Attending a meeting

If you are in the Philadelphia area, you are welcome to come to an introductory meeting and see how our group works together. A visit is worth a thousand words... or pictures.

The open meetings for visitors are usually scheduled individually, often on the first and third Sunday evenings of each month at (call 215-849-3942 to confirm time). Typically, regular member meetings begin with a brief live piano recital of Gurdjieff/DeHartmann and/or classical music. The meeting includes attention work, such as sitting and walking meditation, chanting, drumming, music and divided attention exercises.

Frequently there is a topic for presentation and/or discussion, related to the psychological models and other concepts of the Fourth Way, from the perspective of practical daily application to one's life. Other segments of the meeting may involve mindful movements and music, which require no prior experience.

Thus the meetings provide a forum for integrated development of intellectual mind, emotion and body, and hands-on experience with a broad spectrum of tools that appeal to many different ways of learning.

There are occasional Mindful Movements workshops which provide an opportunity of extended practice with the body-centered techniques, but in a context of refined understanding.