What We Do
What We Do Some of us work with immigrants from Africa and the Middle East in the UK, Switzerland, and Germany, and have assisted in refugee camps in Greece. Some of us support the efforts of Lakota elders to revitalize their language and culture, and stood with them at Standing Rock to stop the Dakota […]
ZPI Media Library
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Native American Bearing Witness Retreat
Native AmericanZen PeacemakersBearing Witness Retreat July 7 -13, 2024 Zen Peacemakers has been conducting retreats following the principles of Not Knowing, Bearing Witness, and Taking Action in Auschwitz, Rwanda, and the Black Hills since 1996. This program is a continuation of this rich legacy and part of our dedication to growing in connection with the […]
Staff and Board of Directors
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & STAFF GEOFF SHŌUN O’KEEFFE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Geoff Shōun is a Dharma Holder and has been practicing in the White Plum lineage since his first introduction at ZCLA in 1975. With his family, he lived and practiced at ZCLA from 1984-’86, studied with Joko Beck in San Diego into the early 90’s, and […]
Programs
Programs BEARING WITNESS to the joy and suffering of the world The practice of bearing witness is to see all of the aspects of a situation including your attachments and judgments. You cannot live solely in a state of not- knowing, because life also asks that you face the conditions that are coming at you […]
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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.