“When Two or More are Gathered”

Five-night Small Group Intensives

in ireland with Lisa Romero

The intimate gathering of six people, will be for 5 nights focusing on deepening essential themes that have arisen in the Inner Development course. We will meet each other with the intention to open an experience with the mystery of “when two or more are gathered”.  Through conversation and offerings between us we will seek and ask questions for the future good of humanity. In the practice of this conversation those that are able to truely listen and hear can help each speaker deepen the spiritual thoughts that are willing to express uniquely through them. We gather as colleagues in the name of Love, to speak and listen together towards a future willed by the divine.

These retreats are available to those who have completed the 12 lessons of Inner Development for World Development. All of the intensives will focus on a practice or component of certain lessons which will be sent 6 weeks prior to the gathering. There will be particular indications of lessons from the course to review.

Along with what will uniquely arise because of the configuration of the group gathered, it is hoped that all participants will carry with them from Ireland the capacity to continue this work into their own communities.

Retreats are held at Beara Peninsula County Cork in Ireland.

The contribution for a retreat is 1440€ and includes all meals and required materials. You are welcome to complimentary onsite, simple accommodation. For those that need more privacy /amenities you may choose to book your own accomodation in the nearby village of Glengarriff.

If you are a participant of the course Inner Development for World Development you are welcome to use this form to express your interest in retreats in 2025.

Outline of the day
(Subject to change according to the groups needs)

Day 1

4 - 6pm Arrival, greeting and dinner
6 - 9pm Opening the circle for themes of exploration

Day 2, 3, 4, 5

Rise and Breakfast in one’s own time
9am - 12pm We will gather together in conversation to deepen the questions and themes of the previous evening.
12pm - 3pm Light lunch and rest to take the content deeply into individual space and integration.
3 - 6pm Facilitated by a group member to support integration through various capacities of each member to express more deeply the themes.
5 - 6pm Dinner
6 - 9pm We regather in the circle to open the new spiritual day and their themes.

Day 6

Rise and breakfast in one’s own time.
9am - 10:30am Circle of completion and departure.

 

Lisa Romero is an author of inner development books, a complementary health practitioner and an adult educator who has been offering healthcare and education enriched with anthroposophy since 1993.

From 2006 the primary focus of her work has been on teaching inner development and anthroposophical meditation.

Through Inner Work Path Lisa offers lectures, courses and retreats for personal and professional development.  Lisa's most recent initiative is the Astral-Arc, a YouTube channel offering a place to hear from young people asking questions on the path, practicing the work of love through awakening the mystery centre of the heart, and hearing various artistic expressions of both.

Through Inner Work Books Lisa has published 'The Inner Work Path’ focusing on meditation practice, 'Developing the Self’ written after many years of working with Waldorf teachers to support their inner work and pedagogical understanding of child development, 'Living Inner Development’ offering an understanding of the inner experiences and results of various inner development exercises, 'Sex Education and The Spirit' to help awaken an understanding of our communal responsibility for the healthy development of gender and sexuality within society, "Spirit-led Community" which introduces spiritually healthy guidelines for lessening the negative influence of technology on the inner life, and "A Bridge to Spirit - Understanding conscious self-development and consciousness-altering substances". 

Through EduCareDo Lisa has authored and tutors a year-long course  - Inner Development for World Development and contributed to a number of the other EduCareDo courses.

For several years Lisa was the lecturer of Health & Nutrition and Gender studies at Sydney Rudolf Steiner College, where she continued to give lectures to the tutors on inner development for many years. Since 1999 she has been presenting on the subject of gender, sexuality and spiritual life. She has been working with Waldorf schools as a part of their health and wellbeing curriculum, working directly with the students, teachers and parents on this theme. Lisa has contributed to and is an adviser on Health and Personal Development for the Australian Steiner Curriculum Framework. She has developed training courses, and facilitates professional development on this subject for teachers and health professionals. Lisa designed and facilitated EduCareDo ‘Towards Health and Healing’ which has offered 8 year-long courses focused on working with therapists from all modalities, as well as Waldorf teachers, toward cultivating the depth of anthroposophical insight through practical applications of therapeutic and pedagogical methods. Lisa is a contributor, tutor and director of Inner Work Path, EduCareDo, Developing the Self Developing the World and the Y Project.

Developing the Self Developing the World delivers community education, and the Y Project supports the bridging of young people into healthy community life. Lisa’s capacity to deliver esoteric wisdom with insight and understanding allows her to meet the diverse needs of a range of communities and professions. Essentially, her work springs from the inner work, meditation and exercises, together with a dedication to the path of unfolding consciousness.

Primary course image at top of page courtesy of Laura Summer