Past Events
Journeying and Returning:
Body, Speech, and Mind in Action
A two-part workshop with Stephanie Briggs and Elaine Yuen.
Saturday and Sunday, March 18-19, 2023
9:30 am to 6 pm on Saturday / 10 am to 1 pm on Sunday
ThorpeWood Mountain Retreat
Contemplative Practices Deepening
Awareness and Concentration
Friday, October 21
Learn about contemplative practice, with the goals of enhancing cognitive performance, empowering creativity, managing stress and emotional challenges, developing the “whole person”, and staying present and connected to the community and to the world. Gerard Yun, Assistant Professor of Community Music at Canada’s Wilfred Laurier University, will present on the contemplative and meditative aspects of music, and our connections to communities and to Nature. Contact David Hewitt: dhewitt@ccbcmd.edu or Alyssa Simms-Clark: asimmsclark@ccbcmd.edu
Free for all CCBC faculty/staff or currently enrolled CCBC students! Registration link: https://javawebapp.ccbcmd.edu/ QuickReg/Register.jsp?frc=CEWELL (CRN 32476).
• Contemplative Session I: 11 a.m.–12 p.m. • Presentation by Gerard Yun: 12:20–1:50 p.m. • Contemplative Session II: 2–2:55 p.m. • Contemplative Session III: 3:05–4 p.m.
Past Events
Rooted in Community & Contemplative Practice Mini-Conference, November 2018 connected with Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing.
Threading Care, Compassion and Social Justice through Contemplative Practice,
November 2019 connected with Kate Evans’ Threads of the Refugee Crisis.
Finding Our Truth, Finding Our Stories, through Contemplative Practice,
October 2020 connected with Thomas King’s The Truth about Stories
