Nurturing Peace in Our Hearts

A gentle reminder:  There is still room and your are welcome to join us for our third Bay Area Mindfulness in Education wrokshop this Saturday, January 22, 2005 from 1-5 pm in Oakland,  CA.  Read below for more details.  Attached is a flyer to post and distribute to interested people.  Just reply to this email if you want to join us and need directions.   

Blessings for peace in our hearts and in our world,

Mindfulness in Education
Nurturing Peace in Our Hearts and in Our Educational Settings

With Lyn Fine and Jenn Biehn
Saturday, January 22, 2005
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

(please come at 12:45  pm for registration)

Location: 3897 Whittle Ave, Oakland
(at Wilbur, one block north of Lincoln.
Exit off Rte 13 or 580)

How can we approach education from a place of joy, stability, and inner peace?

You are invited to join with educators, parents, students, school
staff, and community organizers in a mindfulness day of meditation,
quiet reflection, sharing, and inquiry. Everyone concerned about
education is welcome.  As people concerned with creating peaceful
schools with heart, we give ourselves the gift of time, to nourish in
community our joy and inner peace and deepen our capacity for being
present—to see the beauty and intelligence in ourselves and others
and to meet each mom ent with patience, courage, calm, clarity, and
joy. We engage in mindfulness practices such as sitting, walking, and
eating meditation, deep relaxation, mindful movement, deep listening,
and kind speaking from the heart. We learn from the experiences of
participants who are integrating mindfulness practices into their
classrooms and lives, and inquire how we can co-create peaceful schools
with heart. We meet two-three times a year.

Information, registration, and directions: (prior registration preferred but not required):

Call or Email Jenn Biehn, 510-482-8605,  gemfrog4@yahoo.com
Websites:   www.mindfuled.org
www.iamhome.org (go to Days of Mindfulness)

Tea and tangerines will be provided. Please bring ideas, poems, stories, songs, and practices to share. By donation.

Lyn Fine, ordained a Dharma teacher by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh in
1994, leads meditation retreats in the USA and Israel. Before
re-locating to Berkeley in 1999, she developed conflict resolution and
diversity curricula and programs in NYC public schools.

Jenn Biehn, a mindfulness practitioner since 1987, coordinated the
Bay Area Educators Sangha, 1987-1995. A computer instructor at City
College of San Francisco, she teaches Tai Chi Chih as staff development
practice.

Sponsored by Educators BASE Group–Buddhist Alliance for Social Engagement, a project of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship