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SUMMARY:In-Person and Online: Finding Care in the Overwhelm - Hope as a Counterculture Practice (Weekend Retreat)
DESCRIPTION:In-Person and Online: Finding Care in the Overwhelm – Hope as a Counterculture Practice (Weekend Retreat) \nwith Leslie Booker and Dara Silverman \nSaturday and Sunday\, November 22nd-23rd\, 2025 | 10:00am – 4:00pm ET \nIn-Person Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street\, 12th Floor \n \nAs transformative justice leaders Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes have taught us\, hope is a discipline and a practice that inspires us to live a whole and integrated life. \nIn this two-day non-residential retreat\, we’ll explore care for self and others as a way through in a tumultuous world\, and to cultivate love without spiritually bypassing. To find a way to connect to our own sense of well-being and joy while remaining present to injustice and violence. We’ll explore how to be in community with others exploring the same questions. \nJoin long-time friends and collaborators Booker and Dara as they weave together somatic (body-based) practices and the heart practices of the Buddha’s Brahmaviharas; expressions of loving-kindness\, compassion\, empathetic joy\, and equanimity. Together\, we’ll cultivate these capacities and deepen our understanding of how to embody hope\, love\, and presence. \nAs a group\, we’ll be together in the questions: \n\nHow can we hold hope without bypassing the realities of injustice and hardship?\nHow do we stay rooted in joy and well-being while staying fully present to the world around us?\nHow can meditation and somatic practice support our engagement with the world (rather than provide an escape?)\n\nIs this for me? If you are interested in learning more about your body\, responses under pressure and capacity to be in relationship with other people – this is for you. If you are an organizer\, consultant\, trainer\, coach or activist\, this is a place for you to deepen and build your commitment to a just world. This retreat is a place to deepen in your somatic awareness\, embodied practice and learnings. \nEveryone is welcome to participate\, regardless of experience with meditation or body-based practices. \nIn-Person Registration:\nPlease register below. If you are able\, registering at the “Supporter” level enables others to attend at the “Subsidized” level. Thank you for your generosity! (Please note that the registration price includes a base level of teacher support\, and you will have the opportunity to donate more after the program.) \nIf you are registering via a mobile device such as a phone or tablet\, you can scroll right and left and up and down within the below form if it is partially obscured or cut off.\nCLICK HERE to open the registration form in a new browser window.\n \nOnline Registration:\nIf you are registering via a mobile device such as a phone or tablet\, you can scroll right and left and up and down within the below form if it is partially obscured or cut off.\nCLICK HERE to open the registration form in a new browser window. \n \nVolunteering \nAll of our programs rely on volunteers to support our teachers and staff with various tasks and responsibilities. Volunteering allows you to participate in our programs at no cost. To inquire about volunteering opportunities\, please fill out our inquiry form\, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
URL:https://dev.nyimc.org/event/finding-care-in-the-overwhelm/
LOCATION:New York Insight Meditation Center\, 115 West 29th Street\, 12th floor\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open to All,Retreat
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