An opportunity to pause on your journey since the loss of someone you love and reflect on how this has changed your life…
This course is ideal for anyone touched by the death of a loved one and interested in looking more deeply with others on the impact of this experience and how it has altered their understanding and approach to life.
Over 6 evenings we will explore the following themes:
- Death - an encounter with life’s mystery?
- Grieving your way
- Aloneness
- Communion with your loved one - what continues?
- Relationships and friendships - old wood/new growth
- You and Your life! - drawing meaning to live with
The evenings will be relaxed and gentle with opportunities for questions and discussion.
About the facilitator:
Andrew Lindsay is a registered psychologist and counsellor working with Karuna Hospice Services. Through this work he has made many connections both with people as they approach the end of their lives and with people affected by the loss of someone close and dear. He is sustained and inspired by the richness of the human spirit and the touching possibilities within human relationships.
Dates: 6 Wednesday evenings - 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th April and 7th May
Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Place: Karuna House, 27 Cartwright St, Windsor
Cost: $150
photo by fangars, licenced creative commons
Bookings are essential as places are limited. Please book by phoning 07 3632 8300.
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A new Open Heart Peaceful Mind course has been announced! Helping you to develop awareness techniques for a happier life, to become better equipped to deal with everyday stresses and important issues in your life, and to strengthen your personal capacity to manage physical and/or emotional pain.
The first of our very popular Life Education courses is set to begin in February of the new year. Bookings for Open Heart Peaceful Mind and Introduction to Buddhism are already filling quickly!
Please call 07 3632 8300 or email bookings@karuna.org.au to ensure your place.
Karuna’s new Life Education page has a number of interesting courses aimed at educating and extending benefit to the wider community.
Click the image below for more information and to view the course descriptions. Check the calendar regularly for upcoming dates.
If you haven’t dropped by Karuna House lately, you’re in for a very pleasant surprise!
In the space of a couple of months, what was a dry and dusty wasteland at the front of Karuna House has been transformed into a magnificent Queensland garden including hundreds of plants generously donated by John Hawkins of Hawkins Home and Garden Centre. The flora ranges in size from a grand Magnolia tree and splendid Cuban Royal palms to what will be delicate little lotus flowers floating in an attractive central fountain when completed.
Designed by heritage architect Desley Campbell-Stewart and constructed by Lindsay Pratt of Harmony Landscapes, the new gardens provide a truly magnificent setting for our 19th century homestead, Karuna House, formerly known as Rosemount Villa. Of course Rosemount is no stranger to beautiful gardens especially rose gardens from which the property is originally thought to have taken its name. (In fact one of the original heritage listed rose gardens still remains on the property to this day.)
Mr Alfred Jones lived at Rosemount in the 1880’s when the property’s spacious 75 acres sprawled from Lutwyche Road right down to the banks of Breakfast Creek along what is now Cartwright St. He became famous throughout the colony for his impressive bush houses with their fine selection of native orchids, tree ferns and staghorns which were found and collected for him by the local Turrbul aboriginal people from the then virgin bush of adjacent Kelvin Grove.
The grand carriage way which once led up to the front entrance of Rosemount Villa from Lutwyche Road in the 19th century has been partially re-created in the new garden at Karuna House by an avenue of stately Cuban Royal palms.
Poinciana, frangipani and yellow flame trees have been set off with generous plantings of camellia, cordyline, gardenia, mock orange, agapanthus and jasmine throughout the new gardens. A Buddhist Stupa is planned as a feature outside the reception area in the not too distant future. A stupa is a monument common throughout Buddhist culture which represents the qualities of an enlightened mind (eg wisdom and compassion). Such monuments are beautifully crafted and
decorated to inspire and uplift us.
