Teachers: Max Gaston & Ananta
Monday Evenings
6:30 PM - 8:15 PM EDT
Sept 12 - Oct 17, 2022
Online via Zoom
Mindfulness helps you relate differently to the stresses and underlying traumas in your life and offers the opportunity to cultivate resilience and emotional intelligence. Applied by champions of social change and social justice, it supports our mental wellbeing and ability to stay nourished and resourced in the face of challenges.
Course Description:
This 6-week course is suited for those coming to meditation for the first time or for experienced meditators / contemplatives who would like support in integrating these practices more fully into their engaged lives.
What To Expect:
We will lead periods of meditation, mindful movement, and inquiry/discussion as a way of exploring the habits of the mind, discovering how these patterns of reactivity become a major cause of stress and where we could intervene to change them. You will learn to alter your relationship with each moment of your life and so derive more joy, fulfilment, and meaning. The course is experiential: by paying attention to what arises in daily life and class practice, and through exploring responses to challenges, a supportive and safe container is created for you to feel connected and be inspired. Participants are supported by recorded guided meditations.
Benefits of Mindfulness:
Research over the past 40 years indicates that a majority of people report a greater ability to cope more effectively with short and long term stressful situations; an increased ability to relax, lasting decreases in physical and psychological symptoms; reduction in stress levels and a greater ability to face change and life’s challenges with ease, energy and enthusiasm.
About the facilitators:
Max Gaston is a first-generation Haitian American, an experienced civil rights attorney, and the Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the University of Notre Dame Law School. He has served as a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union where he successfully challenged the governor of Florida for violations of the First Amendment and Equal Protection Clause. He has ten-years experience of meditation and has taught mindfulness programs in the US and UK.
Ananta is a British-born global strategist and change-maker in child and youth rights. He is the CEO of Karuna USA, an international nonprofit tackling poverty and discrimination in South Asia and the USA, and formerly led global youth empowerment initiatives with the United Nations. He is a certified Mindfulness teacher by Brown University, an ordained Buddhist, and has practiced meditation for twenty-five years.
Course Registration:
STEP 1: Complete the form
STEP 2: Payment
No-one will be turned away due to lack of funds. Scholarships are available. Please inquire.