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Veteran’s Day Weekend Retreat

Friday, November 8 @ 3:00 pm – Monday, November 11 @ 12:00 pm

We are delighted to invite you to register for the Winter 2024 retreat held at the Quaker Center in Ben Lomond, California (80 miles from the Bay Area). The retreat will take place from Saturday, November 9 – Monday, November 11, with an option to arrive on Friday, November 8 for an additional cost. All retreat meals will be provided by the wonderful chef Tod Nysether.

The theme is “Creativity as Refuge.”

We are excited to share that Maxine Hong Kingston has agreed to lead the writing workshop on Friday, together with Earll Kingston and Wendy Johnson.

NOTE: This retreat is now full. You can still register to be added to the waitlist. We plan to accept waitlist registrations until Friday, October 11.

Registration link: https://forms.gle/agLxDbgBTMajWefu8

Please fill out the information requested in this Google Form. The retreat organizers, Dylan and Melanie, will review all completed registration forms and confirm your waitlist/registration status by Friday, October 18. At this time, we will send details on payment and lodging. 

We currently estimate costs of $150 per night for dorm room beds and $100 per night for camping/futons. (Camping in your own tent, or sleeping on floor pads, will only be available if we have a sufficient number of people registered — we need to fill the beds first.)

We aspire to create a retreat body that represents the diversity of the many people and communities practicing in the Plum Village lineage, including race/ethnicity, age, and gender. Please be patient with us as we do our best to accommodate your needs and to create the conditions for a supportive and inclusive space.

Our draft health plan is outlined in the registration form, but here it is for ready reference:

1. We will request everyone to rapid test negative on their day of arrival. 
2. We will leave windows open and run HEPA air filters wherever possible.
3. We will structure activities to make it comfortable to mask at any time and to eat outdoors.
4. We will ask anyone with symptoms to (K)N95 mask, even if rapid testing negative.
5. We will provide a supply of high-quality (K)N95 masks and extra rapid tests.
6. If you test positive at the retreat, we will ask you to leave early or self-isolate, depending on conditions.

$300 – $400 (estimated)

Dylan Tweney

+1 650-315-9607

Quaker Center

Ben Lomond, California 95005 United States + Google Map
831-212-2631
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Santa Cruz Mountains Day of Mindfulness

Saturday, October 12 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Please save the date for this Day of Mindfulness coming up on October 12, at a beautiful monastery in the Santa Cruz mountains. There will be an opportunity to receive, or renew, the Five Mindfulness Trainings in a special Transmission Ceremony.

If you would like to participate in planning please contact Jim Scott-Behrends at jsbehrends@aol.com.

More information will follow.

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Free Donations appreciated

Logan Payne

Quaker Center

Ben Lomond, California 95005 United States + Google Map
831-212-2631
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Shantideva Sangha Gathering

Saturday, November 16 @ 9:30 am – 3:00 pm

We invite anyone in the community to join our practice from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the following dates: July 20, September 7, October 19, and November 16. (Note: usually the third Saturday of each month.)

Our aspiration is that Shantideva will become a resource and anchor for our broad and diverse community in the Bay Area and Northern California. Gathering at Shantideva is a chance for people from our many different sanghas to practice together in friendship, and to create opportunities for honest and vulnerable discussion.

Please email Dylan if you’re planning to attend.

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Shantideva Sangha Gathering

Saturday, October 19 @ 9:30 am – 3:00 pm

We invite anyone in the community to join our practice from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the following dates: July 20, September 7, October 19, and November 16. (Note: usually the third Saturday of each month.)

For October 19, we are adding an optional recitation of the 14 Mindfulness Trainings to our afternoon schedule, at 1:30pm. All are welcome to stay for this, or do other activities, as conditions permit.

We aspire that Shantideva will become a resource and anchor for our broad and diverse Bay Area and Northern California communities. Gathering at Shantideva is a chance for people from our many different sanghas to practice together in friendship, and to create opportunities for honest and vulnerable discussion.

Please email Dylan if you’re planning to attend.

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Shantideva Sangha Gathering

Saturday, September 7 @ 9:30 am – 2:00 pm

We invite anyone in the community to join our practice from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the following dates: July 20, September 7, October 19, and November 16. (Note: usually the third Saturday of each month.)

Our aspiration is that Shantideva will become a resource and anchor for our broad and diverse community in the Bay Area and Northern California. Gathering at Shantideva is a chance for people from our many different sanghas to practice together in friendship, and to create opportunities for honest and vulnerable discussion.

Please email Dylan if you’re planning to attend.

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Shantideva Sangha Gathering

Saturday, July 20 @ 9:30 am – 2:00 pm

We invite anyone in the community to join our practice from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the following dates: July 20, September 7, October 19, and November 16. (Note: usually the third Saturday of each month.)

Our aspiration is that Shantideva will become a resource and anchor for our broad and diverse community in the Bay Area and Northern California. Gathering at Shantideva is a chance for people from our many different sanghas to practice together in friendship, and to create opportunities for honest and vulnerable discussion.

Please email Dylan if you’re planning to attend.

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Sangha Builders Tea

Photo of a small teapot and glass cup on a wooden tea tray that has calligraphy on it saying "uong tra di" ("drink your tea")

Saturday, April 27 @ 10:00 am – 2:30 pm

Photo of a small teapot and glass cup on a wooden tea tray that has calligraphy on it saying "uong tra di" ("drink your tea")

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.

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