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John Prendergast, Lisa Ferguson & Jared Michaels ~ Engaged Nonduality ~ InPerson Daylong

Engaged Nonduality: Attending to Our World in Crisis

with John Prendergast, Lisa Ferguson and Jared Michaels

This daylong event isÊan opportunity to turn toward our world in crisis from an awakened heart. Whatever is touching your heart is welcomed, including climate and ecosystem breakdown, war and conflict, injustice and polarization. How is Being moving through us in response? We will explore through meditation, dyadic inquiry, and group interaction what it means to open to our awakened nature, while also being moved by our deepest knowing to respond to our world in crisis.

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John J. Prendergast, Ph.D.Êis the author ofÊThe Deep Heart: Our Portal to PresenceÊ(2019 ) andÊIn Touch: How to Tune In to the Inner Guidance of Your Body and Trust YourselfÊ(2015) and is working on a new book entitledÊYour Deepest Ground: A Guide to Embodied SpiritualityÊ(March 2025). He is a retired Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies as well as a retired psychotherapist. He studied with the European sage Jean Klein for many years as well as with Adyashanti who gave dharma transmission to John in August, 2023. John and his wife Christiane offer residential retreats in the United States and Europe.

www.listeningfromsilence.com

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Lisa Ferguson, Ph.D.Êis the founder of Climate Compassion, and has focused on supporting planetary wellbeing as a healing arts practitioner, climate justice activist, organizer and contemplative.Ê She offers psychospiritual support to activists through one-one sessions and small groups, weaving together a focus on awakening, healing and wise action.

www.climatecompassion.org

Jared MichaelsÊis a psychotherapist in private practice in Berkeley, a Zen priest in the San Francisco Zen Center lineage, and a longtime student of John Prendergast. For decades, he asked what he could offer humanity that would make a difference. His answer has been consistent for years: To invite us to walk a path of personal and systemic transformation.

JaredMichaels.com

Suggested Donation: $75 per person

(any amount acceptable, no one turned away for lack of funds)

Pre-registration is recommended, through you can pay at door if not pre-registered.

Lunch Break: There are places close by to go out for lunch, or you may bring your own lunch, though there is no refrigerator access.

NOTE: The venue is a kosher-style facility, so no pork or shellfish, and no meat mixed with dairy on premises.

PARKING: There is some limited street parking in the neighborhood, free and without time limit on weekends. There is also parking a few blocks away at the east parking lot of the Ashby Bart station: www.bart.gov/stations/ashb/map

You may also find paid parking just a few blocks away at Alta Bates Parking Garage: Enter on Colby between Ashby and Webster St.

Nearby parking may fill up quickly. Plan accordingly.

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