Saturday, February 17th, 9:30am - 1:00pm PST
How Play Can Brighten the Present and Broaden Awareness
With Phoenix Soleil and Dawn Neal
This event interweaves formal meditation and improv games in an accepting, encouraging, environment.
Presented in cooperation with Santa Cruz Insight and San Francisco Dharma Collective.
Find out more and register here.
Offering Feedback In The WorkplaceMarch 24th 2023| 10:00 - 2:30 PM PST | (Virtual)
Giving and receiving feedback can be one of the more complicated and stressful parts of relating to other people. In this workshop, we’ll be practicing how to offer feedback in a way that is authentic, honest and helpful. This is a four-hour workshop on offering feedback using Nonviolent Communication (NVC), a modality that helps us attune to others' feelings and values for more generative interactions. No experience is necessary. To view details and register follow this link.
Integration I Program
March - June 2023 | Santa Cruz, CALIFT Partner Phoenix Soleil is joining NVC Santa Cruz to offer Integration I, an four-month program starting in March exploring advanced NVC tools, and practices that support compassion, authenticity, and intentionality in your relationships. Interested in attending this in-person workshop? To learn more and register follow this link.
Mindful of Money - Community Wide
with Phoenix Soleil
Sponsored by Portland Dharma House, Open Door Sangha
Four Part Series: Wednesdays, May 7th-28th 7-9pm
Good Medicine - 231 York st Portland, ME 04102
This is similar to the course I will be leading in March, mentioned above. Because of the history of racism and class in this country we are offering a version of this course exclusively for People of Color for those that would prefer that space in March 2020.
In this four-session course, we’ll explore our relationship with money in community. Bringing spirituality and mindfulness practice to one's financial life can be incredibly fruitful and effective.
How to Have Difficult Conversations About Racial Justice
with Phoenix Soleil
April 4th 9am-4pm
First Parish UU Church in Kennebunk
How do we embody our values and ideals in conversation where we advocate for justice or speak with people across challenging differences? You will learn and practice skills for communicating authentically, finding common ground, and connecting across differences. Ever thought: "Oh No! I can't believe they just said that, now what do I do!?" or "How do I say this so I don't lose my job or friendship?" then you are ready for this daylong.
Mindful of Money - People of Color Cohort
with Phoenix Soleil
Sponsored by Portland Dharma House, Open Door Sangha and Black Artists Forum
Supported by Indigo Arts Alliance
Four Part Series: Wednesdays, March 4th-25th 7-9pm
Good Medicine - 231 York st Portland, ME 04102
In this four-session course, we’ll explore our relationship with money in community. Bringing spirituality and mindfulness practice to one's financial life can be incredibly fruitful and effective. Because of the history of racism and class in this country, we will convene this version of the course for People of Color to have a safe space to discuss their particular challenges. Later this year we will convene a multiracial version of the course for the larger community. This event is underwritten by generous donors so that People of Color can attend at a low cost.
Finding Joy in a Complex World
Daylong Retreat with Phoenix Soleil
Saturday, December 7, 10am-4pm
Good Medicine Collective, 231 York St
How do we experience joy when it feels like the world is crashing all around us? Buddhism supports developing a relationship to both joy and suffering that allows one to hold these two intense and fundamental aspects of life with equanimity and wisdom. In this day of silent sitting, walking, metta (lovingkindness) practice and relational practice in dyads and groups, we will be exploring our capacity to hold our pain and joy so that we can increase our resiliency and vibrancy in the midst of engaging with our world.
Nonviolent Communication, Improvisation, and Mindfulness
3 week Series with Phoenix Soleil
Wednesday evenings in November - 6th, 13th & 20th, 6:30-8:15pm
Good Medicine Collective, 231 York St
This 3-week series is for people on a self-development or spiritual path to improve their presence and communication skills. We will draw on Nonviolent Communication (a self-connection and collaboration framework), mindfulness, and improvisational exercises to build our capacity to express ourselves more freely and connect more deeply with others. The series will focus on role play and embodied practice so that we connect with parts of ourselves that may not show up in our everyday personality. The intention is for embodiment, authentic connection, and courage to be more accessible in our regular lives. We ask that you commit to all three sessions of the series.
Interfaith Open Mic
Featured artist Maya Williams, emceed by Phoenix Soleil
November 3: 7-8:30pm
Dharma House
Please join us for our second interfaith forum to share ideas, stories, inspiration, and solidarity with regard to socially-engaged practice across spiritual traditions. In these gatherings, we aim to highlight the richness and beauty of our community by featuring artists of color in a predominantly white area such as Portland. The (optional!) theme for this open mic is redemption. When have you experienced salvation and/or witnessed salvation of others? What supports forgiveness and healing in your life? How have you experienced redemption as a vehicle for transformation? What do our spiritual practices offer as an antidote to the harsh and divisive interactions we often see in the landscape of media and politics?
Day-long retreat with Phoenix Soleil, co-hosted with Open Door Sangha and Portland Dharma House
October 5: 10 to 4 pm
Portland Maine
Liberating the Heart, Dismantling Dominant Culture through our practice of Dharma
A Retreat with Arinna Weisman, Phoenix Soleil, Lyn Fine & Joshua bee AlafiaIn
September, 13th to the 22nd 2019
Dhamma Dena, Joshua Tree, CA
Our intention in this ten-day retreat is to support increasing our resilience and internal resources so that we may better partner across differences and navigate complex situations in alignment with our values.
Follow this link for more information Liberating the Heart
Metta in Community
Experiments in Buddhist Inspired Relational Practices, with Phoenix Soleil
Saturday, September 7, 1-5pm
Portland, ME
In this 4 hour workshop, we will be experimenting with how to make the community support more palpable, so that we may experience more support with the difficult challenge of loving ourselves and each other. We will have traditional Metta (lovingkindness) practice, relational practice in small groups and diads, and walking meditation.
Please email portlanddharmahouse@gmail.com for more information and to register.
Nurturing a More Playful Relationship to the Present Moment
Daylong Retreat with Phoenix Soleil
Sunday, August 25, 10 am – 4 pm
Brattleboro, VT
In the teachings on Right Effort, the Buddha gave clear guidance on how to abandon unskillful mind states and develop more skillful ones. The cultivation of joy and loving-kindness are emphasized repeatedly as supporting factors on this path. Follow this link for more information: Playful Relationship
Anti-Racism Evening with Phoenix Soleil (in English)
Frankfurt, Germany Thursday, June 19, 2019
We explore some uplifting concepts and developments in US Anti-Oppression work and discuss how that can apply to German struggles. Follow this link (antirassismus-abend-mit-phoenix-soleil) for more information.
Tension, Conflict & Creativity
- Tools for collaboration and choice -
Sunday, May 26, 2019 at 12:30 PM – 8 PM
Beatrijsstraat 10, 2531 XE The Hague, Netherlands
The artist collective, Helicopter, is excited to host a Nonviolent Communication workshop taught by Phoenix Soleil for cultural workers interested in learning new skills and tools for collaboration. Follow this link (Workshop) for more information about it or use the contact form below for more info.
Women's Retreat
April 27th - May 1st, 2018
West Cork, Ireland
Phoenix Soleil led an all women international nonviolent communication 4-day retreat. Offering an opportunity for women to deepen their communication skills. Follow this link for more information about it: Women's Retreat
