DHARMA AND MEDITATION MEETING led by DONALD ROTHBERG Ph. D. entitled: The Engaged Spiritual Life: Connecting Inner and Outer Transformation in a Time of Crisis. SUNDAY 20th OF FEBRUARY 8 pm – 10.30 pm. Donald has immersed himself for most of his life in two of the central social-cultural energies of our times—in teaching, writing, and action for social change, on the one hand, and “spiritual” practice (particularly Buddhist meditative practice), on the other. Yet despite the examples of Gandhi and King, all too often the social and the spiritual have been separated, for a number of reasons, or connected in more regressive ways. Donald will explore, based on many years of scholarship and writing, teaching, training, and activism connecting the social and spiritual, how we might bring the two together in a contemporary way, how the two deeply require one another, and how this integration is urgently required to give us the resources and perspectives necessary to help us respond to the great challenges of our times, including climate disruption, racism, economic inequality, and political instability,
Donald has taught at the University of Kentucky, Kenyon College, and Saybrook Graduate School. In the San Francisco Bay Area, he is a member of the Teachers Council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and also a teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland. He teaches locally, nationally, and internationally classes, groups, and retreats on mindfulness and lovingkindness practice, transforming the judgmental mind, mindful communication, working skillfully with conflict, and socially engaged Buddhism. He has practiced Insight Meditation since 1976, and has also received training in Tibetan Dzogchen and Mahamudra practice, body-based psychotherapy, and trauma work. He has helped to guide many six-month to two-year training programs in socially engaged spirituality, both Buddhist-based and interfaith, and is the author of The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World, and the co-editor of Ken Wilber in Dialogue.
On March the 2nd, at 8pm videoconference with Frank Ostaseski.
On November the 3rd, at 8pm Videoconference with Frank Ostaseski.
LIVE IN VIDEO CONFERENCE ON THE ZOOM PLATFORM INTENSIVE OF DHARMA AND MEDITATION led by JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN SATURDAY 16 OCTOBER 8.00pm-10.00pm. Participation in the meeting, which will be translated by Neva Papachristou, is reserved for AMeCo Members who request it.
The speech and the question and answer session offered to our Association via Zoom by PATRICIA FELDMAN GENOUD ON MAY 16 and translated by NEVA PAPACHRISTOU was published on the AMeCo YouTube channel. On this occasion, we communicate that, given the persistence of the state of health uncertainty the Vicolo d’Orfeo 1 office will remain closed until the end of the year and AMeCo will continue to organize initiatives on the Zoom platform accessible only to Association Members. To learn about upcoming activities, please visit the Association’s website at https://www.associazioneameco.it/attivita/calendario/
We are happy to inform you that both on the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/A.Me.Co.roma/, and on the You Tube channel of the A.Me.Co. https://youtu.be/gPGZWbF11Rchttps://youtu.be/CzWPqsl1ooQ has been published the second part, the Guided Meditation, of the video of the wonderful teachings offered for the AMeCo via Zoom by JACK KORNFIELD on the 23rd of JUNE and translated by NEVA PAPACHRISTOU. On this occasion, we communicate that, given the persistence of the state of health uncertainty, the Vicolo d’Orfeo 1 office will remain closed until the end of the year and initiatives will continue to be organized on the Zoom platform accessible only to Members. To learn about upcoming activities, please visit the Association’s website at https://www.associazioneameco.it/attivita/calendario/
