Meditation & Dialogue
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Teaching meditation practice in relationship to ordinary life. Partial list:
- UC Berkeley.
- Peace & Conflict Studies. "Theory and Practice of Meditation". (Repeated ten semesters. Currently serving 470 students/semester)
- UC Berkeley. Haas School of Business. "Business & the Good Life". One day workship/retreat.
- Leadership, Dialogue, and Actualization. UC Berkeley. Sessions begin with meditation, followed by dialogue as a meditative practice, followed by personal transformative work for future leaders.
- Pacific School of Religion. Week long meditation mini-retreats. (Winter Intersessions and Summer Sessions)
- Berkeley City College. "Meditation: Theory and Practice" (Summer Sessions)
- Elephant Pharmacy. "Meditation in the Marketplace", etc. (Repeated over two years)
- Meditation Mini-Retreats. Privately organized with 10 to 20 participants.
- Berkeley Hillell Meditation Mini-Retreat
- Paulist Center, San Francisco. Talks and meditations based on inter-religious themes.
- San Francisco City College. Within stress reduction program for Verterains Memorial Hospital.
- Chevron (Standard Oil) - in house. (Long time ago)
Recently published a book - Meditation: Waking Up to Life - based on 35 years of meditation practice and study of Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Taoist, and Native People's perspectives.