Intro to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Workshop
1/9/2020
7:00 PM
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8:30 PM
at IMCW Center for Mindful Living (Tenleytown)
IMCW's Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an eight-week program in the Washington, DC area that assists people who want to learn to use their own internal resources to respond more skillfully to stress, medical and psychological conditions, and promote healthy living.
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Finding Peace in the Chaos
1/25/2020
9:30 AM
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5:00 PM
at Unitarian Universalist Church of the Shenandoah Valley (Stephens City)
During this daylong meditation retreat, we’ll be exploring a variety of different mindfulness methods we can use to approach and re-discover the calm, peace, and ease of equanimity – or balanced awareness – in the face of what are often called the 10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows that make up all the days and moments of our lives.
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Winter Stillness: Weekend Non-Residential
1/31/2020
7:00 PM
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2/1/2020 5:00 PM
at Carmelite Monastery of Baltimore (Towson)
Friday, January 31 and Saturday, February 1. Sink into the deep stillness and quiet of winter and listen to the wisdom of your body, the songs in your heart, and the whispers in your mind with compassion, presence, and love.
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Practicing Presence
2/1/2020
8:30 AM
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1:30 PM
at Unitarian Universalist Church of Reston (Reston)
The focus of this retreat is to offer techniques to uncover and connect to the present moment and our own authentic self to find less stress and more calm in our daily lives. Cultivating stillness can help us change our patterns.
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Cultivating Peace in Turbulent Times
2/15/2020
9:30 AM
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4:00 PM
at St. Luke's Episcopal (Bethesda)
In this daylong retreat, we cultivate practices of mindfulness, self-compassion, loving-kindness, and equanimity, supported by poetry, stories, and periods of walking and movement, to help us find peace and balance.
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Joyful Refections: A Daylong for People of Color
3/14/2020
10:00 AM
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5:00 PM
at Crossings Center for Healing Traditions (Silver Spring)
For people of color in a racist world, the experience of joy is an act of resilience. Join us, and learn practices of joyful reflection that you can continue in your everyday life, both on and off the cushion.
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Radiating Love: A Daylong for the LGBTIQ+ Community
3/15/2020
10:00 AM
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5:00 PM
at Crossings Center for Healing Traditions (Silver Spring)
Join us for this daylong event, as we explore the practice of radiating metta (unconditional love) as an expansive expression of all of who we are -- including our genders and sexualities as we experience them in the present moment.
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Mindful Communication in Challenging Times
3/15/2020
12:00 PM
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4:00 PM
at IMCW Center for Mindful Living (Tenleytown)
In this communications workshop we will explore and experiment with finding a wise path through difficult conversations. We will cultivate the qualities and insights inherent in human nature that encourage mutual understanding, empathy, intimacy, and meaningful communication.
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Introduction to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
4/2/2020
7:30 PM
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9:30 PM
at IMCW Center for Mindful Living (Tenleytown)
This special introductory class is being offered for anyone interested in learning more about the upcoming 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction workshops.
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The Freedom of Self-Forgiveness
4/4/2020
9:30 AM
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5:00 PM
at Unitarian Universalist Church of the Shenandoah Valley (Stephens City)
During this daylong meditation retreat, we’ll be using practices of mindfulness to help loosen old habits of shame and self-blame that we use to armor our hearts, and limit our experience of joy.
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