Creating Dharma Events and Teachings: the Daylong
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Creating Dharma Events and Teachings: The Daylong by the participants of CDL5 Spring 2016 Table of Contents The assignment ..................................................................................................................................5 Margaret Smith ..................................................................................................................................7 Catching the Clinging – a Transformative Journey by Pauletta M Chanco ......................................9 Steve Wilhelm ....................................................................................................................................11 Patience – An Act of Self-Compassion by Priscilla Szneke ..............................................................14 A Taste of Happiness and Peace by Amy Selzer ...............................................................................22 Half-Day Mindfulness Meditation Retreat by Andrew Chapman .....................................................25 Beginning Meditation Daylong for Teens by Sara Van Zutphen Oakes ...........................................31 Living with a Brain on Fire: A Day of practice and respite for people who think too much by Carolyn Kelley ..........................................................................................................................33 A Workshop for Dharma Leaders and Guiding Teachers by Bob Agoglia .......................................35 Equanimity: A Day of Practice by Michael Malotte .........................................................................37 Chi Gung & Mindfulness of the Body by Kitty Costello ..................................................................40 Metta Retreat: A Journey into Loving Kindness by Julie Novas ......................................................43 Lovingkindness: Training the Heart to Open by Bill Scheinman ......................................................45 Mindfulness of the Body by Beth Shoyer ..........................................................................................47 Trauma & Spiritual Practice: Daylong Retreat by Sean Feit Oakes ..................................................50 Mindfulness on the Mountain: Daylong Retreat in Nature by Yong Oh ...........................................53 Sustaining and Nourishing your Meditation Practice by Ian Challis .................................................55 Unleashing the power of heart by Chris Charles ...............................................................................61 Mindful Fitness: Social Emotional Learning for 21st Century Educators by Brian Simmons ..........64 Cultivating a Forgiving Heart by Gina LaRoche ...............................................................................66 Being With What Is and Impermanence by Sashi Gabrielle Kimball ...............................................71 Feeling Clearly: Touching Through Suffering to Embody Freedom by Bruce Pardoe .....................73 Letting Go into Compassionate Awareness by Tara Mulay ..............................................................85 Making Your Whole Life the Zone by Karen G. Williams ...............................................................88 Everywhere, in Everything, Everyday: The Integration of the Dharma into your Life by Victoria Cary ...........................................................................................................................................93 Mindfulness in Nature Retreat by Mary Haberman ...........................................................................95 Investigation Points the Way by Kathey Ferland ..............................................................................97 CDL5—Spring 2016 Creating a Daylong Dharma Event 2 Retreat in a Box by Jan Rosamond ....................................................................................................98 Introduction to Mindfulness by Helen Vantine .................................................................................100 Mindfulness and the Body by Matthew Sockolov .............................................................................102 A Day of Refuge by Lulu Cook .........................................................................................................105 Returning to Presence: A Mindfulness Meditation Daylong Retreat by Emily Carpenter ................107 Women, Wisdom and Meditation by Grace Fisher ...........................................................................111 An introduction to Insight Meditation by Justin Michelson ..............................................................112 Mindfulness in Nature Daylong by Robin Boudette ..........................................................................115 Cultivating Mindfulness of Emotions by Augusta Hopkins ..............................................................116 “Sitting” with Chronic Pain: A Daylong for People Who Think They Can’t Meditate Because of Pain by Allison Shore ...............................................................................................................118 Calm Mind, Wise Heart by Janka Livoncova ....................................................................................120 MMM! Mindfulness, Movement and Music by Andrew Chaikin .....................................................123 Anger. Aversion. Acrimony. By Alice Robison ................................................................................127 Last Night a Brownie Saved My Life: Dharma, Food & You by Dalila Bothwell ...........................129 Block, Build, Be: Liberating Ourselves through Collective Liberation by Dawn Haney .................130 Huda Jadallah .....................................................................................................................................133 Basics of Mindfulness Meditation by Ronya Banks ..........................................................................134 Nourishing our relationship to our practice by Max Airborne ..........................................................136 Responding to the Cries of the World: EcoDharma Daylong by Kristin Barker ...............................138 Mindfulness for Healthcare Professionals in End-of-Life Care: Working with living and dying, working with fatigue and burnout, finding joy again by Pam Pierce .......................................140 Exploring the Heart of Generosity by Paula Simon ...........................................................................143 Mindfulness and Self-Compassion as Tools for Emotional Resilience by Suzanne Colón ..............146 Loving Kindness and Meditation for Women's Uterine Health by Shakthi Ganeshan .....................151 An Embodied Investigation of Skillful Speech and Action by Booker .............................................152 From the cushion to the marketplace by Carrie María Tamburo .......................................................155 Investigating the Second Noble Truth (Craving) with Wendy Eisner ...............................................159 Mindfulness as a Pathway for Transformation: A Retreat for People of Color Activists by Helen Kim .................................................................................................................................165 Loving Awareness, Reclaiming our Hearts and Minds by Forrest Hill .............................................167 EBMC Transgender and Gender Diverse Metta Daylong by Fresh! White ......................................170 Working Skillfully with Trauma by Rae Ellen Houseman ................................................................172 CDL5—Spring 2016 Creating a Daylong Dharma Event 3 Befriending the Hindrances by Jacqueline S. Nelson ........................................................................174 Mindfulness for Christians by Christina Leano .................................................................................178 Tools Toward Liberation by Patrick Brown ......................................................................................180 CDL5—Spring 2016 Creating a Daylong Dharma Event 4 March 2016—CDL5 Homework Bringing Dharma Leadership Into Your Teaching The Daylong Retreat During the next year we will introduce a Practicum (that is, an application of your skills), experiential application, and resources for teaching. In this period you will conceive, design, develop, initiate, and possibly deliver differing teaching events, such as daylongs, class series, and sitting groups. For this first Practicum, you are invited to do it individually. In future exercises you will be asked to work with your Dharma Consult Group or any other group configuration that you decide upon. The first practicum will be about creating, designing and developing a daylong retreat. The assignment is to document five components: (1) a daylong description with topic, (2) retreat schedule of the entire day, (3) a detailed outline of the dharma content of what you would like to cover, (4) a short bio with a description of your qualifications or experience that might draw people to your event, and (5) some thoughts about how you would bring people into the event, i.e. an outreach plan. This last point is the invitation to be conscious of your intended audience—is the event for all practitioners, for certain levels of practice, for topical interests, for certain demographics, for certain professional groups, for certain practice skills? As a reference document, we are enclosing a generic program proposal form