This talk explores four questions you can ask when you are caught in conflict.

You’ll learn the importance of reflecting on “Seeing Self in Other and Other in Self’ as you reflect on essential inquiries  that can help you be more awake and present when you are dealing with a challenging person.   

This talk explores how you can develop your capacity for resilience.

You’ll learn the consequences of losing your focus, the benefits of cultivating concentration and some suggestions on how to more skillfully increase your capacity for beginning again, again and again.

This talk explores how, when you are lost, confused and unsure, you can take refuge in Awareness, Truth and Love.

You’ll learn about the power of reflecting on the Outer, Inner and Innermost Refuge of each of these timeless qualities of presence.

After a short introduction on techniques for amplifying wholesome states, you’ll be guided into a meditation reflecting on sympathetic joy - cultivating your capacity to find pleasure in the joy, well-being and success of those around you.

You’ll then explore a particular practice including a body scan where you’ll deeply feel the space inside the body and reflect on gratitude, appreciation and well-being.

This experience is from the afternoon Guided Heart practice in the IMCW 2018 New Year’s Retreat. 

In this 45-minute meditation you’ll be guided into deep, relaxed awareness of sensations and explore the use of an anchor or focal point for your attention. 

From time to time you’ll be gently reminded of skillful ways to cultivate non-judging presence.

This meditation provides the the first morning instructions for the IMCW 2018 New Year’s Retreat.

This talk explores how you can more consciously respond to suffering within and around you.

You’ll learn how non-judging awareness awakens not only wisdom but your capacity to sense suffering and respond not just with empathy, but with wisdom and skill.

This is the final evening talk of the 2018 IMCW New Year’s Retreat

This talk explores the importance of knowing what truly calls you.

You’ll learn how you might refine your sense of what most enlivens you and cultivate the balance of allowing your life to unfold and living your life on purpose.

In this guided heart meditation from the fall IMCW retreat, you’ll explore two separate practices:

1. Investigating ‘wholesome states’ when they arise can be a powerful way to increase your capacity for kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity.  You’ll be guided into the ‘felt sense’ of a positive state to explore particular qualities that can deepen it’s presence and significance for you.

2.  In the second experience, you’ll be guided into feeling or imagining space in and around the body infused with a quality of loving kindness.  (Note:  If you feel spacey, ungrounded or the experience feels like it’s ‘too much,’ open your eyes or move to another technique.)

This talk explores how you might meet the inevitability of aging with grace.

You’ll learn how remembering what is true can be a refuge and how you can embrace reality in a way that cultivates ease, grace, wisdom and compassion.

This talk explores the what can happen when you embrace your greatest challenges.

You’ll learn how even though welcoming an obstacle may clash with your primal instincts for self-preservation, it can not only change your life, but the lives of those around you and open up unexpected possibilities in your life.