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Listen, Learn, Act – The Intersection Between Mindfulness and Justice

In the summer of 2020, amid great racial conflict following Breonna Taylor’s killing, Black leaders in Louisville created “A Path Forward,” an extensive, forward-looking document for bringing racial equity to Louisville. The document examined multiple components of racial injustice and recommended actions to alleviate them. This six-week experience will help you engage more deeply – in learning and in action – with racial equity issues facing Louisville and our nation.

First Saturday Silent Sitting

Are you seeking the opportunity to join regularly in a guided group meditation practice?  Do you seek greater peace for yourself and for the world? Our First Saturday Silent Sitting is a monthly gathering that will help you connect with other meditators and spiritual seekers from varying faith backgrounds.  

Earth Advocate Group

More than ever, the world needs citizens who are prepared to engage with the environmental challenges that impact our communities and advocate for the poor and vulnerable people that are impacted by these issues. This group offers a supportive space to learn about environmental issues and become empowered to work for a just and equitable transition to a more sustainable world.

Mindfully Managing Worry

We all face challenges and difficulties in our lives, and it is natural to spend time thinking about and processing these events. Sometimes, however, we get stuck in our thinking and make our situation feel even worse by obsessively worrying about what we did wrong in the past and might do wrong in the future. It is a nearly universal experience and a source of great unhappiness in our lives.

Journaling as a Spiritual Practice

Journaling invites us to delve into our lives through written observations, the narratives we develop, and the awareness of our own role and perspective as we write. When combined with the practice of mindfulness, the gifts of discovery increase.  This class invites participants to explore the possibilities that arise when we combine those two practices. Using the work of Howard Thurman, a significant 20th century Christian mystic, we will acknowledge how our journal may become our own “Island of Peace” within our own souls. Each week participants will be encouraged to journal as they maintain a regular practice of mindfulness; prompts, including selection of readings from his book, Meditations of the Heart, will be provided.

De-Stress for the Holidays Meditation Hour

Thanks so much for registering for “De-Stress for the Holidays” – a free, drop-in guided meditation session that fits within your lunch hour. Two experts from the Earth & Spirit Center, Joe Mitchell, CP, and Kyle Kramer, CEO, will help you introduce a little peace of mind into the fun but hectic holiday season! You’ll leave with some skills to use anytime you want to reset and de-stress.

Mindfulness Matters in Education – Community Gathering

This is a community gathering wherein people who believe in the benefit of mindfulness in education can meet and greet one another and share and support one another’s ideas and efforts.  

Mindfulness, Healing & Wholeness

Re-membering our wholeness. If you feel disconnected, broken, or wounded, you are not alone. We are all wounded in essential and frequently secret ways, and it can be difficult to know how to begin to heal. Join us for a complete reframing of what it means to be broken, and what it means to heal. In the second part of our healing series, we will focus on re-membering ourselves into wholeness. Together we will find wisdom, strength and guidance within ourselves, our community, and in the larger natural world. Together we will discover ways to re-member ourselves into wholeness.

Continuing Meditation: Meditation in Motion

In his book Mindful Movements – Exercises for Wellbeing, the wise Thich Nhat Hanh says “Often it helps to meditate with other people. Sitting together, breathing together, we can feel very peaceful and happy. But sometimes we need to stop sitting in one place and start to move around!” Our Meditation in Motion class we will be taking Thich Nhat Hanh’s suggestion and we will “start to move around”, bringing our meditation practice from the chair to an embodied experience. As we move in a mindful & intentional manner, we can bring mind, body, & spirit into harmony.

Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation

Turn Your Stress into Strength! Manage the stress in your life using research-based techniques including deep breathing, mindfulness, and visualization. You will leave the sessions inspired and on your way to a happier, more peaceful and fulfilling life. Trained, certified, and experienced in resiliency and wellness coaching, your facilitator Paula Kommor starts with the belief that you are whole, resourceful, and creative. As a group, we will focus on your strengths and past successes to help you build a sustainable resiliency habit. Give yourself the gift of self-care...

The Gift of Aging: Approaching the Transition

So many of us exist in a deeply conditioned, strongly reinforced view of death as the ultimate enemy. We not only fear the end of life in this form, but also avoid most exposure to alternate understandings, adopting instead a posture of denial and resistance to reality, and greatly limiting the richness of experience possible in our later years.

Eldering Circle

As we reflect and claim our wisdom from our lifetime of joys, sorrows, accomplishments and losses we need a place to process what we have given up and what we hope to achieve now in our generative years.

The Happiness Discussion Group

The Dalai Lama is often quoted as saying, “The purpose of our lives is to be happy”. If asked, most of us would agree, “I could stand to be a little happier!” The good news is that authentic happiness is a choice. Almost half of our happiness comes from our thoughts, behaviors, and perspectives, which we can control.

Continuing Meditation: The Habits of Happiness

The Dalai Lama has said that the one thing that all people have in common is the desire to be happy. Regardless of our current level of happiness, we all could benefit from being even happier. Happiness is not just a feeling, Happiness is a habit, a set of ways that we think and behave that support our happiness.