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Deepa Patel - creative facilitator and strategic thinker with a passion for the arts, social justice, conversation and life
After loosing a dear friend to cancer in 2020, I felt called to explore spiritual companioning & bereavement more deeply. I trained as a spiritual director and enrolled in year-long practice in living with presence and intention; as well as forgiveness and gratitude, while letting go of what no longer serves. I asked for a volunteer from my cohort to share their reflection on Death, Dying & Life.
Deepa bravely leapt in with her heart & agreed to be interviewed. I'm so grateful she did.
Deepa Patel is passionate about music, young people, fighting injustice and poverty and nurturing equality and creativity in our world. These areas have been the focus of her work. Her past roles have included work as a music education producer for the BBC, a campaigner on HIV/AIDS for ActionAid, and as a Managing Director of Creative Partnerships (a national UK Government Initiative on creativity in schools). She currently facilitates programs on the art of collaboration and conversation and is Co-Director of Slow Down London, a campaign on how to appreciate and enjoy life at a different pace. Deepa is a former member of the Seven Pillars Board of Trustees and lives in England.
Resources Mentioned:
Julia Cameron https://juliacameronlive.com/the-artists-way/
Steven Levine https://levinetalks.com/
A Year to Live Program via The Rumi Center
This year-long program, based on the book A Year to Live by Stephen Levine, is designed for people of all walks of life and stages of life. In community, we will focus on waking up and living life more fully through the exploration of death as a spiritual practice.
Most aspects of our largely death-denying modern culture discourage us from actively contemplating the inevitability of our death, or that it may meet us at any time. The prophets and sages recommend a very different approach to the fact of life's transience: that we use remembrance of death, not to put us in a state of anxiety or morbidness, but as a contemplative practice to assist us in our journey to awaken to that which does not die but lives beyond the ephemeral nature of our lives in this world. Their lives bear witness to the fact that there is a way to die to the attachments and distortions of the ego and come to the realization of a deeper self that transcends death and the perishing realm. This is reflected in the prophetic injunction, "die before you die." This core teaching of all wisdom traditions—that we can realize that which is eternal and transcends our physical bodies—paradoxically provides the means to live more fully and more presently while savoring the gift of each precious breath on earth.
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By Kristen JawadAfter loosing a dear friend to cancer in 2020, I felt called to explore spiritual companioning & bereavement more deeply. I trained as a spiritual director and enrolled in year-long practice in living with presence and intention; as well as forgiveness and gratitude, while letting go of what no longer serves. I asked for a volunteer from my cohort to share their reflection on Death, Dying & Life.
Deepa bravely leapt in with her heart & agreed to be interviewed. I'm so grateful she did.
Deepa Patel is passionate about music, young people, fighting injustice and poverty and nurturing equality and creativity in our world. These areas have been the focus of her work. Her past roles have included work as a music education producer for the BBC, a campaigner on HIV/AIDS for ActionAid, and as a Managing Director of Creative Partnerships (a national UK Government Initiative on creativity in schools). She currently facilitates programs on the art of collaboration and conversation and is Co-Director of Slow Down London, a campaign on how to appreciate and enjoy life at a different pace. Deepa is a former member of the Seven Pillars Board of Trustees and lives in England.
Resources Mentioned:
Julia Cameron https://juliacameronlive.com/the-artists-way/
Steven Levine https://levinetalks.com/
A Year to Live Program via The Rumi Center
This year-long program, based on the book A Year to Live by Stephen Levine, is designed for people of all walks of life and stages of life. In community, we will focus on waking up and living life more fully through the exploration of death as a spiritual practice.
Most aspects of our largely death-denying modern culture discourage us from actively contemplating the inevitability of our death, or that it may meet us at any time. The prophets and sages recommend a very different approach to the fact of life's transience: that we use remembrance of death, not to put us in a state of anxiety or morbidness, but as a contemplative practice to assist us in our journey to awaken to that which does not die but lives beyond the ephemeral nature of our lives in this world. Their lives bear witness to the fact that there is a way to die to the attachments and distortions of the ego and come to the realization of a deeper self that transcends death and the perishing realm. This is reflected in the prophetic injunction, "die before you die." This core teaching of all wisdom traditions—that we can realize that which is eternal and transcends our physical bodies—paradoxically provides the means to live more fully and more presently while savoring the gift of each precious breath on earth.