MMTCP

Brahmaviharas
2025-02-26 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
Welcome to members of the new cohort! Kudos! We will host Special Guest, Cate McQuaid, who was delighted to join us last month and is excited to return and take us more deeply into Embodied Practice through movement, art and music. Cate is an avid Substack Blogger (Ocean in a Drop), Boston Globe Art Critic and much more! Zoom Link s below.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84421682405?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 844 2168 2405
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Mindful in Nature
2025-02-26 19:00 - 20:00
Join us for our monthly meeting!

MNVC sangha
2025-02-28 13:00 - 14:30
Join us as we explore, investigate and practice key elements of Nonviolent Communication. The inspiration for this sangha is Oren Jay Sofer’s book, “Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication.” You don’t need to have the book to participate, but it’s a great resource that we highly recommend.

LINK TO ATTEND — https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4919197028

Lama Rod Owens: Peace and Healing in a Divided World
2025-03-01 12:00 - 13:30
Join us for a discussion led by Lama Rod Owens on how, in our very divided and conflicted world, how can we as meditation teachers help people move through grief, anger, and division towards love, peace, healing, and liberation among each other and for our communities. How do we address our own emotional contradictions so that we can be more effective in resourcing and supporting the people we work with? As Lama Rod Owens says in his latest book, The New Saints, we are all called on to become “spiritual warriors” serving a vision of a world shaped by love.

Lama Rod Owens is a leading voice in a new generation of Buddhist teachers. With over 11 years of experience, Lama Rod is highly respected among his peers and the communities that he serves. He is the author of The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors and Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger and co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation, his teachings center on freedom, self-expression, and radical self-care. He has a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School with a focus on the intersection of social change, identity, and spiritual practice
The session is from 12 – 1:30 pm ET; the Zoom link is here

1st Sunday Awakening Together Sangha
2025-03-02 19:00 - 20:30
Awakening Together Sangha will meet at 7pm ET to support each other’s practice and journey of awakening. All are welcome! Gen will be facilitating this gathering .Sangha Zoom Link

🌱 March Meeting: A New Chapter in Shaping Our Path Together
2025-03-05 12:00 - 13:30
Dear mindfulness teacher friends of the European Community of MMTCP Alumni, 😊
With open hearts, we welcome our new members from the Class of 2025! It’s truly wonderful to see our circle of spiritual friends expanding, infused with fresh energy and new perspectives. To stay connected between and beyond meetings, we invite you to join our WhatsApp group—a space for informal conversations, resource sharing, and mutual support [Join here: http://www.bit.ly/The-European-Community-WhatsApp].
Our upcoming March gathering marks the beginning of a new chapter. As the seasons shift, so does our community, shaped by the voices, wishes, and intentions of those who gather. Together, we’ll take time to envision our path ahead while honouring our roots. How do we want this space to evolve? What do we hope to nurture and create together? Should we explore a new time and date that better serves everyone? Let’s come together to explore these possibilities. (If you can’t join the March meeting, feel free to email me your proposals and ideas—we’ll be sure to consider them!)
Whether you’ve been here for a while, just stepping in, or quietly following along, know that this is a space where we support, inspire, and grow together. It’s amazing that we are here!
🌱 Theme: A New Chapter: Shaping Our Path Together
🗓 Date: Wednesday, March 5
🕛 Time: 18:00 CET
📍 Where: Zoom Meeting ID: 817 9551 6967; Passcode: [REDACTED] and [Direct Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81795516967?pwd=[REDACTED]
Bring your presence, your ideas, and your curiosity—these are the priceless gifts that make our community thrive.
With warmth and gratitude,
Robert 😊🙏
Coordinator of ECMA (The European Community of MMTCP Alumni)

BIPOC MBSR Course
2025-03-05 19:00 - 21:30, 2025-03-12 19:00 - 21:30, 2025-03-19 19:00 - 21:30, 2025-03-26 19:00 - 21:30, 2025-04-02 19:00 - 21:30
First Course begins March 5, 2025. Pre-registration is required- please do so here

Mindful Eating
2025-03-06 12:15 - 13:00, 2025-04-03 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 Meeting
2025-03-06 13:00 - 14:00
The White Awareness Sangha is a space for white-bodied individuals to reflect deeply on the impact of white privilege and systemic racism. Rooted in the principles of engaged Buddhist practice, we come together with the intention of fostering community, insight, compassion, and ethical conduct.

Mindfulness In Healing
2025-03-08 12:00 - 13:30
In this session, we will investigate Mindfulness In Healing – its evolution, practices and benefits. You will see and listen to stories of unexpected healing and great courage.

Mindful Journaling
2025-03-09 11:30 - 12:30
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospect.” Anais Nin Mindfulness quiets the mind and opens the heart, mindful journal-ers listen to the heart and mind, and write. The writing sorts out the soul by bringing into the light that which was dim. The writing leads to unexpected and welcome discovery and a natural movement toward change. Whether you are an avid journal-er or first timer you are welcome to a shared space for mindful writing, and sharing (if you like).

Mentor - led Series | Imee Contreras
2025-03-11 11:00 - 12:30
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. These sessions have been so rich and supportive that this year we are offering them twice a month and alternating times so our peers around the world can join more often. This session will be led by Imee Contreras from 11 am – 12:15 pm ET; Zoom link is here.

Imee is recognized as a leading mindfulness teacher in the Philippines and across Asia. She is the founder of Mindfulness Asia and Nibbāna Forest Refuge. She is a co-founder of Philippine Insight Meditation Community, Katahimikan; Philippine Day of Mindfulness and Botswana Dhamma and Mindfulness Centre. In addition to MMTCP and POA, Imee is an authorized teacher at UCLA Health, a Cross-Cultural Mindfulness Teacher and Board Member of Braided Wisdom, and a visiting teacher at East Bay Meditation Center. She is a founding Advisory Council member of the Global Compassion Coalition.

She graduated from Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leadership Program, UCLA’s Training in Mindfulness Facilitation program, and is an IMTA-Certified Mindfulness Teacher. She develops and facilitates mindfulness programs for companies, schools, and events; both locally and internationally. She volunteers to teach incarcerated women serving life imprisonment and also supports abused women and children in the Philippines.

Disability Affinity Sangha
2025-03-11 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

Gil Fronsdal: Teaching as Practice
2025-03-13 12:00 - 13:30
We are delighted to host Gil Fronsdal as he talks to us about “Teaching as Practice.” – how is teaching a dharma path and what is it to maintain practice while in the midst of teaching. Gil Fronsdal is the senior guiding co-teacher at the Insight Meditation Center (IMC) in Redwood City, California and the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, California. He started Buddhist practice in 1975, and has been teaching for IMC since 1990. Gil is an authorized teacher in two traditions: the Insight Meditation lineage of Theravada Buddhism of Southeast Asia, and Japanese Soto Zen. He holds a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Stanford.

The session is from 12 – 1:30 pm PT; the Zoom link is here. Please note this session is on Thursday and not our usual Saturday.

Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness Teachers Sangha
2025-03-18 12:00 - 13:00
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 12pm-1pm Eastern. If you can’t make this time there is another offering later the same day from 9pm-10pm. Here is the Zoom link; you can also use the following credentials: Meeting ID: 811 4289 6909 Passcode: [REDACTED]

Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness Teachers Sangha
2025-03-18 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]

Pilgrimage to India Information Session
2025-03-19 10:30 - 12:00
Join us for the second information session (recording from first session is here) In the Footsteps of the Buddha: A Pilgrimage to the Source of Mindfulness Information Session. Visit our dedicated Pilgrimage to India page for more information including a special note from Jack! Pilgrimage dates are November 30 – December 13, 2025; led by Dharmacharya Shantum Seth and supporting MMTCP teacher Anne Cushman. The session is from 10:30 am – 12 pm ET; the Zoom link is here

Mindful Readers
2025-03-19 12:00 - 13:00
March, 2025
Hello Mindful Readers,
“What is the best use of each day of our lives?”:
This is the question Pema Chödrön asks us, and this is the topic we will explore during our next Mindful Reader’s Sangha Meeting.
The reading is in a recent issue of Lion’s Roar Magazine, here is the Link:
https://www.lionsroar.com/waking-up-to-your-world-pema-chodron/
*** I for any reason you cannot open the link, Audrey will send the to you by email, contact Audrey at – audreybloom@bellsouth.net
Day & Time: Wednesday, March 19 at 12:00pm/EST
Sign In:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89079623957?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 890 7962 3957
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Warmly,

Mindful in Nature
2025-03-19 19:30 - 20:30
Join us for our March 2025 monthly mindful in nature sangha where we connect about whats new in the world of mindfulness in nature! We will meet at this link https://meet.google.com/vzb-hvsg-cqh

Belonging and Inclusion through the Lens of Accessibility | Workshop with Deb Kerr
2025-03-22 12:00 - 13:30
MMTCP Mentor Deb Kerr will lead this workshop on fostering belonging and inclusion in our teaching through the lens of accessibility. We know this is important and why but don’t always know how to do it or have the tools to do it with sensitivity – sometimes we don’t even know that we are not fostering these inclusive spaces. Deb will share practical tips as well as take your questions on challenges you may be facing or have faced is creating more a inclusive, accessible environment for your students. The session is from 12 – 1:30 pm ET; the Zoom link is here.

Debra Kerr (she/her) identifies as a cisgender heterosexual white woman living with a disability. She is a partner, mother, grandmother, and retired speech pathologist who has meditated since 1991 and taught since 2002. Deb loves being in nature, community building, scuba diving, juggling, music, and humor. A graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leaders Program, Deb is a Core Teacher at East Bay Meditation Center, where she also guides the Every Body Every Mind Sangha for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses.

LGBTQIA+ Sangha Meeting
2025-03-24 20:00 - 21:00
Join us for a March gathering where Alyssa will invite space to explore the theme of Community. We will rock a Zoom room from 8-9 PM Eastern Time on Monday March 24, 2025. Hope to see you there!

Mentor-led Series | Kirsten Rudestam
2025-03-25 19:00 - 20:30
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. These sessions have been so rich and supportive that this year we are offering them twice a month and alternating times so our peers around the world can join more often. This session will be led byKirsten Rudestam from 7 – 8:15 pm ET; Zoom link is here.
Kirsten Rudestam has been practicing vipassana meditation in the Theravadan tradition since 2001 and teaching since 2005. She has a PhD in Environmental Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she studied climate resilience and environmental justice. She has twenty years of experience offering field-based and classroom-based college courses in environmental studies and sociology, and she is a facilitator for Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects. She, Gil Fronsdal, and Susie Harrington are the co-founders and core faculty for the Sati Center’s Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy training program.

Brahmaviharas Sangha
2025-03-26 12:00 - 13:00
please join us for our monthly meeting of the Brahmaviharas

Mindful Nonviolent Communication
2025-03-28 13:00 - 14:30
Join us as we explore, investigate and practice key elements of Nonviolent Communication. The inspiration for this sangha is Oren Jay Sofer’s book, “Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication.” You don’t need to have the book to participate, but it’s a great resource that we highly recommend. Zoom link

RISE (Refuge and Inspiration Sangha for Educators)
2025-03-30 12:00 - 13:00
Opportunities to gain Refuge and Inspiration to support us in both a) showing up with confidence, courage and poise in the work we do and b) in incorporating mindfulness practices to promote democracy, belonging, engagement and well- being in education and other settings.
