FREE ONLINE EVENT
THE GIFT OF A BROKEN HEART
A CONVERSATION ABOUT GRIEF, LOSS, AND LOVE ON THE PATH OF MEDITATION
with Bryan Welch, Rebecca D'Onofrio & René Fay
Thursday, November 14th, 2024 | 6:00 – 8:00 pm ET
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“Grief is a part of every human life. We desperately try to avoid it. But it can provide profound instruction about how we can experience life, and love, more deeply.”
-Bryan Welch, Author of The Gift of a Broken Heart
Many of us come to a meditation practice to alleviate the suffering we experience in our lives and to seek healing, comfort and peace, but to our surprise, we often discover that meditation practice can bring us closer to our pain. Rather than turn away from the intensity and vividness of our broken hearts, we can use meditation practice as an opportunity to open our hearts further, strengthening our capacity for love, compassion and empathy.
Join us for an intimate conversation with teacher & author Bryan Welch to explore the notion of grief, loss and love on the path of meditation along with Dharma Moon senior teachers René Fay and Rebecca D’Onofrio.
We will be discussing the inspiration for Bryan’s new book, highlighting excerpts that illuminate opportunities available to us when we can learn to stay present with our grief and pain. We will also have plenty of time for questions.
This event will take place online and the recording will be made available to those who register. Please join us! It’s free!
About the Speakers
Bryan Welch
Bryan has had a 40-year entrepreneurial career, mostly in businesses with strong commitments to social and environmental responsibility. He presently serves as a strategic advisor to David Nichtern and Dharma Moon. He is the former chief executive of Mother Earth News, Mindful magazine and the Utne Reader among other companies. He is a longtime meditator and advocate for mindfulness practices. His award-winning book, Beautiful & Abundant: Building the World We Want appeared in 2011. His new book, The Gift of a Broken Heart, was published in August this year. He and his wife, Carolyn, raise organic, grass-fed cattle, sheep and goats on a small ranch in eastern Kansas with the help of their grandsons.
Rebecca D'Onofrio
Rebecca is the Programming and Operations Director of Dharma Moon. She also serves as a Senior Teacher, providing mentoring training and support to the teaching team. Rebecca has been a dedicated practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since 2013 and is a certified meditation teacher and trauma-informed yoga instructor with over 15 years of teaching experience. As a teacher, Rebecca supports the integration of spiritual principles with everyday life. Rebecca also served as a hospice volunteer for many years with Notre Dame Hospice providing supportive care to those actively dying and their families. She has a passion for normalizing the concept of death and considers it a sacred transition.
René Fay
René is the Community Director for Dharma Moon. They are a certified mindfulness meditation teacher and death doula, they studied comparative religion and gender studies, and they earned their black belt at 17. René’s career has a long and extensive history of advocacy, with a focus on collaboration with, support of, and focus on: at-risk youth; queer communities and people; intimate partner violence/sexual assault prevention and intervention; and grief and crisis counseling. René is passionate about making meditation and dharma teachings radically accessible and has personally used meditation to transform their relationship with their own anxiety and chronic health issues. Outside of work, they're likely to be knitting while trapped under a cat listening to podcasts.
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