Spend your Sunday with our very special guests: Rev. Shawn Moninger and David Friedman
11:00 AM: Message “God is in the Silence” with Rev. Shawn, and two new songs from David!
12:30 PM: Lunch on your own
1:30 PM: “Thought Exchange” workshop with David
Rev. Shawn Moninger is an ordained Unity Minister as well as an Inter-Spiritual Minister. He served as Senior Minister at Unity Center For Practical Spirituality September 2004 through December 2023. Rev. Shawn is the Founding President of The Unity Church of New York in New York City and currently serves as Staff Minister there. He began his spiritual journey in earnest after a twenty year career as a multi-award winning lighting and sound designer in New York nightclubs. To top it all off, several years ago he began performing stand-up comedy for which he won the 2015 MAC Award for Outstanding Spoken Word as well as The Broadway World Award for Outstanding Comedy.
He was the host of the popular radio show THE GOOD SHOW with Rev. Shawn in Connecticut.
Shawn’s mission in life and in his ministry is for everyone on planet earth (including himself) to KNOW that he or she is Good. It is a simple task and a powerful journey.
David Friedman is a composer, conductor, and record producer from New York whose work includes many well-known songs of hope and healing, and Musical Direction and Vocal Arranging for 5 Broadway shows and numerous Classic Disney Movies including Beauty & The Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, and the Hunchback of Notre Dame. His songs are featured in films such as Lizzie McGuire and the recent multi-platinum Bambi sequel, and he has worked with artists such as Diana Ross, Barry Manilow, Petula Clark, and the late Nancy LaMott. David offers a wide range of coaching, teaching and leading workshops in the arts and metaphysics, including the “Thought Exchange” workshop he is sharing with us this Sunday.
The Thought Exchange workshop
Sunday, October 13 at 1:30 PM
New Thought is More Than We Think
Our thoughts create our reality. What we think appears before us in the world. Change your thoughts and you change your life.
We know this. Why don’t we do it? In this participatory workshop, we explore The Thought Exchange® a revolutionary new method that teaches us not only how to choose a new thought, but how to move through any resistance that comes up to staying with that new thought.
We begin with a meditation in which we remember that everything we could ever want and every possibility we could ever think of exists right here, right now, in the invisible world that we call “The Great Unmanifested.”
Knowing this, we ask whomever would like to speak (nobody has to speak, you get as much out of this whether you speak or not) to talk about a “problem” they’ve been having, something they want, something they think they lack. Then, looking at the physical world as an exact mirror of our thoughts, rather than the cause of them, we ask the question, “If I’m seeing this problem in the mirror, what MUST I be thinking?” And we uncover thoughts we didn’t know we were holding, or at least don’t care to be holding, thoughts like, “I’m no good, I can’t have anything, I’ll never win, I’ll always be alone.” We think we’ve been sabotaging ourselves with these thoughts, but in fact, we’ve been protecting ourselves from the sensations that come up when we take on those thoughts, because of things that have happened in the past.
We then look for a thought that would reflect as what we wish to see in the world, and exchange our old thought for our new thought. But then, and this is the most important part, we stop and notice the sensations we have when we take on that thought, and instead of running from them or taking on a new thought to get rid of them, we simply stay with them and experience them as sensations. Simple but not easy, but the results in our lives are amazing. We get to break through to things we have never broken through before, and finally have the tools to not only choose a new thought, but to stay with it and see it manifest.
Join us in this intimate, safe environment, and change your life.
Given on a love-offering basis – minimum $20 donation suggested but nobody is turned away.