This page contains all of my upcoming events, offered in different forms:
Retreats / Online Courses / Public Talks / Workshops & Classes / CEC Explorations
The CEC’s virtual summer “Meditate – Celebrate – Activate” retreat happens August 6-8, 2021. This retreat is unique for the way it builds on mindfulness and meditation practices, taking insights from the cushion and applying them immediately to interactive community good-times.
The world is filled with so many interesting things! People doing stuff, going places, making things happen. It’s all very exciting.
This is not about any of that.
This weekend retreat will be a relaxed and practical distillation of what meditators have been learning for 3,000 years. There will be meditation, and some movement, and – gasp!– actual interpersonal connection. Also (bad) jokes.
The world is crazy. Meditation is sanity. The intention of this five-day residential retreat is to empower everyone – including people not remotely interested in becoming a “teacher” – to think about and care for their own mental health and the mental health of others. The retreat format means participants will have an opportunity to do their own meditating, thus bringing personal insights back with them into the collective learning.
Think of this weekend retreat in the North Carolina mountains as Being Human School. It’s a relaxed and practical distillation of what meditators have been learning for 3,000 years. There will be meditation, some discussion, also: jokes.
In January 2022, join me, along with my co-teacher Dr. Christiane Wolf, for the Mela weekend retreat in Ojai, California, organized by The Path. The theme this year is “Joy and Togetherness,” which sounds exactly right after two years of dismay and separation.