Spirit Rock

Seeing Through a Different Lens

Howard Cohn, Catherine Flaxman

Sat, Nov 13, 9:30 am - 5:00 pm

Community Meditation Hall

Cost $$50 - $$108, sliding scale, plus dana (donation) to the teacher(s), code HC7D10. Add $5 at the door. Bring your lunch. CE credit available - see below.

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An understanding of the core dharma principles of impermanence and emptiness teaches us that everything is changing and that each moment has unlimited creative potential. Yet we continue to relate to others in repetitive and inflexible patterns, as if we were playing a prescribed character, reading from a script or story that has been previously written.

Preconditioned responses, past imprints and habitual roles influence and limit our perception and shape the way we experience that story. This workshop will provide direct experience of those limited points of view, create opportunities for responsive rather than reactive interactions and help loosen the grip of the past by seeing oneself and others through a different lens.

Short individual writing experiences--drawn from principles of storytelling in fiction and film--will alternate with intervals of discussion, dharma teachings and periods of sitting in the silence, which encompasses all forms and words. Open to individuals attending alone, and to pairs who wish to attend together--spouses, significant others, parents and adult children, siblings, colleagues, etc. Also suitable for health care professionals seeking to re-energize their practice and address counter transference issues. Please bring paper and pen. No background in meditation or writing is necessary.

Young Adults (18 - 26) are invited to attend this day for $25.

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Online Registration for this event is available until 12 noon one business day before the event.

Continuing Education (CE) Credit: 6 CE credits available for MFTs, LCSWs, psychologists and nurses from SRMC-SCRC for $30. Prepayment available on website. For more information, see Continuing Education (CE) Credit.

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