Deep down many of us yearn for the freedom to be real, to be authentic, to be who we truly are.  We sense how fulfilling it would be to live a life that is real and authentic.

Yet from an early age, we all had to learn to fit in, to conform, to meet the expectations of our family, our culture, at school and in society.  What was true and authentic about us was often missed or dismissed. By the time we’re adults it can be hard to recognize – what is Real about Me?

A central focus in the Diamond Approach is learning to be Real. It’s a vibrant, challenging journey of self discovery. We start right here & now with our direct experience,  and explore and peel away the layers of our historical conditioning and beliefs, to reveal our deepest truths and presence. That is the real you.

Join us for this webinar if this is an exploration that stirs your interest.

Cost: Free

Teachers: Grant Trewenack & Mark Gordon

For those who would like to continue the exploration, a six-session Book Study and Inquiry Group will follow, beginning October 10. Click here to find out more and register.

 

 

Announcing the opening of a new ongoing Diamond Approach Australia group

When we are truly in the moment, life can feel alive, immediate and surprisingly fresh. There is more spontaneity, more freedom in how we respond to whatever life brings. Even the challenges of life can be held a little more lightly.

Yet most of the time, we are not fully in the present. We are caught experiencing life through old versions of ourselves — familiar patterns, assumptions and ways of seeing that have developed over many years. When our experience is shaped by our history, we can begin to sense that we have lost our way, losing touch with what is most True. Life can start to feel dry, dull or repetitive, as though something essential is missing.

In this retreat, we will begin to shine a light on the conditioning that shapes our experience and explore how its hold on us can soften. Through the teachings and experiential practices of the Diamond Approach, we will explore how to recognise our conditioning as it shows up in everyday life, and discover what becomes possible when we learn to be more awake and attuned to our actual here-and-now experience, rather than caught in our history.

There can be more flow, more dynamism — more juice!

This three-day retreat is open to anyone with an interest in exploring the Diamond Approach in more depth.

The retreat also marks the official opening of the ninth ongoing retreat group with Diamond Approach Australia (DAA9). Participants will have the opportunity to lay the foundations for this new group and explore what it might be like to participate in an ongoing group — a stable and committed community offering consistent support for transformation and realisation over time.

There is no obligation to join the ongoing group in order to attend this retreat. The retreat offers an opportunity to explore the teachings, experience the work for yourself and discover whether an ongoing group feels like the right next step for you.

If you are a lover of truth, and long to connect more deeply with your essential nature and express that in your daily life, this retreat and group may be for you.

Dates:
22–24 January 2027

Location:
St Mary’s Newman Academic Centre, Parkville, Melbourne

Format:
In person (non-residential) and online