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Ground: Movement Dharma & Buddhist Movement Chaplaincy (Hybrid)\n

Dec. 5 & 6, Saturday 9:00am-5:00pm, Sunday 9:00am-1:00pm (EST)\n

(HYBRID Format - a combination of In-Person & Online Attendance. In-Person is limited)\n

“Ground” is the opening course in the Movement Dharma: Buddhist Movement Chaplaincy series and the Professional Certificate Program (PCP). It introduces participants to the nondual Buddhist foundations of engaged leadership, exploring how contemplative practice can cultivate the vision, resilience, and ethical grounding needed to accompany individuals and communities in the work of justice and liberation. As the first course in the series, Ground establishes the spiritual and philosophical framework that will be deepened through the subsequent Movement Dharma courses. Participants will explore how a relational understanding of self, community, and interdependence expands the possibilities for ethical action, visionary organizing, and collective liberation. Through study, contemplative practice, and dialogue, the course examines how spiritual formation can sustain courageous leadership in times of polarization, violence, and uncertainty, while placing Buddhist teachings in conversation with other spiritual and liberatory traditions. Designed for chaplains, faith leaders, organizers, and movement practitioners, Ground offers a foundation for integrating contemplative wisdom with the work of transformative social change.\n

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Vaishali Mamgain, Ph.D. retired as an Associate Professor of Economics and the Director of the Bertha Crosley Ball Center for Compassion from the University of Southern Maine (2017-2026). She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; her past research focused on the contributions of (im)migrants and refugees in the Maine economy; her current research is in contemplative pedagogy. A leader in the field of contemplative education, she is passionate about deconstructing epistemology and incorporating contemplative practices to help educators create a more creative and joyful learning environment. She also facilitates compassion training and anti-oppression workshops for corporate and nonprofit organizations in the US and abroad, specializing in somatic and immersive nature training to undo oppression, and help vision different, more equitable, loving societies. She served on the Board of Directors of The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, and was a frequent contributor to their programming. She is also faculty and Board member of the Courage of Care Coalition where, with others, she designs and facilitates trauma informed courses to support global majority folx. A working contemplative, she has meditated, wandered and ‘retreat’ed for many years. In 2017, she completed a three-year meditation retreat at Samten Ling Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado and now lives on an island in Maine where she enjoys swimming in the sea, admiring seaweed, running, hiking, singing, and cooking.\n

Adam Lobel, Ph.D., MDiv, holds a doctorate in Religious Studies from Harvard University and a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School where he helped to develop a program in Buddhist Ministry. As a meditation teacher and a scholar-practitioner of philosophy and religion, Adam's teachings focus on the intersection of contemporary thought, Dzogchen Tibetan Buddhism, ecopsychology, and transformational politics. A professor of ecopsychology and Buddhist psychology, he is curious about cultural therapeutics for our metamorphosing society. He is a Guiding Teacher for One Earth Sangha where he is a teacher for the EcoSattva Training and co-facilitates a course to support modern Buddhist teachers in developing a more radical, responsive Ecodharma. As a GreenFaith fellow, he is active in various ecological and social justice movements. Adam served as an acharya in the Shambhala community from 2005 until resigning in 2018. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA, with his partner and two sons, where he teaches at the Falk School of Sustainability at Chatham University and resists the petrochemical buildout in his region. Learn more: https://www.releasement.org/site/about\n

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