Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
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Events by this speaker
February
Event Details
Date: February 24, 2019; 10:00am - 4:30pm Sliding Scale: $75 - 200. Code MT1D19. 5.5 CE credits available for $55, for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, chiropractors, and acupuncturists.
Event Details
Date: February 24, 2019; 10:00am – 4:30pm
Sliding Scale: $75 – 200. Code MT1D19.
5.5 CE credits available for $55, for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, chiropractors, and acupuncturists.
Description:
Health in our body and clarity in our meditation increases as energy flows more freely through the spine. In this day retreat, we’ll learn five simple qigong movements that awaken energetic wholeness in the spine and the entire body.
We will experience how awakening the spine through qigong is a valuable support and complement to mindfulness meditation.
These qigong practices release spinal stagnation and open a profound circulation of energy. This promotes health and wellbeing in body and mind.
Qigong and meditation bring a bright wakefulness and concentrated, embodied presence that help us discover who we are beyond our stories.
Teachings are appropriate for individuals as well as health care professionals. Health care professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients. Continuing Education (CE) credit available.
Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals- Based on the content of this workshop, you will be able to:
• Demonstrate to clients how awakening the spine through qigong is a valuable support and complement to mindfulness meditation;
• Utilize six simple qigong movements that awaken energetic wholeness in the spine and the entire body, to help clients reconnect with innate love, joy and wisdom of true nature;
• Incorporate a wakefulness and concentrated embodied presence that help one discover a sense of self, in ways that are useful to both oneself and with clients;
• Utilize practices to release spinal stagnation, opening circulation of qi or life energy, which promotes health and wellbeing in body and mind.
Continuing Education content level: Introductory
General Information
Online registration for our programs is available until 12 noon of the last business day prior to the day of the event (e.g. online registration for a Monday program ends at 12 noon on the prior Friday). There is an additional $5 fee for registering at the door. If you can’t attend an event you registered for, please see our Cancellation Policy.
Visit our Online Bulletin Board for Ride Sharing to find or offer a ride.
Volunteer/Work Exchange opportunities, as well as full or partial Scholarships, may be available for this program. For more information, please contact the Volunteer Coordinator at volunteering@spiritrock.org.
Even if you have been to Spirit Rock before, please review our Non-Residential Programs FAQ for useful information about what to wear, what to bring, how to get here, and more.
Continuing Education
This program offers 5.5 CE credits for $55 for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, chiropractors and is pending approval for acupuncturists. If you have a different license and are interested in CE credit, please check with your licensing board to see if credits from APA, BRN, or CAB approved providers are accepted.
Continuing Education credit is co-sponsored by Spirit Rock and the Spiritual Competency Resource Center.
– The Spiritual Competency Resource Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Spiritual Competency Resource Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
– Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 5.5 contact hours.
– The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for license renewal for programs from APA approved agencies.
– The California Board of Chiropractic Examiners Code of Regulations 361(h)(2) provides that continuing education requirements may be met by taking continuing education courses by any California Healing Arts Board approved provider, including those approved by the BRN.
– Spirit Rock is an approved Continuing Education Provider for the California Acupuncture Board, CAB #1425. This Category 2 course has been approved by the California Acupuncture Board for 5.5 hours of continuing education.
Attendance Requirements:
– Sign-in at the CE table within 15 minutes of the start of the program;
– Stay until the end of the program;
– Sign out.
Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered. For more information about CE credit at Spirit Rock, please visit the CE Credit information page.
Cancellation Policy:
If you are unable to attend a program, or fulfill the attendance requirements for CE credit, you may offer your CE credit fee as a donation to Spirit Rock, or you may request a credit to be used towards a future non-residential program. If you would like a credit, you must cancel by 4:00pm at least two business days prior to the program. For more information, please see our Cancellation Policy for Non-Residential Programs.
Teacher(s)
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Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
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Mingtong Gu, Qigong Master
Mingtong Gu, Qigong Master
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March
Event Details
Date: March 2, 2019; 7:30pm - 9:30pm Sliding Scale: $30 - 100. Code JA1E19. Description: As we sing and meditate with our entire body, heart and spirit the "noise" of life can
Event Details
Date: March 2, 2019; 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Sliding Scale: $30 – 100. Code JA1E19.
Description:
As we sing and meditate with our entire body, heart and spirit the “noise” of life can stop and we can reconnect with the sheer joy, depth and beauty of being.
The heart is an honored gateway to our most profound and boundless nature. Using the ancient and sublime blend of kirtan (chanting) combined with periods of guided and silent meditation, we can open the heart of infinite love. Kirtan in the Bhakti tradition taps the nectar of spiritual longing and devotion, and invites us to surrender everything into the sacred.
General Information
Online registration for our programs is available until 12 noon of the last business day prior to the day of the event (e.g. online registration for a Monday program ends at 12 noon on the prior Friday). There is an additional $5 fee for registering at the door. If you can’t attend an event you registered for, please see our Cancellation Policy.
Visit our Online Bulletin Board for Ride Sharing to find or offer a ride.
Volunteer/Work Exchange opportunities, as well as full or partial Scholarships, may be available for this program. For more information, please contact the Volunteer Coordinator at volunteering@spiritrock.org.
Even if you have been to Spirit Rock before, please review our Non-Residential Programs FAQ for useful information about what to wear, what to bring, how to get here, and more.
Teacher(s)
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Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
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Jai Uttal
Jai Uttal
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June
Event Details
Dates: Monday, June 3, 3:00pm - Sunday, June 9, 11:30am Sliding Scale: $1800-$800 PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 258R19. 11 CE credits available for $110, for psychologists and
Event Details
Dates: Monday, June 3, 3:00pm – Sunday, June 9, 11:30am
Sliding Scale: $1800-$800 PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 258R19.
11 CE credits available for $110, for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.
Please use the ‘Register Now’ button above to register online. If you cannot register online, you can download application here to submit via email or postal mail.
Please note: All scholarship funds, including Young Adult rates, have been allocated for this retreat.
Retreat Description:
“It is that gladness connected with the wholesome that I call an equipment of mind….for developing a mind that is without hostility and without ill will.”
-The Buddha
The Buddha was known as “The Happy One.” However, the teachings often seem to emphasize working with suffering. Joy and happiness can seem frivolous or unspiritual even though joy is one of the Seven Factors of Awakening. In this retreat we will practice with an emphasis on cultivating wholesome states to develop our natural capacity for well-being and happiness. Our own development of well-being and joy then becomes our gift to a troubled world.
The retreat includes silent sitting and walking periods with instructions and practice meetings with teachers, as well as some experiential exercises during the five days. This retreat is appropriate for both experienced as well as new/beginning students.
Practices will include:
- Inclining the mind toward wholesome states;
- The power of wholesome intention;
- Mindfulness as appreciation practice (wonder and gratitude);
- Embracing suffering as a path to joy;
- How letting go leads to true freedom;
- Integrity as a foundation for well-being;
- Metta (loving-kindness) for self and others;
- Mudita (sympathetic joy);
- Compassion–the expression of a wise heart;and
- The joy of simply being.
Financial assistance is available for all Spirit Rock residential retreats. Our scholarship rate is $40/night and available for all those with financial hardship with special funds allocated to People of Color (POC), folks with serious medical conditions, and young adults (age 18-26). Scholarship funding is offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. Scholarships are budgeted per retreat and because they are in high demand, can run out quickly. We encourage you to register for a retreat as close as possible to the registration opening date (lotteries are an exception).
Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public. Health care professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients. Continuing Education (CE) credit available. See below for attendance requirements and more information.
Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
Based on the content of this program, you will be able to:
- Explain how mindfulness can interrupt confused and negative thinking;
- Utilize the practice of inclining the mind towards the possibility of more joy, in ways that may improve patient care, or reduce burnout;
- Describe a gratitude practice that supports well-being and may be used to reduce challenging experiences such as stress, anxiety, or depression;
- Incorporate the use of the acronym RAIN when working with clients;
- Describe how compassion affects the nervous system;
- Explain to clients how attachment can lead to suffering;
- Integrate the practices of forgiveness, acceptance, and self-compassion in ways that improve patient care;
- Employ techniques to support clients in counter-acting a tendency towards self-judgment and feelings of unworthiness.
Continuing Education content level: Introductory
General Information
Online Bulletin Board for Ridesharing
Also remember that the cost above is priced as a sliding scale. Please pay at the highest level of the sliding scale that you can afford. This allows others who need to pay less the opportunity to attend. Fee is for room and board. Teaching and staffing of the retreats is by donation at the end of the retreat. For more information, see Retreat FAQ.
Continuing Education
This program offers 11 CE credits for $110 for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors. If you have a different license and are interested in CE credit, please check with your licensing board to see if credits from APA or BRN approved providers are accepted.
Continuing Education credit is co-sponsored by Spirit Rock and the Spiritual Competency Resource Center.
– The Spiritual Competency Resource Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Spiritual Competency Resource Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
– Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 11 contact hours.
– The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for license renewal for programs from APA approved agencies.
– The California Board of Chiropractic Examiners Code of Regulations 361(h)(2) provides that continuing education requirements may be met by taking continuing education courses by any California Healing Arts Board approved provider, including those approved by the BRN.
Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation.
Attendance Requirements:
– Register for CE credits before the retreat begins.
– Sign-in to all required sessions within 5-minutes of the start of each session.. The list of required sessions will be available at the beginning of the retreat.
– Turn in evaluation and pick up certificate after last session.
– There is no required session on the final day of the retreat.
– Partial credit is not permissible by Board regulations.
CE Credit Attendance Required Sessions:
June 3rd
– No credit
June 4th – 8th
– 8:45 – 9:15am – Guided Meditation with Instruction
– 3:45 – 4:45pm – Afternoon Lecture & Experiential Practices (on the 5th and 7th only)
– 7:30 – 8:30pm – Dharma Talk
Teacher Meetings
– 2 x 45 min
June 9th
– No credit
Cancellation Policy:
Refunds are available for residential retreat CE fees. If you would like a refund for your CE fee, you must cancel by 4:00pm at least two (2) business days prior to the event. If you contact us at least two business days preceding the retreat, we will refund your CE fee minus a $50 cancellation fee. If you cancel beyond the deadline stated above, you will not receive a refund. Please contact the Retreat Registrar at: retreats(at)spiritrock.org.
For more information about CE credits at Spirit Rock, please see our CE Credit information page
Teacher(s)
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Dawn Mauricio
Dawn Mauricio
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Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
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Evelyn Larsen
Evelyn Larsen
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Howard Cohn, MA
Howard Cohn, MA
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James Baraz
James Baraz
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Jane Baraz, MA
Jane Baraz, MA
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