HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONERS Dear Healthcare Practitioners (HCPs), —————————— You are invited to join monastic and SATURDAY lay practitioners in the for an online Healthcare Professionals (HCP) Sangha ——- Gathering. JULY 17th Our aspiration is to come together as a community to nourish one another 10:00-12:00 EST through our practice. As we 14:00-16:00 GMT individually and collectively continue to navigate this complex and challenging time, we hope this can be ——- an opportunity to explore together how we can support one another in 2021 our ongoing aspirations for bringing transformation and healing to —————————— ourselves and the communities of which we are part.

Registration is not required, please use the Zoom link below to join. Zoom Meeting ID: 937 1112 5408 | Passcode: PV-HCP

Please click here to submit questions to inform Sr.Tu Nghiem’s talk: https://tinyurl.com/cy4t72kv Further details, including schedule, on the following page! HCP SANGHA GATHERING

Dear Healthcare Practitioners (HCPs),

You are invited to join monastic and lay practitioners in the Plum Village tradition for an online Healthcare Professionals (HCP) Sangha Gathering on Saturday July 17th 10am-12pm EST/14:00-16:00 GMT.

Event Description: Our aspiration is to come together as a community to nourish one another through our practice. As we individually and collectively continue to navigate this complex and challenging time, we hope this can be an opportunity to explore together how we can support one another in our ongoing aspirations for bringing transformation and healing to ourselves and the communities of which we are part.

HCP Sangha Gathering Schedule: • Welcome/Orientation with short guided practice • Mini- from Sister Tu Nghiem • Q&A panel with monastics & HCP lay practitioners • Breakout sharing in small groups • Closing Registration is not required, Zoom link details below!

Meeting ID: 937 1112 5408 Passcode: PV-HCP Link: https://plumvillage.zoom.us/j/93711125408?pwd=emgrblpUZW5kdTVNTGUxaEVKYWorUT09

Please use this link to submit questions to inform Sr.Tu Nghiem’s Dharma talk: https:// tinyurl.com/cy4t72kv

Dana: This event is being offered free of charge. If you would like to offer a contribution to support the Plum Village International community, please see the links below. We are aware that these are difficult and uncertain times for many people around the world. In Plum Village and our other practice centers around the world we, too, find ourselves facing a challenge. We are dependent on retreat fees to cover the basic necessities, and while our monasteries are closed, we must rely almost entirely on the generosity of our practitioners. If a monetary donation is not possible for you at this time, your practice and presence is already a beautiful gift.

General support Plum Village: https://donation.plumvillage.org/general-support/ Donating through the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation: https://thichnhathanhfoundation.org/ Monastic Dharma Teachers participating in the Gathering

Sister Từ Nghiêm (Sr. Eleni), originally from Manhattan, New York, is a senior Dharma Teacher of Plum Village, . Before ordaining as a novice nun at Plum Village, in 1991, she worked as a nurse for twenty years. She has found that the practices taught by Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay) are reliable ways to bring well-being, happiness and peace into our daily lives. Over the years she has maintained an interest in healthy living as a way to prevent illness, by living mindfully with enjoyable daily practices and nourishing relationships with others.

Lay practitioners supporting this gathering

Elli Weisbaum attended her first retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh at the age of ten. She is a member of the , the North American Wake Up Care-Taking Council and founder/co-facilitator of Wake Up Toronto. She recently completed a PhD through the Institute of Medical Science in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Her thesis research focuses on applying mindfulness to physician wellbeing. Since 2015, she has been a member of the Mindfulness Project Team at The Hospital for Sick Children. She is based at the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor (teaching stream) for the , Mental Health & Psychology Program. Through the bridging of academic research and traditional mindfulness practice, she aspires to support the cultivation of a healthy ad compassionate society.

Rob Walsh has practiced and trained with the Plum Village community for over ten years and is a member of the Order of Interbeing. He currently works as a Physiotherapy resident at Women’s College Hospital as part of the Toronto Academic Pain Medicine Institute (TAPMI) team. He is currently part of a team of facilitators that offers the Mindful Awareness and Resilience Skills for Adolescents (MARS-A) program for adolescents with chronic illness at the Hospital for Sick Children. Rob is passionate about bringing together the disciplines of physical therapy and mindfulness as a way to support clinician, patient and community well-being.

Dr. Sara Ahola Kohut is a clinical health psychologist with the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Centre at the Hospital for Sick Children, an Associate Scientist with the SickKids Research Institute, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry within the University of Toronto. Clinically, Sara has focused on her work on serving children and adolescents living with chronic disease, their families, and the teams that care for them. Her program of research focuses on building resilience in youth with chronic disease and covers two main foci: 1. Building meaningful peer and social supports and 2. mindfulness-based approaches to living with chronic disease (exploring both mechanisms and developing interventions). This has led Sara to train both clinical and research students and create numerous novel online interventions aimed at skill building in supportive group settings. Her clinical work and research capitalizes on active patient engagement as well as the Internet to improve acceptability and access to resources and treatments. Since 2017, Sara has also been an active member of the Mindfulness Project at SickKids supporting mindfulness initiatives throughout the hospital. Additional HCP lay panel practitioners to be announced.