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March 2021
Love & Resilience: The Contemplative Care Summit
Lion’s Roar & New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care are honored to invite you to a free 5-day online event: Love & Resilience: The Contemplative Care Summit. The summit convenes over 30 fascinating figures from an array of fields to offer medicine for these times. Explore how to apply a contemplative care approach to life – and death – through their deep insights and practical guidance.
Find out more »Foundations in Contemplative Care Online Information Session
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.
Find out more »Online Bereavement Group: A Contemplative Approach to Grief and Loss
Coping with the loss of someone or something we love is one of life’s biggest challenges. The grieving process can present a wide range of difficult and unexpected emotions including, shock, anger, disbelief, guilt and profound sadness. 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.
Find out more »Online LGBTQIA+ Bereavement Group: A Contemplative Approach to Grief and Loss
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. We will come together as LGBTQIA+ identified folk in the spirit of community and mutual care.
Find out more »April 2021
Contemplative End of Life Care Training Intensive
Offered in a retreat format, we will explore contemplative care best practices and how it strengthens individual capacity for compassionate contemplative service. Our days will be interspersed with several periods of silent meditation, lectures by faculty, experiential exercises, writing and conversation.
Find out more »Zen Shabbat: A Zen & Jewish Night of Ritual and Care
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.
Find out more »Moving from Loss to Found: An Online Writing Workshop
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.
Find out more »TANGARYO: BECOMING A FORMAL ZEN STUDENT
Since the early days of Zen, entering formally into training under the guidance of a teacher has been the traditional path for those wishing to make a commitment to Zen practice.
Find out more »April Half Day Retreat
Silently engaging in sitting and walking meditation, hearing a dharma talk, and joining in conversation with the community are wonderful ways to spend a Saturday morning.
Find out more »Foundations in Contemplative Care Online Information Session
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.
Find out more »Contemplative Medicine Conversations: Prescriptions for Alleviating Suffering
Join us for a free online event with Fellowship guiding teachers Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, Sensei Chodo Robert Campbell, and Tieraona Low Dog, MD as they discuss the birth of the new Contemplative Medicine Fellowship and how contemplative practice can be a powerful instrument of healing.
Find out more »May 2021
Zen Shabbat: A Zen & Jewish Night of Ritual and Care
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.
Find out more »May Half Day Retreat
Silently engaging in sitting and walking meditation, hearing a dharma talk, and joining in conversation with the community are wonderful ways to spend a Saturday morning.
Find out more »Heartwood: An Evening on the Art of Living with the End in Mind
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.
Find out more »Foundations in Contemplative Care Online Information Session
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.
Find out more »Contemplative Medicine Conversations: The Gift of Human Presence
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.
Find out more »Cancelled for the Memorial Day Holiday: Monday Evening Sit
This evening gathering has been cancelled due to the Memorial Day Holiday.
Find out more »June 2021
Zen Shabbat: A Zen Jewish Night of Ritual and Care
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.
Find out more »Half Day Online Retreat
Silently engaging in sitting and walking meditation, hearing a dharma talk, and joining in conversation with the community are wonderful ways to spend a Saturday morning.
Find out more »Foundations in Contemplative Care Online Information Session
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.
Find out more »Online Bereavement Group: A Contemplative Approach to Grief and Loss
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.
Find out more »Contemplative Medicine Conversations: The Medicine of Community
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.
Find out more »Moving from Loss to Found: An Online Writing Workshop
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.
Find out more »July 2021
Realizing Your True Nature: Commit-to-Sit 90-Day Online Practice Period
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
Find out more »Zazenkai: A Full Day Online Retreat
This daylong online retreat is an opportunity to engage in silent practice within a supportive community and hear a Dharma Talk.
Find out more »Foundations in Contemplative Care Information Session July 2021
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.
Find out more »EOL Book Club: Awake at the Bedside
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.
Find out more »Contemplative Medicine Fellowship
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.
Find out more »August 2021
What is Contemplative Care? An Online Discussion
Join Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison and Sensei Chodo Robert Campbell for a free online discussion on the transformative and practical aspects of contemplative care.
Find out more »Zazenkai: A Full Day Online Retreat
This daylong online retreat is an opportunity to engage in silent practice within a supportive community, hear a Dharma Talk, and join in conversation with the community. Practice includes sitting (zazen) and walking (kinin) meditation. This one-day practice period is a wonderful opportunity for extended meditation.
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