Led by Fay Adams and Kristine Mackenzie-Janson

The course will be held online via Zoom on a Thursday evening from 18:30-20:45 (UK Time).
The dates of the five sessions are: 11th May, 18th May, 25th May, 1st June and 8th June 2023.

In our mindfulness practice, we visit time and again our motivation for practising: the well-being of ourselves and others. And when we look deeply, it’s clear that our well-being is inextricably linked with the larger world around us – there is a profound interconnectedness at play. The ‘state of the world’ is something that might be tempting to turn away from as being too overwhelming to really look at – but what is mindfulness if not turning towards the places that scare us? We do this internally in our practice whenever something comes up that is uncomfortable, and we can do the same with what we experience as uncomfortable and scary out there in the world – whether that plays out on a social or environmental level, or whatever it may look like for you. And our care may extend into the future and include the future generations – the wish that the grandchildren of the children alive now may also live in a world that offers the conditions for their thriving. How can we be a good ancestor to them? So from this place of interconnectedness and care, we can grow our resources to enable us to engage in mindful and compassionate action where we feel called to do so.

In this course with Fay Adams and Kristine Mackenzie-Janson we will follow the Buddhist and deep ecology scholar and author Joanna Macy’s spiral of the Work that Reconnects. This begins by resourcing and nourishing ourselves with gratitude, before turning towards what’s difficult in the world, and then looking for a new perspective from which we can go forth in practical, concrete ways. In this way we will explore bringing our love and compassion into action.

During the course we will compliment this with a rich variety of ‘inner’ mindfulness and compassion practices – in particular exploring the potential of deep grounding. As we weave our way through Joanna Macy’s spiral, we’ll discover how meditating with the earth can deepen each stage. We’ll experience how the earth is an ever-present resource for us that will share the holding of our pain for the world and help us deeply experience our radical interconnectedness with all life. This can become an invaluable support to our compassion in action practice.

If you are interested, you can read Fay’s blog about compassion in action HERE

Pre-requisites

For this course it is recommended that you have some mindfulness meditation experience. This could be the Level 1 training with the Mindfulness Association or an 8 week mindfulness course whether it be MBSR, MBLC or any other along those lines or it could be equivalent experience. 

For Booking information please contact: info@mindfulnessassociation.net