Shame, uncertainty and innovation – upcoming Acem Webinars
Enjoy exciting new perspectives and reflection by joining these two Acem Webinars in October and November.
Shame – how to understand our painful companion
Saturday 03 October 2020 16:00 Central European Summer Time (Oslo, Berlin, Barcelona)
Can our experience with metathoughts – self-critical thoughts during meditation – help us understand the origins of our shame? Is understanding […]
International Summer Retreats 2021
Regular Retreats
International Young Retreat Sat 24 July – Sat 31 July 2021
Leaders: Elisabeth Heimdal Wærsted and Bjarke Madsen
Lundsholm, Värmland, Sweden
International Retreat Sat 31 July – Sat 7 August 2021
Leader: Christopher Grøndahl
Lundsholm, Värmland, Sweden
Deepening Retreats
One-week International Deepening Retreat Sat 10 July – Sat 17 July 2021
Leaders: Ole […]
Acem Training in Interpersonal Communication 22–30 May 2021
In 2020, this course had to be canceled due to the corona situation. We are pleased to offer a new possibility in 2021.
This is a unique course; it doesn’t resemble any other training with a similar name. It builds on experience-based, exploratory, and deepening group processes. Twice every day, participants meet in small communication groups […]
Deepening winter retreats of Acem Meditation
International Deepening Retreat
2-9 January 2021
Leaders: Rolf Brandrud and Christopher Grøndahl
Halvorsbøle International Retreat Centre, Norway
International Young Deepening Retreat
2-9 January
Leader: Christopher Grøndahl
Halvorsbøle International Retreat Centre, Norway
International Advanced Deepening Retreat (3 weeks), 2-23 January 2021
Leaders Halvor Eifring, Øyvind Ellingsen and Thor Udenæs
Lundsholm, Värmland, Sweden
Advice on dealing with negative thoughts in meditation
“At times, I feel inadequate when I meditate. The meditation sound is never easy and effortless and is always linked to my breathing. What should I do?”
“Meditation is not only easy for me, even though I feel that it should be. It is difficult to repeat the sound the way it is supposed to be. […]
Learning meditation at a young age was one of the smartest things I have done
Astrid and Gry Iverslien – mother and daughter – share the interest in meditation, and both have made use of meditative processes in their creative professional activities.
A better understanding of myself
Astrid is what you would call a creative person. She has made drawings, painted, and written books. Now, at 86, her neck doesn’t permit drawing […]