Events

An Interview with Niall 'Bressie' Breslin

Our monthly Peer Supervision sessions offer a deep listening practice which is held in a space with the intention of supporting you in your teaching and personal practice.

All members are welcome. Now alternating Thursday afternoons and Saturday mornings each month. 

Peer Supervision Monthly

Welcome to this Day of Dharma and Practice with Kevin Griffin.  We are very excited to have Kevin offer this talk for us and for this opportunity to gather and connect face to face. This is an in-person event taking place in Dublin.  We hope that we might see you there to share a day being together in a lovely space to mediation together and explore the complexities of practicing mindfulness.

Kevin Griffen is a Buddhist teacher and bestselling author of One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps and several other books on recovery and meditation. Trained as a teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Northern California, he has taught at many of the leading meditation centers in the U.S. He has worked with mindfulness researchers at UC San Francisco; developed and implemented mindfulness curriculum for Mindful Schools; and taught college courses on Buddhism. Currently he is a mentor in the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program led by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. His latest book, Living Kindness: Metta Practice for the Whole of Our Lives will be published by Shambhala Publications in late 2022.

Kevin covers the following in his talks and encourages teachers to bring their own questions on the day.

• Recasting the Four Foundations of Mindfulness in secular terms.

• The challenge of balancing effort and letting go.

• The importance of self-compassion in meditation practice.

• Incorporating teachings on ethics and morality.

• The place of mindfulness in the Buddhist Eightfold Path.

• Bringing Buddhist insight teachings to the mindfulness curriculum.

MTAI (In- Person)
Day of Practice and Dharma 
with Kevin Griffen of Spirit Rock

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.

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.