[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Day of Mindfulness for Women of the African Diaspora, Feb 18th, PLEASE FORWARD

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY

Dear ones,

​please help spread the word about this

 interfaith day of mindfulness for women of African descent to explore healing our relationships. This is a day of growing togetherness and a celebration of all that we are.

with Kaira Jewel Lingo, Gretchen Rohr and Therese Taylor-Stinson (facilitators from Buddhist and contemplative Christian backgrounds)

Date: Feb 18, 2017, 9:00 AM  -  4:00 PM

Location: Westminster Presbyterian Church, DC (Washington)

Here for more information and to register.

Please also forward widely to your circles of women of African Descent.

Thank you!

The Saturday after Valentines' Day, please join an Interfaith gathering of women of African Descent for a daylong retreat on radical healing and conscious loving. Together, we will explore the variety of ways multiracial and black women awaken in relationship with ourselves, with each other, and with intimate partners.

Drawing from contemplative Christian and Buddhist traditions, secular mindfulness practices and indigenous dialogue, the day will provide a sacred space for self-care and building community, for nourishing joy and healing our pain. We will learn and practice tools to identify both systemic and personal barriers to compassionate living, so that we can sustain inner liberation and outer transformation for the long-haul. This is a day of growing togetherness and a celebration of all that we are.

** All are welcome who self-identify as women (including transgendered and cisgendered women) and trace parts of your ancestry to the historic people of Africa.

The facilitators will offer reflections and the following activities:​ Silent and guided meditation; mindful eating and walking; a group spiritual direction to convenant with one another as sisters; the practice of Beginning Anew, a 4-step process to resolve conflict and ​strengthen our intimate relationships; and community conferencing circles, a restorative process to reconcile community trauma and injustice.

Kaira Jewel

kairajewel.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYoelMs7rqU

"There is only one kind of success that really matters: the success of transforming ourselves, transforming our afflictions, fear, and anger. This is the kind of success, the kind of power, that will benefit us and others without causing any damage." The Art of Power Thich Nhat Hanh

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how well it turns out." Vaclav Havel

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