Online: Meeting Grief and Loss with Wisdom and Kindness
with Kimberly Brown
Course: Tuesdays, June 6th – July 18th, 2023 (skip July 4th) | 7:00pm-8:30pm ET
Half Day Retreat: Saturday, July 15th, 2023 | 10:00am-1:00pm ET
If you’re grieving, you might feel alone, destroyed, numb, or in shock. Kimberly Brown, meditation teacher and author of Navigating Grief and Loss: 25 Buddhist Practices to Keep Your Heart Open to Yourself and Others, created this course to provide you with the resources and tools you need to help you normalize and rehumanize your grief.
Though all of us will encounter death and change, we can do so with kindness and wisdom, and develop the skills and heart to mourn loss with patience, tenderness, and clarity.
In this weekly class, Kimberly will teach you to bring gentleness and care to your body, mind, and spirit with traditional Buddhist practices, modern therapeutic tools, compassionate listening and friendship. You’ll cultivate your inherent compassion and good sense to support yourself and those closest to you through the pain and sadness of mourning, loss, and grief.
The six-week series includes a half-day meditation retreat, at which participants will have the opportunity to deepen their practice and the exercises learned in the course.
In this program you’ll learn to:
* Strengthen your self-awareness and self-acceptance
* Meet difficult emotions with kindness
* Discover and learn to rely upon your constructive emotional resources
* Create healthy relationships and boundaries
* Discern options and make wise choices
* Develop gratitude and appreciation for your precious human life and your loss
This course is for anyone who is struggling with the loss of someone close to them—a friend, sibling, spouse, parent, grandparent, relative, colleague, or pet.
Those experiencing anticipatory grief, if someone you love is dying right now, are also welcome.
We’ll be using exercises from Kimberly’s book em>Navigating Grief and Loss: 25 Buddhist Practices to Keep Your Heart Open to Yourself and Others. You can order a copy wherever you purchase books, but it is not mandatory for the course.
Registration:
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Registration Fees include Teacher Support
New York Insight Meditation Center has streamlined the registration fee levels. Members of our Circle of Friends are eligible to receive 20% off of the Sustaining Rate via a code provided in the email confirming membership, which you can enter after clicking the Sustaining Level registration.
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***Subsidized Base: Made possible by the generosity of Benefactor Level above and other donations to ensure participation by those requiring financial assistance.
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Teacher(s)
Kimberly Brown
Kimberly Brown is a meditation teacher, Buddhist student, and author. Her work emphasizes the power of love and compassion to transform and heal ourselves and the world. Her books “Steady, Calm, and Brave” and “Navigating Grief and Loss” are both published by Prometheus Books. She works with individuals and groups. You can learn more about Kimberly and her work at www.meditationwithheart.com.