Nurturing the Good: The Power of Gratitude in Challenging Times
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Nurturing the Good: The Power of Gratitude in Challenging Times Gratitude is enormously transformative in moments of hardship and a huge booster of resilience and strength. Mindfulness and Meditation teacher Kaira Jewel Lingo will offer teachings and practices based on her new book, We Were Made for These Times: 10 Lessons for Moving Through Change, Loss and Disruption, drawing from her own experience with times of change and challenge to support us during difficult times. She will share specifically about how to cultivate gratitude in daily life, including with the children in our lives, and even in the midst of heartbreak.
The event will include a guided meditation, a talk, and time for questions and responses.
About the Author:
Kaira Jewel Lingo is a much-loved Dharma teacher who has been practicing mindfulness since 1997. She lived as an ordained nun for 15 years, during which time she trained closely with her teacher, Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh. Speaking five languages, she shares Buddhist meditation, secular mindfulness, and compassion practice internationally, providing spiritual mentoring to individuals and communities working at the intersection of racial, climate, and social justice. Her teaching focuses on activists, educators, artists, youth and families, and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), and includes the interweaving of art, play, nature, ecology, and embodied mindfulness practice. Kaira Jewel teaches in the Plum Village Zen tradition and in the Vipassana tradition. She lives in New York. Readers can connect with Kaira Jewel Lingo at kairajewel.com.