Winter Solstice Weekend (DR3M21)

Registration closes at 8:00 a.m. (Pacific Time) on December 18, 2021. A waiting list will be created if the program fills early. A recording* will be available following the program in approximately 10 days. Continuing Education Credits?** – see below.

Winter Solstice Weekend: Teachings and Practices for Seeing Clearly and Opening the Heart

Description
At this time of the Winter Solstice, of maximum darkness, we will take stock of our lives and strengthen our orientation toward wisdom and compassion in all parts of our lives. We will remind ourselves of impermanence and the fragility of everything, of our tendencies at times to reactivity rather than responsiveness, and of our interdependence. Seeing clearly how things are and our vulnerability to confusion, how could we be other than kind? Developing our kindness, through seeing when we are not kind, is the great work of the purification of the heart. As we go back to the fundamentals of the wise heart, our insight and commitments can deepen, and we may also arrive at new understandings and directions that can guide us in this next cycle of our lives.

In this two-day retreat, we will support this process with sitting and walking meditation, short talks, and discussion.

All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.

*Recording Note: If you would like access to the recording, you must register by the deadline above. You will have ~90 days from the original program date to view the recording of this program.

**Important Note for CEC Participants: If you are interested in receiving continuing education credits (CECs), you must register and pay for CECs prior to the start of the program (no retroactive CECs will be given). You must also attend the live program to receive credit.

Continuing Education (CE) credit available:
This program offers 10 CE credits for $100 for psychologists, health & wellness coaches, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors, licensed by the APA, NBHWC, California BBS, BRN, or BCE.***

Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public.

Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will better able to:

• Utilize reflection practices to cultivate clarity about purpose and intention;
• Utilize practices to cultivate compassion for self and others;
• Describe to patients or clients how meditation practices cultivating insight into impermanence can change our perceived value of life and help cultivate joy and appreciation;
• Describe how wisdom teachings and mindfulness practices can help cultivate intentional responsiveness and awareness of the negative impact of habitual reactivity;
• Describe to patients or clients the emotional benefit of cultivating and valuing interdependent relationships and a general sense of interdependence with all things;
• Describe how mindfulness practices can bring clarity of thought, improve attentional abilities, and reduce one’s vulnerability to confusion;
• Utilize lovingkindness meditations as an antidote to distress and aversion;
• Describe wisdom teachings and lovingkindness and mindfulness practices to patients or clients that may be used to cultivate clarity and purpose and reduce distress.

Continuing Education content level: Introductory

Schedule: (Full attendance is required. Times are listed in Pacific time.)
10 to 11:15: 30 minutes sitting, 45 minutes talk, discussion
11:15 to 11:45: walking meditation/home practice (no CECS)
11:45 to 1: 30-40 minutes sitting, 35-45 minutes talk, discussion
1 to 2: lunch (no CECS)
2 to 3:15: 30-40 minutes sitting, 35-45 minutes talk, discussion
3:15 to 3:45: walking meditation/home practice (no CECS)
3:45 to 5: 30-40 minutes sitting, 35-45 minutes talk, discussion

***Please note:

• For those with a different license or with a license from a different licensing board, please contact your licensing board directly to ask if CE credit from the above-approved sponsors is accepted. Spirit Rock does not confirm applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed above. Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 10 contact hours.
• Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered.
• For full Provider information, and additional CEC information, including attendance requirements, cancellation, and grievance policies, please visit our Continuing Education Credit information page.