When we are able to truly come home and listen to ourselves, we have an opportunity to offer ourselves care and compassion. This enables us to grow our capacity to be present for and to listen to others. We develop deeper understanding, thus increasing our capacity for compassion and inclusion.

In this workshop, Brother Fulfillment will lead participants through concrete practices aimed at helping cultivate understanding and compassion for themselves and others.  By becoming aware of what is occurring within our minds, and looking deeply into our mental formations and feelings that condition much of how we relate to ourselves and others, we can begin to unwind our habitual tendencies of communication and tread deeply into the practices of deep listening and loving speech.

Workshop Facilitator

Brother Fulfillment is a native of California and is most recently a resident of Blue Cliff Monastery in New York. He was ordained in 2007 at Plum Village, where he lived for five years, and received his monastic training. He received the lamp transmission in 2016. Brother Fulfillment celebrates his Christian roots and enjoys spending time in the forest around Blue Cliff and is engaged in the Earth Holding, Social Justice (especially White Awareness work), Compassionate Communication, and Trauma healing and Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Practice. He is currently interested in dialog around creating residential community centers. He has been active in supporting Wake Up since it’s foundation, and is currently a monastic advising member of the North American Wake Up CTC. He attended his first Plum Village tradition retreat, a young adults retreat at Deer Park, in 2004.