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Keeping Cool in the Fire

Saturday July 25, 2009 - 9:30 am to 5:00 pm

Becoming More Skillful with Inner or Outer Conflict

—A Two-Day Training

 

Saturday, July 25, 9:30a.m.-5p.m.
Sunday, July 26, 9:30a.m.-4p.m.

 

with Lawrence Ellis & Donald Rothberg

Click here for teacher bio

 

We offered this workshop in March of this year. Within a few days of advertising it, the workshop was full. Those who attended rated it as outstanding. So, we are offering it again.

Co-sponsored by Summer of Peace (www.SummerOfPeace.net)

 

For many of us, conflicts are difficult. Should I stay in this job or relationship? How can I bring my spiritual practice to this major organizational conflict? How can I bring my spiritual practice to a situation of hostility or even violence? In this two-day workshop, we will offer perspectives, tools and practices for transforming conflict – drawn from traditional Buddhist teachings, and from leading-edge work of mediators and peacemakers. We’ll look deeply at the nature of conflict; see conflicts as opportunities for reconciliation, learning, and deepening relationships; become more skillful when there are difficult emotions and polarizing thoughts; and cultivate mindfulness and skillful speech in the midst of conflict. We will explore all of this through meditation, short talks, discussion, interactive exercises, and practice with conflict scenarios drawn from our own life experiences and from simulations.

Open to all. Beginning meditators welcome.

 

Registration: Registration is required and space is limited. To register, please click on the following link to fill out a registration survey:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=O_2f2Uj_2fP0wiEqsKq2D1HduQ_3d_3d


(If the link does not work, please copy it, and paste it into your web browser. If that still does not work, click on "Contact Us", to send us a message requesting a registration form for the July 25 & 26, 2009 2-Day Workshop entitled "Keeping Cool in the Fire: Becoming More Skillful with Inner or Outer Conflict.")

 

Cost: There is no registration fee for attending this event, nor most EBMC events.  However, EBMC is not independently funded. The Center and the teachers will be sustained only by your voluntary donations (the practice of generous giving, or "dana"). Please donate generously, in proportion to your ability:

    * Either online (you will be offered an opportunity at the end of the online registration process)
    * Or at the event, in the two baskets at EBMC, one for the Center, the second for the Teacher

Thank you for your generosity.  EBMC will be only be sustained through our collective generosity. 

 

Download workshop flyer here.

 

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Founded in a celebration of diversity, the East Bay Meditation Center welcomes everyone seeking to end suffering and cultivate happiness.  Our mission is to foster liberation, personal and interpersonal healing, social action, and inclusive community building.  We offer  mindfulness practices and teachings on wisdom and compassion from Buddhist and other spiritual traditions. Rooted in our commitment to diversity, we operate with transparent democratic governance, generosity-based economics, and environmental sustainability.



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