a place for contemplative practice, deep listening and compassion
A Contemplative Practice Circle
Rooted in Love and Belonging
Meeting weekly via Zoom
Wednesdays from 1-2 pm ET, ongoing
What you practice grows stronger!! Science offers much evidence to support the knowing that well-being is a discipline and a skill, and with regular practice, we can literally rewire our brains to strengthen compassion, care, and connectedness.
Join us as we set aside time, in community, to explore practices to ground us in presence and sustain us as we move through life's ups and downs. Our intention is to invite a regular rhythm of practice as we offer a safe place of refuge to slow down and listen deeply to ourselves and each other. Each week, we’ll guide you as together we explore various practices, including meditation, mindful dialogue, and poetic inquiry. Let’s wake up our best selves by strengthening our human capacity for loving awareness, connection, compassion, and embodied peace.
Our practice circle is offered tuition-free, yet donations to Shallowford Center for Mindful Living are welcome and important to sustain our capacity to encourage and facilitate the inner work of well-being as a spiritual foundation for a more grace-filled, loving world.
What you practice grows stronger … We facilitate practices to:
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Deepen presence
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Awaken kindness, compassion,
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Create space to respond rather than react
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Tap into hope and joy, especially in challenging times
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Contribute to the healing of body, mind, and spirit
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Accept hardship as a pathway to peace
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Live a mindful, wholehearted life
Circle of Recovery and Resilience
Turning hardship into healing, and healing into peace
Meeting Thursdays via Zoom, 6pm ET. Tuition-free.
Grounded in and inspired by the 12 Steps, Robby Carroll, M.Div.,
LMFT, offers a supportive and uplifting space, inviting us to accept hardship
as a pathway to peace. Together, we’ll journey and grow through the difficult
and painful challenges of recovery and of life.
Robby has lived the miracle of recovery for more than 50 years and has witnessed the power of “working the steps” countless times through the weekly groups that he leads as well as in the individual and family therapy
he feels privileged to offer. Robby lives and embraces the 12 Step Program, knowing that it’s not for folks who need it, it’s for folks who want it and are willing to invest in the inner work needed to live a life of recovery
and resilience.
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As one client notes: "Robby has chosen to use the deep suffering he has experienced in a lifetime as a gift to share and transform other broken souls and bring light back in their lives. One of the greatest gifts he shares is his innate ability to listen. Robby’s wisdom on life makes you at peace that all will be all right in this tragic and beautiful world we live in. Being in a room with him makes you want to soak up all he knows and has experienced in life. He shares with you the tools, the will, and strength to keep fighting through your own battle. He can make you go from crying tears to laughing in a matter of moments by the grace of his incredible humor. He is raw, real, and makes you realize you are not alone in this work. He has pulled
me through some of my darkest of days. I am forever grateful for Robby Carroll."
This Circle of Recovery & Resilience is offered tuition-free, yet donations to
Shallowford Center for Mindful Living are welcome and important to sustain
our capacity to encourage and facilitate the inner work of recovery as a
spiritual foundation for a more grace-filled, loving world.
Practice Grateful Living –
Monthly Gratefulness Gatherings
Meeting the 4th Monday of each month via Zoom, 11 am - noon, ET. Tuition-free.
Grateful living is a way of life.
Learn to focus attention on and acknowledge that life is a gift.
Gratefulness Gatherings are an opportunity to explore grateful living in community. Even in the most challenging times, living gratefully makes us aware of opportunities to learn and grow,
and to extend ourselves with care and compassion to others.
Gratefulness Gatherings facilitates practices to:
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Anchor hope and trust in life, especially in challenging times
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Unleash joy
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Awaken kindness, compassion, and generosity
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Inspire the impulse to serve with humility
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Contribute to the healing of body, mind, and spirit
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Offer pathways from conflict to peace
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Have an engaged YES to a mindful, wholehearted life
Our hope is that these offerings evoke a feeling of "great fullness" and give you a taste of the transformative possibilities contained within living life with grateful attention.
Shallowford Center for Mindful Living offers tuition-free Gratefulness Gatherings in partnership with the Network for Grateful Living, a global organization offering online and community-based educational programs and practices which inspire and guide a commitment to grateful living, and catalyze the transformative power of personal and societal responsibility. Discover more about the mission of the Network for Grateful Living at grateful.org.
