Fearless Hearts: Women Leaders in Contemplative Social Action with Ella Reznikova
As part of our Women’s Leadership series, translator, meditation teacher and conflict mediator, Ella Reznikova will talk about her work with Compassion for Ukraine whose mission is to radiate compassion to those in Ukraine who suffer from the unjust and unjustified invasion by Russia.
Politics as Practice (August 2024)
The polarization of the political systems in many of the world’s countries is a part of our shared Duḥkha (suffering and unease). Grant Couch, in addition to being a Board member of ZP has been lobbying the US Congress over the last 10 years to advocate meaningful, bipartisan national policies to address global warming. Just like all other […]
Working from Vow: Discovering Your Bodhisattva Potential as a Professional
Is your professional work in line with your deepest spiritual aspirations? Are you wondering what work would create this alignment? This is a challenging koan for every one of us, intimately related to our personal karma, and complicated by our modern cultural-economic system that aggressively attempts to compartmentalize our spiritual, emotional and professional spheres.
Core Training: Introduction to Way of Council with Roshi Barbara Salaam Wegmuller
Council is one of our most important core Zen Peacemaker practices. We share Council during our Bearing Witness retreats most every day. In Council we come together in a small group in a profound way. We create a shared liminal space that is safe, confidential, and perhaps sacred. We each listen and speak from the […]
Introduction to Zen Peacemaking Core Trainings with Dr. Iris Dotan Katz
Iris Dotan Katz presents an introduction to Zen Peacemaking as the fourth edition to our Core Training classes
Connect With Our Peacemaker Lineage
Connect With Our Peacemaker Lineage Join us for an informal gathering with Peacemaker Elders
Three Years on the Great Mountain
Cristina Moon will discuss her new book (Shambhala Publications), Three Years on the Great Mountain: A Memoir of Zen and Fearlessness. At twenty-five, activist Cristina Moon faced an impossible task: preparing for the possibility of arrest and torture inside military-ruled Myanmar. Her response? Learning Buddhist meditation. So began what would become a decades-long spiritual path—eventually leading her to a Zen […]
Fearless Hearts: Women Leaders in Contemplative Social Action with Jennifer Dohrn
Jennifer Dohrn, CNM, DNP, FAAN is a Professor and Assistant Dean of the Office of Global Initiatives and director of the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Advanced Practice Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing. She has served communities locally and globally. As Director of Midwifery Services, she initiated the first freestanding maternity center in an […]
Fearless Hearts: Women Leaders in Contemplative Social Action – Writing on Empty
As part of our Fearless Hearts: Women Leaders in Contemplative Social Action series, award-winning author and teacher, Natalie Goldberg will discuss her new book, Writing on Empty, A Guide to Finding Your Voice. Goldberg shares her inspiring personal journey out of a devastating period of writer’s block and back into a life of growth, creativity, and healing.
The Intimate Way of Zen: Effort, Surrender, and Awakening on the Spiritual Journey
please join James Ishmael Ford for an interactive presentation: „The Intimate Way of Zen is a marvelous combination of stories, teachings, and practices that is part memoir and part storytelling about Zen, spirituality, philosophy, and life…“ – Mark Unno, author of Shingon Refractions and president of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies
