In-Person: Free Orientation Session on Interpersonal Mindfulness
with Elaine Retholtz
Thursday, January 30th, 2025 | 6:30pm – 9:00pm
Curious about how mindfulness can transform your relationships and communication? In this free orientation session, you’ll experience a glimpse of the Interpersonal Mindfulness Program and discover how mindfulness can deepen your connections with others and yourself. Meet the instructor, explore the program’s approach, and learn how it supports staying present, even in challenging conversations.
This session is ideal for those with prior meditation experience, including MBSR graduates or anyone ready to bring mindfulness into their interactions. Join us to explore how human relationships can become a rich field for mindfulness practice. No commitment is required—just bring an open mind and a willingness to engage.
For info and registration for the full Interpersonal Mindfulness Course beginning on Thursday, February 6th, 2025, click here.
Free Orientation Registration:
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Teacher(s)
Elaine Retholtz
Elaine Retholtz has been studying and practicing the Dharma since 1988. In addition to teaching Dharma at New York Insight, she is a certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher and an MBSR Teacher Trainer. She has a deep interest in helping students integrate mindfulness practice into daily life. Elaine is committed to deepening her own understanding of issues of diversity and the way racial conditioning in the United States affects all of us — both as individuals and in relationship to the institutions we are a part of, including New York Insight. She’s been involved in New York Insight’s diversity efforts for many years, serving on the diversity committee, and working with others to create spaces – for diverse groups of practitioners as well as for white practitioners meeting separately – to explore these issues within a Dharma frame.