Saturday 10th April at 7pm (7-8pm)
Join Fay Adams and Kristine Mackenzie-Janson to find out a little more about their Engaged Mindfulness Weekend.
How can we use our MIndfulness practice to turn out towards the world, and face the things that may trouble us ‘out there’?
Engaged Mindfulness Weekend Workshop and Retreat 24th-25th APRIL
In this weekend with Fay Adams and Kristine Janson we will follow Buddhist scholar and environmental activist Joanna Macy’s spiral of the Work that Reconnects. This begins by resourcing and nourishing ourselves with gratitude, before turning towards what’s difficult in the world, and then looking for a new perspective from which we can mindfully and practically go forth. In this way we will explore engaging in the ‘outer practice’ of mindfulness.
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Author: Lisa Hellier
Originally from Glasgow, Lisa now lives in Pembrokeshire west Wales where the midges are "less ferocious". Lisa works alongside Jacky Seery in the communications department. With a BAHons in Graphic Design, Lisa has worked freelance as a designer working in many media over the years, from leaflet and brochure design, designing illustrative town and village maps, to training to work creatively with children and adults with Community Arts group Arts Alive in Crickhowell, and more recently with older members of the community mainly on collaborative textile projects. Her first visit to Samye Ling in 1992 was to spark a journey into Buddhist teachings which created a strong connection with Samye Ling. In 1994 she took the first year's Mindfulness & Compassion course which has led to her now studying on the Msc Mindfulness Studies Course run by the University of Aberdeen, where she researching the place of mindfulness in the delivery and practice of the creative arts.
