Diamond Approach Africa is the first ongoing Diamond Approach group in Africa, based on the teachings of AH Almaas. After running for three years, we are now inviting new students to join, as we begin a new stage in our journey with the Diamond Approach. We will be entering some of the deeper teachings of this profound path that have never been made available in Africa before. They address profound aspects of what it is to be a human being living in the world.
Many people may experience a conflict between the wordly life of families, jobs and society, and transcendent or otherworldy spirituality, on the meditation cushion, in prayer, or on the yoga mat. Some think that only one seems important or matters. But life in the world without the depth of our true nature is often empty and superficial. And spirituality without the embodiment in our personal lives seems empty in a different way. The Diamond Approach offers a way for our deepest spiritual nature to live a fully human, personal life: to be the depth of what we are, living our lives more fully than we could ever have imagined.
This is possible through its unique inclusion of psychological knowledge and understanding, with deep spiritual realisation. The Diamond Approach is not a religion and is open to people of all religious affiliation or persuasion including atheist and agnostic.
In the next few years, certified Diamond Approach teachers Dominic and Sarala will lead the group on a deep journey into this territory of the transcendent human being that lives a personal life – the personal essence. What is it to be a person of presence, rather than the person of history, reactions and conditioning? We have found this teaching to profoundly impact our own lives the lives of our students. So we are inviting new students to join our group for this rare possibility of engaging such a rich and transformative journey.
DAAfrica welcomes participants from across Africa or with a deep personal connection to Africa. We have five long weekends a year, some in-person in Cape Town or Joburg (with zoom participation possible), and some only on Zoom. Members must attend all weekends or catch them up via recordings afterwards, and also do small groups and private sessions with a teacher through the year. New members will also be guided through reviewing some of the material from the past three years.
“The understanding is not mental or intellectual comprehension but a direct awareness and experience of oneself that is insightful and clear. It opens the door to a profound and intimate relationship with what it means to be a human being.”
– A.H. Almaas, Spacecruiser Inquiry, page 10
Here is Nolitha Tsengiwe, a psychologist and meditation teacher, talking about the incredible freedom that she is discovering through the practice of inquiry and the Diamond Approach that allows her to open to so much more of fullness of human experience.
We’ve launched a series of videos of Diamond Approach Africa members sharing their experience of inquiry, the Diamond Approach and the group. Janine Ahlers, a Director of the Centre for Coaching and senior lecturer at the UCT Graduate School of Business talks about what makes this Diamond Approach Africa group special.
Our September weekend will be a continued dive into the quality of personal love. Personal love, or the pink essence, is a unique love, it is your personal love. It is one of the ways our true nature expresses itself. Love that is personal is needed in life and on the path to the realisation of our Essential nature. It is the way that your heart responds with a sweet, pleasurable liking and appreciation for whatever it is that you personally love, and also for your deepest nature. This personal love, is a part of our birthright to know and realise, yet often buried or hidden under all kinds of obscurations and veils of our personality.
Date 8-10 September 2023
Location Online through Zoom, or in pods Joburg or Cape Town
Tuition Fees R4950 / R3950 / R2850 sliding scale for SA residents
Through the practice of being present in the immediacy of our experience, and exploring and opening up via Diamond Inquiry™, we can see and understand more about how we came to have the beliefs, ideas, and convictions in our personality.
We can see that these are barriers to direct and immediate knowing, expressing and allowing of this quality to infuse our personal life, our love of truth, and our view of reality as a whole with sweetness, love and appreciation.
“I myself can recommend the Diamond Approach as probably the most balanced of the widely available spiritual psychologies/therapies.”
– Ken Wilber
The February 2023 retreat will be in-person at Benvenuto in Kelland, Johannesburg.
The March 2023 retreats will be in-person at Schoenstatt, Constantia, Cape Town.
We are intending September 2023 to also be at Schoenstatt, but this is subject to confirmation closer to the time.
Dom’s book Diving in the Inner Ocean is the essential practical guide to inquiry – the primary practice of the Diamond Approach.
John Davis’s book The Diamond Approach: An Introduction to the Teachings of AH Almaas gives a broad overview of the whole approach.
Review or Register to Access Past weekends.
Once you are registered, scroll down to the lesson titles below and click each title for the zoom links or recordings. Our July weekend will be a deep dive into the quality of personal love. Personal love, or the pink essence, is a unique love, it is your personal love. It is one of the […]
Once you are registered, scroll down to the lesson titles below and click each title for the zoom links or recordings. How much are you able to relax into yourself and into your life and to trust that you’ll be OK? And how can you really let go and let yourself be, if there isn’t trust […]
Once you are registered, scroll down to the lesson titles below and click each title for the zoom links or recordings. How much are you able to relax into yourself and into your life and to trust that you’ll be OK? And how can you really let go and let yourself be, if there isn’t trust […]
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Curiosity and wonder are part of our inherent, essential nature as human beings. Explore this quality of your inner nature, and also discover some of the barriers that shut down and limit your natural curiosity.
Curiosity and wonder are part of our inherent, essential nature as human beings. Explore this quality of your inner nature, and also discover some of the barriers that shut down and limit your natural curiosity.