“When we work with love, we renew the spirit” – bell hooks
East Bay Meditation Center is currently hiring for an Operations and Facilities Director. This is a part time, salaried staff position with immediate availability. If you are interested in joining the staff team at East Bay Meditation Center and helping us uplift our mission of fostering liberation, personal and interpersonal healing, social action, and inclusive community building, please send your resume and cover letter to the staff contact below.
Help EBMC find a permanent home! If you love East Bay Meditation Center and have experience in fundraising, capital campaigns, and/or real estate management and acquisition, please consider applying to be on EBMC’s L.Sangha (Leadership Sangha / Board of Directors). For full info and application form, click here: https://bit.ly/2pcO0C5
(Other skills that may be applicable are organizational development, facilitation, budgeting, Human Resources, program development, restorative justice, technology, legal)
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We are thrilled to announce Dharmathon 2019 on Friday, October 18th 2019 from 6:30 – 10:00PM.
Please join us for an evening of delicious food, powerful performances and friendship at the beautiful Alice Collective in Downtown Oakland, California.
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Apply now for EBMC’s PiTA 7 yearlong program, mindfulness training for social activists & agents of change! Application deadline is Aug. 5, 2019. From Ruby Olisemeka, nature educator, graduate of Practice in Transformative Action 6:
The Practice in Transformative Action program (sixth cohort, 2018-2019), gave me the knowledge, skills and language to have mindfulness moments with my junior ranchers (4 – 5 years old) and longer meditation sessions with my nature explorers group (5 – 11 years old) as well as my middle school science classes (12 – 15 years old). At least 60 children every week got to connect to mindful awareness of breath. The effects on my students were incredible. The most memorable effect was with a group that was really difficult to bring into a state of calm during our all groups’ morning circle. My co-instructors agreed to change our morning routine by letting me lead all 30 children in a mindfulness/breath awareness exercise. In a few weeks, the children no longer had to be wrangled into sitting and calming their verbal exuberance, so we could begin and have a successful morning circle. As soon as we said “to the stump circle” all our students gathered peacefully and were sitting in circle calmly waiting for me to start the day by saying “Meditation is a survival skill, the more you practice the better you are at it, let’s take a deep breath in and begin.”
For application, email PITA at eastbaymeditation dot org. More information, meeting dates (Sept 2019-July 2020), info about the teachers, click here.
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Sat, May 18, 2019, 2:00 – 5:30 PM Pacific time –
** Wesak Awakening: Buddhists Declaring Climate Emergency Together** No charge,
registration required because of limited space. Location: The Episcopal Church
of St. John the Evangelist, 1661 15th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
We invite you to take action for the world we love. Come together on Wesak (the
anniversary of Buddha’s awakening) to bear witness together to our climate
emergency. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wesak-awakening-buddhists-decl…
Guided by beloved teachers Thanissara and
Kittisaro, we’ll join in ceremony, collectively naming and acknowledging our
harrowing climate situation. We’ll also be supported by a diverse array of
speakers (including Anne Symens-Bucher on behalf of Joanna Macy), interactive
heart-based exercises, movement to help us ground, live music with The
Invisible Bee and others, and the opportunity to speak and listen to each
other’s intentions for responding, individually and collectively, in these
times.
We’ll end the event with a plant-based meal shared
in community, and leave with the strength and inspiration to continue this
vital conversation within our families, sanghas and beyond. We hope you’ll join
us for this afternoon of contemplation, sharing, connection, engagement and
truth!
May 18, 2019: Awakening to Climate Emergency:
Join the Live Webinar! 9:00am Pacific time
In connection with the Call to Declare Climate Emergency Now and timed with the
annual observance of the Buddha’s Awakening to reality, we invite you to join
us with your local Sanghas and communities for a live webinar to Declare
Climate Emergency at all levels. We will come together to commit the process of
declaring a climate emergency together. We’ll be sharing resources, strategies and outcomes as we mobilize
together. Register here: https://oneearthsangha.org/progr…/dcen/webinar-registration/
The time is upon us to take to
heart the Buddha’s radical awakening and to apply all our practice, skills, and
what wisdom and compassion we have to the task at hand, which is protecting
Mother Nature and her myriad beings while ensuring a liveable planet for our
children, grandchildren and the generations to come.
Mother Nature is calling us to be
truth messengers and change agents and to enact a radical, quantum shift of
consciousness that mirrors our rapid planetary state shift. Through DCEN we
honor this call by naming and embodying the reality that “business as usual” is
no longer viable for a sustainable future. In particular, we call on the
Dharma, mindfulness, yoga communities, alongside all involved in awakening,
healing, and transformational work, whatever affiliation, to join us in this
effort. If you don’t feel you fit in these categories, you too are absolutely
welcome.
The call from Mother Nature,
Grandmother Earth is now extremely urgent. We have almost no time left to act
as protectors of life on Earth and to pull together to hold a ground of
consciousness, resilience, and wellbeing. We need to move while we can, before
we experience a collapse into free fall where conducive spaces to share and
organise are replaced by the shock of societies becoming more chaotic and
dismembered as our life support systems die.
Let us join together in our
heartbreak so we can share and transmute our grief, pain and outrage into a
clarity and focus that informs creative, joyful, non-violent action.
I hope to see you there.
— Thanissara, with the DCEN team.
Featured Guests
This live webinar will feature:
Kittisaro & Thanissara –
Sacred Mountain Sangha US / Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat S.Africa.
Kristin Barker – One Earth Sangha
Jozen Gibson – Brooklyn Zen Centre, Awake Youth Project, Insight Meditation
Society.
Noliwe Alexandra – East Bay Meditation Center
Mark Ovland – XR UK Logistics
Charity Kahn – San Francisco Insight
This event will be hosted by One Earth Sangha
Seeking NEW BOARD MEMBERS to join #EBMC‘s Leadership Sangha to help find EBMC a permanent home! Deadline for applications is May 27, 2019. If you love East Bay Meditation Center and have specific experience in fundraising, capital campaigns, and real estate management and acquisition, for full info & to apply, click on this link, download as a Word document, or copy and paste into an email, fill in your information and email it as described in the application form, please. Please share this information with others who may be interested. Thank you.
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The EBMC Program Committee is accepting applications for new members. Apply here, and contact programs at eastbaymeditation dot org with any questions.
We’re excited to announce our Spring Fundraiser on Monday, April 22nd with the wise and wonderful Tara Brach.
This event will be held at beautiful Herbst Theater in San Francisco (ASL interpretation provided & ADA accessible).
Tickets coming soon!
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