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Trauma Skills Summit.
August 17–26 2020
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Trauma Skills Summit.
August 17–26 2020
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August 17–26 2020
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Day 8
Day 8 will be available Monday, August 24, 2020.
The Dharma of Collective Resiliency
Lama Rod Owens
Meditation teacher, coauthor of Radical Dharma
The world is unsteady and seemingly chaotic, and it’s hard to maintain our physical and emotional balance. Resiliency, a critical skill right now, helps us meet the challenges of our lives with a sense of openness and curiosity, which in turn helps us to regain our balance. One of the methods we use to sustain our resiliency is mourning—tapping into our sadness and hopelessness in order to offer the space to simply be within our experience. Explore resilience, balance, and mourning on the path to healing in this powerful session.
Session Highlights:
- How mourning helps us unearth heavy and sometimes hidden energy
- The importance of cultivating collective resilience
- Balance—understand how remaining grounded helps us meet challenges directly
- How we can increase and sustain resiliency, balance, and healing together
Lama Rod Owens
Lama Rod Owens is an author, activist, and authorized lama (Buddhist teacher) in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, and he is considered one of the leaders of his generation of Buddhist teachers. He holds a master of divinity degree in Buddhist studies from Harvard Divinity School, and he is a coauthor of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation. Owens is the cofounder of Bhumisparsha, a Buddhist tantric practice and study community; has been published and featured in Buddhadharma, Lion’s Roar, Tricycle, and Harvard Divinity Bulletin; and has offered talks, retreats, and workshops in more than seven countries. Owens facilitates undoing patriarchy workshops for male-identified practitioners in Brooklyn and Boston. His most recent book is Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger.
A Traumatized Species: Pathology or Healing Crisis?
Pat McCabe, Woman Stands Shining
Diné (Navajo) grandmother, activist, artist, writer
What can we learn about being human from an indigenous worldview, and how might this change our relationship with healing? Thich Nhat Hanh calls us “interbeings,” Pat McCabe teaches, which is a very indigenous principle. It implies that our relationships with ourselves, with each other, and with the larger-than-human community—both in Nature and in the Spiritual Realm—are critical to harmony and health for all. Unfortunately, our modern world paradigm—its economics, institutions, and patterns—makes relationships and relating tangential at best and impossible at worst. But what if humanity were “plugged into” an entirely different paradigm? What would become possible?
Session Highlights:
- How indigenous peoples’ paradigms express humanity in ways that are radically different from the modern world’s paradigm
- The modern paradigm as only one choice among many possibilities
- Our innate design for a thriving life—and how this is inhibited by the modern world paradigm
- Meeting the Woman of the Rainbow Waterfall—a practice for receiving unconditional love and healing
Pat McCabe
Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. She is a voice for global peace, and her paintings are created as tools for individual, earth, and global healing. She draws upon the indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about sustainability and balance, and she is devoted to supporting the next generations, Women’s Nation, and Men’s Nation in being functional members of the “Hoop of Life” and upholding the honor of being human.
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Dear Mr. Owens,
You talk at the begging of your talk that when the Gaza Strip was bombed you felt like you were bombed . I wanted to ask you if you also felt like you and your family are being attacked by hundreds of rockets almost daily and Your baby being slaughter in the middle of the night while sleeping by terrorist from the Gaza Strip as is happening all the time in Israel did you feel that same feeling of you yourself being a target of violence?
Why do the let him use this plattform for this propaganda against Israel.
Can somebody stop him??
Monika, do you even have compassion for Palestinians who btw have been colonised by Israel government?
So yesterday a terrorist from Gaza entered Israel to work, as they are welcome to take part of the economy because we wish peace! and this terrorist killed with a knife a young father of four little children when the father came off the bus in a city in the middle of Israel. The terrorist murdered an innocent civilian. Made four little kids orphans How does it feel when you hear that?
It is very sad , you know why , because the people in Gaza are really suffering but those terrorists are hiding in the middle of their own people risking them. Violence is never the answer!
loved Lama Rod’s messages!!! Collective Resiliency,!! space for brokenheartedness and mourning.!! … About ten years ago I participated in a workshop that touched me most ever . It was a three day Grief Ritual with Sobonfu Somé a renowned African spiritual teacher from Dagara in Burkina Faso, West Africa. I hope you – Rod- reads this , I think you will love this .
Sadly, Sobonfu recently passed away… 🙁
I was hungry for this teachings from McCabe. More now than ever we all need a sense of community, a sense of belonging. I want to be part of it.
Thank you, Rod Owens for this practice. I am learning so much from all of the presenters so far. Thank you all for sharing such great information and perspectives! May you all be happy.
This is a wonderful gift from Pat McCabe , and Sounds True, I’m very grateful. Dan Siegal’s presentation, which introduced me to PEPP MWE UP talks also what I’ve been looking for, and need to sustain me and MWE at this time. Thanks so much.