A wonderful remedy that can heal your inner soul
If you clean with love and devotion, you do not only remove dirt, you also create space for something new. It is important to dedicate the space you create to the good of all, place it at the service of helping beings who support us in a positive way.
Is it possible to create space for the New Year? For the future? Has it ever happened that you asked yourself: Where did the spring go? You hardly notice it because when you do too much, you have tunnel vision and see nothing but what keeps you busy.
We can learn to create space for the New Year. In the western tradition, that is what the time of advent and the holy nights is all about. Eastern New Year celebrations will come soon enough, so you can apply all you hear now, then.
Cleaning together as a family or community can be a joyful experience for all participants. We can clean together, grateful that we have made it through this past year, this difficult time for all of us here and all over the world. Cleaning together with gratitude is a wonderful remedy that can heal so much. The bond within the family or community is the foundation of our home and our society.
What will you learn from this workshop?
DAY1 ( 20 Jan, Saturday): Why Cleaning Has Meaning
Session 1: Discussion,Q&A
- Observation and self-observation
- The cleaning gesture as an expression of inner attitude
- Cleaning as a family with different generations: The importance of rhythm
Session 2: Practical Demonstrations
- What do I clean with? Products and tools
- Methods of cleaning
- How to clean different areas: Bathroom, kitchen, living space
DAY2 (21 Jan, Sunday): Creating and Maintaining Order
Session 3:Discussion,Q&A
- How or where does disorder start?
- Disorder or clutter?
- Why can’t I let go of things?
Session 4: Looking at the Method
- Where do I start?
- Which methods are effective when different generations are involved?
- How can I maintain order once I have managed to create it?
Online by ZOOM
(Zoom Link will be send to your Email before class start)
CET Time :
8am – 3pm (one hour break time, around 11 – 12pm)
Beijing/Malaysia Time:
3pm – 10pm(one hour break time,around 6-7pm)
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What You Will Learn
~ About the Speaker ~
Linda Thomas was born in South Africa in 1953. In March 1988 she founded an “ecological cleaning institute” which was considered unique in Switzerland. Her love of being a housewife made Linda discover a different meaning in everyday ‘chores’ and, once she started cleaning professionally, a whole new world opened up for her.
She was guided by the question: If one can be spiritually effective in every place and through every activity in the world, then it must also be possible when one cleans and cares for our homes or work place?
Thus she developed her working philosophy that can transform cleaning into caring, setting a clear impulse for a transformation in thinking and doing, as well as for an expanded self-understanding of homemaking.
Linda was responsible for the cleaning and caring of the Goetheanum for 21 years and from 2012 she managed the home economic and services department of the new Klinik-Arlesheim until her retirement in August 2017.
She shares her thoughts and experiences internationally in lectures and seminars.