK time, hopefully this will work for you even if your time zone is ahead...

Notes for online retreatants - part 1: taking part online

Hello from Candradasa and the online team here in the U.S. 

Some quick basics: posts in the ‘latest’ feed are brief extracts. Click ‘read more’ to view the full post (try it with this one) and ‘respond’ to read and comment. You’ll find everything you need for daily participation in the retreat under the ‘course materials’ feed, and some great blog posts from the rest of the teaching team under ‘team posts’ (these are also brief extracts). Check back each day...

Lokabandhu says hello

Lokabandhu here, in Glastonbury, UK.  I’m part of the team for the Urban Retreat, been working on the on-line version of it.  We have over 200 people registered already from all over the world, it’s great. Quite a learning curve at the same time as it’s a brand-new website! If you find any bugs, please let us know. We hope you can take them in the spirit of the retreat, which is after all about the Worldly Winds and...