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SUMMARY:Loch Kelly and Lisa Ferguson ~ Engaged Nonduality
DESCRIPTION:Engaged Nonduality\nResponding to the World Outside and\nWithin from Awake Loving Flow\nwith Loch Kelly and Lisa Ferguson \nRecording will be emailed to participants within a week.\nYou’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend the live session. \nThis series of Engaged Nonduality events\, hosted by Lisa Ferguson\, explores how nondual wisdom may respond to our world in crisis. We live in a time of multiple intersecting crises that threaten the wellbeing of all life\, including climate breakdown\, unaligned tech and AI\, injustice\, war and authoritarianism. The recognition of nonduality has much to offer in these times\, including a deep knowing of our wholeness and shared Being\, as well as opening to the wellspring of our wise and creative response. This series invites guest presenters to explore how nondual teaching may respond to planetary crises through talks\, practices and group participation. \nLoch Kelly\, M.Div.\, LCSW is the creator of the new nondual meditation app\, Mindful Glimpses. He is the founder of the 501c3 nonprofit public charity\, Effortless Mindfulness Institute. Loch is an award-winning author\, licensed psychotherapist and recognized leader in the field of meditation and awakening. He and has worked in community mental health\, established homeless shelters and counseled family members of 9/11 in NYC. \nLoch graduated from Columbia University Social Work School and received a fellowship from Union Theological to study meditation in Sri Lanka\, India and Nepal. It was there he studied with Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and many of the great nondual masters of our age. \nLoch has collaborated with neuroscientists at Yale\, UPenn and NYU in the study of how awareness training can enhance compassion and wellbeing. In 2007 Loch was asked to teach by Adyashanti.\nLoch is dedicated to reducing suffering and supporting people to live from open-hearted awareness. He is known for his warm sense of humor and his trust that awakening is the next natural stage of development. He teaches the advanced yet simple nondual pointers and direct methods of Effortless Mindfulness\, informed by wisdom traditions\, psychology and social justice. Loch lives in upstate New York with his wife Paige and their cats Bodhi and Uly. www.lochkelly.org \nLisa Ferguson\, Ph.D. is the founder of Climate Compassion\, and has focused on supporting planetary wellbeing as a healing arts practitioner\, climate justice activist\, organizer and contemplative. She offers psychospiritual support to activists through one-one sessions and small groups\, weaving together a focus on awakening\, healing and wise action. \nSuggested Donation: $15 to $40\n(any amount acceptable\, no one turned away for lack of funds)\nPlease register early if you can.\nREGISTER \nTo check your local time\, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
URL:https://opencirclecenter.org/event/loch-lisa-jan-11-2025/
LOCATION:Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)
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