Every culture creates festivals, celebrations, and rituals to create moments of pause, reflection,
realignment and give space for appreciation and gratitude. However, for them to be meaningful
and alive we need to renew them for ourselves time and again.

We have to be awake to those silent moments to appreciate the past, be aware of the precious present moment and look with hope towards the future with new insights and striving.

Here in the northern hemisphere, we find ourselves in the season of Advent - a time of preparation, of expectant anticipation, of inward listening and quiet contemplation - but also a time of greatest busy-ness and distraction.

So, the true challenge becomes meeting our higher
intentions in moments “of quiet which bring goodness and wisdom to birth”.

With the current world we live in this takes on an even more potent meaning...to be awake and upright at all times and in alignment with our life intentions.

Thus, the path of Advent can become a path of self-knowledge. Together we will endeavor to enliven the richness of this season by looking at our life stories
with the aid of images and artistic exercises.

Elvira Neal is the co-director of the Biography and Social Arts certificate program and a life-long
Camphill Community Member. She was born in Germany and has been residing in a Camphill
Community in Upstate New York since 1998, where she is a house leader and teacher in the
Camphill Academy. She loves art, yoga, traveling and is enthusiastic about bringing Biography
and Social Art to benefit individuals and groups.

Please bring with you, and have at close reach, a candle and matches. 

You are also welcome to bring pen, paper and some colored pencils or crayons.

In order to respect the privacy of our participants, we do not record any of our online Zoom sessions.

The Zoom link will be sent to you upon regitration and again on the day of the workshop. 

Sunday, December 7, 2025 

2- 4pm Eastern

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The Center for Biography and Social Art is committed to equal opportunity and does not discriminate in any program or activity on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, disability, marital status, or any other protected class.

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