MMTCP

MNVC Sangha Meeting
2024-04-26 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York)
Welcome to our monthly NVC gathering to connect and learn together. Our colleague Allison Schuette will be leading this month’s meeting.

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Global Social Hour (Central European time)
2024-04-26 11:00 - 12:00
These fun, light gatherings are all hosted by alumni peers; some to the one most convenient to you or come to them all. One of my favorite times of the month! 5 pm Central European time hosted by Robert Glavan. Register here ; Zoom link is here

Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness Teachers Sangha
2024-04-24 20:00 - 21:00
The topic for this meeting is exploring the question, “What’s the difference between the terms trauma informed, trauma sensitive, and trauma aware for you?”

Brahmaviharas Sangha
2024-04-24 12:00 - 13:30
Our year of immersing in the Brahmaviharas is coming to an end. On Wed., April 24th, we’ll bring closure to our shared experience by sharing insights, memories, strengths & needs going forward. If interested in continuing and deepening our exploration, let’s see where it might lead. I hope to see more of those who have expressed interest and enjoyed my images & monthly missives! Wishes for wellbeing, Linda

BIPOC Alumni Cicle
2024-04-21 12:00 - 13:15
We welcome all members who identify as BIPOC. We feel strongly that having a clear BIPOC presence helps further the aims of the broader MMTCP community and adds tremendous value to the conversation.

Awakening Together - The Elephant in the Sangha Room
2024-04-15 13:00 - 14:00
Monthly Monday Sangha gathering – Karyn facilitating
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Asia Sangha
2024-04-14 11:00 - 12:30

Heart Centered Business Essentials
2024-04-13 14:00 - 15:30
Debby Germino will be facilitating a session entitled “Less Hustle, More Heart: Simplify Your Schedule with Mindfulness”. Feeling overwhelmed by never-ending to-do lists? Do you struggle to prioritize when everything seems important? The next HCBE meeting will equip you with powerful tools to take back control of your time. We’ll explore a three-pronged approach that combines a growth mindset, effective habits, and practical systems. Learn how mindfulness and connecting with your intuition can help you identify your true priorities and take action from a place of clarity. Plus, discover strategies for managing overwhelm and anxiety, so you can stop feeling like you’re constantly behind. Learn how to achieve more with less stress, and reclaim your time for what truly matters.

MCMT Sangha - Mind Stories
2024-04-13 12:00 - 13:30
Hello MCMT Members,
Hope you’re doing well. Our next gathering will be on Saturday, April 13, 2024, from 12 PM ET to 1:15 PM ET. Looking forward to being together for “part two” of Jerome’s teachings!
Warmly,
Susan Beckman Reagan
Title of the Event: Mind Stories
A “Mind Story” is a special kind of guided meditation which Jerome was trained to teach in 1973 on a 3 month retreat in the Ozark mountains in Arkansas. It involves deep relaxation and imagery as well as instructions for how to do this on your own. You will learn the five keys to a successful “mind story!” Please come!
Facilitator for the April 13th Meeting:
Dr. Jerome Freedman is an author, Certified Enneagram Teacher, Certified Radical Remission Health Coach, Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, Certified Mindfulness Mentor (pending), and a Certified Trauma-Sensitive Practitioner.
He is a bladder cancer survivor since 1997. He is a long-time practitioner in the tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh in which he is an ordained member of the Order of Interbeing and serves on several committees.
Jerome currently teaches Mindfulness in Healing at the Pine Street Clinic in San Anselmo, California (now on zoom) and writes daily on his blog, Meditation Practices. He is a contributing author of I Am With You: Love Letters to Cancer Patients, Nancy Novak, PhD, and Barbara K. Richardson. He is the author of six books and many guided meditations.
Please join the session with your camera on, if at all possible.
This call will not be recorded.

Cancelled - Grieving in Community
2024-04-11 14:00 - 15:15
Stay tuned for more information.

Mindful Readers
2024-04-11 11:30 - 12:30
Dear Mindful Reader’s Sangha,

We’re delighted to share details about our forthcoming book discussion led by Connie Daniel. Our journey will center around ‘A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life’ by Jack Kornfield.

Whether you’re revisiting the pages of this insightful book or embarking on it for the first time, there are profound insights awaiting us in our shared exploration. Moreover, as we’ve already examined it from the students’ perspective, let’s now delve into it through the lens of the teacher.

Dates (second Thursday of each month) at 11:30-12:30 ET:

*March 14 – Part I, Beginning, Ch’s 1 – 5
*April 11 – Part II, Ch’s 6 – 11
*May 9 – Part III, Ch’s 12 – 17
*June 13 – Part III, Ch’s 18 – 20, Part IV, Ch’s 21 – 23

Thank you for your continued support and participation. Together, we can make our Mindful Readers’ Sangha even more enriching and enjoyable.

Warm regards,
Audrey and Magloire (Rocio)

RISE (Educ Sangha) Meeting
2024-04-10 20:00 - 21:15
join us for refuge and inspiration!

Dharma Buddies (later in the day meetup)
2024-04-10 19:00 - 20:00
Connect with other Dharma Buddies — we’ll explore mindfulness, somatics, RAIN, Insight Dialogue, and the wisdom of the Eightfold Path in the sweet connection while coming home to ourselves.

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Disability Affinity Sangha/CANCELED
2024-04-09 14:30 - 16:00
Enjoy your holidays!

Compassionate Caregivers Sangha
2024-04-08 20:30 - 21:30
We think this program and these practices can provide the daily medicine necessary to be more fully, compassionately present for our loved ones. Our intention, with your help, is to create of a space where we as caretakers can gather for support and refuge on our caretaking journey.
We will meet the second week of each month, offering two options – Mondays at 8:30pm ET and Fridays at 12:00pm ET.

Mindful Eating Sangha
2024-04-08 12:00 - 12:30
These gatherings are time to practice Mindful Eating in community as an opportunity to practice and embody mindfulness and self compassion while eating

Awakening Together Sangha
2024-04-07 19:00 - 20:00
Monthly Sunday gathering with Gen facilitating

Intimate Awakening CANCELLED
2024-04-05 14:00 - 15:15
CANCELLED I’ve been under the weather this week, so unfortunately have to cancel tomorrow (friday’s) sangha gathering. I will come back shortly to rebook. Hoping all is well in practice 💛

Come sit, dialog, and explore the possibilities of embodied awareness in the realms of the erotic. Gain practical insights and tools for cultivating your own mindfulness around desire, intimacy, sexuality and more, and supporting students to do the same.Our sangha meetings include;*Guided embodied mindfulness meditations*Introductions and check ins*Q&A and dialog around themes – bring topics you’re curious to discuss! Message sangha leader, Justine Dawson, for more info.

The European Community - Alumni Association
2024-04-03 12:00 - 13:30
Hello dear European Community members,
I am happy to announce that the April meeting is going to be facilitated by Ruth Phillips who is going to guide us in the captivating exploration of how various fields such as neuroscience, Eastern and Western medicine, Buddhism and yoga meet in the area of interception or feeling tone (Vedāna in the Pāli language). Ruth offers us some resources as orientation for the upcoming conversation:
1. The following quotes:
“Feeling tone is the start of our experience unfolding. It has been described as a master key because if it is unlocked, then reactivity is stemmed at its source.” (Joseph Goldstein)
“«Interoception», the constant monitoring of the state of the body, carries on largely below the level of conscious awareness. But it is absolutely crucial, because it determines affect – those feelings of pleasantness or unpleasantness, arousal or non-arousal that are always present, and which feed into our emotions.”Lisa Feldman Barrett
“When enough equanimity is present, we can stop the cycle (of dependent arising) after vedanā and be with sensory contact and feelings without further reactivity. This non-reactive presence is the heart of both meditative tranquility (samatha) and insight (vipassanā).” (Sean Oakes)
2. An interview with renown neuroscientist and psychologist Lisa Feldman-Barrett
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/worklife-with-adam-grant/id1346314086?i=1000641458657
The April meeting will take place in the new time window from 6 pm to 7:30 pm CET on April 3rd (the first Wednesday of the month).
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I hope you’ll join us to engage with this thought-provoking theme, and I’m very curious about where the discussion will take us!
With gratitude,
Robert

Dharma Buddies Meetup
2024-04-03 10:00 - 11:00
Connect with other Dharma Buddies — we’ll explore mindfulness, somatics, RAIN, Insight Dialogue, and the wisdom of the Eightfold Path in the sweet connection while coming home to ourselves.

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“Meditation is not a solitary pursuit. It is a group effort.
In our collective practice, we support each other
and
amplify the power of our individual practice.”

Sharon Salzberg

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MNVC Sangha March Meeting
2024-03-29 13:00 - 14:30
Welcome to our monthly NVC gathering to connect and learn together. We start with a short sit followed by a check-in and then some NVC activity that the group would like to explore. I like to focus my NVC practice on the “roots”, our feelings and needs, rather than how to say things in a way that creates a particular outcome.

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86449117228

New folks without any NVC experience are welcome. myempathycoach.com

Brahmaviharas - Special Session with Julia Fehrenbacher
2024-03-27 12:00 - 13:30
We will host Julia Fehrenbacher, (poet, author, life mentor) again to share more inspiration. She was well received a few months ago and has accepted my invitation to return. We will focus on Upekkha (aka: Equanimity). Our yearlong study of the Brahmaviharas is scheduled to conclude on April 24th. Save the Date!
Topic: Linda HIRSCH’s Zoom Meeting Time: Feb 28, 2024 12:00 PM ET. Join Zoom Meeting
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The Refuge of Sangha with Dalila Bothwell
2024-03-26 12:00 - 13:30
The Refuge of Sangha: Creating Healing Spaces During Challenging Times is a monthly gathering where we can come together in the midst of the world’s ongoing challenges.
Each session will be led by an MMTCP mentor and will offer guidance and support on how we can find refuge and peace in our practice as well as how to teach in the midst of a challenging, conflicted, confusing world.
This session will be led by MMTCP Mentor Dalila Bothwell.
Register here

MMTCP LGBTQIA+ Sangha Meeting
2024-03-25 19:00 - 20:00
Our gathering this March will be led by Alyssa and celebrates the theme of Renewal!

Open Mic Presentations & Feedback Loop
2024-03-24 13:00 - 14:00
Join us for an immersive and inspired experience to hone your craft, build your confidence in a community of brilliant peers! Choose your topic/theme. Pick your style: Talk or Meditation? Decide Duration: 5-12 Mins. Open-mic, decide on the spot if you’d like to present, experience our mastermind feedback loop!

Peer Review & Feedback Sangha MMTCP is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: March Open Mic Presentation
Time: Mar 24, 2024 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Emerging Leaders Launchpad
2024-03-23 10:30 - 12:00
Mindfulness teachers are all leaders. We have to be. It comes with the territory. For starters, we lead meditation sessions. But there’s way more to it than that.

To attract people to our sessions, we have to lead them in the direction of joining, etc.

And in the course of a session or program, we have to lead them to want to return.

There’s no escaping this…it’s just the way things are.

But somehow, many people think leadership is a natural trait, like playing a sport. You either have it or you don’t.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

As mindfulness teachers, we have perhaps a special invitation – and a unique superpower: the opportunity (or calling) to lead from the heart!

So, how are you doing as a leader right now? Where is your mindfulness teaching career?

What’s working? What isn’t? How do you feel about it all?

Are you sailing along, growing a community? Or, like many of us, are you still trying to figure out how to get off the ground? Or do you find yourself somewhere in between?

What is the current reality on the ground? Warts and all…

And where is your heart in all of this? Are you living the life your heart is calling you to do?

The Emerging Leaders Launchpad has a purpose to create a community of mutual support and friendship for fellow MMTCP graduates to overcome whatever may stand in the way of them taking the next step(s) – and God knows, there are many obstacles that can appear – real or imagined – technical or personal – to somehow thwart our best intentions.

While the sangha’s aim will constantly be to meet the needs of its members and will adapt as may be required, each session will include:

· A Mastermind session in which a volunteer member poses a question to the group s/he wishes to think about – like how to grow my practice, get people to return, what to teach, tools to use, etc.

· Breakout Room(s) – in which members can discuss relevant issues
· Individual check-ins and group discussion.

As the saying goes, it takes a village. And we are a village! An interconnected village.

So come help us get started. We’ll laugh. We’ll cry. And we’ll sing and dance our way to a better world.

Starting on March 23 at 10:30-12:00 noon, EDT (GMT-5).

See you there!

Warmly,

Steve

PT - Global Social Hour
2024-03-22 20:00 - 21:00
In last month’s social hours we found our super power name (mine is Pearl Dynamo!) and origin story, we shared two truths and a lie about ourselves and danced around the room (or in our chairs)…. I never know what I am going to find in terms of activity but I know I will always find smiles and beautiful energy that ends my work week on a high note! Offered at 5 pm in three time zones (CET, ET and PT). Come to the one most convenient to you or come to them all. All are hosted by alumni peers; reconnect with old friends and make new ones!

5 pm PT hosted by Tamara Stanfill and Alan vann Gardner; register here

ET - Global Social Hour
2024-03-22 17:00 - 18:00
In last month’s social hours we found our super power name (mine is Pearl Dynamo!) and origin story, we shared two truths and a lie about ourselves and danced around the room (or in our chairs)…. I never know what I am going to find in terms of activity but I know I will always find smiles and beautiful energy that ends my work week on a high note! Offered at 5 pm in three time zones (CET, ET and PT). Come to the one most convenient to you or come to them all. All are hosted by alumni peers; reconnect with old friends and make new ones!

5 pm ET hosted by Steve Kaplan; register here

CET - Global Social Hour
2024-03-22 11:00 - 12:00
In last month’s social hours we found our super power name (mine is Pearl Dynamo!) and origin story, we shared two truths and a lie about ourselves and danced around the room (or in our chairs)…. I never know what I am going to find in terms of activity but I know I will always find smiles and beautiful energy that ends my work week on a high note! Offered at 5 pm in three time zones (CET, ET and PT). Come to the one most convenient to you or come to them all. All are hosted by alumni peers; reconnect with old friends and make new ones!
5 pm CET Hosted by Robert Glavan; register here

CAMP -- “Please let’s not be in the moment: Reasons to resist mindfulness as parents"
2024-03-21 14:00 - 15:00
Our next meeting will be Thursday, March 21, at 2 pm ET at our usual Zoom link (below). For the theme, we’ll consider some of the good reasons we might resist mindfulness. The title of our session plays on an article title from Ruth Whippman a few years ago; here’s the article if you’re interested, though no need to read it: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/opinion/sunday/actually-lets-not-be-in-the-moment.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb.

Here is our Zoom link:
https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/91529522963?pwd=[REDACTED]
