Saturday, April 23, 2011  9:00 am – 4:30 pm Speaking is often one of the most difficult places to be mindful. One of the reasons it can be so challenging to integrate speech into our mindfulness practice is that we often don’t practice it! This daylong offers an opportunity to explore practices, reflections and teachings that support wise and mindful speech.  The day will integrate some periods of silence with periods of practicing mindful speech, with ample opportunity for discussion….

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Fridays, 7:00 – 8:30  pm on  Oct 14, Nov 11, & Dec 9 An opportunity for parents to practice in community with mindful speech and listening, meditation and stress reduction. Each participant will have time to share their mindful parenting experiences. The monthly series will include council practice sessions alternating with sessions featuring local dharma teachers who also practice mindful parenting and mindfulness for children. Facilitated by Patty McLucas and Liz Powell.

Sunday, May 22, 11am to 12pm This panel is informational—to give some insights into the role of a volunteer chaplain in prison, what it’s like to share the dharma through prison visits or being penpals with an inmate, and to share some of the mens’ writing and the joy that is often found, even in prison. Panel Members: Heidi Rentería, who has served at CTF for 8 years, is a graduate of the Sati Center Chaplaincy Program and sits with…

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Five Thursday Evenings:  February 10,17, March 3, 10, 17 In this five week series, we will explore how mindfulness of the body can help us to become more familiar with our minds.  We will begin with mindfulness of the elemental nature of physical experience. Over the weeks of the course, we will explore a variety of mental processes, such as emotions, feeling tone, perception and knowing, and look at how we can become mindfully aware of these processes in relationship…

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