MMTCP

Footsteps of the Buddha Pilgrimage Information Session
2026-06-03 09:00 - 10:30 (America/New_York)
We are delighted to offer again a unique opportunity to visit Buddhism’s holy sites with a group of MMTCP alumni as we walk in the Footsteps of the Buddha: A Pilgrimage to the Source of Mindfulness. Twenty-eight pilgrims made this journey in 2025 and it was such a profound experience, we had to do it again!

Pilgrimage dates February 20 – March 5, 2027; the journey will be led by Dharmacharya Shantum Seth and accompanied by Paru Desai, ED MMTCP Alumni Association.

To journey through the heart of northern India, immersing in Buddhism’s holiest sites alongside spiritual friends, is more than a pilgrimage—it is a profound transformation. Moving as a sangha, we don’t just visit history; we walk in the dharma together in the very places it was born.

Meet Shantum and the Buddha Path team at this information session and hear more about the trip’s content and logistics. Please click here for a complete information packet including registration details.

This trip is open to all MMTCP alumni; partners, family members and friends are welcome to join.

The session is from 9 – 10:30 am ET; the Zoom link is here.

Mentor-led Sangha | Stan Eisenstein
2026-06-02 11:00 - 12:30
Led by MMTCP Mentors, these sessions offer a place for you to bring any and all of your personal practice and teaching questions and to be in sangha with alumni peers. In each session, mentors will offer a short talk, lead a reflective or practice exercise and then offer guidance and wisdom for any questions you have.

This session is led by Stan Eisenstein and is from 11 am – 12:30 pm ET; the Zoom link is here

Please note: these sessions are not recorded. Now more than ever we need to be in community and though we can’t be together in person, please join us live for this valuable community.

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.

Becoming a Meditation Teacher on Insight Timer Information Session
2026-05-31 13:00 - 15:00
Do you want to increase your visibility as a meditation teacher and contribute to your livelihood through teaching? Join Hugh Byrne for a workshop on ‘Becoming a Meditation Teacher on Insight Timer’, Sunday, May 31, 1:00 – 3:00pm eastern time.

In this workshop we will discuss how to launch yourself as a teacher on Insight Timer, and approaches to increasing visibility and contributing to your livelihood by offering meditations, talks, courses, and live sessions on I.T.

Hugh Byrne has been a Buddhist meditation teacher since 2000 and is an emeritus teacher with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington and a guiding teacher with the DC Center for Mindful Living. Hugh has been an active teacher on Insight Timer for ten years and his meditations and talks have been downloaded over 3.5 million times. This workshop is offered on a dana/donation basis — MMTCP alums are invited to participate. Please contact Hugh Byrne directly f you wish to attend or have any questions.

LGBTQIA+ Sangha
2026-05-28 20:00 - 21:00
Please join us for all or part of our May session! Alyssa will guide us on the topic, “Feel the feelings, Drop the Story: Being Present with Discernment.” We will work with guided meditation and prompts to explore how we can strip our filters down to felt experience with less judging. Consider this a spring cleaning of sorts! Please join us on
Thursday, May 28th, 8-9 PM ET in this Zoom Room:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81193401080?pwd=[REDACTED]

Mindful in Nature Sangha
2026-05-27 19:00 - 20:00
See you for our monthly sangha at the following link:
https://meet.google.com/esk-kquq-bqp

Mindful Nonviolent Communication
2026-05-22 13:00 - 14:30
Join us for our monthly Sangha meeting: 11 am – 12:30 pm ET

The Zoom link is here

Mentor-led Sangha | Gullu Singh
2026-05-19 19:00 - 20:30
Led by MMTCP Mentors, these sessions offer a place for you to bring any and all of your personal practice and teaching questions and to be in sangha with alumni peers. In each session, mentors will offer a short talk, lead a reflective or practice exercise and then offer guidance and wisdom for any questions you have.

This session is led by Gullu Singh and is from 7 – 8:30 pm ET; the Zoom link is here

Please note: these sessions are not recorded. Now more than ever we need to be in community and though we can’t be together in person, please join us live for this valuable community.

More about Gullu
Gulwinder “Gullu” Singh is a mindfulness and Dharma teacher who also practices corporate real estate law. Although he was exposed to meditation as a child, he found his own practice when, after law school, he found himself working at high-powered law firms where the job was extremely stressful.
Gullu completed the four-year Spirit Rock Meditation Center Teacher Training Program and qualified to teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Gullu is core faculty in the Mindfulness in Law Teacher Training, the Spirit Rock Dedicated Practitioner Program, and a mentor for MMTCP. He is also a core teacher and board member for Sacred Mountain Sangha, a senior teacher at InsightLA, and a member of the guiding teacher’s council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.

Gullu is deeply inspired to share meditation as an antidote to stress, a path to well-being, and a way to inject more sanity, compassion, and wisdom into this world.

Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness Teachers
2026-05-19 11:00 - 12:00, 2026-04-21 11:00 - 12:00
Facing Trauma in a Changing World
An international TSM sangha

Let’s explore how trauma shows up in our communities online and in person and the skillful means that we need as TSM teachers and/or facilitators to be of help in stormy days.
“Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves,” Thich Nhat Hanh.

This sangha provides a grounded and safe space to be present with your peers who share one simple yet profound goal: Peace in every Step (á la Thich Nhat Hanh). Let us reclaim our deep listening and deep seeing into shared humanity. Let us discuss cross cultural sensitivities at the junction of trauma and mindfulness. Let us recenter, inquire and clarify what resources may be best to offer to our communities.

May this space be a home base for kindness, curiosity and inspiration amidst the chaos.

We will meet on the 3rd Tuesday of every month @ 11:00 am ET USA, which is

5:00 pm in Warsaw, Poland

6:00 pm in Jerusalem, Israel/Palestine

7:00 pm in Abu Dhabi, Emirates

11:00 am in Washington DC, USA

4:00 pm in London, UK

Please use the conversion app for your time zone, respectively.

Tara Brach | Buddha Nature: Exploring Practices That Reveal Our Natural Awareness and Love
2026-05-16 12:00 - 13:30
For many, the language of “no-self” or emptiness can seem confusing or abstract, and teachings on our true nature may feel distant or obscure. But they need not be.

Join me for a fresh exploration of Buddha Nature—a realm that is, as the Tibetans say, closer than we imagine, easier than we imagine, more profound than we imagine, and more wondrous than we imagine.

The only preparation, should you choose, is to spend a little time before we gather in effortless mindfulness.

I look forward to being with you, Tara

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

Disability Affinity Sangha
2026-05-12 14:30 - 16:00, 2026-04-14 14:30 - 16:00
Our Sangha is an affinity group intended for those who identify as disabled (see our sangha page for more info). We meet the second Tuesday of each month at 2:30 p.m. ET for 1.5 hours. The recurring zoom link for our sangha is https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/94776947948 or the Meeting ID is 947 7694 7948.

Awakening Together Sangha
2026-05-11 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-04-13 13:00 - 14:00
Awakening Together Sangha invites you to spend some time with each other as our unique journeys coalesce together in reverence to the oneness that is at our core. We cultivate our awareness by spending time together sharing experiences and practices that enhance our own understanding as we gather in spiritual friendship.

Mindful Writing, Mindful Journaling
2026-05-10 11:30 - 12:30
Mindful Journaling lets you discover your deeper thoughts, create your world, process your feelings or simply play with words. Everyone welcome.
You are welcome as a dedicated writer or as a new journal-er.
Feel free to email if you wonder about this Sangha: audreybloom@bellsouth.net

Here is the zoom information
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89079623957?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 890 7962 3957 Passcode: [REDACTED]

Mindful Coaches, Mentors and Therapists - Open Studio Process (OSP)
2026-05-09 12:00 - 13:30
This month, we will explore the connections between having a creative practice and a mindfulness practice. Patti Vick will lead an experiential art and writing workshop designed to release stress, cultivate empathy, and create balance using the Open Studio Process (OSP). Components of this process include intention setting, intuitive art making, and reflective writing. Participants will have the opportunity to create and share in a space of supportive non-interference.

Ānāpānasati Sutta with Dharmacharya Shantum Seth
2026-05-07 11:00 - 13:00
For many of us, focusing on the breath is foundational to our meditation and mindfulness of breathing is a concept we are all familiar with. But do you know the origins of this practice for Buddhists? In the Ānāpānasati Sutta the Buddha lays out a clear and detailed meditation practice to develop a serene and concentrated mind and insight.

Join Dharmacharya Shantum Seth as he brings us back to the roots of mindfulness of breath teaching to explore and deconstruct the 16 steps of conscious breathing which are broken into four tetrads—body, feelings, mind, and mental objects. Whether you have worked with Ānāpānasati before or this is your first exposure to the sutta, this session offers an opportunity to study this discourse, with a skilled guide, as it was taught over 2,500 years ago and to discover why it is considered the “direct path” to liberation and awakening.

This Deepening Dharma Series session is from 11 am – 1 pm ET; the Zoom link is here

More about Shantum Seth

Shantum Seth is an international meditation teacher, educator, and facilitator whose work bridges contemplative traditions with leadership, education, and social transformation. Ordained as a Dharmacharya (Dharma Teacher) in 2001 by the Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, he has been sharing mindfulness and ethical living globally for over three decades.

A pioneer of mindful pilgrimage, Shantum has been leading transformative journeys across Buddhist Asia since 1988, when he organized an early pilgrimage for Thich Nhat Hanh.These journeys invite participants to walk in the footsteps of the Buddha while deepening contemplative practice and weave together meditation, dialogue, and direct experience at sacred sites such as Bodh Gaya, Sarnath, and Kushinagar. He led the first alumni pilgrimage in December and will guide another in February 2027. Shantum is Co-Founder of Ahimsa Trust,( www.ahimsatrust.org) which is developing a Plum Village–inspired mindfulness practice centre in the Himalayan foothills. His work spans educators, corporate leaders, civil servants, and social sectors, focusing on awareness, resilience, and compassionate leadership.

Mentor-led Sangha | Dawn Mauricio
2026-05-05 11:00 - 12:30
Led by MMTCP Mentors, these sessions offer a place for you to bring any and all of your personal practice and teaching questions and to be in sangha with alumni peers. In each session, mentors will offer a short talk, lead a reflective or practice exercise and then offer guidance and wisdom for any questions you have.

This session is led by Dawn Mauricio and is from 11 am – 12:30 pm ET; the Zoom link is here

Please note: these sessions are not recorded. Now more than ever we need to be in community and though we can’t be together in person, please join us live for this valuable community.

More about Dawn
Dawn Mauricio (she/her) is a Filipina-Canadian mindfulness and Insight Meditation teacher who has been practicing since 2005. A graduate of Spirit Rock’s 4-year Retreat Teacher Training and other advanced programs, she has co-led multi-year Dharma trainings and is now the coordinating teacher for the annual 8-month Living the Dharma program. Dawn teaches across Canada and the U.S., offering a playful, dynamic, and heartfelt approach grounded in relational and embodied practice. She is a co-founder of the True North Insight BIPOC practice group, a core teacher with Sacred Mountain Sangha, the author of Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners, and a Somatic Experiencing™ Practitioner. Learn more at dawnmauricio.com.

RISE-Mindfulness and Habits of the Heart
2026-05-03 12:00 - 13:30
Join us for Refuge and Inspiration in Sangha with fellow teachers and Educators as we explore Habits of Heart to resource ourselves and best serve others. Last in spring series of Mindfulness and Healing the Heart of Democracy.

Brahmaviharas
2026-04-29 12:00 - 13:30
NEW POST ALERT! Next session: Wed., April 29th. Rf: Link below. Please bring your journal & a pen that flows smoothly!
My monthy Post and Photo are on our Sangha page. Enjoy!
I hope to see you!! RSVP. LJVHirsch@gmail.com
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Healthcare Sangha
2026-04-27 20:00 - 21:30
monthly meeting for our Sangha — the meeting is from 8 – 9 pm ET. We look forward to seeing you!

LGBTQIA+ Sangha
2026-04-27 20:00 - 21:00
Spring has sprung! Join us on Monday April 27th from 8-9 PM ET for our April gathering! Loretta will guide us on the topic of “The Practice of Kindness.”

She offers these questions to consider, “What use is ‘kindness’ in the world right now? As mindfulness practitioners, what practices and wisdom can we explore to help us find our own kindness, and see more kindness in the world?” This will be a wonderful opportunity to explore the utility of kindness in our challenging world and how we activate this practice.

Here’s the Zoom Room info:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81657090018?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 816 5709 0018
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Hope to see you for some or all of the session!

MNVC sangha
2026-04-24 13:00 - 14:30
Our next meeting, Fri, April 24th, 1-2:30pm ET/GMT-4 (please doublecheck time zone converters), will be lead again by guest facilitator Sunil Joseph. Some of you attended his session on Shame and Remorse in January. In April, Sunil will continue on this topic, delving more into shame associated with culture and identity, which came up during January discussions. We’re excited to welcome him back! Zoom link

Mindful in Nature
2026-04-22 19:00 - 20:00
Greetings to all,
Our Mindful in Nature Sangha will meet Wednesday, April 22, 7-8pm ET. Hope to see you there.
Ann Vachon is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 863 6843 1610
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[Cancelled] Mentor-led Sangha | Justine Dawson
2026-04-21 19:00 - 20:30
Due to an unexpected personal matter requiring Justine’s attention, we need to cancel tonight’s session. We are looking to reschedule our time with Justine in August and will confirm the new date and time shortly. We look forward to seeing you for our Mentor-led sessions in May with Dawn Mauricio (May 5) and Gullu Singh (May 19).

This Led by MMTCP Mentors, these sessions offer a place for you to bring any and all of your personal practice and teaching questions and to be in sangha with alumni peers. In each session, mentors will offer a short talk, lead a reflective or practice exercise and then offer guidance and wisdom for any questions you have.

Please note: these sessions are not recorded. Now more than ever we need to be in community and though we can’t be together in person, please join us live for this valuable community.

More about Justine
Justine Dawson is a teacher and guide of intimacy and awakening. A 25+ year practitioner of Insight Meditation, she completed training as a dharma teacher under Jack Kornfield in 2010. In addition to her training and practice in traditional meditation and Buddhist psychology, Justine is a board-certified Sexologist, having devoted 18 years to teaching and healing in the realms of the erotic – sex, desire, intimacy and embodiment. She is also fully qualified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.

From the inside out Justine works with people to unburden the fear, shame and judgment that prevents them from intimacy with all aspects of life. The therapeutic modalities of Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems parts work and relational mindfulness are foundational to her liberating, embodied approach. She currently keeps it real in Los Angeles, CA where she lives with her kitty Queen Bella. You can learn more about Justine and her work here.

How Adults Learn: Essential Principles for Mindfulness Educators
2026-04-20 12:00 - 14:00, 2026-04-13 12:00 - 14:00
How can diving into the psychology of how adults learn deepen both your mindfulness offerings and your own practice? This engaging 6-week course equips MMTCP alumni with essential adult learning principles that will provide you with new perspectives on your teaching, coaching, consulting, counseling, and facilitation.

In this co-created learning space, you’ll explore adult learning-aligned strategies for designing powerful learning experiences, adapting your teaching to different contexts, strengthening psychological safety, and building trust—learning not only from course content but from each other’s experiences and insights. Whether you’re leading 8-week courses, one-on-one coaching sessions, or workplace trainings, these foundations will sharpen your ability to plan from an adult learning perspective, meet adult learners where they are, support meaningful change, and maybe even enjoy your work more!

Instructor Alison Cohen, MMTCP mentor (2019-2025) and guiding teacher of Two Wings Mindfulness, is an enthusiastic adult learning and development nerd whose deep dives into this arena (including PhD coursework) have strengthened her own mindfulness-based teaching, coaching, and consulting—and she’s excited to share what she’s gleaned with fellow teacher-practitioners.

Registration for this series is now closed; we hope to see you at another one of our programs.

Session dates and times are:
Mondays from 12-1:45 pm ET (with +15 minutes of optional Office Hours): March 9, 16, 23, 30 (no class April 6) April 13 and 20.

Learn more Alison here

Celebrating Earth Day: The Power of Loving Engagement with James Baraz
2026-04-19 12:00 - 13:30
At this moment, the Earth and many living species are threatened by humanity’s unawareness. It’s natural to feel frustration or anger when you care deeply about our planet and its more-than-human inhabitants. Yet the most powerful force for healing arises from wise stewardship and love. We’ll explore accessing love and other wholesome states that deepen our connection to our beautiful Mother Earth.

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

More about James
James has been a meditation teacher since 1978.
He is creator and teacher of the Awakening Joy course (since 2003). He leads retreats, workshops and classes in U.S and abroad and is Co-founding Teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, CA. James is also the co-author of Awakening Joy, the book based on the course (with Shoshana Alexander) and Awakening Joy for Kids (with Michele Lilyanna).

He is a Guiding Teacher for One Earth Sangha, a website devoted to expressing a Buddhist response to Climate Change. James lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, Jane. He has two sons and three grandchildren. You can learn more about James and his offerings here.

Awakening Together Sangha
2026-04-15 13:00 - 14:00
New day for April’s gathering – Wednesday April 15th – We will be using the follow quote to start our conversation “Mindfulness can be away for us to restore balance—to help us recalibrate in a way that enables us to connect with our deepest, most heartfelt values and to act in accordance with them more often.” Ed Halliwell Karyn will be hosting the zoom meeting
Zoom link

Mindful Writing
2026-04-12 11:30 - 12:30
Annie Dillard wrote, “One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it all, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time.”
On Sunday, April 12th at 11:30am-12:30pm we all attempt to do what Annie Dillard proposes and we will do it within the holding of each other’s company.
Suitable for first time writers and long standing writers.

Zoom link – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89079623957?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 890 7962 3957, Passcode: [REDACTED]
