With Brandy Kidd and Misti Oxford-Pickeral
Dates: October 5 - December 15
Registration Deadline: September 21
Suitability
This 10-week Mindful Living Path Intensive for this fall continues the yearlong exploration of emotional awareness and self-discovery. This intensive is open to FCM members who have participated in the 2026 Summer Emotional Awareness Self-discovery Intensive, Part 2.
Description
In Part 1 of this year’s Emotional Awareness Intensive, we strengthened our foundations of mindfulness, as well as strengthened our capacity to be fully awake and aware with experiences as they unfold. In Part 2, we learned to recognize habitual emotional patterns that have carried forward in unhelpful ways in our emotional lives. We started the process of disarming those maladaptive patterns and creating new, more beneficial patterns. We learned to investigate with kindness and compassion in order to benefit from the important information that emotions provide, without being overwhelmed by or suppressing them.
In Part 3, we will continue our journey towards emotional wholeness by exploring teachings and practices that depersonalize our suffering, leading to greater and greater freedom. We will explore how our minds construct our experiences of reality, and with wisdom and compassion, how we can change the way we relate to our thoughts and perceptions, reducing the self-created suffering that arises when we believe the stories our mind creates.
Commitments
- 30 minutes daily in of formal meditative practice, study, reflection and/or other practices related to this Intensive
- Complete Intensive assignments (included in bi-weekly instructions)
- Be present for bi-weekly Dharma talks (via Zoom)
- Participate in your assigned bi-weekly mentoring group (via Zoom)
- Attend all the practice sessions of your Sangha during the Intensive, as possible
- Support your Intensive Dharma Buddy by sharing Intensive-related intentions via text or email, helping one another keep your practice alive throughout the Intensive. If possible please keep the same Dharma Buddy you had in Part 2 of Emotional Healing Intensive. If this is not possible then contact Evie at evelynhaseman@gmail.com for another pairing before September 25.
Specific readings, group assignments, and Zoom instructions will be announced once registration has been completed.
Fees
The fee for this Intensive is $100. This is a suggested amount and participants are free to offer more or less depending on their individual financial situation - we do not want financial considerations to be a deterrent to participation.
You may pay on-line or send your check made out to the Florida Community of Mindfulness (FCM) to Florida Community of Mindfulness, 6501 N. Nebraska Ave., Tampa, FL 33604.Registration Procedures
Please read the information below before you click to register.
Mentor Groups
When you register, you will also be asked to indicate your preferences for your bi-weekly Mentor Groups (small groups of 6-8 participants) offered through Zoom. You will be required to score each group as one of the following:
o my first choice
o my second choice
o could do but not preferred
o cannot do.
If there is more than one group that will work well for you, please mark all these as “my first choice.” This will provide us with added flexibility in making group assignments. Please have your calendar available when you register so that you can complete this part of the registration process accurately.
Mentor Group #1: Tuesdays at 7:30-8:30 am: Oct 13, Oct 27, Nov 10, Nov 24, Dec 8
Mentor Group #2: Tuesdays at 6:30-7:30 pm: Oct 13, Oct 27, Nov 10, Nov 24, Dec 8
Mentor Group #3: Wednesdays 12:00-1:00pm: Oct 14, Oct 28, Nov 11, Nov 25, Dec 9
Mentor Group #4: Thursdays at 7:30-8:30 am: Oct 15, Oct 29, Nov 12, Nov 26, Dec 10
Mentor Group #5: Thursdays at 6:30-7:30 pm: Oct 15, Oct 29, Nov 12, Nov 26, Dec 10
Contacts for More Information
If you have any questions about this Intensive program or whether it is appropriate for you, please contact Brandy at brandymkidd@gmail.com. If you have any questions about the logistics of this Intensive, please contact Donna at intensivecoordinator@floridamindfulness.org.
