International Deepening Retreats – Winter and Spring 2020
A deepening retreat gives you an opportunity for daily long meditations of at least six hours. The retreat will focus on how to enhance your meditation, and all activities during the retreat are designed to stimulate the deeper meditative process: daily meditations of more than six hours, process guidance, dialogue-based seminars on the psychology of […]
International Summer Retreats 2020
Give yourself a rejuvenating break with silence, reflection and interaction. Be inspired and bring home new insights into yourself and your meditation. Acem’s International Retreat Centre Halvorsbøle near Oslo lies on a hill overlooking the Randsfjord and the nearby forests and hamlets – a truly exquisite setting for meditation. The stimulating social interaction in an […]
How does consciousness emerge?
George Northoff shared his views in Acem Forum in Oslo
The Acem Centre in Oslo was filled to the brim, and the audience was full of expectations. The world-renowned philosopher and neuroscientist Georg Northoff of the University of Ottawa was visiting and was about […]
The Acem Training in Interpersonal Communication
takes place 25 April – 3 May 2020 at Halvorsbøle, Norway
This intensive course has been an annual event for nearly fifty years. It is a unique opportunity to see yourself and others behind the façades. The course is suitable for first-timers as […]
Q&A: Existential?
By Dag Spilde and Maria S. Gjems-Onstad
Acem is a nonreligious organization, with little talk of spirituality. That is fine with me, although I myself am […]
Towards a more stable self-image
By Tor Hersoug
Are there any links between low self-images and meditation? Quite a few, actually. Low self-images may emerge in the meditation as spontaneous thoughts and feelings; they may influence the way we meditate, often without our awareness, as well as our motivation to continue to meditate. […]