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Can we welcome ourselves fully without judgment and criticism? 

Can we extend that care to those around us? 

How do we live it: 

in our bodies, in our families, and in our communities? 

Together we will immerse ourselves in this timeless practice,

 that guides us away from bypassing our emotions,

and toward a more grounded, wholehearted way of being.

In our fast-paced world, it’s easy to get caught reacting out of habit or impulse. 

What would it feel like to pause, 

listen more deeply, 

and respond from a place of calm and clarity? 

We’ll explore simple, yet powerful meditation practices within the framework of listening.

Over the millennia, spiritual teachers have pointed to listening as a gateway to our awakened potential. There are many dimensions: 

• somatic listening--observing what is arising in the body and staying grounded in conversations with others; 

• empathic listening--accepting our emotions and feelings as they are and extending this open-heartedness to others; 

• panoramic listening--tuning into the interconnected field of our environment; and 

• sacred listening--respecting and serving the highest potential in ourselves and others.

By cultivating stillness and well-being, we discover the spaciousness to meet life with wisdom rather than reactivity. 

Deep listening is essential for authentic relationships, especially for parents and children, spouses, 

and most importantly, with ourselves. 

Beginner’s mind welcome! ;)

Every parent wants to love their children unconditionally, yet it can be hard to stay steady when emotions run high. 

Equanimity is the quality that helps us hold love unconditionally—allowing children and our spouses the freedom to grow into their own potential while also offering boundaries out of care. 

In this gathering, we’ll explore how cultivating equanimity helps us nurture with patience, create safety to allow us to be authentic, and sustain the kind of love that remains unshakable through the ups and downs of family life. 

Friendship is more than just hanging out—it’s how we listen, speak, and lift each other up. In this program, we'll hear stories, play fun games, and explore what it really means to be a good friend at school and at home. 

Come ready to laugh, move, and make new friends—maybe even with monks!

Our words can either divide or bring us closer together. In this session, we’ll explore the Buddha’s teaching on noble speech—truthful, gentle, and timely—through the lens of non-violent communication and loving-kindness. 

Together we’ll reflect on how wise and kind speech can transform conflict into understanding, foster harmony in families and communities, and cultivate peace within ourselves.

The Buddha taught that:

"True friendship is the heart of the path". 

In a world that pulls us between competing values—

tradition and achievement, 

community and individualism

—we can easily feel divided within ourselves. 

Noble friendship points to another way of measuring life: 

not by what we gain, 

but by the freedom and well-being 

we help each other discover.

The path is not a race. 

It is the simple act of walking together, 

attending to one another with care. 

This gathering draws together the threads of our earlier explorations—

—Listening,   Kindness,  Integrity—

—into a living model of friendship.