INTERNATIONAL
FORGIVENESS DAY

 

Sunday, August 3, 2008

FORGIVENESS MASTERS WORKSHOP

 

Saturday, August 2, 2008

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2008 CELEBRATION LOCATIONS

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CREATE YOUR OWN OBSERVANCE

If you would like to help create a Forgiveness Day in your area, send an email to Sally Santana.

 

You may also download a pdf document written by Sally explaining simple rules to create your own observation of International Forgiveness Day.

The Forgiveness Masters Workshop

Saturday, August 2, 2008 - 1 to 5 p.m.

Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church

Camino Alto & Sycamore Avenues, Mill Valley, CA

Suggested donation $55 – register online at www.forgivenessday.org

 

“Four women with very different stories and four different journeys and yet the destination, a state of forgiveness, is the same.

 

What can we offer participants? It is always my hope that by making this story and life public it can inspire hope that forgiveness is not only possible but also worthy of our every effort to attain it. The freedom from victimhood is a very sweet place to live. I think it was stated that we need a new model of what it is to forgive.

 

 I believe that this is very important. Perhaps it would be interesting to contemplate why do we not forgive? If one is really honest, in our current society there appear to be quite a few benefits to remaining a victim – lots of attention, financial compensation, permission to indulge in our anger and resentment and plenty of excuses not to fulfill our potential.

 

The new model needs to demonstrate that Forgiveness empowers us and frees us to achieve great things in our lives. It comes from a place of strength and courage .It needs to be taught and demonstrated. It seems your heroes and champions are all very active vibrant women – living examples of the new model. We are not saints and still have to deal with life’s challenges, but I feel we each have a strength of character, which enables us contemplate our actions in a profound way and use our discrimination in making wiser, more compassionate and loving choices. From what I heard on the call we are all fighters for truth and justice. “

Julie Chimes, 2008 Hero of Forgiveness

The Forgiveness Masters Workshop features our three Heroines and one Champion of Forgiveness in a unique gathering of consciousness, grace and forgiveness.  Each of these Masters will present their perspective on the six fundamental questions of Forgiveness.

  1. What is Forgiveness?
  2. Why Forgive?
  3. When to Forgive?
  4. Who Forgives?
  5. How to Forgive?
  6. After Forgiveness?

Participants will be led by the Masters, through various exercises and meditations in addressing each of these questions.   The Workshop has been designed to maximize the experiential aspects for each participant, to provide forgiveness tools for daily life, and to help bring forgiveness to each one present.