MMTCP

Mindful in Nature
2025-07-23 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-08-27 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Mindful in Nature
We meet monthly on the third or 4th Wednesday of the month at 7 or 730 pm Eastern Time for one hour, virtually, to build community around the shared interests of mindfulness and the natural world. Check the sangha page for updated time and day we meet each month as it can vary due to facilitator schedule. The group will make space to meditate together in community, check in and share about what’s going on in life related to mindfulness and nature, and will be an opportunity to share resources and ideas related to this topic.
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LGBTQIA+ Sangha Gathering
2025-07-24 20:00 - 21:00
You are invited to join us for our July gathering on Thursday, July 24th, from 8-9 PM ET! Cameron Stanford will be guiding the session. If it’s been a while, OR you’re just curious, or you’ve been a regular, come through to have a peek of what our sangha is all about!

Alyssa & Rita are the administrative co-leads, but guidance in our sessions is open to ALL of our community, whether that’s hosting a session or offering 1 engagement as part of the hour. Cameron will offer his support and fabulousness to our community for our July session–come through!

Hope to see you here in the Zoom room:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/7976896552?pwd=[REDACTED]

BIPOC Sangha
2025-07-29 06:00 - 07:00, 2025-08-05 06:00 - 07:00, 2025-08-12 06:00 - 07:00, 2025-08-19 06:00 - 07:00, 2025-08-26 06:00 - 07:00, 2025-09-02 06:00 - 07:00
hello friends,

Based on survey results, we will be now be holding weekly Sangha meetings (instead of monthly)! We will meet on Tuesday evenings at 7PM EST beginning on July 15th.
The BIPOC Sangha will be holding a WEEKLY Sangha exploring aspects of what it means to be a Mindfulness teacher of color as well as Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction techniques.
Zoom link is here
Meeting ID: 899 5247 9029
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Brahmaviharas
2025-07-30 12:00 - 13:30
We look forward to seeing you for our monthly meeting from 12 – 1:30 pm ET

The Zoom link is here
Meeting ID: 850 8543 0898
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Awakening Together
2025-08-03 19:00 - 20:30
First Sunday of the month gathering. We will reconnect after taking a summer break. Our conversation will center around the Legacy of Mindfulness and what that means collectively and personally for each of us. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87562364131?pwd=[REDACTED]

Mindful Eating
2025-08-07 12:15 - 13:00, 2025-09-04 12:15 - 13:00
Join us for a delightful break in your day/evening and enter the gateway to a daily path of mindful eating to ignite your practice, your relationships and frankly your life! We start with an introduction to the monthly Sangha and the intentions for the gathering followed by a brief teaching and a practice.

White Awareness Sangha
2025-08-07 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-09-04 13:00 - 14:00
First of all, we welcome 2025 graduates to our on-going sangha. We began during our training in 2021 and continued into the alumni association. Some members are not part of the alumni association and they are welcome to join.
Our next meeting will be on the first Thursday of the month at 1:00 PM ET which is our normal time.
The zoom will come in an email a day or two before the event..
Metta,
Jerome
415-299-0428

Jerome Freedman, Ph. D., C.M.T, O. I.
jerome@mountainsangha.org
http://mountainsangha.org

Asia Sangha
2025-08-10 11:00 - 12:30
Monthly Online Meetup. Second Sunday of every month For anyone from, living in, connected to and / or interested in Asian cultural context of practice

Mindful Journaling
2025-08-10 11:30 - 12:30
July 20, 2025
It is said that “life is lived forward and understood backward”. Journaling allows us to consider what we now know. Everyone welcome to journal. In this group we are together, and private (sharing is optional).
Next Mindful Journaling:
August 10, 2025
11:30am-12;30PM
Sign In:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89079623957?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 890 7962 3957
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Mentor-led Session | Stan Eisenstein
2025-08-12 12:30 - 13:45
Led by MMTCP Mentors, these sessions offer a place for you to bring any and all of your teaching and practice questions and to 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. This session is from 11:30 am – 12;45 pm ET and will be led by Stan Eisenstein; Zoom link is here.
More about Stan
Stan Eisenstein has been a mentor for MMTCP since 2019 (cohort 2). He has been a teacher for the Insight Meditation Community of Washington since 2013. He has created and taught courses in Inviting Chronic Pain and Illness to Tea, Self-Inquiry, and Meditative Reparenting. Stan has guided individuals in self-inquiry since 2015. Stan had a long career as a high school physics teacher. He has a Masters in Social Work, though he is not a licensed clinical therapist. Stan co-created and teaches Guided Embodied Inquiry with Individuals (GEII): a Course for Mindfulness Meditation Teachers. This year-long course begins January 2026. You can find more information at Stan’s website.

Disability Affinity Sangha
2025-08-12 14:30 - 16:00
We meet the 2nd Tuesday of every month from 2:30-4pm ET. We are an affinity group that is open to alumni who have a disability, including a chronic medical condition. Prior to attending your first group, please read our sangha page. Here’s the zoom link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/94776947948

Workshop |Trauma-Informed Foundations of Mindfulness with Amma Thanasanti
2025-08-16 12:00 - 15:00
(this event rescheduled from June 14)

A 3-hour experiential workshop with Amma Thanasanti

The Four Foundations of Mindfulness (Satipaṭṭhāna) are among the most revered early teachings the Buddha offered—a time-tested, profound path to insight and liberation. Yet for many of us—and for those we guide—traditional meditation instructions can sometimes feel inaccessible or even dysregulating, especially in the presence of unresolved trauma or heightened nervous system activation.

In this 3-hour live session, we’ll explore how to approach the Four Foundations through both classical and trauma-informed lenses. You’ll learn practical ways to support yourself and those you teach with mindfulness tools that prioritize safety, attunement, and choice while teaching mindfulness of the body, feeling tones (vedanā), mind states, and dhammas. We’ll also look at how trauma and nervous system activation changes the way we practice with the hindrances and the 4 Noble Truths.

Whether you’re tending to your own nervous system or offering support to others, this session offers grounded, integrated practices that connect classical dharma with somatic and trauma-aware tools to increase our clarity, resilience, and compassion for the complexity of these times.
This workshop is from 12 – 3 pm ET; Zoom link is here

About Amma ThanasantiAmma Thanasanti has been practicing meditation for nearly 50 years, including 26 years as a Theravāda Buddhist nun—20 of them in the Ajahn Chah Forest Tradition. She’s been teaching since 1989, leading retreats since 1996, and has served as a mentor for MMTCP for 3 cohorts.
Her years of monastic life showed her the depth and beauty of insight practices, while also revealing their limits when it comes to early conditioning and trauma. This led Amma to integrate neuroscience and trauma-informed modalities into her teaching—offering a path that weaves physical and psychological well-being into the path of awakening.

Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness Teachers Sangha
2025-08-19 21:00 - 22:00
Please join us for an hour to explore and share the ways in which we show up in the world as trauma sensitive mindfulness teachers. This meeting will be held monthly on the 3rd Tuesday of the month from 9-10pm Eastern. Here is the Zoom link; you can also use the following credentials:Meeting ID: 811 4289 6909Passcode: [REDACTED]

Plant-based Foods Exploration
2025-08-21 21:00 - 22:00
Monthly gathering the 3rd Thursdays at 7 pm EST to discuss individual plant-based journeys, along with teaching about plant-based lifestyles.

MNVC sangha
2025-08-22 12:00 - 13:30
Community! Sangha member, Tina Clay, has graciously offered to lead August’s meeting. Join us as we explore, investigate and practice key elements of Nonviolent Communication. Newcomers and beginners welcome! Zoom link

LGBTQIA+ August Meeting!
2025-08-25 20:00 - 21:00
Join us this August 25th from 8-9 PM ET for our August Sangha! Rita will guide us in the Zoom Room below. Come for part or all of the hour for community, the space to unwind, and joyous mischief! Hope to see you there.

Mentor-led Session with Thomas Davis
2025-08-26 19:00 - 20:15
Led by MMTCP Mentors, these sessions offer a place for you to bring any and all of your teaching and practice questions and to 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. This session is from 7 – 8:15 pm ET and will be led by Thomas Davis; Zoom link is here.

More about Thomas
Thomas Davis IV is a contemplative artist based in Los Angeles who explores the connections between the principles of the dharma, Christian mysticism, jazz ethics, poetry, art, storytelling, and science for a multi-disciplinary exploration of who we are and what is possible for us. Thomas’s immersion into the dharma began ten years ago at the EBMC in Oakland, and was preceded by over ten years of service as a lay minister and teacher at the Olivet Missionary Baptist Church in Oakland. He has been the core teacher for InsightLA’s BIPOC Sangha for the past three years. Thomas is founder of Avant-Dharma, which is the present expression of his cumulative years of practice and service (avant-dharma.com). He offers personal mentoring sessions as well as workshops and residential retreats for a further immersion into one’s own practice.

Brahmaviharas
2025-08-27 12:00 - 13:30
Linda HIRSCH is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Linda HIRSCH’s Zoom Meeting
Time: Aug 27, 2025 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87823042164?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 878 2304 2164
Passcode: [REDACTED]
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RISE- Healing the Heart of Democracy
2025-09-03 19:00 - 20:30
Our journey continues– in beloved community of fellow like- minded/hearted teachers/educators, we cultivate Habits of the Heart, find Refuge and Inspiration for ourselves, and explore ways to take these practices to enrich the lives of others within the communities we serve,

Mindfulness and Healing the Heart of Democracy
2025-09-07 12:00 - 13:30
A special invitation for all alumni from RISE Sangha which has been co-leading a series this past spring on Mindfulness and Healing the Heart of Democracy with the Center for Contemplative Practices and Transformative Educational Leadership. This special session is being held for all alumni.

Based on the work of Parker Palmer and as well as other dharma sources, we will explore ways how mindfulness may serve to keep our experiment of democracy alive–
within our own hearts and the communities in which we serve. We will attend to both the Inner and Outer Games:

How do we, as citizens and leaders, stay hopeful, resourced, inspired and engaged?
How do we create spaces to facilitate others in cultivating their habits of heart in order to foster a more mindful, compassionate, thoughtful community and world?
How do we remain faithful to speaking/ listening in a way that takes us closer to truth; to the call of courage that summons us to be witness to the common good, even against great odds?

“Many of us have a shared experience of heartbreak about the condition of our culture and society, a yearning for something better than divisiveness, toxicity, passivity, and powerlessness.
Within us is the courage to pursue that yearning, to hold life’s tensions consciously, until they break us open. This shared heartbreak builds a footbridge of mutual understanding on which we walk toward each other.
The broken-open heart is a source of power as well as compassion—the power to bring down whatever diminishes us and raise up whatever serves us well.” -Parker Palmer

This session is from 12 – 1:30 pm ET; the zoom link is here

Note: This is a stand-alone event which is related to a fall series of RISE sangha meetings in which we explore in greater depth five Habits of Heart to build our capacity for wise view, loving awareness, compassion, and skillful engagement in the world. These five habits are:1) We’re All in This Together, 2) An Appreciation of Otherness, 3) A Capacity to Hold Tension Creatively, 4) A Sense of Voice and Agency, 5) A Capacity to Create Community. Please join RISE Sangha for more information.

Awakening Together Sangha
2025-09-07 19:00 - 20:30
1st Sunday gathering with Gen facilitating. We meet to support our awakening and to enjoy the presence of each other in spiritual friendship.Zoom Link for gathering

Mentor-led Session with Dawn Mauricio
2025-09-09 13:00 - 14:30
Led by MMTCP Mentors, these sessions offer a place for you to bring any and all of your teaching and practice questions and to 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. This session is from 11:00 am – 12:15 pm ET and will be led by Dawn Mauricio; Zoom link is here.

More about Dawn
Dawn Mauricio (she/her), a Filipina-Canadian, has been practicing and studying Insight meditation since 2005. She has graduated from the first teacher development group of True North Insight, and Spirit Rock’s Mindfulness Yoga and Meditation Training, Dedicated Practitioners’ Program, and four-year Retreat Teacher Training. She teaches with a playful, dynamic, and heartfelt approach for people of color and folks of all backgrounds. Dawn leads daylongs, retreats, multiyear programs, and workshops in Canada and the US for Spirit Rock, True North Insight, Sacred Mountain Sangha, and Insight LA. Dawn is a cofounder of the True North Insight BIPOC practice group, serves on the guiding teachers council of True North Insight, and the leadership council for Sacred Mountain Sangha. She is also the author of Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners. (dawnmauricio.com)
