Inner Reflections - Mindful Reflections: Exploring Legacies, Deepening Connections

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
– Carl Jung

Communication skills are, in part, a legacy from our families and transform or strengthen through non-judgmental awareness and self-compassion. Honest communication with others is based upon acceptance, curiosity, and openness. As we strengthen our ability to bring deep listening to our own experiences, we enhance our capacity to be present with and available to others, to nature, and to artistic works. After learning brief, self-listening skills, we will become aware of our sensations, thoughts, and feelings as we view artists’ images.

Mindful Reflections: Exploring Legacies, Deepening Connections

Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.
― Shannon Alder

In July of 2024, The Bascom will sponsor its third Mindfulness Series. These Friday experiences will take place from 9:30-10:30 am on July 5, 12, 19, and 26.  Each of the four mindfulness sessions are interrelated and stand-alone allowing participants to register, free of charge, for the entire series or for individual sessions as schedules allow. The series is suitable for all levels of experience from beginners to seasoned mindfulness practitioners.

The sessions will link Legacies, The Bascom’s annual theme, with Reflections, the theme of June’s main gallery exhibit. The Reflections exhibit features the work of two generations of glassblowers. In this work, we will see the influences of artistic legacy. Through mindfulness, participants will explore the impact of these artistic legacies, their personal legacies, and will take home brief mindfulness skills designed to enhance their lives and relationships.

Please register early for each session you wish to attend. Should you find that you are unable to attend a session, please contact The Bascom to cancel. Each session will close as it reaches capacity and a waitlist established. Cancelling will allow others to attend. Please wear comfortable clothing suitable for gentle movement.