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Forty-Day Retreat In search of yourself, The world contains the answer. In search of the world, The answer lies in you. --Rudolf Steiner. The Forty-Day Pleroma Farm Retreat is for adolescents, young adults and those who are young at heart, who need to learn to manage their lives. It is for those persons who want to make their biography a true expression of themselves, and need guidance in doing so. Participants must be 16 years of age and older. During the retreat you will have the opportunity to learn to be yourself, through restoring or building self-confidence and by supporting the development of self-knowledge. Pleroma Farm is a mixed, biodynamic farm in upstate New York. We ask you to actively engage in the farm work, in the artistic activities and in the conversations with the guides. More and more people want to learn how to make their life an expression of how they experience themselves as individuals. When this happens, one is able to make choices before acting, and act precisely as intended. No longer is your life shaped by habits, family or tradition, you yourself become the artist, creating the painting that is your biography. To develop these abilities, one needs to come to self-knowledge. That can be done best through a process of exploration. During the retreat the participant discovers what makes him or her a unique human being. We begin by looking at what we share with the outer world, and, in that process, begin to uncover our true self. By observing the soul expressions of the farm animals, the students learn to recognize patterns in the activity of their own soul. With participation in the garden work, the student can observe life processes in the plants and come to understand how they also take place in their own organism. By working in the soil, one comes to sense the possibilities that exist for structuring one's biography in a practical way. Each day the student is invited, in conversations, to reflect on the observations that have been made that day. One can, in this way, discover the true colors of one's personality, of that part of our being, in which we can be similar to other people. Having revealed that which is not unique about ourselves, we can now begin to recognize what makes us truly special: we discover the qualities of one's individuality, that part of our being that is unlike anybody else's and which is the source of our original, unique ideas and ideals. After going through this process, we can reenter into life and bring to the world of people and nature the gift of our original words and deeds! |