Tuesday, 13 October 2020 7pm:
Public lecture:  Why cleaning has Meaning – About Cleaning and Caring –

Hardly anybody talks about it, yet we do it almost daily! Every space requires a degree of caring, a necessary task that is not always taken on with enthusiasm.
Linda Thomas can help us to discover a new source of joy in our daily chores. Sharing anecdotes from decades of cleaning experience, she offers many practical tips and tricks of how to make the work easier and more effective.
Course: Wednesday and Thursday 14 and 15 October 2020 from 9am – 5pm

It is important to investigate the health-giving effect of cleaning on the human being and n our environment. To clean, one must learn to perceive what needs to be done. Practicing perception and self-perception whilst caring for our home or institution, can lead us to discover ways of developing qualities such as: patience, rhythm, attention to detail, personal responsibility.
Everything that repeats itself in life can become routine, or when done with awareness, can become a skill. Through consciousness and devotion to small things, we learn to transform the act of cleaning into a nurturing act of caring. By creating rhythm in our lives and doing things with awareness and love, we can learn to have a relationship with the elements and the elemental beings.
We no longer only remove dirt, we create space for something new. We may then consciously place the space we have created at the disposal of the positive and helpful beings living in the space we are cleaning, or the activities and people linked to the space.