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Crimson Gate, Oakland: Entering the Stream - Meditation for Mental Health Practitioners
- Item Number
- 561
- Estimated Value
- 200 USD
- Opening Bid
- 67 USD
Item Description
Crimson Gate Meditation Community in Oakland, California, offers the successful bidder, a mental health professional, participation in Entering the Stream: Establishing and Deepening a Meditation Practice for Mental Health Professionals taking place on four Thursday evenings in Spring 2018.
As a mental health clinician who is interested in establishing or deepening your meditation practice you will receive instruction on: ? In this four-week class, we'll cover:
- Basic meditation
- Working with thoughts and feelings
- Dealing with obstacles
- How to establish a home practice
- Creatively deepening meditation over time
- Working with koans to cultivate creativity
- Finding a practice community and teacher
- Making way for retreat practice
- Integrating meditation with our work as psychotherapists
Crimson Gate's focus is both poetic and pragmatic, they consider how to make meditation practice a source of refuge, strength, and clarity in everyday life: family, work, love, and sorrow. There will be lots of meditation and conversation along the way.
Sheila Longerbeam, PsyD, LMFT will be teaching the class. She is a psychoanalyst, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and long-time Zen Buddhist practitioner. She is currently the Meditation Instructor at Crimson Gate Meditation Community, a Zen sangha for mental health practitioners in Oakland. She has taught at The Psychotherapy Institute, Access Institute and PINC. She enjoys helping clinicians bring creativity and presence to their work with the help of meditation.
The Crimson Gate Meditation Community practices in the Zen Buddhist tradition, and meets most Sunday evenings in Oakland, CA. Meditation retreats and classes are offered.
Item Special Note
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At the conclusion of the auction, the winning bid will be charged to the credit card on file.
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