Nexus
Encounters
Encouraging those on a similar path of spiritual growth.
A Nexus Encounter is a regular meeting of people on a similar path of spiritual discovery.
Membership should be by invitation to ensure a consistent standard of spiritual experience (although there can be no question of exclusivity or elitism). They meet once a week in a group of no more than 10, sitting comfortably in a circle with no head or chairperson.
If you’re interested in becoming a Facilitator or starting a Nexus Encounter Group in your town, area, or church, please reach out to me at brent@hungamunga.africa to discuss it further.
The meetings will start in Johannesburg and Plettenberg Bay but could expand to anywhere once a suitable facilitator has been identified. All the material is written by Hunga Munga and emailed to the facilitator in advance.
The meeting takes about 60-90 minutes and takes a format along these lines:
Gather in silence
The facilitator welcomes everybody and introduces any new members
One member of the group will have been invited to read the opening prayer
The facilitator introduces the topic for this meeting. This is taken from a list of previously structured Nexus topics
The topic is then read either by the facilitator or someone else appointed as reader
Silent Contemplation of the Topic in darkness – shavasana style – for 10 minutes
Discussion and questions
Closing prayer and dismissal
Topics for contemplation and meditation are continually being developed.
The following Encounters have already been produced:
| Adversity | Aging | Anger | Anxiety |
| Approval | Awakening | Balance | Bodiliness |
| Change | Character | Church | Compassion |
| Competition | Consciousness | Contemplation | Curiosity |
| Desire | Discernment | Discipline | Distractions |
| Dualistic | Dying | Ego | Eucharist |
| Failing and Falling | Faith | Fear | Forgiveness |
| Fortitude | Friendship | Fundamentalism | God |
| Grace | Gratitude | Happiness | Healing |
| Health | Imagination | Integration | Integrity |
| Joy | Judgement | Labyrinth | Lectio Divina |
| Letting Go | Life | Light | Love |
| Marriage | Memories | Mercy | Mistakes |
| Negotiation | Obstacles | Oneness | Pain |
| Paradox | Parenting | Perfection | Personalizing |
| Projecting | Perspective | Prayer | Presence |
| Problems | Process | Purpose | Racism |
| Reality | Relationships | Rest | Risk |
| Sacred Time | Sadness | Scapegoating | Scripture |
| Seeing | Service | Sexuality | Sharing |
| Silence | Sleep | Solitude | Sorrow |
| Spirituality | Storms | Struggle | Suffering |
| Sufficiency | Surprise | Surrender | Tidiness |
| Touch | Transformation | Trinity | Truth |
| Virtue | Wholeness | Wisdom | Work |