No MGOC session in November.
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Mindfulness Grad Online Community (MGOC) with Rebecca Eldridge
6:45-8:45pm US ET, second Sunday of each month Sessions recorded and shared with all who register.
By Donation: $10-$25/session
The Mindfulness Grad Online Community (MGOC) will gather monthly under the guidance of MBSR Teacher and Teacher Trainer Rebecca Eldridge for continued learning, practice, and community.
During each session, we will explore various mindfulness topics through teachings, practice, silent reflection, and speaking & listening.
As members of the MGOC, we all will—
- Participate. Your presence and participation matters. Our live interaction and in-the-moment bonding will provide the buoyancy for good learning, good community, and good care-taking of ourselves and each other. Each session will also be video-recorded and shared with everyone who registers. Each session's recording will be available for review until the next month's session.
- Speak & listen. We will show up ready to truly wonder; to speak from direct experience about what we know, as well as what we don't know or aren't sure of—and to listen deeply as others do the same.
- Practice between sessions. We will each maintain a personal practice that fits our life, and consider how formal and informal practices of mindfulness are informing our life.
- Explore between sessions. We will explore various topics both during and between sessions—through our day-to-day experiences, through contemplation and practice, reading and studying, and more.
Prerequisites
- You graduated from any organization's 8-week Mindfulness-Based course (such as MBSR, MBCT, MSC, and so on) that was held live either in person or online.
- You want to be part of a community of mindfulness practitioners willing to be seen as human—perfectly imperfect and totally okay.
The Weekly Process:
Engaging a process at each session will provide a structured freedom to move us toward understanding, acceptance, action, further wondering, connection, and other things we can’t possibly name until they arise in our midst.
The process, with approximate times—
- Landing & welcome: 5 min.
- Brief check-in from each person: 10 min.
- Introduction of topic, brief teaching: 15 min.
- Mindfulness practice: 20 min.
- Silent reflection on topic: 10 min.
- Speaking & Listening: Small & Whole Group: 20 min.
- PAUSE: 5 min.
- Gathering: What do we know now? 20 min.
- For next time: 10 min.
- Closing: 5 min.
NOTE: Everyone (those present and those who registered but have to miss) will receive an email after each session, with a link to the recording of that session and what to focus on for next time.
Rebecca Eldridge
Rebecca served as an MBSR Teacher and MBSR Teacher Trainer at the Center for Mindfulness at UMass Medical School, creating and training their teaching faculty to deliver their first online MBSR course in 2016. She is certified as a calibrated rater for assessing MBSR teaching, and is a member of the International Mindfulness Integrity Network, a worldwide group of teacher trainers exploring ethics and standards of mindfulness training programs.
Beyond teaching MBSR and training MBSR teachers, Rebecca works with organizations to develop and deliver mindfulness programs for living with more authenticity, resilience, and joy; and meditation guidance for promoting restorative rest and sleep. Her personal practice is guided by her teacher, Pema Chödrön, and she was featured giving meditation instruction in two courses taught by Pema Chödrön: Making Friends with Yourself and How to Live with Compassion and Courage. She also loves growing things—from fruits, vegetables, and flowers; to a personal meditation practice that doesn’t fizzle out; to communities that welcome and encourage people as they are.
All times shown are US Eastern:
| Dates | Times | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 82026 | — | No session in November |
| Oct 112026 | 6:45-8:45PM | The “Me” in Mindfulness |
| Sept 132026 | 6:45-8:45PM | What Gets in the Way: Obstacles as Practice |
| Aug 92026 | 6:45-8:45PM | Reopening in the Midst of Reactivity |
| Jul 122026 | 6:45-8:45PM | Beyond Self-Improvement |
| Jun 142026 | 6:45-8:45PM | Training in Ordinary Beauty |
| Apr 122026 | 6:45-8:45PM | "Don't Know" Mind |
| Mar 82026 | 6:45-8:45PM | Retreat In Everyday Life: 2-Hour Home Retreat |
| Feb 82026 | 6:45-8:45PM | Haiku as Mindful Practice |
| Jan 112026 | 6:45-8:45PM | Sitting Together in Joy and Pain |
| Dec 142025 | 6:45-8:45PM | Open House: Meet Other 8-Week Grads |
| Nov 92025 | 6:45-8:45PM | Standing & Walking Meditation |
| Oct 122025 | 6:45-8:45PM | Unfixing Fixed Mind |
| Sept 142025 | 6:45-8:45PM | Retreat In Everyday Life: 2-Hour Home Retreat |
| Aug 102025 | 6:45-8:45PM | 9 Attitudinal Foundations of Mindfulness, from Jon Kabat-Zinn (continued from July) |
| July 132025 | 6:45-8:45PM | 9 Attitudinal Foundations of Mindfulness, from Jon Kabat-Zinn |
| June 82025 | 6:45-8:45PM | Poetry and Mindfulness |
| May 112025 | 6:45-8:45PM | Loving-Kindness as a Formal Practice |
| Apr 132025 | 6:45-8:45PM | Mindfulness of Feeling Tones: Pleasant, Unpleasant, Neutral |
| Mar 92025 | 6:45-8:45PM | Listening & Speaking |
| Feb 92025 | 6:45-8:45PM | Mountain Meditation |
| Jan 122025 | 6:45-8:45PM | Body Scanning |
| Dec 82024 | 6:45-8:45PM | Loving-Kindness Meditation |
| Nov 102024 | 6:45-8:45PM | 4 Foundations of Mindfulness |
| Oct 132024 | 6:45-8:45PM | Self-Compassion |
| Sept 82024 | 6:45-8:45PM | Establishing & Re-establishing Practice |
A place to learn mindfulness. A community to practice together. A path to share it with the world.