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For HHDL’s BDay:-)

Evolution of the Heart On July 6, Mind & Life will honor the Dalai Lama's birthday with the release of "Evolution of the Heart." The 36-minute film chronicles conversations between the Dalai Lama, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson, and social scientist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela.

Inclusion can be so easy, but it takes some reprogramming.

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Embodied Mindfulness: Ethics from the Heart
I delivered this talk and series of practices a few weeks ago. This was my attempt to answer the question posed to me by Mindful Society Global Institute: what are the most essential considerations and practices teachers and practitioners of mindfulness could do in oder to build ethics into their practices and offerings? Hard to cram that all into an hour long talk! Which I failed at, it turned out to be 1.5 hrs.
In this talk you will find four practices, which have been taught to me through the 16G and Transformative Mindfulness Methods and that I have developed over the years working in clinical, community and group settings:
Grounding: connect to something greater
Heart Storm: skill of working directly with an embodied virtue
Motivation/Aspiration: get to the motivation beneath the motivation
Connecting to a universal web: enhancing motivation

I hope to develop this more into a training/offering. So please, if you have any feedback, post it here or feel free to get in touch with me directly. This can be considered a "First Draft" so I hope to learn through dialogue and engagement with this community so these practices and ideas can benefit as many beings as possible!

https://www.mindfulinstitute.org/ethics-from-the-heart

Small disclaimer: none of these practices or talks are a substitute or equivalent to therapeutic work or counselling. When you engage in mindfulness practices or any experiential work, please consult with a mental health advisor and pay attention to what is safe and helpful for you.

Embodied Mindfulness: Ethics From The Heart Craig Mackie MSW/RSW guides an exploration of how to embody the teachings of ethics. Embodied mindfulness: ethics from the heart will be an interactive presentation with a series of practices.