Like what you’ve heard and want to connect with a teacher in person? Be Here Now Network teachers share their wisdom in talks, workshops, and retreats at locations across the US.
Check the calendar below to attend events where there’s an opportunity to deepen your spiritual understanding and learn from some of the best teachers in the world.
Become the Kind of Leader the World Needs Now
Whether guiding a family, working in an organization, running a business, or holding public office, leadership involves deciding what matters most. Today, the old “command and control” leadership model is giving way to “connect and collaborate,” and women are playing a central role in this important shift. This workshop is by application only. Please submit your materials according to the directions on this page.
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This highly experiential workshop is for women who want to use their leadership to create a caring, just, and sustainable future for everybody. Through reflection, dialogue, writing, yoga, meditation, and exploring nature, we delve into our leadership stories, learn from each other, and create a shared understanding of what is needed to bring greater consciousness into the world.
Guided by expert teachers, we examine four women’s leadership essentials—values, voice, vision, and voyage—in an intimate setting. Together we:
- Articulate our core values and the values that underlie creating a culture of care
- Strengthen our capacity to communicate in an impactful manner
- Create a compelling and actionable vision for our leadership goals
- Sketch a year’s plan to put our values into action, elevate our leadership voice, and advance our vision for change
Whether you are a seasoned leader or beginning your leadership journey, this intensive can help you be the courageous, wise, and nurturing leader the world needs today.
Scholarships Available—Online Application
Sharon Salzberg is cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. One of America’s leading meditation teachers and authors, she has been a student of Buddhism since 1971 and had guided meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. She is author of the New York Times best seller Real Happiness. sharonsalzberg.com
Leslie Salmon Jones, creator of Afro Flow Yoga™, is a professional dancer, certified holistic personal trainer, wellness coach, yoga instructor, and public speaker. She began ballet and Afro-Caribbean dance at the age of seven and has since studied and trained with many world-renowned masters of dance, yoga, and spirituality.afroflowyoga.com
Carla Goldstein, JD, is Omega Institute’s chief external affairs officer and cofounder of the Omega Women’s Leadership Center. An attorney with 25 years of experience in public interest advocacy, she has contributed to more than 100 city, state, and federal laws, and has worked extensively on issues related to women’s rights, poverty, public health, and social justice. eOmega.org/owlc
Mallika Dutt is founder, president, and CEO of global human rights organization Breakthrough, whose mission is to build a world in which violence against women and girls is unacceptable. Mallika serves on numerous boards and committees, including Planned Parenthood Federation, Public Interest Projects, the World Economic Forum, and Peace is Loud. mallikadutt.com
“Befriending Yourself, Befriending the World: Loving Yourself, Loving the World” Love the world by first loving and accepting yourself — these are timeless teachings that are also psychologically astute. Yet genuine self-acceptance can be elusive; relationships are frequently marred by projections about self and other. Helping us to recognize our own and others’ Buddha-full true nature is the heart-essence teaching of Dzogchen, the Natural Great Perfection tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Introducing this naturally inherent wisdom and compassion with positivity and joy, is the life-work of Lama Surya Das. Lama Surya will guide us throughout the evening with liveliness and humor, combining guided meditation and Dharma teachings; there will be ample opportunity for questions. These events are appropriate for those new to spiritual exploration as well as seasoned practitioners.
“Make Me One With Everything: Seeing Through The Illusion of Separation” In these disconnected, plugged-in yet tuned-out times, this unity-yoga of converge-itation, inter-meditative interbeing– which Lama Surya Das calls co-meditation, or inter-meditation—The We Meditation, or We-ditation (not Me-ditation) is a simple joyful path to see thru the illusion of separation and experience meaningful connectedness and the renowned one-taste of tantric Mahamudra and Dzogchen, the Natural Great Perfection. Lama Surya will lead us in practical inter-meditations and tantric exercises, opening portals to oneness in nature, with others, with our higher deepest power, and beyond notions such as distraction and concentration or the conceptual separation between the sacred and the mundane. This event is appropriate for those new to spiritual exploration as well as seasoned practitioners.
Join with us for the official Recovery Day Ottawa celebration in the National Capital at Ottawa City Hall, on Saturday, September 24, 2016.
On September 24, citizens of Ottawa are gathering to build awareness, challenge societal stigma, and celebrate the role that recovery plays in improving the lives of individuals, families, and communities.
We envision a world in which recovery from addiction is a common, celebrated reality – a world where all individuals will have access to the support they need when seeking help.
We believe by speaking out as people living in recovery, or as family, friends and supporters of those affected by addiction, we save lives. Through our personal stories and shared experience, we hope to inspire others to join us.
Together, we demonstrate the power and proof of recovery from addiction.
“Make Me One With Everything: Seeing Through The Illusion of Separation”
In these disconnected, plugged-in yet tuned-out times, this unity-yoga of converge-itation, inter-meditative interbeing– which Lama Surya Das calls co-meditation, or inter-meditation—The We Meditation, or We-ditation (not Me-ditation) is a simple joyful path to see thru the illusion of separation and experience meaningful connectedness and the renowned one-taste of tantric Mahamudra and Dzogchen, the Natural Great Perfection.
Lama Surya will lead us in practical inter-meditations and tantric exercises, opening portals to oneness in nature, with others, with our higher deepest power, and beyond notions such as distraction and concentration or the conceptual separation between the sacred and the mundane. This event is appropriate for those new to spiritual exploration as well as seasoned practitioners.
The Roanoke Mindfulness Conference 2016 is a one-day conference featuring Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Happiness at Work. Taking place at the Sheraton Roanoke Hotel & Conference Center, this conference is designed to provide participants with an introduction to the practice of mindfulness as well as a practical guide to improving work life through mindfulness, compassion, and ingenuity.
Dividing the idea of workplace satisfaction into eight pillars, we will explore ways in which to establish a deep and abiding experience of real happiness in the workplace. The cost for this event is $45, with a discount available for students. This price includes a boxed lunch.
Following the MINDFULNESS CONFERENCE in Roanoke, VA, an additional one-day workshop, focused on “Lovingkindness,” will take place on Thursday, September 29 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Unity Church of Roanoke Valley. Lovingkindness is a meditation that cultivates our natural capacity for an open and loving heart.
It is traditionally offered with meditations that enrich compassion and joy in the happiness of others, as well as deepen our own sense of peace. These practices lead to the development of concentration, connection, fearlessness, and genuine happiness. Sharon Salzberg will introduce these teachings and support us in our own experience and cultivation of these qualities through direct instruction and guided meditation using classical techniques in a modern idiom. There will also be opportunities for questions. This workshop is suitable for both new and experienced meditators. The cost for this event is $95, and includes a catered vegan lunch. Space is limited to 75 attendees.
With Living a Life of Presence, the Eckhart Tolle Foundation presents its inaugural event. You are warmly invited to accompany Eckhart Tolle, Kim Eng, and some of today’s brightest beacons of “awakening in action” for four transformative days in a community of presence featuring:
- Daily teachings with Eckhart Tolle and Kim Eng on awakening to a life of presence
- Marianne Williamson on engaging the challenges of society inspired by unitive consciousness
- Jack Kornfield on opening to presence through loving awareness and the unfolding of the heart
- Daniel Siegel, MD, on the radical transformation of our interpersonal relationships through presence
- Brother David Steindl-Rast on how the experience of gratitude amplifies our ability to be present with whatever arises
Join these leading voices and many more for a four-day experience of renewal, connection, and inspiration as we explore together the personal and global implications of the flowering of human consciousness.
All proceeds will benefit the Eckhart Tolle Foundation, created to bring Eckhart’s life-changing teachings to underserved communities around the world. The Eckhart Tolle Foundation exists to inspire spiritual awakening and to support people in living a life of presence.
Join Team Reboot, meditation instructor and author Sharon Salzberg, and 15 other amazing leaders for a weekend retreat to reboot and refresh what it means to be a CEO. Registration is now open for the Fall 2016 CEO Bootcamp on October 5-9, 2016, at Devil’s Thumb Ranch in Colorado. You’re kicking ass, but being the CEO of a startup is hard. It can be lonely. Long hours. Constant demands. Never-ending-unforgiving-to-do lists. And no manual.
Immerse yourself in the complexity and vulnerability of being a CEO with 15 other smart and courageous entrepreneurs. CEO Bootcamp will be a mix of pragmatic wisdom from Reboot, meditation, yoga, hikes, shared meals and lots of honest conversation. You will leave with greater awareness of your personal leadership habits as well as a customized strategy for being the leader you want to be and a network of peers that you can rely on. Bootcamp will be both rigorous and relaxing. You and 15 other leaders will be led by Team Reboot and meditation instructor Sharon Salzberg through a rigorous and restorative weekend at Devil’s Thumb Ranch Resort & Spa.
Come together for a wonderful evening of devotional music and chant from around the world, with proceeds going to the rebuilding effort of the Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling monastery and Nagi Gompa nunnery in Kathmandu, Nepal, in the aftermath of the tremendous earthquakes there in recent months.
Krishna Das will lead kirtan on this evening as part of this benefit event.