Showing Up
in community for ourselves, each other and our world
showing up in 2024
Re-connecting in Autumn 2024
Sunday in-person mindfulness and council circles
@ Common Ground, Bray
These will resume on the Second Sunday of September - Sept 8th 2024
For full information and to book please click here
Niamh Barrett
has been facilitating mindfulness courses since 2010, she a member of the Mindfulness Teachers Association of Ireland
(formed to uphold mindfulness teaching standards and guidelines), and is an ongoing student of socially-engaged Buddhism and the practice of council circle, primarily with the Center for Council and Zen Peacemakers (U.S.) She is an experienced facilitator of online mindfulness practice. In 2019 she founded showing up, a framework of online and in-person retreats and courses to facilitate mindful civic engagement with the housing and homelessness crisis in Ireland, and with other social issues. On Nollaig na mBan 2019 she facilitated a women's day-retreat, inspired by the bearing witness practices of Zen Peacemakers, on the theme of bearing witness to gender-based violence and resilience.
Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you and within you – in your body, heart and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment.
- Jan Chozen Bays
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