With Marilyn Warlick, Diana Fish and Alex Lerner
Date: November 22
Registration Deadline: November 20
Suitability
This workshop is open to both members and non-members and is offered in person and online, no Buddhist experience needed. It’s especially meaningful if you wish to support a loved one who is aging, ill, or simply want to prepare together for life’s most certain transition. .
Description
Is there someone close to you, a parent, partner, or dear friend, whose eventual death you quietly worry about? Or perhaps you sense it’s time to prepare together, to talk more openly about what matters most when death comes.
Embracing the Great Transition is a daylong workshop offering space to explore how preparing for death can become one of the greatest gifts we give ourselves and those we love, the gift of presence, peace, and mutual understanding.
Throughout the day, Alex, Diana, and Marilyn will guide reflections, mindfulness practices, and conversations to help us open to impermanence, approach difficult topics with compassion, and begin creating written guidance for ourselves and our loved ones. These practical and heartfelt tools can ease fear and confusion when the time of dying comes.
We’re also grateful that our teacher Fred Eppsteiner will join us to offer a special teaching on Buddhist wisdom about death and dying, wisdom that helps us meet loss not with fear, but with awareness and love.
Come spend a day in reflection and connection, discovering how embracing death with honesty and love can help us live, and relate, with deeper peace, clarity, and compassion.
Course Instructors
Marilyn Warlick is a retired LCSW having worked in various areas of service within the VA Health Care System; Homelessness, Substance Abuse, and Clinical Coordinator for Programs for Returning Veterans from their combat tours of duty, also End of Life Care. Her involvement with Florida Community of Mindfulness (FCM) began in 2000, in 2009, she completed a pilgrimage with her FCM teacher and members to India. In 2010 she received ordination in the Order of Interbeing. She had been a mentor and a facilitator for Death Cafes and assists in various FCM Programs including Buddhist Wisdom for Death and Dying.
Reverend Diana Fish, BCC, is an interfaith palliative care chaplain at BayCare’s Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater, FL. Diana joined FCM upon moving to Florida and was ordained into the Order of Interbeing in 2019. In 2018 she was ordained as a Buddhist Chaplain by Roshi Joan Halifax, Abbott of Upaya Zen Center and author of Being with Dying. After completing Clinical Pastoral Education at Tampa General Hospital in 2019 she was hired as a Staff Chaplain. She received board certification by the Association of Professional Chaplains in 2021.
Alex Lerner has been practicing with Florida Community of Mindfulness since 2005 and became OI ordained in 2015. He is a mentor for other practitioners at FCM and is frequently holding workshops with a special interest in Neuroscience and the Dharma. He teaches meditation and mindfulness in the FCM Prison Dharma Program. For his career in clinical medicine, he was focused on healing the body. After his retirement from medicine, he developed an interest in understanding the mind.
Fees
This workshop is presented by the Florida Community of Mindfulness at our Practice Center, 6501 N. Nebraska Ave in Tampa. The fee for this workshop is $75. A reduced rate of $40 is available for individuals needing financial support.
Please bring your own vegetarian lunch. Water and tea will be provided.
Contacts for More Information
If you have any questions about this class, please e-mail us at info@floridamindfulness.org or call 813-237-0746.
