Introduction to Liberation Park weekend Insight Chicago groups Details will be adjusted as needed when weather intervenes

Friday Noon – 1:00 pm

Depart Chicago

5:00 – 6:00

Arrive & Settle In

7:30

Evening Meal

8:30-9:00

Introductory Meeting (much info should be read before deciding to come)

9:30

Program Begins: Open Practice Time, silence commences, off to bed

Saturday 6:00 am

Wake up bell: Still in silence: coffee, tea, water, roaming the land, bathroom

7:00

Group sitting

8:00

Breakfast

9:30

Dhamma, Nature, & Practice (talk & discussion)

10:30

Guided tour of the valley

Noon

Lunch and lazy time

2:00 pm

Carry sit-upons and tarps to valley platform Group walk around the back 40 (largely silent). Be on the lookout for a place you'd like to return to

3:00

Open Practice Time: Bells at 4:00 pm and 5:00 pm to end

5:30

Dinner and conversation

7:00

Sitting, Dhamma talk and discussion (open topic)

8:30

Possible Camp Fire

9:30

Back into silence, Open practice time, off to bed

Sunday 6:00 am

Wake up bell: Still in silence, coffee, tea, water, wake up the body, bathroom, roaming the land

7:00

Group sitting

8:00

Breakfast

9:00

Open practice time

10:30

Refuge in Nature (talk & discussion)

Noon

Lunch (conversational)

1:00 pm

Breaking camp, packing up cars and helpful conversation.

2:00

Brief Closing & Departure

8ish

Arrive home

Jobs to be done Meal preparation

Everyone is responsible for 1 or 2 (organized in advance)

Dish washing

Everyone (2 per meal)

Time Keeper s

2 … Bells & herding

Coordinator

Looks after group logistics & needs

Clean Up

2 who stay till everything is shipshape