Council Process Dates for 2024 Monday evenings, 7:15 - 8:30 pm April 29 with Ben Connelly: How Do You Develop Compassion? July 29 with Margaret Pfeffer October 28 with Keido Jeromy Thotland No registration needed. This event is offered in person only.
Let us explore this most fundamental aspect of Buddhist practice. Where do you grow, what are your barriers, what are the joys, and what are the practices that deepen your compassion?
We invite you to join this opportunity to practice deep listening and wholehearted speech, to build community and connection. Council process is a way of deep sharing in which participants speak, one at a time, from the heart. The intentions of council are speaking from the heart, listening from the heart, lean expression, speaking out, spontaneity, and confidentiality. The tenets of council are not knowing, bearing witness, and appropriate action.
Participants are encouraged to be present for one or both periods of zazen (5:50 and 6:30 pm) prior to council. Please be on time for council, since, out of respect for the process, it is not possible to join council once it has begun. With apologies to our Zoom community, Council Process is on site only because by nature it is intended to promote safe sharing and confidentiality.