When: 26 Apr 2021 - 2 May 2021 Co/support teacher: Jetty Koster-Heynekamp This teacher led residential offers a safe and supportive environment in which to deepen and extend mindfulness and compassion practice. It provides an opportunity to develop fine tuned sensitivity to our inner process and to how we might helpfully work with our experience moment to moment, including in our interactions with others and with the environment. This retreat is specifically designed to meet the retreat needs of those on Part 2 of CMRP’s Teacher Training Pathway and Master’s Teaching 2 module. It is also suitable for trainees from other training organisations and for more experienced teachers wishing to deepen their connection to the core underpinnings to mindfulness as it is taught in the eight-week course. The retreat structure, teaching process and learning community of fellow participants and teachers provide a scaffold to engage in an individual and collective exploration of human experience, supportive of a deepening understanding of mindfulness as a way of being in the world. What’s involved? We will deepen our personal and experiential engagement with the core meditation practices taught on an 8 week mindfulness course and with theoretical understandings that underpin them. In particular, we will structure the residential around perspectives on the four abidings of mindfulness from Buddhist psychology and an exploration of four heart qualities known as the Brahmaviharas in Buddhist psychology and as the Four Friends for Life in secular mindfulness approaches. These teachings will be offered as a framework to support first-person exploration of experience in formal and informal mindfulness practice – the core curriculum will be the immediacy of personal experience. Whilst having their roots in Buddhist psychology, the themes, teaching, practice guidance and explorations will be presented in terms of their application to secular mindfulness programmes such as MBSR and MBCT. The retreat will include: · periods of both guided and self-directed practice · 45 min. talks · individual meetings and group exchanges with the teachers · time to practice mindfulness informally between meditation sessions including in work periods where individuals contribute to the smooth running of the household and care of the environment The overall container of the retreat will be held in noble silence, enabling space to connect with experience and a chance to be in community with like-minded people without the need to be anyone in particular. There will also be opportunities for sharing and connecting verbally at the end of our time together and the teachers will always be available to talk to people individually. Expected learning outcomes include: · Deepening knowledge of the traditional teachings on the four establishments of mindfulness; · Development of knowledge of the Brahmaviharas or Four Friends for Life · Development of understanding of how the four ways of establishing mindfulness relate to human distress and wellbeing; and how they underpin the curricula and practices of MBSR and MBCT, · Deepening confidence and clarity in experientially engaging with the foundational methods of developing mindfulness; · Development of experiential familiarity with the Four Friends for Life and the core attitudinal qualities of mindfulness; · Development of increased experiential familiarity with personal patterns and conditioned tendencies, how we meet these and how this relates to human struggle and flourishing · Experience of the value of being part of a supportive community Who is the retreat for? The retreat is suitable for the following people: Requirements to attend: Completion of an eight-week course and attendance at a minimum of a day of silent practice. Timings: Please arrive for 4pm on 26th April and ending with lunch on 2nd May. What to bring/wear: Mats, cushions and blankets will be provided. Please bring your own equipment if you prefer. Location: Trigonos is located in the village of Nantlle in North Wales between Penygroes and Rhyd Ddu. Caernarfon is the nearest town and Bangor the nearest mainline railway station (West Coast mainline). Please visit the Trigonos website for additional information and directions at http://www.trigonos.org/node/13 Our rates: Our fees have no hidden extras and include deposit, teaching, room and board. Full rate for SINGLE accommodation (1 to a room): £945.00 (includes £200.00 deposit, of which £100 is non-refundable) Full rate for SHARED accommodation (2 or more to a room): £845.00 (includes £100.00 non-refundable deposit) Employer's rate for SINGLE accommodation: £995 Employer's rate for SHARED accommodation: £895 Please note: The majority of our venues have shared bathrooms, including for SINGLE rooms. Please contact us if you have any specific needs that we need to be aware of. If the full rate for SINGLE accommodation is paid but we cannot meet your request for a single room due to lack of availability, then we will allocate you SHARED accommodation and refund £100.00 to you or your employer. Employer's rate - Recognising the large administrative overhead of dealing with employers, we will be adding a £50 surcharge if the employer is paying directly; where possible we would advise applicants to pay themselves and reclaim on expenses to avoid the charge. We will be applying this to all our offerings with effect from September 2020. The Application Process: Our application and payment process involves the following steps: Payment and Cancellation Policy: Please read our Terms and Conditions for information regarding payments and cancellations. For more information: Please email us at retreats@mindfulness-network.org.
Where: Trigonos, North Wales
Tutor: Frits Koster
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