If you are a sangha organizer, facilitator, or someone on the OI path, you are warmly invited to an in-person tea time.
Anyone who is a sangha organizer/facilitator in the Plum Village tradition is welcome. Please RSVP to dylan@tweney.com if you’re planning on coming.
This is a chance for organizers, facilitators, caretaking council members, ordained Order of Interbeing members, OI aspirants, OI-curious folks, and sangha builders of all types to gather in friendship for honest and vulnerable discussion together.
What’s really going on in the Northern California PV community? Are we on the right path? What do we need as a community to continue beautifully into the future?
Bring your whole selves to this meeting, and we will hold our aspirations and our concerns together.
Schedule:
10-1 Sangha practice
1-2:30 Sangha tea
You are free to join for part or all of the day.
If you are joining us from 10-1, please bring your own vegetarian lunch.
If you are joining us from 1 to 2:30, please bring some tea or another drink you can enjoy and something to share.
Suggestions for what you might want to share:
Ideas
Practices
Questions
Suffering
Dreams
Aspirations
Energy
Your beautiful smile
Our intention is to offer these meetings roughly monthly, alternating on Zoom and in person, usually on the 2nd Saturday of the month.
Upcoming meetings after April:
May 11, 1pm-2:30pm on Zoom
June — TBD
July 13, 1pm-2:30pm on Zoom
Co-organizers: Isabelle YenChi Chappuis and Dylan Tweney
Dylan Tweney
+1 650-315-9607
dylan@tweney.com
Shantideva Monastery
30345 Palomares Road Castro Valley,
California
94552United States+ Google Map
We are happy to share that a new in-person, all-ages Plum Village sangha in San Francisco has launched! Our space is beautiful – an epic, circular, interfaith chapel at the UU church in SF. We hope you will consider joining us (practicing with us? facilitating? being on the organizing team?) so we can make the most of practicing mindfulness together as a community.
We are meeting weekly on Fridays from 4:30-6pm, at the UU Church at 1187 Franklin St in San Francisco.
Every week, we will practice sitting and walking meditation, a short reading, and Dharma sharing. All are welcome.
Some quick tidbits:
We recommend arriving a few minutes early so our door greeter can join the sangha gathering sooner rather than later. If you arrive late and need someone to come to the door, please text Nicole at (415) 317-1086
Please see the attached flyer for more information, and pass along to anyone you think might be interested.
The group will be peer-led. Every week we will practice sitting and walking meditation, enjoy a reading, and finish with Dharma sharing.
To join the sangha’s mailing list, click here and click “Ask to join group.” Please send any questions to HomeWithinSangha@gmail.com.
We look forward to practicing with you soon, maybe tomorrow!
The Home Within Sangha organizing team (Nicole Kramer, Miles Schulman, and Colette Auerswald)
Bay Area Sanghas are invited to a day of nourishing practices in the Plum Village Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh at a beautiful monastery in the Santa Cruz mountains.
Family Retreat is a retreat for families of all descriptions. In this retreat we will have programs for adults, children, tweens, and teens, ensuring that every member of your family will have an opportunity to deepen their experience of the practice.
Parents and adults are given the opportunity to explore the practice through activities such as Dharma Sharing, Total Relaxation, and Dharma Talks while the younger ones will get to experience age-appropriate mindfulness activities and sharings of their own.
How in these times can the Plum Village practice community contribute to transforming racial injustice and support wise, skillful, and compassionate action grounded in love—in short, create beloved community?
Please join the Deepening White Awareness Sangha for three half-days of mindfulness, offered to individuals who self-identify as white, to mindfully explore our whiteness. We will follow the Plum Village teachings and practices throughout our time together, which will include meditation, sharing, and grounding exercises. The series is open to people who are beginning this mindful exploration, and to those who have experience. During the series, we will:
Deepen awareness of white privilege, benefits and biases within ourselves
Cultivate capacity to take action for racial justice
An in-person 7-day retreat, April 7-13, for young adults between the ages of 18 and 35 years old, hosted by Deer Park Monastery with the support of monastics and practitioners in the Plum Village Tradition.
Deer Park Monastery is hosting a BIPOC Mindfulness Retreat as an expression of our continuing commitment to creating a nourishing, healing, and empowering space for members of our spiritual family who self-identify as BIPOC.
