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Invited Teacher: Andre´s Gonza´lez - Tending the We: Practicing Interbeing Amid the Great Turning
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Andrés González - Tending the We: Practicing Interbeing Amid the Great Turning
Together, we’ll explore what it means to practice in a time of profound transition. As the climate, social, and political systems we’ve long relied on continue to shift at an unsettling pace—and in some cases unravel entirely—how can we remain steady, open-hearted, and connected? How might we deepen our practice not just for personal relief, but as an act of relational and collective care? Rooted in the teaching of interbeing, as shared by Thich Nhat Hanh, this offering invites us to reconnect with the sacred web of life we are never separate from—the land, one another, and all beings across time & space. We’ll reflect on what it means to care for “the We”—not as an abstract ideal, but as a lived, embodied sense of interdependence—and consider how this awareness can transform the ways we show up for ourselves, our communities, and the world.
Andrés González (he/they) relates to himself firstly as a spiritual being embodying, Earth-side, the multiplicity of gender, sexuality, race, & culture as a two-spirit Mestizo with primarily Yaqui, Mexican, Spanish, & Scottish ancestries. He’s also a transracial adoptee, connected to a lineage of Indigenous adoptees separated from family, land, & culture by way of the U.S. child welfare system. Andrés’ lived experience integrating these many worlds has informed his path as a practitioner of curanderismo, dharma teacher, and community mental health clinician. Trained in harm reduction, healing-justice, & Indigenous psychology as a psychotherapist, he holds a masters degree in social work. He is also a graduate of East Bay Meditation Center’s two-year Spiritual Teacher & Leadership Training and the 2023-2024 Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics’ certification program in psychedelic facilitation. Andrés presently resides on the land of the Yokuts people (Bakersfield, CA) and lovingly traverses the ceremony of life with his adored service dog, Jr.
- Meeting ID:599 251 806
- Password: WHS
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Hybrid - White Heron Sangha Meditation Center and on Zoom
6615 Bay Laurel Pl.
Avila Beach, CA 93424
USA
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