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SUMMARY:LGBTQIA+ Sangha for June- Pride Edition!
DESCRIPTION:Join us on June 23rd from 8-9 PM ET for our Pride Week celebration! Craig Nelson will be guiding us on the theme\, “The Beauty of Shame.” It’s gonna be BOLD and nuanced\, y’all. Show up hydrated! ALL are welcome\, whether it’s been a while or you’e just curious to check us out. Hope to see you there!
URL:https://mmtcpalumni.org/event/lgbtqia-sangha-for-june-pride-edition/
CATEGORIES:Sangha Meetings
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SUMMARY:Mentor-led Session with Alexa Redner
DESCRIPTION:Led by MMTCP Mentors\, these sessions offer a place for you to bring any and all of your teaching and practice questions / challenges and 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 the support we had in peer groups.  \n \nThis session will be led by Alexa Redner and is from 7 – 8:15 pm ET;  the Zoom link is here \n \nAlexa has been practicing meditation since 2003. Alexa has been an educator in many realms over the last twenty years\, dancing between the worlds of being a Waldorf Kindergarten teacher\, program teacher for Mindful Schools\, and Eating Disorders/Body Positive Educator at Beyond Hunger. Alexa is currently a mentor for Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Certification Program and teaches for Cloud Sangha\, leading weekly community discussion groups\, meditations\, immersion sanghas\, and individual mentoring sessions. As a Body Love activist\, Alexa is interested in exploring how dharma practices can unwind the mind from the cultural conditioning of body shame and open to the heart to the sacred quality of living in a body on the Earth. As a student of Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee’s Soulmaking Dharma\, Alexa brings a playful and soft approach to meditation practice.She holds a BA in Visual Arts and MA in Creation Spirituality from Naropa University. Alexa lives with her fiddler husband and young son in Portland\, Oregon.
URL:https://mmtcpalumni.org/event/mentor-led-session-with-alexa-redner/
CATEGORIES:Learning Sessions, Mentor Offerings and Other Events
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SUMMARY:Mindful in Nature
DESCRIPTION:Mindful in Nature \nWe 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. \n 
URL:https://mmtcpalumni.org/event/mindful-in-nature-9/
CATEGORIES:Sangha Meetings
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SUMMARY:Mindful Nonviolent Communications
DESCRIPTION:TIME CORRECTION! We meet 1-2:30pm ET | 10-11:30am PT \n \nJoin us as we explore\, investigate and practice key elements of Nonviolent Communication. Newcomers and beginners welcome! This month’s sangha will be led by Allison Schuette. Feel free to email a request if there’s a particular topic or element you’re interested in.
URL:https://mmtcpalumni.org/event/mindful-nonviolent-communications/
CATEGORIES:Sangha Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250628T120000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Session with Jack Kornfield
DESCRIPTION:Topic TBD – Jack will identify and address a topic relevant to the times as we get closer to the session.  In the meantime\,  \nJack is offering this free course on keeping the heart steady and responding with courage and compassion in these wild times. He sends the following message: “this course is important in our current world and I am happy to offer this free to our alumni community.”    \n \nThis session is from 12 – 1:30 pm ET;  the Zoom link is here
URL:https://mmtcpalumni.org/event/speaker-session-with-jack-kornfield/
CATEGORIES:Senior Teacher Speaker Series
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