The Five Remembrances and the Five Wishes
The Five Remembrances and the Five Wishes
with Janet Brown, Jey Ehrenhalt, and Bonnie Versboncoeur
Wednesdays, July 10 - August 7, 7:15 – 8:45 pm (5 weeks)
Offered online and in person.
Please register five days in advance
Join us as we explore The Five Remembrances - Relative & Absolute - the true nature of everything. We will explore these teachings, other resources, and practices to support participants' completion of The Five Wishes an advanced care directive that captures your personal, emotional, and spiritual needs and medical wishes at the end of life.
Janet Brown (she/her) is a graduate of Roshi Joan Halifax’s two-year Buddhist Chaplaincy training at Upaya Zen Center in New Mexico, a trained End-of-Life Doula through the International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA), and a Steering Committee Member for the Minnesota Death Collaborative (MNDC). Janet works with individuals and their families through advanced care planning, hospice, vigil, and the grieving process with compassion and honoring death as a part of life. Outside of Zen practice Janet works on climate justice with Sabathani Community Center on a Community Energy Project.
Jey Ehrenhalt (they/them) participated in the Sati Center's Introduction to Buddhist Chaplaincy training program with Gil Fronsdal in Redwood City, California, and has served as a hospice volunteer with the Allina Hospice Volunteer program in Minneapolis. They lived in residence at the San Francisco Zen Center for over two years and are currently a priest-in-training with Ben Connelly at MZMC. Outside of Zen practice, Jey trains social justice educators through the Southern Poverty Law Center's education resource, Learning for Justice.
Bonnie Shinkai Versboncoeur has been a student of zen since the late 1970s when she moved her family from hometown Green Bay Wisconsin to Minneapolis, bringing with her a UWGB undergrad degree in Sociology and masters in Environmental Arts and Sciences.
She studied with Katagiri from 1978, receiving the precepts in 1982 and beginning the conversation about priest training for ordination. Circumstances took her to the midcoast of Maine in 1986, and she continued to study with Katagiri until his transition in 1990.She went back to MZMC each year for retreats, practice periods, and priests training for ordination in 1997. Tim Burkett honored that ordination in 2004.
Bonnie’s interest in the many conflicts around life and death brought her back to Minneapolis in 2008-2009 for a two year clinical pastoral education program as chaplain training. She then served 10 years in her little town in midcoast Maine as the hospice chaplain. Tim Burkett, then Abbott of MZMC, completed Bonnie’s dharma transmission (permission to teach independently) in 2013.
Suggested donation: $100
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