Lecture

September 6, 2016

Mindful Focusing:

Using the Body’s Wisdom to Overcome Obstacles, Open the Heart, and Liberate Spirit The Atlantic Contemplative Centre Lecture Series is pleased to be sponsoring the following program: David Rome, author of Your Body Knows the Answer—Using Your Felt Sense to Solve Problems, Effect Change, and Liberate Creativity, will present MINDFUL FOCUSING: Using the Body’s Wisdom to Overcome Obstacles, Open the Heart, and Liberate Spirit. This day and a half program offers a potent synthesis of mindfulness-awareness practice and Focusing, a method for directly accessing the non-conceptual knowing held in our bodies. The program will be held on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 from 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.and Wednesday, September 14 from 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. at the Halifax Central Library. David Rome is a senior trainer with the Focusing Institute and Shambhala International. A student of Chögyam Trungpa and Eugene Gendlin, David has integrated mindfulness-awareness techniques and Gendlin’s felt sense work into the practice of Mindful Focusing. See www.mindfulfocusing.com for more information about mindful focusing and David Rome. Program Cost: $138.50 plus processing...

by Jim Torbert

June 7, 2015

First annual ACC Lecture on Mindfulness and Society

On Sunday May 10, 2015, a sunny Mother’s Day afternoon, Barry Boyce delivered the first annual ACC lecture of Mindfulness and Society at the sparkling new Halifax Library. The audience of twenty-five, some of who had traveled a considerable distance to hear the talk, and including a number of ACC faculty, helped create an engaged environment within which Barry explored, with both humour and deep insight, the current state of the world of secular mindfulness and the key issues involved if mindfulness is to further integrate into the fabric of society. Of particular interest was the issue of teacher training, which Barry identified as the “rate limiting step”. He pointed out the necessity for proper teacher training, certification and ongoing supervision if the integrity of mindfulness practice is to be maintained. He directly addressed a number of recent articles criticizing the mindfulness movement, including concerns about commercialization. Through his many...