Online: Resilience Club – Bringing Compassion to Our Anger and Overwhelm
with Ralph De La Rosa
Saturday, August 29th, 2020 | 1:00pm – 5:00pm ET
Our nervous systems have never been so raw. The loss, the upheaval, the uncertainty, the hope, the fear – it’s never been more real. For meditators committed to keeping our eyes and our hearts wide open through all of this, it can be particularly challenging. Where do we find the energy to continue engaging? How do we work with overwhelm? How do we practice acceptance when what we’re confronted with is unacceptable? How can we embody compassion when it’s never been so right to be so angry? What if our meditation practice has fallen apart?
Drawing from the material in Ralph’s new book, Don’t Tell Me to Relax: Emotional Resilience in the Age of Rage, Feels, and Freak Outs, this half-day workshop will offer practices for meeting the complexities of our situation directly. Through meditations, breathwork, lively talks, and group discussion, this workshop will offer sustenance and insight that is free of platitudes and spiritual bypassing.
Resilience Club is a monthly series of workshops and online events that speak directly to our times. It is for meditators who want to harness the power of inner connectivity and outer community so we can survive and thrive in the face of myriad social and political crises. Each workshop will focus on a different theme and will be in collaboration with a different venue. Sign up for Ralph’s mailing list at ralphdelarosa.com to stay in the know.
20% of Ralph’s proceeds from all workshops will be donated to Future Now Fund, who support progressive state-level candidates in defeating incumbent GOP senators. For more, please visit www.futurenow.org
Ralph is generously offering 50% off the subsidized base price for black and brown people and folks in the trans spectrum (please email registration@nyimc.org)
Registration:
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Registration Fees include Teacher Support
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Teacher(s)
Ralph De La Rosa, LCSW
Ralph De La Rosa (they/he) is the author of three books, including the new Outshining Trauma: A New Vision of Radical Compassion (foreword by Richard Schwartz). He is a psychotherapist in private practice and a longtime meditation teacher known for his radically honest and humorous approach.
Perhaps most crucial is that Ralph walks the path of outshining trauma alongside the people he works with. He is a survivor of PTSD, heroin addiction, Borderline Personality Disorder, ADHD, and liver failure. Walking through these matters with the help of profound therapists and mentors has been an empowerment no school could have offered. It is simply part of his path to offer back what he’s been shown.
Ralph has mentored personally with Richard Schwartz, founder of the Internal Family Systems model of psychotherapy, known for its efficacy in healing trauma. Ralph has completed an invite-only advanced teacher training with Jack Kornfield. His work has been featured in GQ, CNN, NY Post, Tricycle, Mindful Magazine, and beyond.
He began practicing meditation in 1996 and has trained in a spectrum of yogic and healing traditions, including devotional Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism. Ralph began teaching Buddhist-inspired meditation in 2008. Today, Ralph identifies as practitioner and teacher of human spirituality. He teaches a highly specialized hybrid of IFS and Buddhism to offer students a direct path of conscious evolution and self-discovery.
Ralph is an intersectional activist, musician, wannabe acrobat, and outdoor enthusiast currently residing in Seattle, WA.