MFL announces a new initiative to offer free trauma informed mindfulness and moral injury prevention training to those frontline care workers who support immigrant and refugee communities. Our goal is to raise $5000 to fund three months of one-on-one training for up to a dozen people.

I want to let you know about the launch of the Mindfulness For Life Anchor Club—our new membership community supporting our nonprofit mission through my ongoing teaching and development of new avenues of contemplative education.

The Anchor Club is now the primary place where I’m creating both Buddhist-oriented and general mindfulness-based content. It’s where I’m experimenting with new teaching formats and live events, designed to encourage safe, person-centered approaches to embodied practice.

In this talk, Lama Adam shares what he would tell his former self: that compassion begins with oneself, clarity arises from embodied awareness, and continual tending of the nervous system may be an essential enlightened activity. Drawing on his journey through meditation-related adverse effects and moral injury scholarship, Adam will speak to the difficult but necessary process of reclaiming agency, authenticity, and integrity in the aftermath of harm.

Titled “Happiness and Intention”, this message highlights a key teaching he received from Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche related to authentic protection from negative emotions and assumptions about others’ intentions.

It’s vital we do what we can to support those in the helping professions, where people are caring for others, fighting for human rights and for dignity. That's what we're working at Mindfulness For Life with the Help the Helpers program, and your donation can help bring it to life.

I’m happy to announce that I’ll be leading Mindfulness For Life’s new series of Virtual Community Meditation sessions this week. These programs are 30 minutes, and will include a short meditation instruction, group practice, and time for Q&A at the end. No prior experience is necessary; everyone is welcome!

I did not realize, going into the program, how much it would help me to recognize and process my own moral injury, and how that uniquely positions me to benefit others moving forward.

Five students are seated on blue cushions in a small, dimly lit room, waiting for Lama Adam Berner, the Buddhist and Contemplative Practice Coordinator at Denison. The room, located in the Spiritual Life Center, is the constant setting for Berner’s weekly drop-in meditation sessions.