Most events are held online with live sessions taking place over Zoom. We have, however, begun offering some in-person events as well. Online or in-person is noted in each event description.
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Online Experience
Monday, Dec. 9, 9 - 11 am Pacific
Warm Data Labs and People Need People are a series of conversations where individuals share their stories and experiences during a facilitated experience.
Online 6-Week Course
Thursdays, Oct. 23, 30, Nov. 6, 13, 20, & Dec. 4, 6:00-7:30 pm Pacific
Explore, develop and practice the qualities and perspectives that are essential to grow into who we truly are, as a conscious response to what is happening in our world right now.
Online Experience
Monday, Nov. 4, 9 - 11 am Pacific
Warm Data Labs and People Need People are a series of conversations where individuals share their stories and experiences during a facilitated experience.
Online Experience
Monday, Oct. 14, 9 - 11 am Pacific
Warm Data Labs and People Need People are a series of conversations where individuals share their stories and experiences during a facilitated experience.
Online Experience
Monday, Sep. 16, 9 - 11 am Pacific
Warm Data Labs and People Need People are a series of conversations where individuals share their stories and experiences during a facilitated experience.
9-month Online Program
April - December
Being Outdoors: Sensing the Sacred is an online, experiential program designed to cultivate a deep relationship of reverence & reciprocity with all Outdoors. Over the course of 9 months, participants engage community, meditation, relational practices, & learning as pathways for self-discovery & Interbeing consciousness.
Online 4-Week Course
Tuesdays, January 16, 23, 30, Feb. 6, 5:30 - 7:00 pm Pacific
If ever there was a need for steadiness of mind and openness of heart, it is now. “Beginning & Deepening Mindful Awareness: Conscious Response in a Changing World” is a threshold into a clear and compassionate way of being.
Online 6-Week Course
Tuesdays, Oct. 24, 31, Nov. 7, 14, 21, & 28, 5:30-7:00 pm Pacific
Explore, develop and practice the qualities and perspectives that are essential to grow into who we truly are, as a conscious response to what is happening in our world right now.
Online 4-Week Course
Wednesdays, July 5, 12, 19, & 26, 5:30 - 7:00 pm Pacific
If ever there was a need for steadiness of mind and openness of heart, it is now. “Beginning & Deepening Mindful Awareness” is an experiential pathway into a clear and compassionate way of being with oneself and with all beings. Whether you are new to mindfulness meditation or a seasoned practitioner, this course offers an opportunity to cultivate and refresh your capacity for consciously responding to our changing world.
9-month Online Program
April - December
Being Outdoors: Sensing the Sacred is an online, experiential program designed to cultivate a deep relationship of reverence & reciprocity with all Outdoors. Over the course of 9 months, participants engage community, meditation, relational practices, & learning as pathways for self-discovery & Interbeing consciousness.
Online 4-Week Course
Tuesdays, January 17, 24, 31, & February 7, 5:30 - 7:00 pm Pacific
If ever there was a need for steadiness of mind and openness of heart, it is now. “Beginning & Deepening Mindful Awareness” is an experiential pathway into a clear and compassionate way of being with oneself and with all beings. Whether you are new to mindfulness meditation or a seasoned practitioner, this course offers an opportunity to cultivate and refresh your capacity for consciously responding to our changing world.
Online 7-Week Course
Fridays, Jan. 13, 20, 27, Feb. 3, 10, 17, & 24
Our planetary ecosystem -- Earth -- is in crisis. Because we play a defining role in our world’s present state, how we respond right now directly determines how things are going to unfold and what the outcome will be. With the award-winning book Choosing Earth as a guide, facilitators Coleen LeDrew Elgin, Marianne Rowe, and Carol Normandy guide participants in an exploration of the crisis and the opportunity that we have before us to change where we are headed. Author Duane Elgin will be a Guest Teacher for a portion of most sessions.
Online 6-Week Course
Thursdays, October 6, 13, 20, 27, Nov. 3, & 10, 5:30-7:00 pm Pacific
Explore, develop and practice the qualities and perspectives that are essential to grow into who we truly are, as a conscious response to what is happening in our world right now.
Online 7-Week Course
Thursdays, Aug. 11, 18, 25, Sept. 1, 8, 15, & 22
Our planetary eco-system -- Earth -- is in crisis. Because we play a defining role in this eco-system and its present state, how we respond right now directly determines how things are going to unfold and what the outcome will be. In this 7-week course, with Duane Elgin’s recently revised book as a guide, we explore the crisis and the opportunity that we have before us to change where we are headed.
Online 4-Week Course
Tuesdays, July 5, 12, 19, 22, 5:30-7:00 pm Pacific
The heart does not have to close in order to define a limit. Fierce Compassion: Setting Boundaries explores how to set boundaries clearly and skillfully while, at the same time, maintaining a sense of connection and authenticity.
Online 4-Week Course
Tuesdays, May 24, 31, June 7, and 14, 5:30-7:00 pm Pacific
We are living in multiple fields of uncertainty and loss. The changes that are occurring throughout the planet are fueling the changes that we are experiencing personally, and vice versa. Now, more than ever before, it is essential that we be able to access our internal sources of stability, balance, regulation, and resilience. From this center, we engage our inner strength, clarity, creativity, and potential for adaptability and growth as we respond to our changing worlds.
In this course, we will explore and practice cultivating the ability to find the center in the middle of the storm.
Thursday, May 19, 2022
5:30 - 7:00 PM
Join us for a discussion about the crisis and the opportunity that we are facing individually and globally, culturally and spiritually in the ecological environments of our material, natural and relational worlds. We invite you to bring your questions, curiosity, and willingness to explore possibilities of decision-making, action, and way-of-being to this important and, perhaps, life-changing conversation.
You are invited to cross the threshold into a new way of being in relationship with the Living Earth. “Being Outdoors: Sensing the Sacred” is a unique 9-month experience of cultivating awareness of belonging wherever you are. Through twice-monthly community conference calls, we focus on different aspects of the Outdoors, such as Ocean, Forest, Soil, Cosmos, etc.
Online 7-Week Course
Thursdays, Mar. 17, 24, April 7, 14, , 21, 28, May 12, and author conversation on May 19
With the curriculum created by Duane and Coleen Elgin and the Choosing Earth Team, we engage deep inquiry, mindful discussion, experiential investigation, and simple homework activities to explore, process, and identify where we are and what we can do to cultivate lasting change, individually and globally. Each class focuses on building a container that supports sharing, reflecting, and digesting this visionary and, at times, challenging material.
Online 8-Week Course
Wednesday evenings, 5:30-8:00 PM Pacific
Part 1: February 23, March 2, 9, 16
Part 2: March 30, April 13, 20, 27
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an eight-week foundational course in mindful living. This course weaves together awareness of body, mind, and heart, incorporating instruction, meditation, gentle movement, and group sharing and support.
Online 4-Week Course
Tuesdays, February 1, 8, 15, & 22, 5:30 - 7:00 pm Pacific
“Sit Spot” is a practice of cultivating a relationship of familiarity, intimacy, and belonging with a place and the beings who live there, simply by showing up: spending time and being attentive. Spending time and attention outdoors helps us to remember and feel our belonging to the world that we are a part of, a kinship with all beings who belong to this place.
Online Gathering
Sunday, January 23, 4:00 - 5:30 PM Pacific
Climate Cafe is a gathering where talking about the weather cultivates a sense of connection, clarity, and conscious response to the changes that we are all experiencing. Many people seem to have a hard time engaging in conversation about climate change in a beneficial way. Climate Cafe offers a safe, supportive space for mindful conversation and deep listening about this global experience.
Online 4-Week Course
Thursdays, January 20, 27, February 3, 10, 5:30 - 7:00 pm Pacific
If ever there was a need for steadiness of mind and openness of heart, it is now. “Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation” is a start-point -- a threshold – into a clear and compassionate way of being with oneself and with all beings. Whether you are new to mindfulness meditation or a seasoned practitioner, this course offers an opportunity to cultivate and refresh your capacity for engagement, resiliency, and presence.
Online 4-Week Course
Tuesdays, January 4, 11, 18, 25, 5:30 - 7:00 pm Pacific
This January, you’re invited to take on your new habit with curiosity, tenacity, adaptability, and self-compassion, as if it were an interesting scientific experiment. We’ll draw from the wisdom of habit experts James Clear, Gretchen Rubin and others to bring in tips that help us to succeed. (This course meets weekly for 4 weeks)
Online 4-Week Course
Fridays, October 29, November 5, 12, & 19, 5:30 - 7:30 pm Pacific
Shamanic journey meditation is an ancient form of meditation honoring the existence of worlds beyond the physical world in which we currently exist. In this course, we will deepen our connection to the landscape of the Lower World, which is the realm that houses “the tough stuff.” (This is a 4-week course.)
Online 4-Week Course
Thursdays, October 14, 21, 28, and November 4, 5:30-7:00 pm Pacific
How do we embody being aware and being kind when so much is painful and scary? How do we access nourishment and belonging when so much of what we have known is changing or collapsing? What opportunities arise from a “wicked predicament? Explore these questions and more through guided meditation, mindful discussion, and experiential practices. We learn to navigate the tension of crisis and opportunity from a place of holding paradox — engagement and stillness, personal and collective, grief and joy — by cultivating a steady mind and open heart. In this way, we begin to shift our relationship with current personal and global circumstances to living with and from the truth of uncertainty.
Online 4-Week Course
Saturdays, October 2, 9, 16, 23, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Pacific
When we feel centered in inspiration, it ignites and supports us to take action. Taking action to create change or to birth something new for ourselves, our family or community becomes far easier and more meaningful. Inspiration also enables us to stay the course through the ups and downs of the creation process, as we move from idea to the realization of our vision.
Online 8-Week Course
Wednesday evenings, 5:30-8:00 PM Pacific
Part 1: September 22, 29, October 6, 13
Part 2: October 27, November 3, 10, 17
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an eight-week foundational course in mindful living. This course weaves together awareness of body, mind, and heart, incorporating instruction, meditation, gentle movement, and group sharing and support.
Far from being selfish, setting boundaries is an essential part of creating and cultivating healthy relationships. Fierce Compassion refers to a way of setting boundaries clearly and skillfully while, at the same time, maintaining a sense of connection and authenticity.
Join in discussing, deepening understanding, and putting into practice elements of wholehearted living, as written about by Brene Brown. (This course meets weekly for 4 weeks)
With the curriculum created by Duane and Coleen Elgin and the Choosing Earth Team, we engage deep inquiry, mindful discussion, experiential investigation, and simple homework activities to explore, process, and identify where we are and what we can do to cultivate lasting change, individually and globally. Each class focuses on building a container that supports sharing, reflecting, and digesting this visionary and, at times, challenging material. (This course meets weekly for 8 weeks.)
In this 6-week series, deepen your understanding and experience of mindful living by exploring the key qualities of mindful awareness. No previous experience is necessary: this course is appropriate as a foundational mindfulness course, as well as a means to deepen your practice and bring more presence into your way of being everyday.
