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MAR 16, 23, 30 - 2025
10 - 11:15am Pacific Time
Three Sundays Series : Live and Recorded
MOVING BEYOND THE POWER OF NOW
Making a new friendship with our past, finding a wilder freedom in the present, while preparing for a rich and inviting future.
About this Series
MOVING BEYOND THE POWER OF NOW:
Making a new friendship with our past, finding a wilder freedom in the present, while preparing for a rich and inviting future.
Eckhart Tolle’s ‘Power of Now’ has been helpful to many people around the planet but our generally accepted interpretation of the ‘Now’ can be deeply misleading on several counts and in many ways has created a puritanical approach to our multi layered reality that has many people who fall short of a pure and exclusive relationship with the ‘Now’, having just one more thing to feel guilty about.
The most misleading legacy of Eckhart Tolle might be in the phrase ‘The present is all we have’. Besides the fact that indigenous cultures, (most especially the Irish) and hard-nosed particle physicists and even historians would beg to differ, our actual personal experience of the past is that it is a living thing, not something just to be discarded, that it may indeed, like us, get stuck and paralyzed but that our past also matures and changes according to the way we simultaneously inhabit the present and from that place, look to the horizon of our future.
Join David Whyte for what might be a more merciful and helpful perspective on the ‘Now’ – one that helps us keep our precious memories, put them in conversation with our present, open up the future horizon, while not asking us to choose between those three astonishing, necessary and abiding qualities.
‘Now’ by itself is always an impoverishment : ‘now’ in conversation with the way the past lives and breathes inside us and the way our future can sometimes be a beautiful, ravishing and inviting stranger, always leads us into extraordinary territory and extraordinary relationships. Holding all three qualities of past, present and future might be a more accurate, and a more realistic and a more consoling understanding that enables us to live a life that might be more easily reached and more possible for all of us.
The March 2025 sessions take place March 16, 23 and 30, 2025.
Registration is open until June 20, 2025; the session recordings will be available to all registered attendees until July 1, 2025.
How the series work
Live session webinars take place via Zoom and include 60 minutes of David speaking followed by a 10-15 minute Q&A period.
Frequently Asked Questions
What if I can't attend live?
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Each session is recorded and will be made available to all registered attendees for a period of three months after the series ends. Session recordings can be found in “Three Sundays” in your Profile.
How long is each session?
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Each session is 60 minutes of David speaking following by a 15-minutes Q&A.
Will I be on camera during the live session?
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The sessions are set up as webinars. Only David will be on camera. Attendees are muted and set to video off during the entirety of the session.
Can I join the sessions from my mobile phone or landline?
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Yes. You can connect via the Zoom app on your mobile device, or call in from a landline or mobile phone. For those interested in listening on a landline or mobile phone, we will send the phone number prior to each session, including international call-in options.
Are Closed Captions Available?
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Yes! English Closed Captions are provided with the video recording. We do not have CC available with the live sessions at this time.
How do I receive the Zoom details for each session?
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The Zoom details will be made available 24 hours before each session begins. The call-in number and link to join will be added to your Series Library, as well as emailed to you. Please check your Spam/Junk folder if you cannot find the Zoom details in your inbox.
If you do not receive the Zoom information by email, or cannot log into your library, please contact [email protected] and someone will be happy to assist you.
What if I can't afford the cost of registration?
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The cost to register for three sessions is $65.00 USD. If you cannot afford to pay the full fee, please contact us to receive a discounted rate.
Will I be able to ask David questions during the live sessions?
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During each session, we will open the Zoom Q&A column where anyone can submit a comment or question. David will take select questions during the last fifteen minutes of the session.
Due to the limited time, we cannot answer every question live, but David does enjoy reading all the comments after the session is closed, and on occasion is able to answer additional questions there.
How long can I access the recordings for a series?
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Session recordings are posted in the Series Library and are available for a period of approximately 3 months after the date of the last session.
We round up to the 1st day of the next month, so, for example, if the last session of a series is on March 26th, we will have the recordings available until July 1st.
Can I register to watch Three Sundays Series from the past?
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In the coming months, we will launch a subscription service called the David Whyte Companion. The Companion Library will contain all of David’s poetry and essays, as well as select videos and an archive containing featured Three Sundays Series from the past four years.
We are very excited to launch the David Whyte Companion and look forward to sharing more details soon.
Are the audio-only recordings available of the sessions?
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As of July 1, 2024 we are no longer providing audio only files of the sessions. It should still be possible to play the video file and listen to audio on headphones or through your device speakers.
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