Desert Odyssey_2016 Aenon Flyer - Desert Odyssey

The Way In
Is The Way Out
2016 Dates
February 21 - 27
April 17 - 23
June 19 - 25
September 4 - 10
December 4 - 10
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Aenon Health Care
Tampin, Malaysia
Please contact us for cost information.
Registration deadline is 15 days before
programme commencement.
The Landscape
The Journey
The story of our lives seem to be etched in stone and we
are resigned to live with the consequences of our wounded
hearts, broken lives, alienated relationships. What if the
story of our lives could be rewritten, our broken lives
reassembled, our relationships restored? What if our lives
can be graced with a renewed innocence, a reinvigorated
vitality, a rebreathed freshness?
The desert odyssey is a residential programme consisting
of discoveries and conversations. Discoveries are
times given to exploring woundedness, brokenness,
alienation – how it came about, how it impacts us, what we
can learn from it, how we can get out of it. It is the amazing
discovery that we can make the wonderful and liberating
journey towards transformation and freedom.
The Destination
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The desert odyssey is a process, a programme, and a place
where refuge sought is granted, healing for spirit, mind, and
body desired is tended, and transformation needed is
effected. It is a place of generous and radical hospitality
where transformation is lived out. It is a journey that both
the Sojourners who serve as Guides and those who are on
the journey for the first time, travel as companions in the
exciting discovery of the landscape of their lives and of each
other, and of what’s around them.
The Community
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Each desert odyssey will comprise no more than ten
Sojourners. This is an English-language only programme. If
there are less than five Sojourners, the organiser reserves
the right to cancel that particular programme and offer those
who have signed up the opportunity to register for the next
available programme.
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Conversations are times given to the honest sharing of our
lives with each other, the richness of each Sojourner’s
experience, unvarnished and perhaps even unprocessed. It
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matters not. Because everyone on the desert odyssey is a
Sojourner including the Guides. Conversations give collective
expression to the Discoveries we have made, allowing for
mutual processing and learning.
The Guide
A former President/Chief Executive Officer of a global
not-for-profit organisation, Timothy Khoo serves as an
unqualified Guide and fellow Sojourner of those who dare
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venture into and through the desert odyssey . Through his
own brokenness and desert wandering, Timothy will help us
navigate our way in the journey.
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Sojourners’ Experience
“The trip into desert odyssey is worth
your time. It gave me hope, courage, and
increased my faith to handle any situation
in life!”
“desert odyssey came to me just in time.
I’m going back home healed physically,
emotionally, and spiritually. As I continue to
apply the desert odyssey principles, my life
will become a beacon of hope to the
brokenhearted.”
“It has been so rich to hear and share the life
experience of sojourners from distinct cultures
and traditions and finally find in them brothers
and sisters to continue the journey together.”
The Map & the Compass
Every journey into the unknown and the unfamiliar requires
a map and a compass to help us navigate the journey.
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At desert odyssey the map consists of the following
contours and terrain:
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The Way In Is The Way Out
Re-Storying and Re-Membering
The Map Of Our Lives and The Story That It Tells
The Journey To Freedom
Learning to Walk In The Dark
A Letter To God
Of Excruciating and Exquisite Pain
Una Buona Morte – A Good Death
Walking Backwards Into The Future
Bring On The Wonder
Walking At The Speed Of Thoughtfulness
How Now Shall We Live
Body, mind, spirit – the journey of transformation involves
all aspects of our lives, our whole person brought to
wholeness. In collaboration with Aenon Health Care
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(www.aenon.org.my), desert odyssey is delighted to offer
an integrated programme that includes tailored diet, tailored
natural health treatments, physical wellness coaching
and exercise.
registration: [email protected]
The Preparation
An integral part of the journey is the preparation. To train our
eyes to see beyond sight; to train our ears to hear beyond
sound; to train our fingers to feel beyond touch; to train our
noses to sense beyond smell; to train our tongues to
savour beyond taste; to train our minds to think beyond
thought; to train our hearts to reason and see; to train our souls
to rest in the present as preparation for the future.
We will embark on a journey of the senses as we prepare to
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embark on desert odyssey . To discover beauty in what we
take for granted. To discover beauty in our brokenness.
Over a day in Singapore before departing for the health centre,
we will:
* Discover beauty in nature (Gardens By The Bay)
* Discover beauty in architecture (the skyline from a boat’s
journey on the Singapore River)
* Discover beauty in culture (Chinese tea preparation
and ceremony)
* Discover beauty in cuisine (Dim Sum lunch)
* Discover beauty in art (National Gallery)
To register, please email: [email protected]
or call +65 8518 1396
inquiries: +65 8518 1396