This talk explores the art of practicing mindfully with grief and loss.

You’ll learn what the Buddha taught about loss, practices for being  with the rogue waves of grief and how grieving fully can awaken you to be more alive, awake, clear-seeing and compassionate.

You’ll learn how you tend to get locked into certain perspectives and explore a profound ‘technology’ for deconstructing thoughts and beliefs.  Asking the right questions can point your attention beyond the lens of your perspective to see with greater clarity what is true.

This talk explores the possibility of ‘problems’ as profound opportunities for growth and expansion.

You’ll learn the importance of equanimity, cultivating convergent and divergent thinking and deep investigation into the nature of attachment and the nature of self.

This talk explores the power of shifting your perspective.

You’ll learn about the power of active investigation, how asking a particular question can create a shift in your viewpoint and perhaps the most radical shift of all, contemplating death as your personal advisor.

This talk explores how you can draw on mindfulness when you encounter sticky and problematic situations.

You’ll learn about the radical act of pausing, how ‘reframing’ helps you shift out of your linear, rational mind and how reflecting on karma - cause and effect - can help you access states of awareness  that can open new doorways.

This talk explores how you can use your body as a tuning fork to make decisions.

You’ll learn what gets in the way of good decisions, the power of pausing and tapping into the observer and a technique for making decisions that calls on the wisdom of the body to give you feedback as to what is possible.

This talk explores the importance of cultivating somatic awareness and offers a model for practice. 

You’ll learn about the importance of intention, what it means to cultivate the body as a friend and ally and you’ll get to try on a model for practice.

This talk explores the power of somatic inquiry.

You’ll learn how awareness of the body can be a means for steadying the mind  as well as developing your capacity to be the non-judging observer.  You’ll learn how  you can develop your awareness of the ‘felt sense’ inside as powerful tuning fork for intuitive inquiry.

This talk explores the ‘how to’ of inner listening.

You’ll learn the essentials of the practice, the importance of formulating the right question and explore a model for your practice.

This talk explores the optimal conditions for inner listening and investigation.

You’ll learn about the power of sincere heart,  seven faculties of mind required to be fully present and some cautionary words on the altered states that can arise in practice.