MAPs (Mindfulness and Practices) series

MAPs is a long-term (4-6 months long) small group practice program of classes and retreats plus. MAPs is by application, please see below for more info:

FUTURE/CURRENT: MAP18: BEAD: Beyond Entertainment, Anxiety and Delusion

If you miss a MaP class:

  • Call your most recent buddy. Find out about the class you missed. 

  • Listen carefully. 

  • Write up your understanding of the topic of the class. (a couple hundred words) You might have to research if you don’t fully understand what you missed. Send your write up to the office via e-mail office@ssimc.org.  

  • Paul and/or Maddy will offer feedback on what you sent in. 

If you miss a MaP Retreat:

  • Sit your own personal silent retreat. A self-retreat.  Observe the precepts.

  • If you missed a Saturday sit & walk for 4 hours. If you missed a Sunday sit & walk for 2 hours. If you missed the weekend, sit & walk for two consecutive days. (6 hours total)

  • Please create a schedule of sitting and walking.

  • At the end, please write down 3 things you learned that you would like to share with the class.  

  • Be prepared to share in the next class.

BELOW IS A LISTING OF PAST MaPs

MAP17: Quantum Peace: September 27, ’22

MAP16: Curing the Summertime: May ‘22 - Aug ‘22 Hybrid: Zoom/ In person.

MAP15: Baloney, Blarney and Clearing Confusion: Jan 2022 - April 2022 Hybrid: Zoom/ In person.

MaP14: The Kind Monster: Sept 2021 - Dec 2021. Hybrid It was..

MaP13: …Beyond the Mask. Hybrid it was…

MaP12: Wise Adaptation & the Eightfold Path: A Relational Practice Online it was…

MaPXI: Present Connections… Online, so online

MaPX: Everyday Ease: Living the Eightfold Path COVID appeared so we transitioned online

MaP9: Infinite Nature dates are Apr 9 (Open MaP), April 23 (first class)…

MaP8: Truth and Freedom dates are Oct 16, 2018 (begins), Oct 20-21 (Open MaP Retreat), Nov 13, Dec 11, Jan 15, Feb 12, March 16-17, March 19, 2019 (last class). Click here to email a request for application.

MaP7: Karma is FUNdametal important date of this MaP's Open Map CHANGE: Sept 12 is the new rescheduled date which is a Wednesday. Everyone, is welcome to this date (that's why its called "open").

MaP6: All Ways Home dates are Oct 17, Oct 28 & 29, Nov 14, Dec 12, Jan 2, Jan 16, Feb 13, Mar 10 & 11, March 13. Per usual, enrollment in MAP requires everyone to fill out an application.  Click here to email a request for application.

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MaP5: R U Kidding!  dates are: Starts April 18, retreat Apr 29-30 in Hanover, May 16, June 17 Open Workshop, June 20, July 18, Aug 8, Open MaP Workshop Sept 5 , Retreat Sept. 9-10, Sept 19 (last class). Per usual, enrollment in MAP requires everyone to fill out an application.  Click here to email a request for application.

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MaP4: Illuminating Heart-Mind dates are: Nov 15, Nov 19-20 retreat, Dec 13, Jan 17, Feb 21, Mar 18-19 retreat, Mar 21, 2017 Last Class. Note that there will be just one Open MaP Class scheduled during MaP4 on  Jan 3.  

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MaP3: Awake, Laughing & Connected — began Tuesday April 12, 2016. 

MaP: Awake, Laughing & Connected training is an intensive 7-month long program designed to strengthen participants’ mindfulness practice in the context of the Eight Fold Path.  Whether you have completed a previous MaP training or this is your first enrollment this training encourages an awakened presence in the flow of your life. Cultivating a lightness and laughter of heart through a process of learning how not to take your life so personally will be a major theme of this training.

If you are interested in making a serious commitment to integrating mindfulness into your life and profession please email office@southshoreinsight.org for more info and an application. Applicant enrollments are limited and will be on a rolling basis starting April 1, 2016. Most classes fall on Tuesday evenings but there are a number of retreat days incorporated into the program including significant personal practice time and related assignments integral to participation.

 

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"Are you quiet?
Quiet the body
Quiet the mind

By your own efforts 
Waking yourself
Watch yourself
and live joyfully."

                —Gotama Buddha