Sunday, December 14, 2008
Transforming Emotional Difficulties into Opportunities:  A Buddhist Perspective on Anger: Part Two of a Three Part retreat Series
Koshin Paley Ellison

How can you find freedom right where you are? How to find ease in the midst of the storms in the mind? How do we find freedom from the tangle of difficult emotions? In this series of three afternoon workshops, we will learn and experience Jungian psychological tools and the Buddhist practices of mediation that help us find clarity in the midst of our lives. You will come away from these afternoons with practical contemplative tools to work with in your everyday life.

In this second of three sessions, we will use wisdom stories from the Buddhist traditions, clinical case examples, silent and guided meditations, writing, and working with symbolic images to explore anger and look at how to work with anger and its antidote, compassion. When we look clearly and spaciously into this emotional state we can see its patterned nature and find freedom.


About the facilitators:

Koshin Paley Ellison, MFA, LMSW, is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. He serves as the Director of Training for the Center’s Buddhist Contemplative Care Programs. He is a ACPE Chaplain Supervisory Resident. Koshin is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Buddhist Studies. He is a co-founder of the Buddhist Psychotherapy Collective. Koshin is currently a Jungian Analyst Candidate at the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association. He is the Co-Director of Contemplative Care Services for the Department of Integrative Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center. Koshin began Zen practice over twenty years ago, and he is a Senior Soto Zen Buddhist Priest, at the Village Zendo. He gives plenary addresses, workshops and retreats on contemplative based approaches to leadership and care, and meditation in a variety of settings from corporations to national healthcare conferences.


When: Sunday, December 14, 2008
2:30 to 5 pm
Where: New York Insight Meditation Center
28 West 27th Street
10th floor
New York, New York 10001
Cost: $25 + donation for the teachers

For more information and registration contact NYI: www.nyimc.org



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