Online: Interpersonal Mindfulness
with Elaine Retholtz
Course: Mondays, January 29th – March 25th, 2024 (skip February 19th) | 9:15am – 11:45am ET
Daylong: Sunday, March 3rd, 2024 | 9:30am – 5:00pm ET
Have you ever noticed that even when your formal practice is going well you can hit the skids when it’s time to communicate with others? Developing an interpersonal mindfulness practice helps us be more fully present with others and oneself.
Is it possible that human relationships are one of the best fields for cultivating mindfulness? Is it possible that we can bring mindfulness to all our interpersonal communications – even those that are virtual? As we move between interacting virtually to being in person again – whether with friends, family, co-workers, or each other – can practice help us cultivate the skills that can support us in staying present within challenging conversations?
The program was specifically designed for graduates of MBSR programs but is suitable for anyone with a mindfulness practice who has experience with or is willing to experience stepping out of silent practice and applying mindfulness in human interaction.
Note: The bulk of the class time will be spent reflecting and practicing in dyads (pairs), using the Insight Dialogue Guidelines.
Prerequisite: A Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) class or prior meditation experience that includes some relational practice – i.e. a willingness to bring mindfulness out of silent formal practice into shared investigation of the human experience.
Course Registration:
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Registration Fees include Teacher Support
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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 teacher and 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.