Kansas City Silent, Secular Mindfulness and Somatic Self-Compassion Retreat

Each year the Midwest Alliance for Mindfulness offers a secular mindfulness retreat to the general public that also meets requirements for teachers of mindfulness based programs. Join Mindfulness and Somatic Self-Compassion Teacher Kristy Arbon for 5-days of companionate silence, guided practice and self-care at King Conference Center in Kansas City, Missouri, or online. This unique retreat, entitled, Courageous Heart Retreat: Engaging Mindfully with a Troubled World, will offer skills and wisdom in service of resourcing ourselves for being the beneficial change we’d like to see in the world, such that our journey is sustainable, fulfilling and meaningful. A team of supporting teachers, including our partner organization, The Resilient Activist, will offer a variety of practices including mindfulness meditation, mindful movement, mindful eating, yoga nidra, and nature connection. Previous experience with retreat practice is recommended. This retreat is intended for the general public, but is also designed to meet requirements for ongoing practice for mindfulness teachers and 7.0 CEs are available for KS & MO licensed mental health providers who attend the entire retreat.

• – resourcing ourselves for sustainable engaged mindfulness
• – being and supporting the change we’d like to see in the world
• – cultivating compassion with equanimity
• – working with grief, anger, despair and overwhelm
• – contacting our deep interconnection with other beings and the planet
• – finding balance
• – empowering ourselves
• – understanding the importance of embodied inner and outer activism