Weds Night Series: Living with Sanity in an Insane World: The Ethics of Empowerment
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Eight Wednesday Nights 9/26 - 11/14
Kimberly Brown studies in the traditions of Tibetan and American Buddhism, is a member and teacher at the IDP, and a graduate of the year-long IDP Teacher Training program. She practices Kriya Yoga with Alan Finger, and is learning Healing Touch, an energy medicine technique which she offers to cancer patients in Manhattan. Kimberly has degrees in physics and literature, and spent several years in post-graduate training as a psychodynamic psychotherapist.
Ven. Lawrence Dō'an Grecco is a Zen monk, Dharma Teacher and Life Coach. He received authorization as a dharma teacher from the Interdependence Project, and holds a certificate in Foundations in Buddhist Chaplaincy from the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. Lawrence was ordained by the Five Mountain Zen Order and is a student of Ven. Paul Yuánzhì Lynch, the Founder and Guiding Teacher of Five Mountain. He is also the Vice-Abbot of the Five Mountain Zen Order and writes for Sweeping Zen, The Interdependence Project, and Open Sky Zen. He is the Founding Director of Open Sky Zen Meditation & Buddhist Studies Group, which meets regularly at the New York Insight Meditation Center, and the facilitator of Queer Sangha, which meets at the Interdependence Project in Manhattan.
A lifelong dancer and a yogi for many years, Kate Johnson finally learned to sit still at The Interdependence Project, where she completed teacher training in December 2011. A student in the Insight (Vipassana) meditation tradition, she will complete the Mindfulness Yoga and Meditation teacher training at Spirit Rock Meditation Center this year. Kate teaches yoga and mindfulness meditation to high school students in public schools throughout NYC, and is a co-owner of Third Root Community Health Center (www.thirdroot.org), a radically accessible holistic health care cooperative in Brooklyn, NY.
Patrick Groneman is a graduate of IDP's Teacher Training program and former director of the Interdependence Project. He studied painting and video art at the Maryland Institute College of Art, is co-founder of the multi-media artist collective Wunderkrafthaus, and is currently involved in developing a short dance film. He has studied meditation and Buddhism at the Insight Meditaton Center, the Village Zendo, and with the Shambhala Buddhist Community. Learn more about his work at http://patrickgroneman.tumblr.com
Payment Options
For IDP's Wednesday Night Classes we offer "pay what you can" pricing for drop-in students, and pre-registration options for students who wish to take the series as a whole. (Note: If you plan to take the class for credit in the Secular Buddhist Studies program, you must pre-register for the series.)
If you are interested in making a donation of service in exchange for classes, you can read more about our Work-Study program and contact Marisa@theidproject.org with any questions.
Times Square Meditator image taken by Caitlin Bailey.
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