Mindfulness Clubs: Teaching Teens How to Supervise their Attention

Join Pablo Del Real from Soil and Soul as he guides us through a Mindfulness Club session focusing on teaching teens how to supervise their attention. The session, organized in collaboration with Zen Peacemakers International, features personal intros from students and staff, a demonstration of a typical mindfulness club meeting, and reflections on the profound […]

Aging – I am old

Zen Peacemakers Series In this first episode of an eight-part series on aging, Roshi Eve Myonen Marko introduces the topic and emphasizes the non-linear, deeply experiential nature of growing older and explores the profound and multifaceted journey of aging, confronting societal clichés and personal challenges head-on.

Forgiveness as a Way of Reducing Resentment and Fostering a Sense of Community

Join us for an in-depth talk on the psychology of forgiveness, led by Dr. Robert Enright and Roy Lloyd, leaders in the field of forgiveness science and community-building. With over three decades of research, Dr. Enright and his team have demonstrated the transformative effects of forgiveness, showing how it can significantly improve well-being by reducing […]

Using the Empty Chair to Move Beyond Us-and-Them Thinking

In a season of vitriol, council with an empty chair may help us all win. Updated April 23, 2024 |  Reviewed by Gary Drevitch At the 2012 Republican National Convention, Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood did something unusual: he spent over 12 minutes speaking to an empty chair as if it were then-President Obama. Commentary flooded social media and dominated news […]

The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul

Even those of us with spiritual practices don’t often connect them to our aging. How do we use the circumstances of age as openings to psychological and spiritual development? How do we do shadow-work in the context of retirement, illness, loss, and mortality? How do we find spiritual practices that lead to expanding our awareness […]

Mindfulness of Mind-Heart and the Five Conditions

When we project conditioning from our past onto the present, we turn a benign moment into something else. The Five Conditions model is a “user-friendly” version of the traditional 5 Aggregates/5 Skandhas system. It’s an extremely helpful tool in clarifying the distinction between our direct experience of reality and the mental projections we add to […]

The Receptivity of Bearing Witness & How we Rekindle it after Shutting Down

As Peacemakers or Buddhists, we face the challenge of dropping our fixed ideas and opinions in order to meet difficult situations freshly, with open hearts. Meanwhile, the world keeps hitting us with louder displays of brutality, dehumanization, and disregard for life, including the systems that protect it. How can we alleviate our desperation and connect […]

Gestalt Therapy Healing – Focused on Flight and Migration

Gabriele Blankertz has been working with refugees from Syria since 2015. The lives of people who have lived under a dictatorship and experienced war and flight are characterized by many interruptions. Gestalt therapy is particularly suitable in this field for re-regulating and revitalizing the interrupted flow of life. During this event, we will learn more about this […]

Invisible Wounds – Journey with Mental Illness and Recovery

Sara and Miriam Berman, a mother and daughter team, share their journey with mental illness—as a family member, advocate, semi-professional, and someone with lived experience. From hospitalization to recovery, they will share their stories. By doing so, they hope to show that the face of mental illness is diverse and often invisible, and you can’t […]

The Zen of Trauma

Our discussion addresses concepts and practices related to traumatic stress, especially in combat veterans. We will discuss the nature of trauma and the types of Zen practices that may be employed to heal its effects. Roshi Harvey Daiho Hibert is an ordained Soto Zen priest and the founding abbot of the Order of Clear Mind […]