Tutor: Georgia Cummings
Meditation and metta/loving kindness in the mindfulness (Vipassana) tradition. This class includes discussion and lightly guided meditation and metta practice. Class topics will include spirituality and ageing, neuroscience and ageing, narrative gerontology (our stories) and will also include examining articles and the literature of Buddhist and other faith traditions.
Venue: 232 Adelaide St
Tuesday 9.45am - 11.00am. Classes start 15 July, finish 16 September.
Cost: $50 (prepaid), 10 weeks
Current Enrolments: 42 (full capacity)
Weekly emails from the tutor support practice. Some useful links for exploring mindfulness meditation and metta or self compassion practice can be found at these links http://self-compassion.org
https://www.audiodharma.org/series/1/talk/1762/
http://www.pathwayzen.org.au/
About the Tutor:
Georgia Cummings was educated in the nurse training school of Mater Misericordiae Hospital Sydney, graduating in 1973. Further education at Griffith University School of Nursing and Midwifery, included Bachelor of Nursing Post Registration 1992 and Master Advanced Practice Community Health and Primary Health Care 2008. Georgia has a special interest in palliative and end of life care and is a certified Buddhist chaplain. Joining U3A in 2014 to learn blogging, she volunteered as a tutor and has enjoyed meeting and working with U3A members ever since.Unfortunately this class is over-subscribed and no further enrolments can be accepted at this time. You may contact the tutor to express your interest should a vacancy arise.
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