Mindful Living Path Winter 2018 Intensive
Mindfulness Practices for Emotional Healing: Learning to Live with Ease and Equanimity
A core aspect of The Mindful Living Path of the FCM Study and Practice Guide is stabilizing our minds and healing the psycho-emotional wounds that we’ve carried for many years. Buddhist teachings include concrete practices for understanding and transforming our deep-seated emotional afflictions and reactivity so that we can live our daily lives with greater ease, well-being and equanimity.
This Intensive will focus on the foundational practices of awareness of the body, awareness of thoughts, and awareness of feelings. Grounded in mindfulness we can learn to be present and open to strong emotions (such as anger, fear and sadness) instead of our habitual patterns of pushing them away or being swept away by them. Holding these feelings in awareness we can look deeply into their origins in our past conditioning, identify the misperceptions that feed them, and see clearly their true nature of impermanence and insubstantiality. The readings and other supports of this Intensive will present a clear and systematic path for developing the skills and competencies that enable us to take care of our emotional suffering, and lead to self-healing and personal transformation.
A solid foundation of mindfulness and meditation is essential to our healing and transformation. This intensive is open to FCM members who have gained that foundation by participating in one or more of the following:
- Foundational Practices for Happiness & Solidity – Summer 2017 Intensive
- Mindfulness and Meditation: Deepening the Foundations of Practice – Fall 2017 Intensive
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
- Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation
- A solid mindfulness and meditation practice developed through other intensives, classes or settings. If you have any questions about whether this intensive is right for you please contact Betsy barizu@yahoo.com or Jacqulyn (727-433-3437).
Participants in this Intensive will be provided with a path of practice that will include specific readings, meditation practices, and daily life assignments. There be four Dharma Talks, bi-weekly mentoring group calls for individual guidance and support, two Forums with Fred, and participation in a peer group either in-person or via Zoom teleconference/phone. You will find more specific information about the path of Mindful Living, in the Paths of Practice section under the Programs tab on our website.
Commitments for each Intensive participant:
- Minimum of 30 minutes of daily formal meditation and/or other practices related to this Intensive.
- Participate in monthly Dharma talks via phone/video conference call, and two scheduled live/livestreamed Forums with Fred.
- Participate in bi-weekly Mentor Group phone/video conference consultations.
- Participate in bi-weekly Peer Groups for support/discussion in person or via phone group.
- Attend weekly Sangha and monthly Days of Mindfulness, as possible.
- Read and study recommended books and articles.
For this practice Intensive, there is a suggested donation of $100. This is a suggested donation and participants are free to donate more or less, depending on ones individual practice of Dana and financial situation. You may pay online when you register, or send your check made out to Florida Community of Mindfulness (FCM) to Florida Community of Mindfulness, 6501 N. Nebraska Ave., Tampa, FL 33604.
This intensive will begin on February 19 and end May 14. Readings and assignments for mentoring and peer groups will be announced once registration has been completed.
The deadline for registration is January 29. In order to ensure that you register on time, please register immediately or mark the closing date in your calendar now.
REGISTRATION PROCEDURES:
Please read the information below before you click to register!
When you register, you will be asked to indicate your preferences for the mentoring groups offered through Zoom. The following six mentoring groups will be listed, and you will be required to score each group as one of the following: my first choice, my second choice, cannot do, or could do but not preferred. Please have your calendar available when you register so that you can complete this part of the registration process accurately.
Group #1: Thursdays 5:30-6:30 pm Feb. 22, Mar. 8 & 22, Apr. 5 & 19, May 3
Group #2: Mondays 7:30-8:30 am Feb. 26, Mar. 12 & 26, Apr. 9 & 23, May 7
Group #3: Tuesdays 7:00-8:00 am Feb. 27, Mar. 13 & 27, Apr. 10 & 24, May 8
Group #4: Tuesdays 4:00-5:00 pm Feb. 27, Mar. 13 & 27, Apr. 10 & 24, May 8
Group #5: Wednesdays 8:30-9:30 am Feb. 28, Mar. 14 & 28, Apr. 11 & 25, May 9
Group #6: Thursdays 5:30-6:30 pm Mar. 1, 15 & 29, Apr. 12 & 26, May 10
Peer Group choices: Fort Myers, Naples, St. Petersburg, Tampa, or by phone. In addition, for Tampa only, please indicate your preferred meeting times (Sundays 8:40-9:40 am or Sundays 12:45-1:45 pm). Please indicate all the choices that you would be able to attend.
