Grounded in the rich soil of mindfulness, this program focuses on how its careful cultivation naturally yields the flower and fruit of contemplative life: the unfolding of profound liberative wisdom and the nurturing embodiment of unconditional love and compassion. If you’d like to revitalize and deepen the roots of your daily practice, join contemplative psychotherapists Joe Loizzo and Pilar Jennings, along with Sharon Salzberg (Pilar and Sharon will be joining remotely) for this intensive and welcoming residential weekend program.

Take part in a vibrant cross-pollination between the Tibetan and Insight traditions, between Buddhist psychology and contemporary psychotherapy, and between engaged Buddhist ethics and today’s grass-roots movement towards social justice, climate justice and beloved community. Together we will explore the depth and breadth of what living mindfully with the wisdom of selflessness and the spirit of altruism can mean for us individually and collectively, here and now.

Reframing the foundational teachings and methods of the four scopes of mindfulness and the seven modes of loving kindness practice as the basic grounding we need for the everyday work of awakened living, we apply our collective mind-and-heart power to uncovering and sharing the deeper meaning we see for our precious human lives and to unlock the fuller potential our humanity holds for thriving together with one another and all life on planet earth. All are welcome!

This program is co-sponsored by The Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science.