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Lab/Shul and the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care invite you to a shared experience of sacred space and time, harmonizing Jewish and Zen traditions in the celebration of Sabbath spirit.

Join this virtual conversation with author Barbara Becker and her Zen teacher Robert Chodo Campbell as they navigate the broad questions of the paradoxical marriage of life and death.

Join Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison and Sensei Robert Chodo Campbell for an online information session to hear about NYZC's Foundations in Contemplative Care training program and the transformative and practical aspects of contemplative caregiving.

Join Diane E. Meier, MD, Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, and Sensei Chodo Robert Campbell, for a free online event to discuss the new Contemplative Medicine Fellowship and how contemplative practice is a critical support for clinicians to foster and sustain deeper connections with patients, team members, loved ones, and themselves in this time of pandemic.

New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care and Lab/Shul invite you to a shared experience of sacred space and time, harmonizing Jewish and Zen traditions in the celebration of Sabbath spirit.

Coping with the loss of someone or something we love is one of life’s biggest challenges. Using various tools such as sharing stories, writing, poetry, and ritual this online support group will provide an opportunity to gain perspective and engage with the grieving process in new ways.

Join us for a free online event with Fellowship visiting faculty members Rev. Cynthia Carter Perrilliat, MPA, and Jasmine D. Hill, PhD. As part of our Contemplative Medicine Conversations series, they will join Fellowship guiding teachers Koshin Paley Ellison and Chodo Robert Campbell to discuss the role of community in alleviating suffering and promoting collective healing in our strained health care systems.

Mizuko Kuyo is a Buddhist ceremony to acknowledge the loss of those who have experienced a miscarriage, a stillbirth, or an abortion. The ceremony is also inclusive of those who have experienced the loss of a child in the first years of life.

In this writing workshop, participants will explore the alchemy of grief and learn how we can use it to initiate growth, self-compassion, and emotional progress.

Join Zen teachers from across the United States and Japan for an in-depth exploration of Zen practice and study. Through weekly dharma talks, daily emails, group discussion, and meditation, we will explore how we can open our hearts to a troubled world

Join Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison and Sensei Robert Chodo Campbell for an online information session to hear about NYZC's Foundations in Contemplative Care training program and the transformative and practical aspects of contemplative caregiving.

Join us for an interactive four-week online book club with author Koshin Paley Ellison on his book Awake at the Bedside. EOL Book Clubs are designed for connection. You will have the intimate experience of interacting directly with the author during each session. The experience will invite a deep dive into the book, coming together weekly to share and reflect as a community with prompts provided by EOL and the author.

New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care's twelve month training for physicians, nurse practitioners and physicians assistants who want to transform their role as clinicians and lead change in the culture of care.

Join Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison and Sensei Chodo Robert Campbell for a free online discussion on the transformative and practical aspects of contemplative care.

This course is a unique opportunity to study with five Zen teachers from different Soto Zen lineages exploring Zen history, Zen koans and the Great Heart Way, social engagement and ritual. The course includes group sessions in which students will develop skills necessary to extract meanings out of the tradition in a clear, tender, and lively manner. Implications for reflection in relationship will be explored.

This Tuesday evening online bereavement group is an opportunity to gain perspective and engage with the grieving process in new ways. We will come together as LGBTQIA+ identified folk in the spirit of community and mutual care.

This online bereavement group is an opportunity to gain perspective and engage with the grieving process through storytelling, writing, poetry, ritual, and community.

The Buddha was born into a life of distraction and privilege and saw that material prosperity and inattention cannot address life's tangles. Acutely aware of the deep dissatisfaction that often pains our humanness, he pivoted and devoted his life to healing the causes of suffering and how to pivot these tangles into untangling through meditation, insight, and leading a life of compassion and love. This year of practice explores the Buddha's life and his disciples and his core teachings, showing the intimacy of these teachings to our inner and outer worlds.

The Zen Precepts serve as guidelines developing skillful ways to navigate relationships and life itself. This course consists of in-depth study, experiential learning, reading assignments, writing exercises and discussion. Online and in-person options available.

This online course offers a contemplative, practical and playful opportunity to reimagine your future, tell your life story, create advance directives for end of life care, and explore all the possibilities of “what if…?"

New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care and Lab/Shul invite you to a shared experience of sacred space and time, harmonizing Jewish and Zen traditions in the celebration of Sabbath spirit.