This is what happened through my experience with thisismindful.com on May 21, 2011.
I started the morning in St Kilda… waking up and grabbing a coffee with some eggs at Cafe Racer, then walking by the beach with Jan Stewart and Steve Hopkins before heading into the city.
The #mindful people gathered in the upstairs space at Hub Melbourne. Many of them tweeted.
After meditating for two months, Xavier Shay opened Mindful with a Beginners Mind session on getting started with meditation.
Ron Laurie described the intrinsic, extrinsic and systemic realities while showing us the differences between mindless, mind and mindful.
Pete Williams shared his experiences in a meditative life, about how that translates to action not just relaxation.
When the group split in half, some of us had lunch at Kinfolk followed by Bryony Cole‘s great session on mentors and what that idea looks like now.
Steve Hopkins lead an experimental open space afternoon in the basement labyrinth that sparked many concurrent sessions each with their own unique atmosphere. A few people actually got lost. Others were caught hopping around like frogs.
Edward Harran ran an amazing session about transcending bipolar.
The #mindful tweets were everywhere!
We went upstairs, but everything was different, for drinks and music from Mykel and Jeremy.
We had dinner at Gaylords, followed by Claypots.
My day ended 2am standing in the water at St Kilda with Steve Hopkins and Nathan Sampimon.
It was an intense day that would ripple through many lives.
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