Events

Upcoming events

• IMCC Drop-in Meditation Downtown on Thursdays

  • Start
    10 Jan 2013
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    7:30 AM
  • End
    09 Jan 2014
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    8:30 AM
  • Location
    Jefferson School City Center, 233 Fourth St. NW. Across Fourth St. from Staples.

  Do you live or work downtown? Want to start your day with guided meditation and brief discussion? IMCC now offers a weekly Thursday a.m. drop-in session at the new Common Ground Healing Arts Center at the Jefferson School City Center.
  
  Our Tuesday evenings will continue at JABA, 7:30pm to 9pm. Newcomers welcome to both regular sessions.
  
  When: Wednesdays from 12 noon to 1 pm and Thursdays from 7:30 am to 8:30 am.
  Cost: Free. Donations welcome to offset expenses.
  
  Where: Jefferson School City Center, 233 Fourth St. NW. Across Fourth St. from Staples.
  
  Parking available on site.
  Note: Enter via doors at left as you face the building. The Common Ground center is on the second floor.
  

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• Mindful of Race: A Workshop with Ruth King, Dharma Teacher and Leadership Facilitator

  • Start
    24 May 2013
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  • End
    26 May 2013
  • Location
    TBA
  • Spaces left
    1

  IMCC is continuing to pioneer a series of programs designed to guide us in looking more deeply into the experience of "separation" and the creation of "the other." By grounding our personal practice in the Buddha Dharma, we can investigate the causes and conditions within ourselves and society that perpetuate the suffering of separation. We can also explore together, in community, that which opens us to our true nature of interconnection.

  To date four events have been offered:

  Healing Separation, Raising Consciousness, a daylong participatory workshop facilitated by Presence Center for Applied Theatre Arts.

  An Evening of Mindful Dialogue where Jeff Fracher and Bernadine Anderson speak of healing separation in ourselves, our relationships and our community.

  Bridging Separation, a series of classes that urged shared examination of the lived experience of racism, sexism, classism, ageism, and homophobia.

  Bridging Separation: Constructed and Unconstructed Intimacy, an Insight Dialogue retreat.

  The next scheduled event is "Mindful of Race" with esteemed Dharma teacher and leadership facilitator Ruth King. It will be held over Memorial Day Weekend, May 24-26, and will focus on directly investigating racism and white privilege.

  Since space had to be limited to 32 participants, the intention of this initiative has been to create a nucleus of the current IMCC leadership, along with the IMCC committee pioneering the work as well as the IMCC community members who have participated in the past "Bridging Separation" events.

  We want to continue to identify everyone in our larger community who is interested in this work and who might want to participate in future workshops/events. Please let us know if, in the event of space opening up in this current workshop, you might be available to participate. Cost is $120.

  It is the aim of IMCC to use the fruits of the workshop to create future events, workshops, and retreats for our larger community. We welcome all who are interested in this work and would like to hear from you. For further information, please contact Kristina Weaver at kristina.nellweaver@gmail.com  or Allie Rudolph at locusthollow@gmail.com.

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• Cultivating the Wholesome

  • When
    08 Jun 2013
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    9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    JABA 674 Hillsdale Dr., Charlottesville

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  Join us for a daylong Insight Dialogue retreat in which we will explore together the Buddha's teachings on strengthening what is wholesome and nourishing in our lives and our practice. We will practice silent meditation and, together, the contemplations of Insight Dialogue in which we will explore our moment-to-moment experience while meditating in dialogue with others.   

  Prior meditation experience is requested. If you would like guidance about the suitability of this retreat for you, please contact Sharon Beckman-Brindley: sharon@metta.org 

   Additional information about Insight Dialogue may be found at www.metta.org. 

  The registration fee is $25 to cover rental costs and payable on line.  Scholarships are available.  

  
  

  Dana will be accepted at the retreat for the teachers. 
  

  
  

  Please pre-register online. 
  

  
  For general retreat information, please contact retreat managers Nancy Kern, nancy-kern@gmail.com or Tom Raney, tomraney@nestrealty.com

   
  

  
  

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• Finding Balance: An Offering for Psychotherapists

  • Start
    28 Jun 2013
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    12:00 PM
  • End
    22 Nov 2013
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    2:00 PM
  • Location
    online

  In Buddhist teaching, dukkha, translated as stress or suffering, is understood as arising out of universal characteristics found in every human life. In our mindfulness meditation practice, we understand that “suffering is to be known.” As psychotherapists, however, the demands of our work may, at times, seem to contradict Buddhist teachings as we attempt to facilitate change: helping others to ease painful symptoms, to cultivate a more positive and stable sense of self, or to assert a greater agency or control in their lives. In this six-month program, we will explore together an understanding of human suffering from both western and Buddhist psychological perspectives, discovering together a vibrant wisdom and compassion that balances and integrates our two worlds of practice. Read more....

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• 6 Week Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation Evening Class

  • Start
    05 Aug 2013
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    7:00 PM
  • End
    09 Sep 2013
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    8:30 PM
  • Location
    Common Grounds, Jefferson School
  • Spaces left
    16

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  A Six week Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation Evening Class Series
  

  IMCC (Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville) will offer a  Six Week Introduction to Mindfulness Class  open to anyone new to meditation and who would like to establish a regular practice of mindfulness and  Insight Meditation. 

  There will be talks, discussion and guided meditations  based on the Buddha's teaching of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness.

  The teachers for the series will be Teresa Miller with David Silver.  The location is: Common Ground Healing Arts Center at the Jefferson School.  The cost is $60 and a sliding scale is available.

  Please pre-register at www.imeditation.org   and if any questions, please contact Teresa at  tmillercoaching@aol.com
  

  Class limited to 16.

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