Create more gratifying relationships with "Courageous Connection". In this half-day retreat led by Insight Meditation teachers Trudy Goodman and Justine Dawson, gather with other heart-led individuals for inspiration, insight, and mindful practices for meaningful relatiionships. Learn to: * Bridge the awareness & insight of your mindfulness practice with your daily relationships * Grow your ability to stay present inside of yourself as you engage with others * Notice others more deeply and open yourself to be more deeply seen as well * Practice simple ways to enrich connection with friends, family, loved ones and even strangers * Make new connections and friendships within the UnPlug sangha. We’ll spend the afternoon moving between periods of sitting meditation, group dialog, and experiential exercises all designed to cultivate connection with ourselves and others. Teacher Bios Trudy Goodman, PhD, is the Founding Teacher of InsightLA, the first center to combine training in Insight (Vipassana) Meditation and in non-sectarian mindfulness and compassion practices, including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC). The fourth teacher ever of MBSR, Trudy taught with its creator, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn and studied Buddhist meditation for 40 years, with Asian and Western teachers. She is the Guiding Teacher and co-founder of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the first center in the world dedicated to integrating these two disciplines, and had a private psychotherapy practice there for 25 years. Trudy co-founded Family Path and Growing Spirit, family mindfulness programs, with Susan Kaiser Greenland in Los Angeles, and has worked with kids and families throughout her career. Trudy teaches retreats and workshops worldwide; often teaching with her husband, Jack Kornfield. Trudy is a contributing author: Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness (Springer, 2008); Compassion and Wisdom in Psychotherapy, (Guilford Press, 2011); Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, (Guilford Press, 2013).
Justine Dawson is a teacher and guide of mindfulness, intimacy and awakening. A 25 year practitioner of Insight Meditation, she completed training as a teacher under Jack Kornfield in 2012. In addition to her training and practice in traditional meditation and Buddhist psychology, Justine has devoted over 15 years to engaged practice and teaching in the realms of the erotic – sex, desire, self expression and connection. Experience with Internal Family Systems and Somatic Experiencing informs her work. From the inside out Justine guides people to unburden the shame, fear and judgment that prevents them from intimacy with all aspects of themselves and of life. Both practical and provocative, she is a translator between worlds, bridging the rational and instinctual, theoretical and visceral, spiritual and mundane. Justine has taught throughout the US and Europe, establishing and guiding communities of practice, as well supporting dharma retreats at venerable American spiritual institutions. She is currently keeping it real in Los Angeles, CA where she teaches at Insight LA, mentors new teachers through the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, and maintains a private practice working with individuals and couples around the world.
IN-PERSON + VIRTUAL Saturday, November 18 | 1-5pm | $75
