Re-introducing ZPI Affiliate: Engaged Mindfulness Institute
To strengthen our planetary network, ZPI will feature newly affiliated groups. Join us here at https://hive.zenpeacemakers.org to explore some of the offerings of the organizations affiliated with ZPI. Re-introducing a long-time ZPI affiliate group: Engaged Mindfulness Institute What is your organization’s name? Engaged Mindfulness Institute (EMI). What is your mission? EMI specializes in training those […]
ZPI SHORT – Heartwood The Art of Living with the End in Mind w/ Barbara Becker
Great masters of many traditions have taught us that we must die before we die if we wish to truly live. In her new memoir Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind (Flatiron Books, Macmillan, May 2021), Barbara Becker sets off on a journey to explore this truth like a koan, with […]
My Buddhism in everyday life and at work: way – practice – study
My Buddhism in everyday life and at work: way – practice – study Lecture Spiritual Care Z13 3020 Part 2 Akademie für Palliativmedizin of the Malteser-Krankenhauses Bonn on 11/5/2020 Monika Winkelmann, Bonn My Buddhism I have always wanted to write a book with this title, but it was not meant to be […]
REPORT ON THE AUSCHWITZ-BEARING-WITNESS-RETREATS 2010-2014 and 2019
Monika Winkelmann, writer and poet, shares her Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat Report and how she experienced grief.
Coming Up, April 2020: Bearing Witness to Complexity in the Holy Land Retreat
Save the date for the “Bearing Witness to Complexity in the Holy Land” retreat based in the Jerusalem area to bear witness to different voices and sites in the holly land.
Summary Report: 2019 Zen Peacemakers Auschwitz-Birkenau Bearing Witness Retreat
The Auschwitz retreat, for the 23nd year, is an effort towards spiritual healing, peacebuilding across cultural, political, religious, and other divides, and a plunge into extremes of human nature: its darkest cruelty and most noble compassion.
2019 Zen Peacemakers Bearing Witness Programs Impact Report
The Auschwitz-Birkenau retreat is the core program of ZPI’s Bearing Witness programs. What follows is this year’s impact report on the 23rd Bearing Witness retreat in Auschwitz.
Start Talking Lakota: Manny and Renee Iron Hawk Discuss Reviving the Lakota Language, Immersion Schools, Trauma, Prayer, and Spirit
Renee Fast Horse Iron Hawk and Manny Iron Hawk, two of the organizers and hosts of Zen Peacemakers’ Native American Programs, have been instrumental in the opening of Lakȟótiyapi Okáȟtaŋ Wičhóičhaǧe Inc. (LOWI), a school dedicated to education by full immersion in Lakota language. In an interview with Rami Efal, they discuss language loss and immersion, Trauma, Prayer, and Spirit.
Impact Report: Auschwitz-Birkenau Bearing Witness Retreat
Since 1996 the Auschwitz retreat has been an interfaith and immersive cross-cultural gathering event for over 1500 peacebuilders from different war-torn countries such as Bosnia-Herzegovina, Palestine/Israel, Syria, Native American Nations and over 20 other countries. This 2018 impact report details some of the many positive results of the program.
[Deutsch/English] Roshi Barbara Wegmüller shares about lay practice in Pajamas, with soap bubbles
BERN, SWITZERLAND. “Since her accident in May, she can only use her left arm. I put it around my neck and remind her to feel her feet and to trust the floor she is wearing. I hold her close to my body and like in a dance we manage together two steps to the night commode, where she sits down powerlessly…”