The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters

Sarah Susanka, author of The Not So Big Life, helps us take our finger off the fast-forward button and right-size our life.

She describes a process for integrating outer and inner worlds, helping us to see that every experience, good or bad, is food for the journey to realization of our true potential. We learn that we do not need to lead a monastic life or give up the things we love. In fact, the real joy of a “not so big life” is realizing that it already exists in the life we’re leading. All that’s required is our full engagement.

We learn through collective inquiry to understand that:

• Everything is a reflection
• We are not our thoughts, feelings, or experiences
• There is nothing wrong
• Life is the experiencing of the experience

We discover that if we look with the eyes of a student, everything can teach us, pointing the way to a life that is more meaningful and satisfying than our wildest dreams.

Program fee: $315

Lunch is included each day.

For more information, visit dukeintegrativemedicine.org.

Driving Directions to Center for Living Campus on Erwin Road

From Greensboro and Points West
Via 1-85 North:
Exit onto N.C. 147 (Durham Freeway).
Take first exit off Durham Freeway onto 15-501 S. toward Chapel Hill.
Stay in right lane, and take second exit (#107) to N.C. 751.
Turn LEFT onto N.C. 751 S., go under the highway, and take next left turn onto Erwin Road. The Center for Living Campus entrance is on the left.

From Richmond and Points North
Via I-85 South:
In Durham, take the left-lane exit (#174B) for US 15-501 S. Bypass - Duke University/Chapel Hill.
Continue on U.S. 15-501 to the fourth exit (#107) a right-lane exit for N.C. 751.
Turn LEFT onto N.C. 751 S., go under the highway, and take next left turn onto Erwin Road. The Center for Living Campus entrance is on the left.

From RDU Airport, Raleigh and Points East
Via I-40 West:
Exit onto the Durham Freeway (N.C. 147).
Take Durham Freeway to Fulton Street exit (#15B).
Turn left onto Fulton Street, take to end at Erwin Road.

From Chapel Hill
Via U.S. 15-501 North:
Take 15-501 N. marked Duke Univ./Med Ctr.
(Do NOT take 15-501 Business.)
Take N.C. 751 exit (#107) marked Duke. Univ. West Campus.
Turn right onto N.C. 751, make the next left turn onto Erwin Road. The Center for Living Campus entrance is on the left.