MMTCP

The European Community of MMTCP Alumni
2024-10-02 12:00 - 13:30, 2024-09-04 12:00 - 13:30, 2024-08-07 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)

RISE (Education Sangha Meeting)
2024-09-29 12:00 - 13:15, 2024-08-28 19:00 - 20:15
Learning Session– Mindfulness practices to bring back to your setting; Refuge and Inspiration with fellow educators/teachers!

Arising Arts Sangha Meeting
2024-09-26 13:00 - 15:00
Join us to explore mindfulness through creative pathways. Deepen your practice and open to new insights that may be hidden in your subconscious waiting to be seen.

Mindful In Nature Sangha
2024-09-25 19:00 - 20:00
See you there!

MMTCP Mentor Session with Emily Horn
2024-09-24 11:00 - 12:30
These mentor-led sessions are geared to help you take your teacher’s seat with greater confidence; this session is led by Emily Horn. Emily will share a phase based model of practice: seeking, effort, breakthrough, disillusionment, inclusion, and completion. This model for the cycles that happen with mindfulness and insight meditation can be used for our personal practice as well as when working with students. She will also take your teaching and practice questions. Register here; Zoom link is here

LGBTQIA+ Sangha Monthly Meeting
2024-09-23 19:00 - 20:00
We will gather for our monthly meeting to practice in community and chat about whatever is present in the moment. Karen will lead this session. Please join us.

Q&R with Joseph Goldstein
2024-09-21 14:00 - 15:30
Q&R with Joseph Goldstein, Saturday September 21 from 2 – 3:30 pm ET (please note this is later than our normal start time). Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to be with this beloved teacher in an alumni only setting — we have all heard Joseph speak many times but this is one of the very few places where he shares his teaching wisdom. Joseph is also winding down his speaking engagements so these opportunities will become rarer and rarer.

After a brief talk, Joseph will focus the bulk of this session on responding to questions on your teaching — challenges you have faced, student questions that were hard for you, an issue you seek guidance on, etc — as well as questions about your practice. He asked us to solicit questions ahead of time so he can better prepare so please pre-submit your questions for Joseph here. Register here; Zoom link is here

Mindful Readers
2024-09-19 12:00 - 13:00
An exploration of poetry and inner landscapes through journaling. The book to bring in autumn is “Stillness is the Key”, by Ryan Holiday. On September 19 we will review and do some journaling about Part 1: The Mind

Awakening Together Sangha gathering
2024-09-16 13:00 - 14:00
The four foundations of mindfulness practice. This is the 4th meeting of a 4-part series facilitated by Jerome.
Link for Awakening Together Sangha gatherings

BIPOC Sangha
2024-09-15 12:00 - 13:15
Monthly meeting for those who identify as BIPOC
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85041825573

MCMT - Talk and Discussion on Dance as Relational Meditation in Motion
2024-09-14 12:00 - 13:30
As mindfulness practitioners, and teachers, we often associate meditation with four primary postures: three “still” — sitting, standing, lying down — and one “dynamic”: walking meditation. Many of us have explored more intricate forms of “meditation in motion” like Yoga, Tai Chi, Qigong, and other martial arts. But what if we moved beyond the confines of prescribed postures and defined sequences? Improvisational dance harnesses the body’s natural inclination to move and emerges organically, guided by the flow of energy, breath, and emotion. By breaking free from steps and choreography, we cultivate deep listening, embrace uncertainty, and respond to impulses with sensitivity and authenticity. We learn to let go of preconceived notions of how our bodies ‘should’ move, and instead discover how they ‘want’ to move. Furthermore, dance is not merely a solitary journey, but a shared experience that nurtures connection, empathy, and trust with others. As we establish a rhythm with each other and with the music, we enter a collective meditative state, where individual awareness expands into relational harmony. Please note this is a talk and discussion only and not a movement session.

Disability Affinity Sangha/CANCELED
2024-09-10 14:30 - 16:00, 2024-08-13 14:30 - 16:00
Enjoy your holidays!

Compassionate Caregivers Sangha
2024-09-09 20:30 - 21:30, 2024-08-12 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 JOURNALING
2024-09-08 11:00 - 12:00
A time to be with oneself, and with others focusing on inner landscapes in writing. A time to write your reflections and share as you are so moved.

Navigating the AI Explosion with Buddhist Wisdom with Randima Fernando
2024-09-07 12:00 - 13:30
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming an integral part of our lives and rapid changes in AI arouse both fear and excitement as well as questions about ethical considerations for society. Randima Fernando will lead us in a informative discussion on the many opportunities and challenges that AI presents in our space including questions such as:

how will AI shape the mindfulness field; how will personalization and algorithms create products for students and what role will mindfulness teachers play
embrace the potential of AI while remaining vigilant of its ethical implications and use in the mindfulness space
Compassion, empathy and AI
how to worry wisely about AI
opportunities, challenges and ethical issues of using tech /AI for teaching mindfulness
impact of tech on our attention and sense of self – how can mindfulness teachers help their students navigate this

AI is all around us and our space will be impacted by its many layers and considerations so it is important to become more literate in AI.

Register here; Zoom link is here

Genevieve Tregor - Refuge of Sangha
2024-08-27 11:00 - 12:30
Fielding Questions and Answers Effectively and With Confidence. MMTCP Mentor Genevieve Tregor will guide us on how to work with Q and A: what to do when no one asks a question, what to do when someone asks a question and you don’t know how to respond, how to keep Q&A focused on the topic, how to think about Q&A to make it the most effective aspect of your teaching, etc. Tuesday, August 27 from 11 am – 12:15 pm ET.
Register here; Zoom link is here

LGBTQIA+ Sangha
2024-08-26 19:00 - 20:00
Join us in community this August! Rita will lead. If others are interested in leading or sharing an offering, please reach out to Alyssa or Rita. With metta.

MNVC sangha meeting
2024-08-23 13:00 - 14:30
We’ll revisit the way the topic of making requests. If you didn’t attend the July session, no worries. We’ll review the topic for new folk. In the meantime, I invite you to pay attention to when you do—and don’t!—make requests. Be curious about how you feel in the body. If you end up making the request, how does it go? If you don’t make the request, what other need of yours might you be meeting?

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Summer Awakening Together gathering
2024-08-21 19:00 - 20:00
Special Summer Awakening Together Sangha gathering with Gen
Zoom Link forAwakening Together Sangha gatherings

Awakening Together Sangha gathering
2024-08-19 13:00 - 14:00
The four foundations of mindfulness practice. This is the 3rd meeting of a 4-part series facilitated by Jerome.
Link for Awakening Together Sangha gatherings

BIPOC Sangha
2024-08-18 12:00 - 13:15
Monthly sangha meeting for those who identify as BIPOC.

Mindful in Nature Sangha
2024-08-14 19:00 - 20:00
August sangha

MCMT Sangha
2024-08-10 12:00 - 13:30
Emergent Conversation and Connection Session

Spring Washam: Plant Medicine and Buddhist Wisdom
2024-08-03 12:00 - 13:30
In this heart focused talk, dharma teacher and plant medicine guide Spring Washam will share powerful insights blending plant medicine and Buddhist based wisdom over twenty years of practice. The importance of plant medicine used skillfully to accelerate the awakening process cannot be underestimated. With lively stories from the Himalayan Mountain monasteries to the jungles of Peru. Spring will share the importance of understanding true empathy and interconnected web that flows through all of life. Register here; Zoom link is here

Mindful in Nature !
2024-07-31 19:00 - 20:00
Greetings, we will meet July 31 at 7-8 PM EST at this link. Thank you! https://meet.google.com/duh-gfut-one
