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SUMMARY:MMTCP Connect 2025 - Annual all-alumni gathering (virtual)
DESCRIPTION:MMTCP Connect 2025: One Heart\, Many Voices –  our second annual all-alumni gathering (virtual) will be a  weekend full of inspiration and community.  More details coming soon! \n \nWhen:  \nNovember 15 from 11 am – 3 pm ET \nNovember 15 from 5:30 – 9:30 /10 pm ET  \nNovember 16 from 10:30  am – 4 pm ET  \n \nWe are finalizing topics with the speakers and additional session details and will share that soon.  Sessions are spread out throughout the weekend to allow peers in the Asia/Pacific region to join us live. \n \nSome highlights:    \n\n\nJames Baraz – 11/15 at 11 am ET \n\n\nKaira Jewel Lingo –  11/15 at 1:30 pm ET \n\n\nJack Kornfield – 11/15 at 5:30 pm ET \n\n\nBhikkhu Bodhi – keynote address 11/15 at 7:00 pm ET \n\n\nTara Brach – 11/16 at 11:30 am ET \n\n\nWe will also have other speakers and feature an alumni panel\, our fabulous sangha leaders. and fun being-in-community sessions to get to know each other.   \n \nCheck the MMTCP Connect 2025 tab on our homepage for the most current information. \n \nWe look forward to seeing you! 
URL:https://mmtcpalumni.org/event/mmtcp-connect-2025-annual-all-alumni-gathering-virtual/
CATEGORIES:Learning Sessions, Mentor Offerings and Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T190000
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SUMMARY:Mentor-led Session | Imee Contreras
DESCRIPTION: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.  \n  \nThis session will be led by Imee Contreras and is and is from 7 – 8:15 pm ET; the Zoom link is here \n \nMore about Imee Contreras \nImee first discovered meditation over thirty years ago\, at 16 years old\, around the time when she faced one of the most impactful crossroads in her life. She spent a large part of her younger years growing up in the United States and is now based in her motherland; the Philippines.  After decades of searching\, she discovered a true sense of belonging in nature\, motherhood\, yoga therapy\, meditation practice and the Dharma.  \n​ \nShe mentors with a unique blend of traditional yet progressive\, Eastern yet Western\, and gentle yet firm approach.  She works in Buddhist\, secular\, and cross-cultural settings that intertwine harmoniously within the mindfulness field.  She believes that everything belongs when exploring one’s own mind and heart.  Hence\, it takes courageous and compassionate enthusiasm to meet ourselves fully.  She loves engaging in relaxed\, meaningful conversations that build relationship and cultivate connection.  \n \nShe’s a mom to two boys whom she aspires to raise as respectful\, kind\, and dignified human beings.  She loves dancing to live music\, nature hikes and campfires\, and soaking in warm ocean waters.  She’s a health and wellness advocate\, an organic gardener\, and a yoga therapist. \nLearn more about Imee and her offerings here
URL:https://mmtcpalumni.org/event/mentor-led-session-imee-contreras-2/
CATEGORIES:Learning Sessions, Mentor Offerings and Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T210000
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SUMMARY:Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness Teachers Sangha
DESCRIPTION: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: Awake
URL:https://mmtcpalumni.org/event/trauma-sensitive-mindfulness-teachers-sangha-2/2025-11-18/
CATEGORIES:Sangha Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T220000
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SUMMARY:Plant-based Foods Exploration
DESCRIPTION:Monthly gathering the 3rd Thursdays at 7 pm EST to discuss individual plant-based journeys\, along with teaching about plant-based lifestyles.
URL:https://mmtcpalumni.org/event/plant-based-foods-exploration/2025-11-20/
CATEGORIES:Sangha Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251121T130000
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SUMMARY:Mindfulness and Nonviolent Communication
DESCRIPTION:Meeting time is 1 pm ET.  Please note that in November and December we will be meeting on the 3rd Friday of the month\, which is different than our typical 4th Friday schedule.
URL:https://mmtcpalumni.org/event/mindfulness-and-nonviolent-communication-3/
CATEGORIES:Sangha Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251122T120000
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SUMMARY:Grief Workshop | Lama Rod Owens
DESCRIPTION:Grief can take many forms and is a response to many types of losses; grief also shows up in many areas of our lives – personal\, collective\, political\, social\, etc.  We are living in intense times and tending to our own grief and helping those we work with can feel overwhelming.  Lama Rod will guide us in our capacity to notice\, allow\, hold and experience our grief so that we can find our way of it skillfully. This workshop will also help build our capacity to support others through their grief journey with tools and practices we can utilize.   \n \nThis session is from 12 – 3 pm ET;  the Zoom link is here \n \nIn March 2025\, Lama Rod led us in a session on Peace and Healing in a Divided World.  A recording of this is available under Events–>Recordings of Past Events \n \nMore about Lama Rod Owens \n \nLama Rod Owens is an international influencer with 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. 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. Highly sought after for talks\, retreats\, and workshops\, his mission is showing you how to heal and free yourself.  Learn more about Lama Rod and his offerings here. 
URL:https://mmtcpalumni.org/event/grief-workshop-lama-rod-owens/
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