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January 2019
The Art & Science of Living with Presence & Connection: A Special Training Retreat
We invite you to join us for a special training retreat with two master teachers, Jack Kornfield, PhD and Dan Siegel, MD. In a small group setting, we will gather for a weekend and focus on how we can best grow in wisdom and love, explore the profound questions of brain, mind and spirit, and cultivate practices that nurture a resilient and vibrant well being in our challenging world. As practitioners and educators in Mindfulness and Interpersonal Neurobiology, Jack and Dan…
Find out more »March 2019
Wisdom 2.0
This will be the 10th Wisdom 2.0 annual conference, with 4,000+ people joining us from all over the world for mainstage sessions, breakout rooms, yoga classes, participant-led hosted conversations, and much, much more. In an age of constant activity, how do we live more fully in the present moment? We now process more information than ever - through text, email, social media - yet the quality of life and our work is not always enhanced. Wisdom 2.0 2018 kicks off…
Find out more »Monday Night Talk @ Spirit Rock
For more than 30 years, the Monday Night sitting group and dharma talk at Spirit Rock has been a welcoming refuge for the community to gather, hear the teachings of the Buddha and practice mindfulness meditation. It begins with 30 to 40 minutes of guided meditation, followed by a 15-minute break. Jack then offers a dharma talk and answers questions from participants. Monday Nights are also available as live webcasts and on Facebook Live.
Find out more »April 2019
An Evening with Trudy Goodman, Jack Kornfield and Peter Levine
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Find out more »Timeless Wisdom, Timely Action
Offering a combination of deep experiential immersion and practical skill building along with conceptual discussions, this integrative conference weaves together a series of conversations and topical explorations that can nurture personal, professional, and public well-being through strengthening the mind and integrating the experience of “self.” Following an intensive daytime pre-conference workshop on awareness-based systems change with Peter Senge and colleagues, our Friday evening opening with Dan Siegel and co-faculty will launch the gathering with an overview of the nature of…
Find out more »Monday Night Talk @ Spirit Rock
For more than 30 years, the Monday Night sitting group and dharma talk at Spirit Rock has been a welcoming refuge for the community to gather, hear the teachings of the Buddha and practice mindfulness meditation. It begins with 30 to 40 minutes of guided meditation, followed by a 15-minute break. Jack then offers a dharma talk and answers questions from participants. Monday Nights are also available as live webcasts and on Facebook Live.
Find out more »May 2019
The Science of Happiness: A Greater Good Gathering
Hosted in partnership with UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center & the 1440 Multiversity Featuring the Greater Good Science Center's Dacher Keltner, Ph.D., and Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Ph.D. Presentations by Jack Kornfield, Ph.D., Richard Davidson Ph.D., Barbara Fredrickson, Ph.D., Lama Tsomo, Eve Ekman, MSW, Ph.D., and many others What does it mean to live a happy, meaningful life? How do you respond with resilience to life’s unavoidable stresses and disappointments? How can you forge compassionate connections at a time of extreme…
Find out more »Loving Awareness: A Non-Residential Retreat for Experienced Meditators @ Spirit Rock
Prerequisite: Four years of mindfulness meditation practice. Description: Loving awareness, practiced as mindfulness and metta, is the gateway to liberation. During this 3-day non-residential meditation retreat, as experienced practitioners, we will join together to quiet the mind, open the heart, and see our human life with the eyes of wisdom. With Trudy Goodman. This is a new retreat form which will alternate sitting, walking, guided meditations and frequent periods of dialogue and Q&A throughout each of the days. Livestream Available…
Find out more »Benefit Weekend Retreat @ Spirit Rock
On the weekend of May 19-21, a small group of Spirit Rock supporters will gather for an intimate three-day retreat with Spirit Rock Founder Jack Kornfield. Together, we will develop the heart quality of love, dwelling in kind awareness as we practice metta and cultivate our natural capacity for care and connection, towards ourselves and all other beings. This base of goodwill–combined with compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity–can transform our lives. Attendance for this retreat will be limited, and proceeds…
Find out more »Monday Night Talk @ Spirit Rock
For more than 30 years, the Monday Night sitting group and dharma talk at Spirit Rock has been a welcoming refuge for the community to gather, hear the teachings of the Buddha and practice mindfulness meditation. It begins with 30 to 40 minutes of guided meditation, followed by a 15-minute break. Jack then offers a dharma talk and answers questions from participants. Monday Nights are also available as live webcasts and on Facebook Live.
Find out more »August 2019
Loving Awareness: Awakening the Wise Heart
With DaRa Williams & Bart van Melik This retreat is an invitation for experienced and new practitioners to deepen in wisdom and compassion. Ancient traditions and modern neuroscience show we can train the heart and mind to create a balanced life and a wise society. Join us in practice—in the midst of success and difficulty, collective and personal—to quiet the mind, open the heart, and awaken to courage, joy, and steady compassion together. Through heartfelt teachings, dialogue and questions, wisdom…
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