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12/18/14 Practice Group Summary
On December 18, 2014, we talked about empathy and lingering in the beauty of our needs, especially the needs for meaning and purpose. We meditated for 30 minutes with a guided portion looking for the needs beneath the needs. We … Continue reading
12/11/14 Practice Group Summary
Tonight we had an evening of meditation, empathy, discussion and dyads. We worked on giving and receiving and empathy based upon a 3 level empathy exercise. We had 6 women and no men except me so the empathy was quite … Continue reading
12/4/14 Practice Group Summary
Thursday 12/4/14 we concentrated on empathy and the power of needs consciousness. After our meditation, where we also did a guided Compassionate Embrace, we had a short discussion about NVC, empathy and mindfulness of needs. After that we went around … Continue reading
11/20/14 Practice Group Summary
Tonight we were 8 practitioners. We did a 30 minute meditation which included a guided Compassionate Embrace exercise from Robert Gonzales’ Living Compassion. A version of it is available under the Handouts. We also did some dyad connection practices and … Continue reading
11/13/14 Practice Group Summary
This Thursday November 13 we continued practicing with universal needs. We had a short talk on how our needs are affected by causes and conditions, including sacred wounds of childhood, and even though needs are universal, they vary from person … Continue reading
10/30/14 Practice Group Summary
For the 10/30/14 practice group we studied the Needs list for a few minutes, meditated using Mindfulness of Needs techniques for 30 minutes and had a short dharma talk on the contemplative group of the Buddha’s Eightfold Path–namely Right Effort, … Continue reading
10/23/14 Practice Group Summary
For the 10/23 practice group we talked about universal needs. Before the meditation we evaluated needs on a scale of 1-3 as to their importance to us in that moment. After the meditation we talked about what each person came … Continue reading
10/16/14 Practice Group Summary
For the October 16 practice group we meditated to the sound of the Mission District cheering the victory of the San Francisco Giants baseball team. For the meditation, we added more mindfulness of the body, especially focusing on bodily sensations … Continue reading
10/9/14 Practice Group Summary
Our 10/9/14 group was 8 people counting me, including three new people. We had a 35 minute meditation where we practiced mindfulness of needs and feelings grounded in the breath or body for the first 20 minutes and the spent … Continue reading
10/2/14 Practice Group Summary
Our first practice group had 9 people, counting me and sat 35 minutes on a very warm night in San Francisco. After the meditation, we had a lively discussion, with everyone contributing, about what needs–both met and unmet–came up doing … Continue reading