This meditation based, experiential and participatory workshop, presents an integrated set of transformative communication, leadership, and community building skills and practices for cultivating greater personal resilience, empathy, compassion and emotional and social intelligence. Suited for community leaders, activists, social service professionals, teachers, and anyone who aspire to foster personal empowerment and awakened community.
Faith
Buddhist:
Buddhist, Zen
Open to All:
Open to All
Mission/Lineage: Upaya Zen Center is a Zen Buddhist practice, service, and training center that focuses on the integration of practice and social action, bringing together wisdom and compassion.
The Five Buddha Family Mandala is based on the Five Meditation Buddhas of traditional Buddhism from India. It is a vision of Buddhism that is integrated, interconnected, and process oriented and is based on the integration of our spirituality, education, livelihood, service, and community into a whole cloth.
Average Cost: $$ - $$$$
Tuition (Upaya Members): $520.00
Tuition (Non-Members): $572.00
Meals are included.
Optional on-campus lodging is extra.
The following options are offered based on availability:
Dorm $70 per night
Double $95 per night
RV space $35 per night
Dana to the teacher and Upaya residents is respectfully encouraged.
Environment: Mountain, River / Stream, Woods
Gay Friendly: Yes!
Restrictions: No Alcohol, No Drugs, No Smoking
Environmentally Sustainable:
Yes!
• Upaya preserves our natural resources and emphasizes recycled, organic and biodegradable in purchased products.
• Produce is grown in our garden or purchased from local growers and organic growing methods when possible. The dining room gives compost and gray water to our gardens.
• Upaya uses high efficiency CFLs, skylights and a passive heat sources.
• Emphasis is placed on water conservation. A windmill draws our well water. Cisterns collect our rainwater.
Language: English
Start Date: 9/10/2020
End Date: 9/13/2020
Event Length: 4 days
Event Leaders: Roshi Fleet Maull, PhD
Training/Lineage: Roshi Fleet Maull, PhD, is an author, meditation teacher, management consultant, end of life care educator and social activist working for peace, prison reform and social transformation. He is an empowered senior meditation and Dharma teacher in both the Tibetan and Zen Buddhist traditions, as an acharya in the Shambhala Community and a roshi in the Zen Peacemaker Community.
Fleet is a Dharma successor of Zen master and social entrepreneur, Roshi Bernie Glassman, and both a roshi and senior priest in the Zen Peacemaker Community and the Soto Zen lineage of Maezumi Roshi. Fleet completed his senior priest ordination with Roshis Joan Halifax and Pat Enkyo O'Hara.
Features
Learning:
Learning, Classes, Talks / Lectures, Trainings, Workshops
Meditation:
Meditation, Meditation (no specific type), Mindful Movement, Mindfulness, Za-Zen
Personal Development:
Coaching, Leadership / Performance, Mind / Body / Spirit, Personal Transformation, Relationships / Communication
Relationship:
Relationship (no specific type)
Special Facility Features:
Bookstore / Gift Shop, Chapel / Temple, Gardens / Outdoor Space, Labyrinth, Library, Meditation Hall
Spiritual Direction:
Spiritual Direction
Spiritual Studies:
Spiritual Studies, Consciousness Studies, Contemplative, Philosophy, Renewal, Spiritual, Spiritual (no specific type)
Room Types: B&B, Dorm
Total Number of Rooms:
25
Some or all housing is single sex only.
Housing: We welcome lodgers to our beautiful campus designed with classic adobe buildings. Please note that as a monastery (not a motel/hotel), our rooms are simple and most are shared accommodations; with two to four retreatants per room. All have shared bathrooms. Should this style of lodging not be comfortable, we encourage you to consider one of the many lovely hotels in Santa Fe. A few RV spots are available. We are a non-smoking, alcohol free campus and appreciate fragrance-free products.
Food: Organic / Locally Grown, Restricted Diet Options, Vegetarian or Vegan Only
Meal Availability: Available On Site, Kitchen - Shared, Provided - All Meals
Location of this Retreat:
1404 Cerro Gordo Road
Santa Fe, NM 87501
United States
Travel Info: The monastery is two miles from downtown Santa Fe in the quiet historic east valley, nestled in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
Air travelers may come in through the Santa Fe Airport or the Albuquerque International Airport which is about one hour south of Santa Fe, NM.
Shuttle service is available from the Albuquerque airport (reservation is advised) and taxi service must be called for from the Santa Fe airport.