Four Tuesdays: August 1, 8, 15, 22, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET Online
Meditation Practices and Discussion. This live class will be recorded and available for later viewing.
Joan Halifax’s work Being with Dying springs from decades of work both with the dying, counselors, and caregivers. Halifax is willing to stand on the edge of our experience and bear witness to all that transpires even in the most difficult of times. Her Buddhist ecumenical approach provides great benefit to people of all traditions. She has led the Upaya (Skillful Means) Zen Center in Santa Fe since 1990, a center involved with close Buddhist study and transformative social action. In order to explore Halifax’s teachings more deeply within the context from which these teachings arose for her, we use meditative practices and exercises in class that she describes in Being with Dying.
Four Tuesdays: August 1, 8, 15, 22, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET Online
Required Text:
Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death, by Joan Halifax 9781590307182
Jerry Webster, Ph. D., (Curriculum and Instruction, University of Maryland) has taught numerous courses in literature for the University of Maryland and in multiculturalism for Montgomery County Public Schools (MD). He taught English full-time in public school systems for forty years. He served as the Shastri, or head teacher, for the Shambhala Buddhist Center in Washington, D.C. for 10 years until he retired in 2020. He teaches regularly for Politics & Prose Bookstore, as well as the Johns Hopkins Odyssey Program, Frederick Community College ILR Program, and Washington College (MD).
REFUND POLICY: Please note that we can issue class refunds up until seven (7) days before the first class session.
