Overview

This series of 2-hour workshops in January 2025 has an overarching theme, but each workshop is a one-off class.  You are welcome to sign up for all four, or just one, two, or three.

Please note: you must sign up individually for each workshop you would like to attend. 

The registration links for each are below.  All workshops are at the Flander’s House @ 2926 NE Flander’s Street in NE Portland.

1. Mindfulness of Emotions
   1. Wed, 1/8/24, from 7-9pm.  Register here.
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2. Mindfulness of Thoughts
   1. Wed, 1/15/24, from 7-9pm.  Register here.
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3. Mindfulness of Body
   1. Wed, 1/22/24 from 7-9pm.  Register here.
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4. Mindfulness in Relationship
   1. Wed, 1/29/24 from 7-9pm.  Register here.
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Cost: each workshop is offered on the Gift Economy / aka donation.  If you’d like to learn more about the Gift Economy or how 99% of my livelihood comes just from donations, visit here.

All workshops will feature some blend of guided meditation, brief lectures, community discussion, and activities like journaling or thematic dyads.

All experience levels are welcome, though participants with prior exposure to mindfulness/meditation will likely benefit the most.

 

Mindfulness of Emotions

Wed, 1/8/24, from 7-9pm @ 2926 NE Flander’s Street in NE Portland

Above all, this class will practice identifying emotions that are present, and in turn, relate to them wisely, as opposed to reacting on autopilot.

Things you will learn include:

• The experiential anatomy of emotions (i.e. the sensations, thoughts, impulses/behaviors, and related feelings).
• How every emotion has an underlying message, and when seen this way, it’s possible to relate to even the hard ones with care and compassion.
• The difference between collapsing into an emotion, being disconnected from an emotion, and dancing in between the two.

Register here for “Mindfulness of Emotions”

 

Mindfulness of Thoughts

Wed, 1/15/24, from 7-9pm @ 2926 NE Flander’s Street in NE Portland

In everyday life, people tend to be infatuated with their thoughts.  When they sit to meditate, they tend to see thoughts as an enemy.  In contrast, this workshop will walk a middle way between those two poles.

In this workshop, we’ll invite curiosity and point to a wiser relationship to thinking, where we engage them when useful, and let them go when unuseful.   Through guided meditation, we’ll explore the raw appearance of thoughts, how they are interrelated with sensations and emotions, and how exactly they change.

More than anything, we’ll emphasize a wiser way of relating to thoughts.

Register here for “Mindfulness of Thoughts”

 

Mindfulness of the Body

Wed, 1/22/24, from 7-9pm @ 2926 NE Flander’s Street in NE Portland

This workshop will explore how mindful embodiment is both an incredible tool for present-moment-awareness, as well as a means of developing intuitive wisdom.  We’ll invite a curious approach that will look to notice & feel what’s actually happening in our bodies, whether pleasant or unpleasant, without reactivity.

We’ll try out a few different body awareness meditations, with an eye to a form of mindful embodiment that can happen while meditating as well as in our daily lives.

Register here for “Mindfulness of the Body”

 

Mindfulness in Relationships

Wed, 1/29/24, from 7-9pm @ 2926 NE Flander’s Street in NE Portland

The primary thrust of this workshop will be developing in-the-moment mindfulness while speaking and listening to another person.  The more we can do this, the more we remain centered in relationship without getting caught in reactivity, even when anxiety, annoyance, or other difficult feelings arise.

In brief, we’ll explore how to maintain connection to our deepest intuitive wisdom while with others.

Register here for “Mindfulness in Relationships”