Latest Posts on Engaged Mindfulness & Teaching Mindfulness

After our morning small group councils, in which are Rwandan friends are getting more comfortable sharing their hearts each day, we...

(warning: contains highly disturbing descriptions) After our first morning council groups, two groups of nine each, both including...

We welcomed our Rwanda retreat partners and participants today at our retreat headquarters at the Presbyterian Church Guesthouse in...

Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat Pre-Retreat Preparations in Rwanda April 9 & 10 We arrived in Rwanda on Thursday evening and just finished...

by Coughran Mayo published in Prim Perfect Magazine, December 2008 edition. More than a few non-profits have followed the lead of their...

This year we are primarily focused on re-visioning the Auschwitz-Birkenau Bearing Witness retreat; so after two days of following our...

Tuesday, November 4th. We held our first small group councils this morning before breakfast, 7 – 8:30 am. We have four small groups each...

Yesterday was our first full day at the camps. We spent the morning at Auschwitz I after beginning our plunge into Not Knowing as we do...

I’m sitting on a plane, flying from Munich to Washington, D.C. on my way home to Colorado. Though exhausted from little sleep and a week...

I am sitting down to write this late on the night of November 9th, after two very long full days here in Oswiecim, Poland. Thursday was...

As we boarded the bus this morning at the Dialog Center for the short ride to Birkenau, it looked like we were in for more of the same,...

Day Two: Birkenau As always, we began our morning with the small group councils at 7 am. I am facilitating Group 2. There are only six of...

Forty of us, from 11 different countries began the Auschwitz-Birkenau Bearing Witness Retreat this morning, leaving Krakow early by bus...

by Connie Hunt I have been typing constantly (over 30 pages) since I returned from the street retreat, feeling compelled somehow to...

Report By Hope Malkan Bearing witness is the opposite of denial. We all tend to look the other way. That’s not what Buddhism is about. —...

These are reports I sent out (by email from the Public Library) during the Zen Peacemaker Community Street Retreat I led this past week....