​MTAI Autumn Sangha Day Mini Retreat

​With Frits Koster 

​“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” – Jack Kornfield

​We are delighted to welcome back Frits Koster who has facilitated a number of wonderful events for the MTAI  This 1 day mini retreat will explore the embodiment of the qualities of kindness, compassion and joy. The theme is how to nurture these qualities for ourselves and others and how to integrate them into our teaching. There will be a mixture of practising in silence, guided exercises and some specific themes will be explored in an interpersonal way through zoom breakout rooms.

​About Frits Koster

​Frits Koster has practiced vipassana meditation since 1979. He was a Buddhist monk for six years in the 80’s. Since then, he and his colleague Erik van den Brink, developed a secular follow-up compassion training. This training is called Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living (MBCL). Frits and Erik offer Teacher Training Programmes on MBCL throughout the world and wrote several books on MBCL. The British and the Dutch associations for mindfulness teachers (the BAMBA and the VMBN) and the EAMBA European Associations for Mindfulness, have officially recognised MBCL as a ‘normal dose follow-up’ Mindfulness-Based Programme (MBP) – for those who have followed a foundational MBP such as MBSR or MBCT before.

​ See www.fritskoster.com for more information.