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17 July Guest Speaker Kimberly Bress

Kim is an artist organizer, community builder, radical inclusion specialist, deeply devoted Buddhist practitioner and soon to be ordained Zen Buddhist priest. She brings an interdisciplinary background in science and theology with a strong focus on justice, equity and community building.

With skills as a faith leader, a creative, a writer and a trailblazer, Kim has successfully implemented many projects that bring multiple faiths into conversation with one another towards healing and social justice. She trained for 8+ years as a Buddhist monastic and has extensive experience teaching meditation, designing and facilitating group dialogue, coaching, programming, and digital marketing.

Her strengths include storytelling, organizing for community power, managing teams, collaboration, thoughtful attention to detail, and creative thinking. She is an energetic and empathetic community builder and spiritual mentor.

Saturday mornings we offer in-person distanced attendance for those vaccinated fully + 2 weeks; We also will continue to offer a Zoom web conferencing for video and/or audio presence for the scheduled events. 9:30 zazen (you can log into the conference starting at 9am to socialize) for 40 minutes and a Dharma talk at 10:25am, followed by Q&A as well as an opportunity to check in and see how you are doing. Please click here to be routed to our Zoom gathering.

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a Sōtōshu visit and a slight schedule adjustment for July 10

This Saturday we are excited to welcome clergy vising from the formal Sōtōshu to deliver materials for celebration of 100 years of Sōtō Zen in Northern America.

We will need to adjust our schedule a bit for their 10am arrival, just this upcoming Saturday back to our recently changed schedule of Zazen from 9:30am to 10am. A break for their visit and the the talk around 10:25am roughly.

Thank you for your flexibility so we can welcome these guests to help us celebrate the 100 year anniversary.

visit here for our zoom and new schedule we will resume next week.