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About Mary Rees
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Mentoring, Leadership, or Personal Deepening
A powerful way to enhance your own spiritual practice is to share it with others.
Opportunities to demonstrate leadership happen each moment of our lives. Leadership is not a title. It does not require a team. It is being willing to know who we are with each thought and feeling. It is our intentional presence, our mindfulness. It is being willing to start with my Self.
Jon Mason, June 1, 2005
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell
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Mary is offering training for students who wish to share the dharma as a spiritual practice, for enriching their professional work through the teachings, and for deepening their own spiritual practice.
Ways of serving the dharma will vary depending on experience. The most important of these and foundational to all else is committment to and deepening of one's own spiritual evolution. Participants with many years of practice, ongoing work with a teacher, and coniderable retreat experience will teach courses as spiritual practice for the sangha or with Mary in secular settings.
The training requires a committment of one year at a time, participation in two practice retreats a year (at least one with Mary), an ongoing relationship through monthly individual interviews and, if living in Houston, participation in periodic Monday or Thursday sittings and courses.
Mary requests Dana for this Guiding Role rather than charging fees if participants are also interested in building community.
If you are new to vipassana practice see our community website for beginning coures: Insight Meditation Community Houston.
Application for Mentoring and Leadership Training: 2009 sangha applications due by August 15, 2008.
Private mentoring training is available year round.
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2006/2007 Mentors
Barbara Burkhard - has been working with Mary since 2003 and practicing meditation since 1982. She began mentoring in 2005 and took the MBSR training for professionals with John Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli in June of 2006. She is currently teaching introductory sessions in meditation. She will be carrying her work to the Cincinnati area before fall of 2006.
Patty Demko - a nurse by profession has been working with Mary since 2003. She began mentoring in 2005. She is currently teaching introductory sessions in meditation.
Lisa Hoover - a corporate trainer and technical writer by profession has been working with Mary since 2000 and practicing meditation since 1999. She began mentoring apprenticeship in 2005. She is currently teaching introductory sessions in meditation. She is also offering beginning courses with Mary and hosting a meditation group in Lake Jackson.
Jeanne Ridlehuber - has been working with Mary since 2001 and practicing Vipassana meditation since 1994. She began mentoring in 2005. She is currently teaching introductory sessions in meditation and is interested in hosting a daytime sitting inside the loop.
Marlo Schwartz - an occupational therapist by profession has been working with Mary since the fall of 2004. She began mentoring in 2006. She is currently co-teaching introductory sessions. Marlo is interested in hosting a sitting group in the northwest Houston area with other mentors.
Greg Van Meter - an engineer by profession has been working with Mary since 2004 and practicing yoga since 1973 (certified yoga teacher), insight meditation since 1985, and Christian meditation since 2003. He began mentoring in 2005. He is currently teaching introductory sessions in meditation and hosts a sitting group on the West side of Houston. Greg also enjoys writing, bicycling, and hiking.
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