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SUMMARY:Mentor-led Series | Rio Ellett
DESCRIPTION:Led by MMTCP Mentors\, these sessions offer a place for you to bring any and all of your teaching and practice questions / challenges and be in sangha with alumni peers.  In each session\, mentors will offer a short talk and then offer guidance and wisdom for whatever is coming up for you – much like we had in peer groups. These sessions have been so rich and supportive that this year we are offering them twice a month and alternating times so our peers around the world can join more often.   \n \nThis session will be led by Rio Ellett and is from 11 am – 12:15 pm ET; the Zoom link is here \n \nMore about Rio:  my name is Rio and my pronouns are they/them. I’ve spent most of my adult life studying\, living and working with the Sanghas of Thich Nhat Hanh\, Spirit Rock and Insight Meditation Society during years of intensive retreat practice and began teaching meditation to young adults and environmental activists in 2013. In 2014\, I was ordained into Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing and in 2024 I received Dharma Teacher authorisation from James Baraz. Currently\, I mentor students in the Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP) of Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. I like approaching meditation with easefulness\, acceptance\, and simplicity\, and place great emphasis on the practice of Sangha and community building. Being queer and disabled\, I often felt left out and explicitly or implicitly excluded in certain spiritual spaces\, which made me passionate about making Dharma teachings more accessible and welcoming. I’m currently based in Freiburg\, Germany\, but also sometimes live in Auckland\, New Zealand. Both places are home. I’m happiest in nature\, while hiking and living simply in my van and while hugging my child. I absolutely adore goats (I used to have a pet-goat called ‘Mara’) and sometimes wish I could be a tree. I think life as a tree might be much less tiresome. 😉
URL:https://mmtcpalumni.org/event/mentor-led-series-rio-ellett/
CATEGORIES:Learning Sessions, Mentor Offerings and Other Events
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