MMTCP

RISE-Refuge & Inspiration Sangha for Educators
2025-10-05 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
Our journey continues of exploring how to heal our own hearts and the heart of democracy- we cultivate Habits of the Heart, find Refuge and Inspiration for ourselves in beloved company of fellow teachers/educators, and explore ways to take these practices to enrich the lives of others within the communities we serve,

Right Livelihood, Real Revenue: A Business Model Workshop for Mindfulness Teachers
2025-10-04 12:00 - 15:00
As part of our Business of Being a Mindfulness Teacher, this session will address the very important topic of money. Led by Genevieve Tregor and Jonathan DeYoe, the session will address the following topics:

what is right livelihood – ethical practices and alignment

roots of dana and how it has evolved over time, practices in the western world

exploring generosity and how you relate to it

dana vs charging – how do you determine what is right for you, hybrid

figuring out your financial model; what is your financial need to then identify how many students, price point, etc

how to create a budget / financial plan

The session is from 12 – 3 pm ET; the Zoom link is here

More About Genevieve Tregor
Genevieve Tregor, MS, has practiced vipassana meditation in-depth under Western and monastic teachers since 2008, with a year-and-a-half in cumulative retreat. She is founding teacher of Insight Meditation Scottsdale community, SolutionMindfulness.com, and OneWorldMindfulness.com—creating and teaching classes, workshops, and retreats in secular and Buddhist contexts, and teaching alongside senior teachers in the Insight tradition.

Genevieve seeks to support each student in finding their unique embodied teaching style. Her students appreciate her sense of humor, and direct and down-to-earth approach. She takes joy in sharing the dharma and the essentials of teaching.

More About Jonathan DeYoe
Jonathan has worked in the financial services industry for more than 25 years. Prior to joining EP Wealth Advisors in 2021 his career journey led from being a seminarian and Buddhist academic to a financial advisor. After spending 5 years with large Wall Street companies (“just enough to know better”), Jonathan launched his own firm, growing it from 6 clients to 280 over the course of 20 years.

Jonathan is also the bestselling author of Mindful Money: Simple Practices for Reaching Your Financial Goals and Increasing Your Happiness Dividend and, as the host of the Mindful Money Podcast and co-host of the Mindful Wealth Podcast, he talks about both the personal-finance decision-making process and the part money and wealth play in our culture.

White Awareness Sangha
2025-10-02 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

Mentor-Led Session | Dawn Mauricio (rescheduled)
2025-09-30 11:00 - 12:15
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 11:00 am – 12:15 pm ET and will be led by Dawn Mauricio (rescheduled from September 9); 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)

LGBTQIA+ Sangha
2025-09-25 20:00 - 21:00
Alyssa will guide us for our September gathering on Thurs. Sept. 25th from 8-9 PM ET. Hope to see you in the Zoom room!

Mentor-led Session with Justine Dawson
2025-09-25 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 Justine Dawson; zoom link is here

Mindful Readers
2025-09-23 20:00 - 21:00
Due to unexpected circumstances, we will need to cancel tonight’s Mindful Readers meeting scheduled for 7:00 PM ET (September 23).

Apologies for the short notice, and thank you for your understanding. We’ll be in touch soon with updates about the next meeting.

Wishing you a peaceful day.

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Dear Mindful Readers, Our next “Mindful Readers” will be “Mindful Listeners”. The talk is called “Listening with Love”, the speaker is Dawn Neal, it is 20 minutes and can be found on Dharma Seed: Here is the Link:https://www.dharmaseed.org/talks/?search=Listening&sort=-rec_date&page_items=10 Our Sangha meeting will include, of course, a brief mindfulness practice, discussion of the talk (its themes and where we find them in our lives. Everyone welcome. Warmly,Magloire and Audrey Day & Time: Tuesday, September 23, 7:00-8:pm/ESTSign In: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89079623957?pwd=[REDACTED] Meeting ID: 890 7962 3957

Workshop | Rooted & Resourced: Practical Business Fundamentals for Solo Mindfulness Professionals with Sharon Shelton
2025-09-20 12:00 - 15:00
Part of our Business of Being a Mindfulness Teacher Series
Rooted & Resourced: Practical Business Fundamentals for Solo Mindfulness Professionals, September 20 from 12 – 3 pm ET
Sharon Shelton will share the 5 essentials that enabled her one-person mindfulness teaching and mentoring practice to thrive after 20 years working in corporate – the roadmap she wished she had when she started teaching!

Legal shelter—set up the simplest, asset-protecting structure.
Risk & contracts—smart waiver, client agreement, and aligned insurance.
Money flow—fair rates, quarterly taxes, lean bookkeeping.
Micro + AI stack—five budget apps and prompts that handle admin.
Ethical visibility—one-sentence positioning and a “not-this-year” boundary list.

Conversation, stories, a workbook, and a vetted resource directory—no slides or demos. Leave with a 90-day action plan and peer pod, ready to teach, not chase paperwork.

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

More about Sharon Shelton
I’m a Founding Advisor and Mindfulness Meditation Teacher at Banyan, serving alongside Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield on the Teaching Council. I also sit on the boards of the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion and Peace at Any Pace.
Mentoring students in the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program—and at Banyan—lights me up, as does offering Dharma talks and daylong retreats at the Triangle Insight Meditation Community in Durham, NC.
Over the years, I’ve guided and inspired hundreds of mindfulness practitioners, drawing on my experience as a Certified Mindfulness Teacher (CMT-P) and ICF-certified life coach. With warmth and insight, I help individuals and groups integrate mindfulness while cultivating a wholehearted embrace of compassion. You can learn more about Sharon here

Plant-based Foods Exploration
2025-09-18 21:00 - 22:00, 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.

Mindful in Nature
2025-09-17 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-08-27 19:30 - 20:30
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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Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness Teachers Sangha
2025-09-16 21:00 - 22:00, 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]

Asia Sangha
2025-09-14 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

Buddhist Practice and Plant Medicine with Spring Washam - Part 2
2025-09-13 12:00 - 15:00
In our first session, we explored various plant medicines and their potential to support healing as well as examining how these practices intersect with Buddhist teachings—particularly the Five Precepts. [Listen to Session 1 here; Events –>Recordings of Past Events]

In Session Two, we’ll build upon this foundation—deepening our understanding and turning toward practical skill-building. We’ll focus on how to support students with accurate information and how to offer compassionate integration support for those returning from a psychedelic journey.

The use of plant medicine and psychedelics is rapidly gaining traction in the mental health field, showing promising outcomes for emotional and psychological healing, including deep trauma.

As mindfulness and meditation teachers, it is essential that we stay informed about these emerging modalities to better serve our communities and those we work with.

This session is from 12 – 3 pm ET ; Zoom link is here

(Please note this is a date change from September 6; we apologize for any inconvenience from the change)

Learn more about Spring Washam here.

Disability Affinity Sangha
2025-09-09 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

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)

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

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.

Mindful Eating
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.

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,

BIPOC Sangha
2025-09-02 06:00 - 07:00, 2025-08-26 06:00 - 07:00, 2025-08-19 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
2025-08-27 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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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.

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.

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
