MMTCP

Healthcare Sangha
2026-04-27 20:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York)
monthly meeting for our Sangha — the meeting is from 8 – 9 pm ET. We look forward to seeing you!

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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Linda HIRSCH is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Linda HIRSCH’s Zoom Meeting
Time: Apr 29, 2026 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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]

Awakening Together Sangha
2026-05-11 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-06-08 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.

Disability Affinity Sangha
2026-05-12 14:30 - 16:00, 2026-06-09 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.

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

Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness Teachers
2026-05-19 11:00 - 12:00, 2026-06-16 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.

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.

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

Brahmaviharas Sangha
2026-05-27 12:00 - 13:30
Linda HIRSCH is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Linda HIRSCH’s Zoom Meeting
Time: May 27, 2026 12:00-1:30 PM Eastern Time

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting chat link
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Please check my Post on our sangha page!

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

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]

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.

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.

Footsteps of the Buddha Pilgrimage Information Session
2026-06-03 09:00 - 10:30
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.

Mindful Journaling and Writing
2026-06-14 11:30 - 12:30
“This is… my favorite thing about the journal. It’s a repository of memory, a place to catch moments as if in amber”.
Suleka Jaouad
Mindful Journaling lets you discover your deeper thoughts, create your world, process your feelings or simply play with words. Everyone welcome.
Feel free to email if you wonder about this Sangha: audreybloom@bellsouth.net
Audrey
Zoom Information
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89079623957?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 890 7962 3957
Passcode: [REDACTED]

The Dangers of Peace: Avoidance and Bypassing as Hindrances to Liberation | A Workshop with Kazu Haga
2026-06-14 12:00 - 15:00
As dharma practitioners and teachers, part of our path is to support others in walking toward peace. Yet in a world shaped by pervasive violence, our understanding of what it means to create “peace” can become distorted. How might our assumptions about concepts like peace, safety, agreements, healing, and accountability unintentionally create fragile or reactive spaces that replicate harm? And how can our grounding in the dharma help us cultivate containers that are not only genuinely safe, but also resilient enough to hold challenges, invite growth, and move us toward the liberation of all beings? And at a time when we are polarized and/or paralyzed by conflict, this session will offer practical tools and strategies you can bring into your relationships and teaching.

This workshop is from 12 – 3 pm ET; the Zoom link is here.

This session is presented in collaboration with the Mindfulness and Nonviolent Communication Sangha; please visit the Sangha page for more information.

More About Kazu Haga
Kazu Haga is a trainer and practitioner of nonviolence and restorative justice, a core member of the Fierce Vulnerability Network, a founding core member of the Ahimsa Collective, a Jam facilitator and author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm and Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through
Collapse. His work weaves together spiritual practice, trauma healing and nonviolent action to advance social change and move towards collective liberation.
He has over 25 years of experience in nonviolence and social change work. He is a resident of the Canticle Farm community on Lisjan Ohlone land, Oakland, CA, where
he lives with his family. You can find out more about his work at www.kazuhaga.com.

Healthcare Professionals Sangha
2026-06-15 20:00 - 21:30
Healthcare Professionals Sangha Monthly meeting

Mentor-led Sangha | Thomas Davis
2026-06-16 19:00 - 20:30
Led by MMTCP Mentors, these sessions offer a place for you to bring any of your personal practice and teaching questions and /or 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 Thomas Davis 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 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 self-identifies as a Contemplative Artist which allows for a consistent and fluid commitment to personal authenticity; and for the exploration of voicing one’s emerging ideas, concepts and individual expressions of personal and collective Liberation.

Thomas Davis IV is a native of Oakland, California. He currently resides in Los Angeles and is a Teacher with the InsightLA Meditation Center, InsightinSchools and Guiding Teacher of the InsightLA POC Sangha. Thomas has also served non-profit organizations and entertainment industry clients with his teachings.

Thomas is the Founder of Avant-Dharma which is the present expression of his cumulative years of practice and service. Learn more about Thomas and his work here

LGBTQIA+ Sangha
2026-06-22 20:00 - 21:00
We kick off summer with our June gathering on Monday June 22, 2026 from 8-9 PM ET. Celebrate Pride in sangha! Loretta will guide the session. Join the Zoom room here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84680901470?pwd=[REDACTED]

Hope to see you for all or part of the hour. Pride-gear welcome, but no pressure! 🏳️‍🌈

Brahmaviharas
2026-06-24 12:00 - 13:30
Join us our monthly session – all are welcome!
Linda HIRSCH is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Time: Jun 24, 2026 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Join Zoom Meeting
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Mindful in Nature
2026-06-24 19:00 - 20:00
Greetings all,
You are invited to our June Mindful in Nature meeting on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 7-8pm ET. Looking forward to seeing you there.
Zoom invitation:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86368431610?pwd=[REDACTED]

Meeting ID: 863 6843 1610
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Mindfulness and Nonviolent Communication
2026-06-26 13:00 - 14:30
Hello, sangha! June’s monthly meeting will either build off of Kazu Haga’s June 14th workshop, The Dangers of Peace: Avoidance and Bypassing as Hindrances to Liberation, or our sangha’s interest in buddy practice – specifically, instructions to support ongoing empathy practice.
